Alex Law is Professor of Sociology at Abertay University, Dundee. 

A concise and student-friendly companion to a subject that's central to sociology degrees, and yet can often seem dense and impenetrable to undergraduates approaching the classics for the first time.

Introduction: Classical Social Theory
Alienation
Anomie
Base and Superstructure
Bureaucracy
Capital
Civil Society
Class
Class, Status and Party
Collective Effervescence
Collective Representations
Commodity Fetishism
Conscience Collective
Division of Labour (Smith and Ferguson)
Division of Labour (Marx)
Division of Labour in Society (Durkheim)
Fashion
Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft
Historical Materialism
Ideal-Types
Ideology
Legitimate Domination
Mechanical and Organic Solidarity
Metropolis
Mode of Production
Modernity
Money
Normal and Pathological
Positivism
Primitive Accumulation
Protestant Ethic and the ¿Spirit of Capitalism¿
Rationality and Rationalization
Sacred and Profane
Social Action
Social Facts
Social Forms and Sociation
Social Morphology
Social Space
Suicide
Totemism
Value Freedom
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