Images of man; [electronic resource] the classic tradition in sociological thinking.

The world outside and the pictures in our heads / Walter Lippmann -- The class bias / Herbert Spencer -- The prospects of scientific politics / Karl Mannheim -- On class / Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels -- Class, status, party / Max Weber -- Status and discontent / Thorstein Veblen -- Bureaucracy / Max Weber -- The ruling class / Gaetano Mosca -- The iron law of oligarchy / Robert Michels -- Elites, force and governments / Alfredo Pareto -- Militant and industrial societies / Herbert Spencer -- The main drift / Thorstein Veblen -- On capitalism / Joseph Schumpeter -- Three types of personality / William I. Thomas & Florian Znaniecki -- The Metropolis and mental life / Georg Simmel -- On anomie / Emilie Durkheim -- On alienation / Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels -- Types of rationality and organized insecurity / Karl Mannheim.