Theories & Disciplinary
Foundational Theories & Disciplinary Frameworks
Introduction: This category encompasses core theories and seminal works that define the intellectual backbone of social sciences, offering frameworks to understand human societies, institutions, and behaviors.
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Classic Disciplinary Theories
Sociology (e.g., Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism), Political Science (e.g., Aristotle’s Politics), Anthropology (e.g., Malinowski’s Argonauts of the Western Pacific). -
Interdisciplinary Foundations
Philosophy-social science intersections (e.g., Foucault’s Discipline and Punish), economics-sociology hybrids (e.g., Amartya Sen’s Poverty and Famines). -
Ideological Evolution
Key schools of thought: liberalism, Marxism, postmodernism (e.g., Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty).
