Classical Books

"The Division of Labour in Society"

"Emile Durkheim | 1893 | Mechanical solidarity; Organic solidarity; Division of labour; Collective conscience; Anomie"

"The Rules of Sociological Method"

"Emile Durkheim | 1895 | Social facts; Objectivity; Sociological method; Collective representations"

"Suicide"

"Emile Durkheim | 1897 | Egoistic suicide; Altruistic suicide; Anomic suicide; Fatalistic suicide; Social integration; Regulation"

"The Elementary Forms of Religious Life"

"Emile Durkheim | 1912 | Sacred and profane; Totemism; Collective effervescence; Religion as social fact"

"Moral Education"

"Emile Durkheim | 1925 | Moral discipline; Socialization; Education and society | Posthumously published"

"Professional Ethics and Civic Morals"

"Emile Durkheim | 1950 | Professional groups; Civic morality; Occupational ethics | Posthumously published"

"The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism"

"Max Weber | 1905 | Protestant ethic; Spirit of capitalism; Rationalization; Calvinism"

"Economy and Society"

"Max Weber | 1922 | Social action; Authority; Bureaucracy; Ideal types; Class

"Politics as a Vocation"

"Max Weber | 1919 | State and legitimacy; Ethics of conviction and responsibility; Power"

"Science as a Vocation"

"Max Weber | 1919 | Disenchantment; Value neutrality; Rationality"

"The Religion of China"

"Max Weber | 1915 | Confucianism; Religion and economy; Comparative religion"

"The Religion of India"

"Max Weber | 1916 | Caste; Hinduism; Religion and social stratification"

"Ancient Judaism"

"Max Weber | 1921 | Prophecy; Judaism; Social evolution; Religion and ethics | Posthumously published"

"Methodology of the Social Sciences"

"Max Weber | 1904 | Verstehen; Ideal types; Interpretive sociology; Objectivity"

"The Communist Manifesto"

"Karl Marx | 1848 | Class struggle; Bourgeoisie and proletariat; Communism; Revolution"

"Das Kapital Volume I"

"Karl Marx | 1867 | Surplus value; Commodity fetishism; Exploitation; Labour theory of value; Capital accumulation"

"Das Kapital Volume II"

"Karl Marx | 1885 | Circulation of capital; Reproduction of capital | Posthumously published"

"Das Kapital Volume III"

"Karl Marx | 1894 | Profit; Falling rate of profit; Crisis of capitalism | Posthumously published"

"The German Ideology"

"Karl Marx | 1846 | Historical materialism; Ideology; Material conditions"

"Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts"

"Karl Marx | 1844 | Alienation; Humanism; Labour | Posthumously published"

"Critique of Political Economy"

"Karl Marx | 1859 | Base and superstructure; Political economy"

"The Poverty of Philosophy"

"Karl Marx | 1847 | Critique of Proudhon; Dialectical materialism"

"The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte"

"Karl Marx | 1852 | State power; Class politics; Historical analysis"

"Critique of the Gotha Programme"

"Karl Marx | 1875 | Dictatorship of the proletariat; Distribution; Communism"