Social Theory and History Links -- this is just a beginning -- please send suggestions


Social Critic ... Review has lots and lots of links

CHECK ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA ONLINE with author name searches for many excellent articles. This is Penn Proxy Server Link. (Penn ID needed.

History of Economic Thought Page -- New School


Adam Smith, Biog1, Biog2

Modern History Sourcebook: Adam Smith: The Wealth of Nations, 1776

Wealth of Nations


John Stuart Mill, The Principles of Political Economy

David Ricardo Biog1. Biog2

History Sourcebook: David Ricardo: The Iron Law of Wages, 1817

The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation


The Marxism Page ... Marx-Engels Online Reader

key online texts: Frederick Engels, "Outlines of a Critique of Political Economy," Karl Marx, "The Profit of Capital," and "Private Property and Labor," from Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts, Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, and Das Kapital, Chapters One, Seven, Ten, Fourteen, Twenty-Seven, Thirty-three.

MARX to Mao PAGE includes Lenin on Capitalism in Agriculture with Data on US


Max Weber's Home Page

Introduction to some of Weber's central tenets and concepts, intended for undergraduate students. Includes links to other sites on sociological theory.

Excerpt from The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, by Max Weber (1958).

An Essay on Max Weber's View of Objectivity in Social Science. Article by Steve Hoenisch, published in Critical Mass.. Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, pp. 47 - 78. Max Weber, Theory of Social & Economic Organization. Steve Hoenisch, "Max Weber's View Of Objectivity In Social Science," on Criticism.com. Frank Elwell's discussion of Weber themes, especially section on Weber and Marx


The Durkheim Pages

Excerpt from Emile Durkheim, The Division of Labor in Society, (Translated by George Simpson). by New York: The Free Press,1947.

Excerpt from Emile Durkheim, The Rules of the Sociological Method, (Ed. by Steven Lukes; trans. by W.D. Halls). New York: Free Press, 1982, pp. 50-59.


Thorstein Veblen page

From "The Socialist Economics of Karl Marx and His Followers," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, volume 20, 1906.

The system of doctrines worked out by Marx is characterized by a certain boldness of conception and a great logical consistency. Taken in detail, the constituent elements of the system are neither novel nor iconoclastic, nor does Marx at any point claim to have discovered previously hidden facts or to have invented recondite formulations of facts already known; but the system as a whole has an air of originality and initiative such as is rarely met with among the sciences that deal with any phase of human culture.......

Veblen Talks about New Woman as force in cultural change. Here is a New Woman site.


Antonio Gramsci Resources....Antonio Gramsci Page

Social Theory.org. A website about the relationship between mass media and people's identities, genders and everyday lives.


Papers on Social theory from Dept of Sociology, U of Lancaster
ANDRE GUNDER FRANK HOMEPAGE
Joseph Schumpeter