Classic Social Theory II
- Karl Marx
- Karl Marx: Selected Writings, David McLellan, Oxford
- Karl Marx: A Reader, Jon Elster, Cambridge
- Making sense of Marx, Jon Elster, Cambridge
- Analytical Foundations of Marxian Economic Theory, John Roemer, Cambridge
- Marxist Theory, Alex Callinicos, Oxford
- Emile Durkheim
- *The Division of Labour in Society, 1893
- *The Rules of Sociological Method, 1895
- *Suicide, 1897
- *The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, 1912
- Moral Education, 1922
- Professional Ethics and Civic Morals, 1950
- Emile Durkheim: HIs Life and Work, Steven Lukes, Penguin
Classical Social Theory III
- Max Weber
- *The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, 1920
- Economy and Society, 1922
- The Essential Weber, Sam Whimster, Routledge
- Georg Simmel
- The Philosophy of Money, 1900
- Soziologie, 1908
Functionalism and its Critics
- Talcott Parsons
- *The Structure of Social Action, 1937
- *The Social System, 1951
- Societies: Evolutionary and Comparative Perspectives, 1966
- The System of Modern Societies, 1971
- Robert Merton
- Social Theory and Social Structure, 1968
- C Wright Mills
- The Power Elite, 1956
- Alvin Gouldner
- The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology, 1970
Interpretivism and Interactionism
- Alfred Schutz
- The Phenomenology of the Social World, 1932/1972
- Geroge Herbert Mead
- Karl Mannheim
- Conservatism, 1925
- Peter Berger, Thomas Luckmann
- The Social Construction of Reality, 1966
- Peter Winch
- The Idea of a Social Science and its Relation to Philosophy, 1958
- Hans-Georg Gadamer
- Truth and Method, 1960
- Jurgen Habermas
- Logic of Social Sciences, 1967
Historical Social Theory
- Joseph Schumpeter
- Friedrich Hayek
- Norbert Elias
- The Civilizing Process, 1939
- The Court Society, 1969
- The Germans, 1989
- Charles Tilly
- Coercion, Capital and European States AD 900-1990, 1990
- Theda Skocpol
- States and Social Revolutions, 1979
- Michael Mann
- The Sources of Social Power, 1986, 1993
Western Marxism
- Gyorgy Lukacs
- History and Class Consciousness, 1923
- Antonio Gramsci
- Ernst Bloch
- The Principle of Hope, 1952-9
- Walter Benjamin
- Theodor Adorno
- Dialectic of Enligthenment, 1947
- Negative Dialectics, 1966
- Aesthetic Theory, 1970
- The Positivist Dispute in German Sociology, 1969
- Jurgen Habermas
- The Structural Transformation of the Public Sqhere, 1962
- Knowledge and Human Interests, 1968
- Max Horkheimer
- Critical and Traditional Theory, 1937
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Critique of Dialectical Reason, 1960
- Herbert Marcuse
- Reason and Revolution, 1941
- Eros and Civilisation, 1955
- One-Dimensional Man, 1964
- Louis Althusser
- For Marx, 1965
- Reading Capital, 1970
Psychoanalytic Social Theory
- Jacques Lacan
- Julia Kristeva
- Revolution in Poetic Language, 1974
Structuralism and Post-structuralism
- Ferdinand de Saussure
- Claude Levi-Strauss
- The Elementary Structures of Kinship, 1949
- Tristes Tropiques, 1955
- Structural Anthropology, 1958
- The Raw and the Cooked, 1964
- The Savage Mind, 1966
- Jacques Derrida
- Michel Foucault
Structure and Agency
- Anthony Giddens
- New Rules of Sociological Method, 1976
- Central Problems in Social Theory, 1979
- The Constitution of Society, 1984
- Pierre Bourdieu
- Outline of a Theory of Practice, 1972
- Roy Bhaskar
- Margaret Archer
- Culture and Agency, 1988
Modernity and Postmodernity I
- Jean-Francois Lyotard
- The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, 1979
- Jean Baudrillard
- System of Objects, 1968
- The Consumer Society, 1970
- The Mirror of Production, 1973
- Zygmus Bauman
- Legislators and Interpreters, 1987
- Modernity and the Holocaust, 1989
- Modernity and Ambivalence, 1991
- Postmodernity and its Discontents, 1997
- Work, Consumerism and the New Poor, 1998
Modernity and Postmodernity II
- Cornelius Castoriadis
- The Imaginary Institution of Society, 1975
- Agnes Heller
- A Theory of History, 1982
- A Theory of Modernity, 1999
- Jurgen Habermas
- Theory of Communicative Action, 1981
- Niklas Luhman
- Social Systems, 1984
- Ulrich Beck
- The Risk Society, 1986
- Anthony Giddens
- The Consequences of Modernity, 1990
- Modernity and Self-Identity, 1991
Varia
Charles Taylor
Hans Jonas
John Dewey
Charles Sanders Peirce
Thomas Kuhn, The Order of Things 1966