An outline of key ideas and theories in sociology by the author of "The ABC of Sociology" (1985).
Structural Marxism, Louis Althusser; labelling theory, Howard Becker;
post-industrial society, Daniel Bell; linguistic codes, Basil Bernstein;
deskilling, Harry Braverman; collective consumption, Manuel Castells;
positivism, Auguste Comte; conflict theory, Ralf Dahrendorf; anomie social
solidarity, Emile Durkheim; historical materialism, Friedrich Engels; gender
patriarchy; feminism; dependency theory, Frank Andre Gunder ; critical
theory, Frankfurt school; ethnomethodology, Harold Garfinkel; stigma, Erving
Goffman; embourgeoisement, John Goldthorpe ; hegemony, Antonio Gramsci;
legitimation crisis, Jurgen Habermas; phenomenology, Edmund Husserl and
Alfred Schtuz; deschooling, Ivan Illich; convergence thesis, Clark Kerr;
paradigms, Thomas S.Kuhn; culture of poverty, Oscar Lewis; ideology, Karl
Mannheim; alienation, Karl Marx; human relations, Elton Mayo; symbolic
interactionism, Herbert George Mead; sociology of science, Robert K.Merton;
iron law of oligarchy, Robert Michels; power elite, Mills C.Wright; urban
managerialism corporatism, Raymond E.Pahl and Jack Winkler; elite theory,
Vilfredo Pareto and Gaetano Mosca; human ecology, Robert Ezra Park;
structural functionalism, Talcott Parsons; falsification, Karl Popper;
relative autonomy, Nicos Poulantzas; housing classes, John Rex and Robert
Moore; self-fulfilling prophecy, Robert Rosenthal and Leone Jacobson;
modernisation theory, Walt Whitman Rostow; formal sociology, Georg Simmel;
social Darwinism, Herbert Spencer; scientific management, Frederick Winslow
Taylor; gemeinschaft-gesellschaft, Ferdinand Tonnies; bureaucracy Protestant
ethic, Max Weber; urbanism, Louis Wirth; secularisation, Bryan Wilson.
