Social Theory

Social Theory is an innovative and highly practical resource for students and scholars in the humanities and social sciences. Originally conceived in 2005, the database brings together an extensive range of influential writings representing the most important trends of sociological thought from the eighteenth century to the present day. Included in the more than 150,000 pages of searchable content are seminal works by such theorists as Harriet Martineau, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Max Weber, Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, Jürgen Habermas, Talcott Parsons, Michel Foucault and Jean Baudrillard.

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Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works

The complete fifty volumes containing the major works of friends and colleagues, Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. The set includes their correspondence as well as important writings such as Engels’ Anti-Dühring and Dialects of Nature, as well as Marx’s three volumes of Capital.

Gesammelte Schriften by Theodor Adorno

Adorno was a member of the Frankfurt School and this set contains twenty-three volumes of his most notable writings in German. These volumes include Adorno’s writings on topics such as philosophy, music, and sociology.

The Everyday World as Problematic: A Feminist Sociology by Dorothy E. Smith

Smith's seminal work describes her method of institutional ethnography and addresses the problem of a sociology written from the standpoint of men located ruling societies.