Marx & Engels: The Communist Manifesto
(click here for an online copy of the Manifesto)
(click here for a treatise on 19th century socialism)
(click here for a discussion of some confusions about socialism, communism, & capitalism) 

Marx & Engels: The German Ideology

 On various passages by Marx & Weber

Summaries of various Marx works

More Summaries of various Marx works

Detailed summary of "Division of Labor" (1893)

Detailed summary of "Rules of the Sociological Method" (1895)

Detailed summary of "Suicide" (1897)

Detailed summary of "Elementary Forms of the Religious Life" (1912)

Summaries of various Durkheim works

More Summaries of various Durkheim works

Outline/Guide to Durkheim's works

A Durkheim Page

Another Durkheim Page

A chart showing the relationship between Durkheim's theory of suicide and his theory of mechanical/organic social solidarity.

Summaries of various Weber works

More Summaries of various Weber works

Guide to G.H. Mead's Mind, Self, & Society

On Robert Michels' theory of Oligarchy

Summaries of various Parsons works

Summaries of various Simmel works

Guide to Simmel's Forms of Social Life

Summary of Erving Goffman: The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

A guide to Goffman

Guide to Robert Merton's Strain Theory

University of Chicago's Classical Theory Collection