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The updated version of Collins's critically-acclaimed Three Sociological Traditions, this text presents a concise intellectual history of sociology organized around the development of four classic schools of thought: the conflict tradition of Marx and Weber, the ritual solidarity of Durkheim, the microinteractionist tradition of Mead, Blumer, and Garfinkel, and--new to this edition--the utilitarian/rational choice tradition. Collins, one of the liveliest and most exciting writers in sociology today, traces the intellectual highlights of these four main schools from classical theories to current developments, introducing the roots of sociology and indicating the areas where progress has been made in our understanding, the areas where controversy still exists, and the direction in which sociology is headed.

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• Prologue: The Rise of the Social Sciences
• Social Thought in the Agrarian Empires
• Medieval Universities Create the Modern Intellectual
• Economics: the First Social Science
• The Rise of Public Schools and the University Revolution
• The Development of the Disciplines
• 1 The Conflict Tradition
• The Pivotal Position of Karl Marx
• Friedrich Engels, the Sociologist in the Shadows
• Max Weber and the Multidimensional Theory of Stratification
• The Twentieth Century Intermingles Marxian and Weberian Ideas
• Appendix: Simmel, Coser, and Functionalist Conflict Theory
• 2 The Rational/Utilitarian Tradition
• The Original Rise and Fall of Utilitarian Philosophy
• Bringing the Individual Back In
• Sociology Discovers Sexual and Marriage Markets
• Three Applications of Sociological Markets: Educational Inflation, Split Labor Markets, Illegal Goods
• The Paradoxes and Limits of Rationality
• Proposed Rational Solutions for Creating Social Solidarity Economics Invades Sociology, and Vice Versa
• The Rational Theory of the State
• The New Utilitarian Policy Science
• 3 The Durkheimian Tradition
• Sociology as the Science of Social Order
• Two Wings: The Macro Tradition
• The Second Wing: The Lineage of Social Anthropology
• Ritual Exchange Networks: The Micro/Macro Linkage
• The Future of the Durkheimian Tradition
• 4 The Microinteractionist Tradition
• A Native American Sociology
• The Pragmatism of Charles Sanders Peirce
• Society Is in The Mind: Cooley
• George Herbert Mead's Sociology of Thinking
• Blumer Creates Symbolic Interactionism
• The Sociology of Consciousness: Husserl, Schutz, and Garfinkel
• Erving Goffman's Counterattack
• A Summing Up
• Notes
• Epilogue
• Bibliography
• Index

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