The discovery of society / Randall Collins and Michael Makowsky.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-293) and index.

- Society and illusion -- The prophets of Paris : Saint-Simon and Comte -- Sociology in the underground : Karl Marx -- The last gentleman : Alexis de Tocqueville -- Nietzsche's madness -- Do-gooders, evolutionists, and racists -- Dreyfus's empire : Emile Durkheim -- Max Weber : the disenchantment of the world -- Sigmund Freud : conquistador of the irrational -- The discovery of the invisible world : Simmel, Cooley, and Mead -- The discovery of the ordinary world : Thomas, Park, and the Chicago School -- The emergence of African-American sociology : DuBois, Frazier, Drake, and Cayton -- The construction of the social system : Pareto and Parsons -- Hitler's shadow : Michels, Mannheim, and Mills -- Erving Goffman and the theatre of social encounters -- Cultural capital, revolution, and the world-system : the theories of Pierre Bourdieu, Theda Skocpol, and Immanuel Wallerstein -- From the code of the street to the social structure of right and wrong : the sociology of Elijah Anderson and Donald Black.