Society and Science - Social Science History for budding theorists
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Society and Science

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Social Science History
for budding theorists


1. EMPIRICISM, THEORY AND THE IMAGINATION
John Stuart Mill and his problems with Francis Bacon

2. HOBBES, FILMER AND LOCKE
17th Century Models for a Science of Society

3. WHAT IS SCIENCE?
The Ideas of Locke, Hume and Wollstonecraft:

4. CAN THEORY REDESIGN SOCIETY?
Rousseau, the French Revolution, Women and Slaves:

5. SOCIAL SCIENCE AND THE 1834 POOR LAW
The Theories that Smith, Bentham, Malthus and Owen made:

6. DURKHEIM AND WEBER'S CONTRASTING IMAGINATIONS
Who is the Sociologist?



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IN THEIR OWN WORDS
Plato
Aristotle on the state, slavery and women
Robert Filmer on the rule of fathers
Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan
John Locke's on constitutional Government
Freedom and Slavery in Rousseau's Social Contract
Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations
Declaration of the Rights of Man 1789
Declaration of the Rights of Woman by Olympe de Gouges 1791
Mary Wollstonecraft on the rights and duties of men and women
Karl Marx
Max Weber
Emile Durkheim
Sigmund Freud
George Herbert Mead
Talcott Parsons
Erich Fromm
Herbert Marcuse
Simone De Beauvoir
Robert Merton
Erving Goffman
Michel Foucault
Julie Ford
Frank Pearce

 

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