Classical sociological theory

Selections from Leviathan / Thomas Hobbes

Selections from Two treatises on government / John Locke

Selections from The social contract or principles of political right / Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Declaration of Independence / Thomas Jefferson

Letter to John Adams / Thomas Jefferson

Selections from The wealth of nations / Adam Smith

Selections from Reflections on the revolution in France / Edmund Burke

Selections from The rights of man / Thomas Paine

"An occasional letter on the female sex" / Thomas Paine

Selections from A vindication of the rights of man / Mary Wollstonecraft

Selections from A vindication of the rights of woman / Mary Wollstonecraft

Selections from On liberty / John Stuart Mill

Selections from The subjection of women / John Stuart Mill

Selections from Society in America / Harriet Martineau

Selections from Positive philosophy of Auguste Comte / Auguste Comte

Selections from Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave, written by himself / Frederick Douglass

"The rights of women" / Frederick Douglass

Selections from Woman in the nineteenth century / Margaret Fuller

"Theses on Feuerbach" / Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

Selection from A contribution to the critique of political economy / Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

Selections from Manifesto of the Communist Party / Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

Selection from Wage labour and capital / Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

Selections from Woman, church and state / Matilda Joslyn Gage

"Class, status, party" (from Economy and society) / Max Weber

"Bureaucracy" (from Economy and society) / Max Weber

"The sociology of charismatic authority" (from Economy and society) / Max Weber

"The meaning of discipline" (from Economy and society) / Max Weber

Selections from The division of labor in society / Emile Durkheim

Selections from The elementary forms of the religious life? / Emile Durkheim

"The dissection of the psychical personality" / Sigmund Freud

Selections from Group psychology and the analysis of the ego / Sigmund Freud

Selections from Civilization and its discontents / Sigmund Freud

Selections from Sociology : "the web of group-affiliations" / Georg Simmel

Selections from Pure sociology / Lester Ward

"Our better halves" / Lester Ward

Selections from The theory of the leisure class / Thorstein Veblen

"The economic theory of woman's dress" / Thorstein Veblen

Selections from The souls of black folk : essays and sketches / W. E. B. Du Bois

Selections from Darkwater : voices from within the veil / W. E. B. Du Bois

"Votes for women" / W. E. B. Du Bois

Selections from Women and economics / Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Selections from Democracy and education / John Dewey

Selections from Women in public life / Elsie Clews Parsons

Selections from Three guineas / Virginia Woolf.