Four sociological traditions / Randall Collins.

Rev. and expanded edition of: Three sociological traditions.1985.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-309) and index.

-- 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. And Finally Sociology -- 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. The Paradoxes and Limits of Rationality. 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.