Diagrams of Social Theory
© by Frederick Weil, Sociology Dept., LSU
(sorry some are a little fuzzy)

 
• Karl Marx
• Selected Diagrams
• The Communist Manifesto
• The German Ideology
• Base Structure and Superstructure
• The Historical Dialectic
• The circulation of commodities
• The workday
• Capital, Vol. 1, Part 8 "On Primitive Accumulation"

• Max Weber
• Definition of Sociology as a science
• General Economic History
• The "Town-Crown Alliance"
• Dynamic tendencies in the forms of Legitimate Domination

• Durkheim
• Suicide diagrams

• Tocqueville and Durkheim

• Decentralized and Centralized Societies

• Georg Simmel

• Intersecting Social Circles
• Social Networks

• Spencer

• Malthus & Spencer on Scarcity

• Talcott Parsons
• Outline of the Social System
• Comparative Studies and Evolutionary Change

• Diagrams from the NY Times
• How Would You Draw History? By Crispin Sartwell, Nov. 19, 2018 (fun!)