Science, class and society : on the formation of sociology and historical materialism / Goran Therborn.

Third impression, 1980.

Preface, 9 -- Chapter One. Sociology of sociology, Marxism of Marxism, 11 -- 1. The lacunae of the sociology of sociology, 13 -- II. Philosophy or History? Problems of a Marxism of Marxism, 37 -- III. What is science and what is society?, 66 -- Chapter Two. The economy and the economics of capitalism, 77 -- Chapter Three. The age of sociology: between one revolution and another, 115 -- Chapter Four. Politics after the bourgeois revolution: the new society and the masses, 145 -- I. The political theory of a new society, 145 -- II. The Politics of a New Society, 163 -- III. Bourgeois politics in the age of imperialism: positivism meets the masses, 186 -- Chapter Five. The ideological community: the sociological critique of political economy, 219 -- I. A natural science of an unnatural world, 219 -- II. Administrative sociology and the twilight of competitive capitalism, 227 -- III. Culture and morality, 240 -- Chapter Six. Working class struggles and theoretical breaks: the social and theoretical formation of historical materialism, 317 -- I. The bourgeois revolution, the radical intelligentsia and the proletariat, 317 -- II. Theoretical coordinates for the emergence of historical materialism, 335 -- III. The new pattern of social determination, 353 -- IV. Science and Dialectics, 386 -- Chapter Seven. Conclusions and beyond: historical materialism and the critique of sociology, 415 -- Bibliography, 431 -- Index, 451.