This four-volume set presents an unrivalled collection of the key literature in European sociology. The prestigious texts range across the European tradition from enlightenment to contemporary theory. The collection explodes the myth that the European tradition in sociology is a debate with the ghosts of Karl Marx and Max Weber, demonstrating that the tradition is far more deeply rooted and broadly based.

Volume 1 is devoted to the emergence of European sociology. The contribution of classical political economy and the Enlightenment is examined. Commentaries on the work of Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, Taine, Rousseau, de Tocqueville, Comte and St. Simon are included. The volume creates a vivid and compelling picture of the origins of European sociology.

Volume 2 covers the rise of the classical period in social theory. It includes commentaries on the contribution of Marx, Spencer, Dilthey, Weber, Durkheim and Simmel. An overview of the main contributions of the founding fathers is also included.

Volume 3 moves on to explore the main developments in the first half of the twentieth century. The contributions of the Durkheimian Tradition, Mauss, Mannheim, Lukacs, Gramsci and British sociology are presented. The volume provides a synoptic view of the diversity and emerging complexity of European sociology.

Volume 4 identifies the main developments from post-industrial theory to the present day. The volume includes commentaries on the work of Aron, Foucault, Habermas, Giddens, Bourdieu, Boudon and Gellner. Selections on structuralism, polysemy, the positivist dispute and the neo-liberal tradition widen out the picture.

The collection is the benchmark work for understanding the history, contribution and dilemmas of the European tradition. Full account is taken of the reference needs of students as well as of academics.

Each hardcover volume of 416 pages is bound to the highest standards. The lettering on the cover is gold embossed. The slip case for the four volumes is also embossed. The volumes are not available separately.

