The Making of Society
Table of Contents

V.F. Calverton, Ed.

Preface by V.F. Calverton

Introduction by V.F. Calverton

I. Religious and Ethical Contributions

The Ten Commandments

The Sermon on the Mount

The Code of Hammurabi

Selections from the Koran

On Government Confucius
On Co-operation Lao Tse
 
II. Greek Theories
Philosophers as Kings and Kings as Philosophers Plato
On Property Aristotle
 
 

III. Medieval Conceptions

On the Law of Heaven and Earth St. Augustine

 

IV. The Advance of Modern Sociological Thought
Selections from Scienza Nuova Giambattista Vico
The Art of War            Niccolo Machiavelli
Selections from Two Treatises on Civil Government            John Locke
Of the Natural Condition of Mankind

Thomas Hobbes

Selections from The Social Contract Jean Jacques Rousseau
Of Monarchy and Hereditary Succession Thomas Paine
Of Laws in Relation to the Nature of the Climate Baron de Montesquieu
Division of Labor Adam Smith

        

V. Sociology Comes of Age    
An Essay on the Principle of Population T.R. Malthus
The Authority of Society Over the Individual John Stuart Mill
The Action of Positivism upon the Working Classes Auguste Comte
Political Economy and Utopian Socialism

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Selections from The State                Michael Bakunin
Natural Selection; or the Survival of the Fittest Charles Darwin
Influence of Physical Laws Henry Thomas Buckle
The Communist Manifesto Karl Marx & F. Engels

      

VI. Sociology and Social Conflict

Division of Labor and Social Solidarity Emile Durkheim
Selections from The Outline of Sociology Ludwig Gumplowicz
The Tendency of the Development of the State Franz Oppenheimer
Class Society and the State Nicolai Lenin
What Is the Permanent Revolution?            Leon Trotsky
On the Expropriation of the Capitalists Waclaw Machijaski
The Collectivist Wages System Peter Kropotkin
Personality and the Conception of the State Adolf Hitler
The fascist State and the Future Benito Mussolini

VII. Sociology and Culture
The Sociological View of Ethics Herbert Spencer
The Spirit of Capitalism Max Weber
Proletariat and Religion and Nationalism Werner Sombart
Sociology as a Science Vilfredo Pareto
Intellectual Egalitarianism Lester Ward
Selections from Folkways William Graham Sumner
Conspicuous Consumption Thorsten Veblen
The Scientific Scrutiny of Societal Facts F.H. Giddings
The Economics of Genius

J.M. Robertson

VIII. Contemporary Sociological Reflections
Liberal
The Development of Sociology Harry Elmer Barnes
Classes of Social Interest R.M. MacIver
The Cultural Approach to Sociology Melville S. Herskovits
The Mitigation of Class Struggle Edward A. Ross
The Hypothesis of Cultural Lag William Fielding Ogburn
Art, Science, and Sociology C.J. Cooley
Mental Patterns in Relation to Culture Wilson D. Wallis
Renascent Liberalism

John Dewey

Law as a Social Science Huntington Cairns
The Idol of the Laboratory Graham Wallas
Anglo-Saxonism and Nordicism in America F.H. Hankins
Radical
A Planned Society—Communist Version John Strachey
Technocracy Stuart Chase
Marxian Philosophy            Max Eastman
The Scope of Marxian Theory Sidney Hook
Sociological Criticism of Literature V.F. Calverton
Masters—Old and New Max Nomad
The Applications of Engineering Methods to Finance C.H. Douglas

Biographies

Thanks to the contributor:
John Peterson

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