“The Status of the Classics: A View from Today” (comment on Donald Levine,“The Variable Status of the Classics in Differing Narratives of the Sociological Tradition”)

Alexander J (1987) Twenty Lectures: Sociological Theory Since World War II. Columbia: Columbia University Press.

Baehr P (2002) Founders, Classics, Canons: Modern Disputes over the Origins and Appraisal of Sociology’s Heritage. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.

Baehr P (2013a) The honored outsider: Raymond Aron as sociologist. Sociological Theory 31(2): 93–115.

Baehr P (2013b) The problem of ‘Unmasking’ in ‘Ideology and Utopia’: Karl Mannheim, Karl Jaspers and Hannah Arendt. Sociologica 1: 1–32.

Baehr P (2013c) The undoing of humanism: Peter L. Berger’s sociology of unmasking. Society 50(4): 379–390.

Baehr P Gordon D (2012) Unmasking and disclosure as sociological practices: Contrasting modes for understanding religious and other beliefs. Journal of Sociology 48: 380–396.

Bhabha H (2004 [1994]) The commitment to theory. In: Bhabha H (ed.) The Location of Culture. London: Routledge, 28–56.

Bortolini M (2012) The trap of intellectual success: Robert N. Bellah, the American civil religion debate, and the sociology of knowledge. Theory and Society 41(2): 187–210.

Camic C (1992) Reputation and predecessor selection: Parsons and the institutionalists. American Sociological Review 57(4): 421–445.

Camic C Hans J (eds) (2004) The Dialogical Turn: New Roles for Sociology in the Postdisciplinary Age. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Collins R (1997) A sociological guilt trip: Comment on Connell. American Journal of Sociology 102(6): 1558–1564.

Connell RW (1997) Why is classical theory classical? American Journal of Sociology 102(6): 1511–1557.

Connell RW (2007a) Southern Theory: The Global Dynamics of Knowledge in Social Science. Malden, MA: Polity Press.

Connell RW (2007b) The northern theory of globalization. Sociological Theory 25(4): 368–385.

Da Silva FC (2006) G.H. Mead in the history of sociological ideas. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 42(1): 19–39.

Da Silva FC Vieira MB (2011) Books and canon building in sociology: The case of Mind, Self and Society. Journal of Classical Sociology 11(4): 356–377.

Fournier M (1994) Marcel Mauss. Paris: Fayard.

Fournier M (2012) Is there anything new to say about Émile Durkheim and Marcel Mauss? International Sociology 27(2): 170–178.

Fournier M (2013) Émile Durkheim: A Biography (trans. Macey D ). New York: Polity Press.

How A (2007) The author, the text and the canon: Gadamer and the persistence of classic texts in sociology. Journal of Classical Sociology 7(5): 5–22.

Joas H (2000) The Genesis of Values (trans. Moore G ). Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press.

Joas H (2013) The Sacredness of the Person: A New Genealogy of Human Rights (trans. Skinner A ). Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.

Joas H Knöbl W (2009) Social Theory: Twenty Introductory Lectures (trans. Skinner A ). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Lemert C (ed.) (1999) Social Theory: The Multicultural and Classical Readings. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Levine D (1995) Visions of the Sociological Tradition. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press.

Marshall B Witz A (2004) Engendering the Social: Feminist Encounters with Sociological Theory. Maidenhead: Open University Press.

Nichols L (2010) Merton as Harvard sociologist: Engagement, thematic continuities, and institutional linkages. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 46(1): 72–95.

Owens BR (2010) Producing Parsons’ reputation: Early critiques of Talcott Parsons’ social theory and the making of a caricature. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 46(2): 165–188.

Parker D (1997) Viewpoint: Why bother with Durkheim? Teaching sociology in the 1990s. Sociological Review 45(1): 122–146.

Reed K (2006) New Directions in Social Theory: Race, Gender and the Canon. London: Sage.

Seidman S (2004) Contested Knowledge: Social Theory Today. Malden, MA: Blackwell.

Unger RM (1987) Social Theory: Its Situation and Its Task. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.