Theories of Social Order

Preface A Theory Is Explanation 3 1 Explanation in the Social Sciences / George C. Homans 9 B Motives and Mechanisms 15 2 Types of Social Action / Max Weber 22 C The Problem of Social Order 27 3 The Moral Basis of a Backward Society / Edward C. Banfield 33 D Meaning 44 4 The Production of Consciousness / Karl Marx 49 5 The Origin of Beliefs / Emile Durkheim 52 6 Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact / Ludwik Fleck 60 7 Play, the Game, and the Generalized Other / George Herbert Mead 65 8 Meanings of Violence / Dov Cohen, Joe Vandello 73 E Values and Norms 91 9 Civilization and Its Discontents / Sigmund Freud 101 10 Egoistic Suicide / Emile Durkheim 112 11 Anomic Suicide / Emile Durkheim 118 12 Explaining the Emergence of Norms / Christine Horne 129 13 Behavior in Public Places / Erving Goffman 140 14 Altruistic Punishment in Humans / Ernst Fehr, Simon Gachter 151 F Power and Authority 159 15 Leviathan / Thomas Hobbes 166 16 The Origin of the State / Friedrich Engels 179 17 The Types of Legitimate Domination / Max Weber 183 18 Learning to Labor / Paul Willis 204 G Spontaneous Order 216 19 Cosmos and Taxis / Friedrich A. Hayek 221 20 Micromotives and Macrobehavior / Thomas C. Schelling 237 21 The Division of Labor / Adam Smith 251 22 The Evolution of Cooperation / Robert Axelrod 261 23 The Live-and-Let-Live System in Trench Warfare in World War I / Robert Axelrod 273 H Groups and Networks 283 24 The Web of Group-Affiliations / Georg Simmel 291 25 The Strength of Weak Ties / Mark S. Granovetter 299 26 Trust, Cohesion, and the Social Order / Ernest Gellner 310 27 Individualism and Free Institutions / Alexis De Tocqueville 317 28 The Attainment of Social Order in Heterogeneous Societies / Michael Hechter, Debra Friedman, Satoshi Kanazawa 329 I Conclusion 345 Index 351