Another way to access the Founding Fathers and Mothers of sociology is to enter Dead Sociologists or one of their names. The founding greats are generally considered to be Comte, Martineau, Marx, Spencer, Durkheim, Simmel, Weber,Veblen, Cooley, Mead, Park, DuBois, Pareto and Sorokin. IMHO Max Weber is the greatest of the great, with brilliant contributions in many areas of sociology. An overview of the breadth of the field of sociology can be had through accessing some of the professional associations and learning about historical and contemporary sociological research. This Princeton University site is probably the most comprehensive collection of sociology resources online.
Political sociology brings to bear the sociological perspective to analyze power.
So this is an area where the Web may have to make up for text deficiencies. This is a subject I have taught as a separate course for many years. I try to focus on a cross-cultural and historical approach to the sociological study of marriage and family and to provide a lot of data and analysis on Marriage and the Family in the US today since that is where most of the students will spend their lives. The Family Development page of the University of Akron has an excellent collection of resources and links. The Strong Families Network contains useful ideas and strategies.