William Shakespeare : on social stratification / Hiroshi Ono
Plato : seven sociological ideas for the happy life / Guillermina Jasso
Franz Kafka : bureaucracy, law, and abuses of the "iron cage" / Joachim J. Savelsberg
Marcel Proust : on social status and capital forms / Jens Rydgren
George Orwell : from democratic revolution to authoritarian rule / Karl-Dieter Opp
Robert Musil : state, nation, and nationality / Helmut Kuzmics
August Strindberg : forms of interaction / Christofer Edling
Henrik Ibsen : the power of charisma / Fredrik Engelstad
Chinua Achebe : colonial anomie / Wendy Griswold
Ernst Cassirer : science, symbols, and logics / John W. Mohr
Cicero : persons and positions / Lars Udehn
Charles Darwin : selfishness and altruism / Wendelin Reich
François Rabelais : materiality and culture / Emily Erikson
Émile Zola : seductions and emancipations of consumption / Helena Flam
Fyodor Dostoevsky : on extreme political violence / Eva M. Meyersson Milgrom and Joshua Thurston-Milgrom
Goethe : the ambivalence of modernity and the Faustian ethos of personality / Hans-Peter Müller
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck : at the intersection of sociocultural worlds / Karen A. Cerulo and Janet M. Ruane
Dante Alighieri : the afterworlds are hell for sociologists / Peter Bearman
Galileo Galilei : which road to scientific innovation? / Roberto Franzosi
Jorge Luis Borges : reduction of social complexity / Filippo Barbera
Issac Asimov : impacting and predicting sociocultural change / Kathleen M. Carley
Alfred North Whitehead : from universal algebra to universal sociology / Thomas J. Fararo
Kurt Vonnegut : from semicolons to apocalypses / Barry Markovsky
Jonathan Swift : political satire and the public sphere / Gary Alan Fine
Baruch Spinoza : monism and complementarity / Ronald L. Breiger
Isaiah Berlin : on the sociology of freedom / Margareta Bertilsson
Bertrand Russell : insights on power / David Willer
Immanuel Kant : an analytic grammar for the relation between cognition and action / John Levi Martin
John Dewey : the sociology of action / Christopher Muller and Christopher Winshop
Charles Sanders Peirce : on the sociology of thinking / Richard Swedberg
Thomas Hobbes : on generating social order / Mohammed Cherkaoui
Jean Piaget : sociology beyond holism and individualism / Omar Lizardo.
