Foundations of Modern Social Theory – Yale

1. Introduction

2. Hobbes – Authority, Human Rights and Social Order

3. Locke – Equality, Freedom, Property and the Right to Dissent

4. Montesquieu – The Division of Powers

5. Rousseau – Popular Sovereignty and General Will

6. Rousseau – State of Nature and Education

7. Mill – Utilitarianism and Liberty

8. Smith – The Invisible Hand

9. Marx’s Theory of Alienation

10. Marx’s Theory of Historical Materialism

11. Marx’s Theory of Historical Materialism (cont’d)

12. Marx’s Theory of History

13. Marx’s Theory of Class Exploitation

14. Nietzsche on Power, Knowledge and Morality

15. Freud on Sexuality and Civilization

16. Weber on Protestantism and Capitalism 

17. Conceptual Foundations of Weber’s Theory of Domination

18. Weber on Traditional Authority

19. Weber on Charismatic Authority

20. Weber on Legal-Rational Authority

21. Weber’s Theory of Class

22. Durkheim and Types of Social Solidarity

23. Durkheim’s Theory of Anomie

24. Durkheim on Suicide

25. Durkheim on Social Facts