Social Theory

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Welcome to Social Theory

Social Theory offers an extensive selection of documents that explore the complexities and interpret the nature of social behavior and organization. Particular care has been taken to index this material so that it can be searched more thoroughly than ever before. This final release features more than 150,000 pages of content by such major theorists as Theodor Adorno, Jean Baudrillard, Simone de Beauvoir, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Émile Durkheim, Michel Foucault, Jürgen Habermas, Robert Merton, Dorothy E. Smith , and Talcott Parsons.
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Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works, by Karl Marx, Frederick Engels

The complete fifty volumes containing the major works of friends and colleagues, Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. The set includes their correspondence as well as important writings such as Engels’ Anti-Dühring and Dialects of Nature, as well as Marx’s three volumes of Capital.

America, by Jean Baudrillard

Using his unique insights and observations Baudrillard describes the cultural landscape of America as he travels across the country.

Gesammelte Schriften, by Theodor Adorno

Adorno was a member of the Frankfurt School and this set contains twenty-three volumes of his most notable writings in German. These volumes include Adorno’s writings on topics such as philosophy, music, and sociology.

The Everyday World as Problematic: A Feminist Sociology, by Dorothy E. Smith

Smith's seminal work describes her method of institutional ethnography and addresses the problem of a sociology written from the standpoint of men located ruling societies.