The Enlightenment and beyond
Georg Hegel: foundations of modern social thought
Auguste Comte: the origins of modern European sociology
Herbert Spencer: survival of the fittest
Harriet Martineau: feminist sociologist
Karl Marx: capitalism and human exploitation
Emile Durkheim: the eclipse of community
Max Weber: reason and bureaucracy
Sigmund Freud: the unconscious civilization
Friedrich Nietzsche: the will to power
Georg Simmel: sociologist as outsider
W.E.B. Du Bois: double consciousness and race
Antonio Gramsci: critique of hegemonic capitalism
The Frankfurt School: Horkheimer and Adorno
Herbert Marcuse: eros and liberation
Walter Benjamin: art and modernity
Norbert Elias: the civilizing process
Simone de Beauvoir: otherness
Hannah Arendt: banality of reason
Claude Levi-Strauss: structural anthropology
Frantz Fanon: race and postcolonialism
Structuralism and beyond: Derrida, Lacan, and Foucault
Talcott Parsons: the systems society
Erving Goffman: the drama of the self
Feminist social theory: Chodorow, Butler, and hooks
Postmodernism: Baudrillard, Haraway, and Bauman
Jürgen Habermas: communicative action
Anthony Giddens: structuration theory.
