Diagrams of Social Theory
© by Frederick Weil, Sociology Dept., LSU
(sorry some are a little fuzzy)

 
• Karl Marx
• The Communist Manifesto
• The German Ideology
• Base Structure and Superstructure
• The Historical Dialectic
• Capital, Vol. 1, Part 8 "On Primitive Accumulation"

• Max Weber
• Definition of Sociology as a science
• General Economic History
• The "Town-Crown Alliance"
• Dynamic tendencies in the forms of Legitimate Domination

• Georg Simmel
• Intersecting Social Circles

• Tocqueville and Durkheim
• Decentralized and Centralized Societies

• Talcott Parsons
• Outline of the Social System
• Comparative Studies and Evolutionary Change