Sociological Theory Videos

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A. Weber
B. Marx
C. Durkheim
D. Comte, Spencer, and Durkheim
E. Miscellaneous

So far, I have found three helpful videos on Max Weber.

• MW Visits America (22:53)

• On the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (10:28)
  
  
• Alan Macfarlane (Cambridge): lecture on Max Weber (43:03)

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There are a substantial number of videos (some are actually audios) concerning Karl Marx.

• Karl Marx Biography (notwithstanding the confusing opening, which is almost remedied by the hilarious ending in any case) (8:03)

• The Communist Manifesto (9:48)

• Karl Heinrich Marx (9:36)

• Karl Marx Explains the Labor (sic) Theory of Value (1:04)

• “Anything is Possible” (on alienation) (1:33)

• Wage Labor and Capital (Ch. 2) (a reading) (10:25)

• Bourgeois and Proletarians (a reading) (39:47)
  
  
• Alan Macfarlane (Cambridge): lecture on Karl Marx (53:42)

• Leave Karl Marx Alone! (parody) (1:29)

• KM: The Man and his Mitzvah (9:49)

• Karl Marx’s Tomb (sic) at Highgate Cemetery (1:23)

• Karl Marx Alive (on the British Museum) (0:52)

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• Alan Macfarlane (Cambridge): overview lecture on Emile Durkheim (47:06)
  
  
• Ken Gelder (Melbourne University) on Emile Durkheim (Pt. I) (25:28)
  
  
• Ken Gelder (Melbourne University) on Emile Durkheim (Pt. 2) (19:38)

• The evolution of Herbert Spencer (audio) (4:14)

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Four audio clips and one video concerning Antonio Gramsci.

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