THE EUROPEAN TRADITION VOLUME I: THE EMERGENCE OF EUROPEAN SOCIOLOGY: I - FROM THE ENLIGHTENMENT TO THE FOUNDING FATHERS (1700-1880)
Editor¿s Introduction - Raymond Boudon
THE ENLIGHTENMENT
Extract from The Philosophy of Enlightenment - Ernst Cassirer
The Enlightenment and the Birth of the Social Sciences - Pater Hamilton
On Thomas Hobbes - C B Macpherson
from The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism
On John Locke - Peter Laslett
Introduction to Two Treatises of Government
On Petty and S[um]ussmilch - Paul Lazarsfeld
Notes on the History of Quantification in Sociology
I: IN SEARCH OF ORIGINS AND PRINCIPLES
On Montesquieu - Louis Althusser
On Montesquieu - Emile Durkheim
Gibbon - Roy Porter
Making History
On Rousseau - Emile Durkhiem
from Jean-Jacques Rousseau, La Transparance de l¿Obstacle - Jean Starobinski
On the Scottish School - Louis Schneidre
from The Scottish Moralists
Origins of Sociology - A Swingewood
The Case of the Scottish Enlightenment
II: MATHEMATICS AND SOCIOLOGY
extract from Condorcet, Natural Philosophy to Social Mathematics - K M Baker
extract from Condorcet, La Mesure de l¿Etat: Administrateurs et G[ac]eom[gr]etres - Eric Briand
Quetelet extract from Notes on the History of Quantification in Sociology - Paul Lazarsfeld
Quetelet extract from The Rise of Statistical Thinking - T M Porter
III: "IDEALOGUES" AND SOCIAL OBSERVERS
On Les Id[ac]eologues - Johan Heilbron
from The Rise of Social Theory
Villerm[ac]e and the Social Observers - B P L[ac]ecuyer
from Pour Une Hisoire De La Statistique
Conservatism - Robert Nisbet
IV ALAIN DE TOCQUEVILLE
Id[ac]ees Politiques de Tocqueville - Raymond Aron
from Etapes de la Pens[ac]ee Sociologique
Tocqueville - J C Lamberti
from Tocquevulle et les Deux D[ac]emocraties
Le Pouvoir Social - Raymond Boudon
Variations sur un th[gr]eme de Tocqueville
Extract from The Cognitivist Model, An Example from de Tocqueville - Raymond Boudon
V: UTILITARIANISM AND POSITIVISM
On Saint Simon - F Manuel
from The Prophets of Paris
A Comte - Annie Petit
from A Comte et la Politique Scientifique
Utilitarianism - Hal[ac]evy
from La Formation du Radicalisme Philosophique
VI: FROM THE UTOPIAN SOCIALISTS TO MARX
Proudhon sa vie son oeuvre - G Gurvitch
Marxism and Sociology - Tom Bottomore
Extract from Karl Marx¿s Theory of History: A Defence - G A Cohen
VII: EVOLUTIONISM AND SOCIAL DARWINISM
Extract from Herbert Spencer - J Peel
Herbert Spencer - Raymond Boudon
from A Critical Dictionary of Sociology
Social Darwinism and English Thought - Greta Jones
Social Darwinism - R C Bannister
VIII: NEO-KANTISM AND THE SPECIFICITY OF THE GEISTESWISSENSCHAFTEN
Wilhelm Dilthey and the Neo-Kantism - Rudolf Makkreel
The Distinction of the Geisteswissenschaften and the Kulturwissinschaften
On Rickert - Ernst Cassirer
From Das Erkenntnisproblem in der Philosophie und Wissenschaft der neueren Zeit
VOLUME II: THE EMERGENCE OF EUROPEAN SOCIOLOGY: II - THE CLASSICAL TRADITION (1880-1920)
Editors¿ Introduction - Raymond Boudon
I: MAX WEBER
Max Weber - G[um]unther Roth
A Bibliographical Essay
Max Weber as a Critic of Marxism - Wolfgang J Mommsen
Max Webers Fragestellung - Wilhem Hennis
from L¿[ac]ethique Protestante de Max Weber - Annette Disselkamp
De-Parsonizing Weber - Jere Cohen et al
A Critique of Parson¿s Interpretation of Weber¿s Sociology
II: EMILE DURKHEIM
Prolegomena to the Interpretation of Durkheim - Steven Lukes
Changement Social et Anomie - Mohamed Cherkaoui
Essai de formalisation de la th[ac]eorie durkheimienne
Modes d¿Emploi du Suicide - P Besnard
Int[ac]egration et r[ac]egulation dans la th[ac]eorie durkheimienne
Durkheim on Religion Revisited - T Parsons
Another Look at the Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
III: GEORG SIMMEL
Georg Simmel - David Frisby
First Sociologist of Modernity
Simmel, Rationalisation and the Sociology of Money - Bryan S Turner
The Problems of the Philosophy of History - Raymond Boudon
IV: PARETO AND THE ELITIST SCHOOL
from Pareto: La Naissance d¿une Autre Sociologie - B Valade
Introduction [gr]a la Sociologe de Pareto - Busino, Giovanni
Un [ac]Elitisme Technocratique et Lib[ac]eral - Carlo Lottieri
l¿autorit[ac]e et l¿etzat selon Mosca
From Socialism to Fascism - David Beetham
