Theories of Social Order: A Reader 2nd Edition by Michael Hechter, ISBN-13: 978-0804758734

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Theories of Social Order: A Reader 2nd Edition by Michael Hechter, ISBN-13: 978-0804758734

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• Publisher: ‎ Stanford Social Sciences; 2nd edition (April 13, 2009)
• Language: ‎ English
• 368 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0804758735
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0804758734

Already a standard in its first edition, this newly expanded and reorganized reader provides a compelling exploration of what arguably remains the single most important problem in social theory: the problem of social order. Contending that theory’s purpose in the social sciences lies in its ability to explain real-world phenomena, Theories of Social Order presents classic texts alongside contemporary theoretical extensions and recent empirical applications.

Table of Contents:

Preface xi

PART I THE PROBLEM OF SOCIAL ORDER 1

PART 11 WHAT IS THEORY? 7

A. Theory Is Explanation 7

1. Dissecting the Social 12

PETER HEDSTROM

B. Motives and Mechanisms 17

2. Types of Social Action 23

MAX WEBER

3. Human Motivation and Social Cooperation 26

ERNST PBHR AND HERBERT GINTIS

4. De Gustibus Est Disputandum 35

SATOSHI KANAZAWA

PART Ill SOLUTIONS TO THE PROBLEM

OF SOCIAL ORDER 41

c. Individuals 41

5. The Production of Consciousness 46

KARLMARX

6. The Origin of Beliefs 49

EMILE DURKHEIM

vlll I CONTENTS

7. Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact 56

LJDWIK FLECK

8. Play, the Game, and the Generalized Other 60

GEORGE HERBERT MEAD

9. Meanings of Violence 67

OOV COHBN AND JOB VANDELLO

D. Hierarchies 82

10. Leviathan 88

THOMAS HOBBES

ll. The Origin of the State 99

FRIEDRICH ENGELS

12. The Types of Legitimate Domination 103

MAX WEBER

13. Learning to Labor 122

PAUL WILLIS

E. Markets 134

14. Cosmos and Taxis 140

FRIEDRICH A. HAYEK

15. Micromotives and Macrobehavior 154

THOMAS C. SCH£ LLING

16. The Division of Labor 166

ADAM SMITH

17. The Evolution of Cooperation 175

ROBER’T AXELROD

18. The Live-and-Let-Live System in Trench Warfare

in World War I 186

ROBERT AXELROD

19. From Ants to People, an Instinct to Swarm 195

CARLZIMMER

F. Groups 199

20. The Arrangement between the Sexes 210

ERVIN’G GOPPMAN

21. Civilization and Its Discontents 222

SIGMUND FREUD

CONTESTS l b

21. Egoistic Suicide 232

btlLE DURKHEIM

23. Anomic Suicide 237

btlLE DURKHEIM

24. Individualism and Free Institutions 246

ALEXIS DB TOCQUEVnl.E

25. Principles of Group Solidarity 256

MICHAEL HBCHTER

26. The Emergence of Norms 261

JAMBS S. COLBMAN

27. Group Cohesion and Metanorms 266

CHRISTINE HORNE

28. The Emperor’s Dilemma 276

DAMON CENTOLA1 ROBB WILLER, A~”D MlCHAEJ. MACY

29. The Attainment of Social Order in Heterogeneous Societies 282

MlCHAEL HECHTEJt, DBBR.A FRIEDMAN, AND SATOSID KANAZAWA

G. Networks 296

30. Trustt Cohesion, and the Social Order 300

BRNES’f GELLNER

31. ‘The Peace in the Feud 306

MAX GLUCKMAN

32. The Web of Group-Affiliations 316

GEORG SIMMEL

33. The Strength of Weak Ties 323

MARK S. GRANOVETTER

34. Ethnic Conflict and Civil Society: India and Beyond 333

ASHUTOSH VARSHNEY

H. Conclusion 340

Index 345

Michael Hechter is Foundation Professor of Global Studies at Arizona State University. Christine Horne is Associate Professor of Sociology at Washington State University.

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