对于19、20世纪卷帙浩繁的社会理论的梳理，不啻为一项艰苦而艰巨的工作。呈现在读者面前的这本书出色地展现了其著作者广博的知识、精湛的写作技巧和清晰的思路。本书选取了19世纪以来卓越的社会理论家，以他们对社会发展的突破性的思想贡献，在作者巧妙的构思下，连成一条新的意识变迁的长河。

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION SOCIETY AND ILLUSION

Chapter 1 The Prophets of Paris: Saint-Simon and Comte

Chapter 2 The Last Gentleman: Alexis de Tocqueville

Chapter 3 Nietzsche's Madness

Chapter 4 Do-Gooders, Evolutionists, and Racists

Chapter 5 Dreyfus's Empire: Emile Durkheim

Chapter 6 Max Weber: The Disenchantment of the World

Chapter 7 Sigmund Freud: Conquistador of the Irrational

Chapter 8 The Discovery of the Invisible World: Simmel, Cooley, and Mead

Chapter 9 .The Discovery of the Ordinary World: Thomas, Park, and the Chicago School

Chapter 10 The Emergence of African-American Sociology: Du Bois, Frazier, Drake, and Cayton

Chapter 11 The Construction of the Social System: Pareto and Parsons

Chapter 12 Hitler's Shadow: Michels, Mannheim, and Mills

Chapter 13 Erving Goffman and the Theater of Social Encounters

Chapter 14 Cultural Capital, Revolution, and the World-System: The Theories of Pierre Bourdieu, Theda Skocpol, and Immanuel WaUerstein

Chapter 15 From the Code of the Street to the Social Structure of Right and Wrong: The Sociology of Elijah Anderson and Donald Black