The Blackwell companion to major classical social theorists - Ritzer, George (Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2003)
Introduction: narratives, geistesgeschichtes, and the history of social theory / Douglas J. Goodman -- Auguste Comte / Mary Pickering -- Harriet Martineau / Susan Hoecker-Drysdale -- Herbert Spencer / Jonathan H. Turner -- Karl Marx / Robert J. Antonio -- Max Weber / Stephen Kalberg -- Émile Durkheim / Robert Alun Jones -- Georg Simmel / Lawrence A. Scaff -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman / Charles Lemert -- George Herbert Mead / Dmitri N. Shalin -- W.E.B. Du Bois / Charles Lemert -- Alfred Schutz / Mary Rogers -- Talcott Parsons / Victor Lidz.
Originally published, together with The Blackwell companion to major contemporary social theorists, as The Blackwell companion to major social theorists in 2000.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Sociology -- Philosophy