Table of Contents for Theories of Social Order

Part I. What Is Theory?

A. Theory is Explanation

1. Explanation in the Social Sciences, by George C. Homans

B. Motives and Mechanisms

2. Types of Social Action, by Max Weber

Part II. Solutions to the Problem of Social Order

C. The Problem of Social Order

3. The Moral Basis of a Backward Society, by Edward C. Banfield

D. Meaning

4. The Production of Consciousness, by Karl Marx

5. The Origin of Beliefs, by Émile Durkheim

6. Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact, by Ludwik Fleck

7. Play, the Game, and the Generalized Other, by George Herbert Mead

8. Meanings of Violence, by Dov Cohen and Joe Vandello

E. Values and Norms

9. Civilization and Its Discontents, by Sigmund Freud

10. Egoistic Suicide, by Émile Durkheim

11. Anomic Suicide, by Émile Durkheim

12. Explaining the Emergence of Norms, by Christine Horne

13. Behavior in Public Places, by Erving Goffman

14. Altruistic Punishment in Humans, by Ernst Fehr and Simon Gächter

F. Power and Authority

15. Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes

16. The Origin of the State, by Friedrich Engels

17. The Types of Legitimate Domination, by Max Weber

18. Learning to Labor, by Paul Willis

G. Spontaneous Order

19. Cosmos and Taxis, by Friedrich A. Hayek

20. Micromotives and Macrobehavior, by Thomas C. Schelling

21. The Division of Labor, by Adam Smith

22. The Evolution of Cooperation, by Robert Axelrod

23. The Live-and-Let-Live System in Trench Warfare in World War I, by Robert Axelrod

H. Groups and Networks

24. The Web of Group-Affiliations, by Georg Simmel

25. The Strength of Weak Ties, by Mark S. Granovetter

26. Trust, Cohesion, and the Social Order, Ernest Gellner

27. Individualism and Free Institutions, by Alexis de Tocqueville

28. The Attainment of Social Order in Heterogeneous Societies, by Michael Hechter, Debra Freidman, and Satoshi Kanazawa

I. Conclusion

Index