The Relation Between Theoryr and Practice in the Work of Robert Michels
V: THE EMERGENCE OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Histoire de psychologies sociales perdues. Le cas de Gabriel Tarde - Ian Lubeek
Gustave Le Bon - Yvon Thiek
Proph[gr]ete de L¿irrationnalisme de masse
Introduction to Gabriel Tarde on Communication and Social Influence - Terry Clark
Friedrich Toennies - Y Atoji
from Sociology at the Turn of the Century
VI: THE GERMAN METHODENSTREIT
Der Methodenstreit in den Sozialwissenschaften zwischen Gustav Schmoller und Carl Menger - R Hansen
Schmoller versus Menger - G Ritzel
Werner Sombart 1863-1941. Eine Einf[um]uhring in Leben, Werk un Wirkung - Bernhard vom Brocke
VII: OTHER SCHOOLS AND CURRENTS IN THE EUROPEAN TRADITION
Les Continuateurs de Le Play au tour du si[gr]ecle - Savoy, A
Le Play - Bodard
from The Heritage of Sociology
Ren[ac]e Worms - Roger Geiger
L¿organicisme et l¿organisation de la sociologie
Between Literature and Science - W Lepenmies
The Rise of Sociology
VOLUME III: EUROPEAN SOCIOLOGY IN THE 20TH CENTURY: I - MODERNITY AND ITS DISCONTENTS (1920 - 1960)
Editor¿s Introduction - Raymond Boudon
I: THE DURKHEIMIAN SCHOOL
The Ann[ac]ee Sociologique Team - P Besnard
The Durkheimians in Academe - Yictor Karady
A Reconsideration
An Intellectual Self-Portrait - Marcel Mauss
La Sociologie [ac]economique - Philippe Steiner
II: SOCIOLOGY AND PHENOMENOLOGY
The Dual Vision - R A Gorman
Alfred Sch[um]tz and the Myth of Phenomenological Social Science
Karl Mannheim and the Production of a Relationist Sociology of Knowledge - Peter Hamilton
Max Scheler - John Staude
An Intellectual Portrait
III: NEO-MARXISM AND REVISIONISM
Georg Luk[ac]acs - David Frisby
From Reification to the Critique of Ideology
Austro-Marxism - Tom Bottomore
The Emergence of Sociology in Austria 1885 - 1935 - John Torrance
Gramsci and Marxist Theory - Chantal Mouffe
IV: FRANKFURT VERSUS K[UM]OLN: THE INSTIUT F[UM]UR SOZIALFORSCHUNG VERSUS THE FORSCHUNGSINSTITUT F[UM]UR SOZIALWISSENSCHAFTEN
from Die Stiftungsuniversit[um]at Frankfurt am Main - Paul Kluke
Leopold von Wiese und das Forschungsinstitut f[um]ur Socailwissenschaften in K[um]oln - Tom Bottomore
V: SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIALISM: BRITISH SOCIOLOGY
Between Literature and Science - W Lepennies
The Rise of Sociology
The Sociological Society and the Genesis of Academic Sociology in Britain - R J Halliday
Continuity and Instititionalization in Science - Stephen Cole
A Case Study of Failure
from Talcott Parsons: The Structure of Social Action - Marshall
THE EUROPEAN TRADITION VOLUME IV: EUROPEAN SOCIOLOGY IN THE 20TH CENTURY: II - FROM POST-INDUSTRIALISM TO POST-MODERNISM (1960-1995)
Editor¿s Introduction - Raymond Boudon
I: GROUPS AND INSTITUTIONS IN POST-WAR RECONSTRUCTION
The Political Thought of Neo-Liberalism - C J Friedrich
Chronique de la Sociologie Fran[ce]aise apr[gr]es 1945 - Jacques Lautman
The Modern Social Conflict - Ralf Dahrendorf
II: THE NEW FRANKFURT SCHOOL AND THE SKEPTICAL GERMAN GENERATION
Introduction from >Sociology in the Federal Republic of Germany - Johannes Weiss
Funktion und Gesellschaft - T Schwinn
Konstante Probleme trotz Paradigmenwechsel in der Systemtheorie Niklas Luhmanns
Language, Self, and Lifeworld in Habermas¿s Theory of Communicative Action - T McIntosh
III: THE FRENCH STRUCTURALIST SCHOOL: A PHILOSOPHY WITHOUT A SUBJECT
The Uses of Structuralism - Raymond Boudon
Structuralism - Tom Bottomore and Robert Nisbet
The Paradoxical Effects of McLuhanisme - G Genosco
Cazeneuve, Baudrillard and Barthes
Althusser and Structuralism - A Assister
Foucault - Jose Guilherme Merquior
from The Analysis of Ideology - Raymond Boudon
Language, Culture and Sociology - R Jenkins
Pierre Bourdieu in Context
IV: A NEW THEORY OF RATIONALITY AND A REVOLT AGAINST HOLISM
Boudon¿s Educational Theses about the Replication of Social Inequality - Hayward R Alker Jr
Boudon, Education and the Theory of Game - Jon Elster
Le Sociologue et la Raison - Philippe de Lara
L¿Analyse Strat[ac]egique et l¿Indivdualisme M[ac]ethodologique - Jacques Lautman
V: BRITISH SOCIOLOGY: BETWEEN THEORISATION AND SUSPICION
The Transformations of Anthony Giddens - D Jary and J Jary
The Continuing Story of Structuration Theory