Professor Lambros Comitas

ITSF 6516

Social Structure

Readings

Sabine, George H.

1947 A History of Political Theory. New York: Henry Holt. (Chapters XVII-XXX, pp.331-647)

Khaldun, Ibn

1958 The Muqaddimah (3 volumes). New York: Bollingen Series XLIII, Pantheon Books. Vol. 1, pp. 6-14, 71-109, 247-448; Vol. II, PP. 3-6, 46-8, 89-156, 233-249, 269-308, 309-319, 336-343.

Montesquieu, Charles de Secundat

(1748) 1989 The Spirit of the Laws. Cambridge University Press. Preface, Books 1-4, 8, 11, 14, 16-19, 23.

Andreski, Stanislav (ed.)

1971 Herbert Spencer: Structure, Function and Evolution. London: Nelson

Weber, Max

1946 The Theory of Social and Economic Organization. New York: The Free Press

Linton, Ralph

1936 The Study of Man. Appleton-Century-Crofts

Murdock, George P.

1949 Social Structure. New York: Macmillan.

Radcliffe-Brown, A.R.

1957 A Natural Science of Society. Glencoe, Ill.: Free Press.

Firth, Raymond

1954 "Social Organization and Social Change." In Essays on Social Organization and Values.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

1963 Structural Anthropology. New York: Basic Books. (Chapter XV, pp. 277-323)

Nadel, S.F.

1957 The Theory of Social Structure. London: Cohen & West Ltd.

Goodenough, Ward H.

1965 "Rethinking ‘Status’ and ‘Role’: Toward a General Model of the Cultural Organization of Social Relationships." In Gluckman, Max and Fred Eggan, The Relevance of Models for Social Anthropology, pp. 1-24. London: Tavistock Publications.

Smith, M.G.

1998 The Study of Social Structure. New York: Research Institute for the Study of Man.