THE SOCIAL THEORY PAGE

Introduction

This page is designed for social scientists of all stripes and persuasions who are interested in social theory. It contains links to other sites that contain full texts of classic works, discussions of theoretical issues, outlines of courses in social theory, or other miscellaneous information. Anyone wishing to make suggestions for additions (other sorts of information?) or corrections to The Social Theory Page may do so by sending an email message to Lawrence.Busch@ssc.msu.edu.

I will attempt to keep the list as up-to-date as possible, but please be patient as I have other obligations.

Texts

Texts by the following authors are available in their entirety on the web. They are in English translation unless otherwise noted. Thesymbol following information on a theorist is a link to a photo or picture of that theorist. Note that the pictures are not part of this page, but are links to other pages.

Bacon, Sir Francis. Sir Francis Bacon Page, 

Descartes, René. Discourse on Method, Meditations,

Dewey, John. Democracy in Education, Center for Dewey Studies

DuBois, W.E.B. The DuBois Virtual University, Unofficial W.E.B. DuBois Page 

Durkheim, Emile. The Durkheim Pages.

Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan,De Cive, The Elements of Law Natural and Politic, A Biography of Hobbes, Thomas Hobbes Page, The Hobbesian argument for the state

Hume, David. The Hume Archives Contains a number of selected writings by Hume including the "Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding." 

Locke, John. An Essay on Human Understanding,A Letter Concerning Toleration,The Locke Institute

Machiavelli, Niccolo. The Prince

Marx, Karl. The Marx Archives The Marx Archives contains many, though not quite all, of the works of Marx. Capital is still not fully available. 

Mead, George Herbert. The Mead Page (with very large collection of his works),

Mill, John Stuart. Utilitarianism, Biography

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. The Confessions,

Smith, Adam. Wealth of Nations

Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de. Candide

Discussion Groups

Course Outlines

Sociology 815 Classical Sociological Theory (Fall 1999 Sylabus)

Other Useful Sites of Interest

Virtual Sociology Library. A site that pulls together resources of potential interest to sociologists. (Often rather slow, but worth the wait.)

History of Economic Thought. An excellent collection of texts and pictures of economists.

Digital Text Projects. A collection of philosophical and educational writings as well as poetry in full text format.

Philosophy Resources. A collection of links to philosophical texts on the web.

Famous Philosophers and Discussions About Them. The name says it all.

The On-line Books Page. A page of links to various collections of on-line books in all fields.