Preface and Acknowledgements
Part I: Context
Introduction
1. Modernity and Social Theory
2. European Enlightenment and Early Social Thought
Part II: The Classical Triumvirate
3. Karl Marx: Philosophy
4. Karl Marx: Theory of History
5. Karl Marx: Economics of Capitalism
6. Emile Durkheim: The Division of Labour in Society
7. Emile Durkheim: The Rules of Sociological Method and Le Suicide
8. Emile Durkheim: Religion and Education
9. Max Weber: Methodology
10. Max Weber: Capitalism and Society
Part III: Expanding the Canon
11. Georg Simmel on Modernity
12. Gender and Social Theory
Part IV: What Relevance Now?
Epilogue
Further Reading
Index