Despite their role in founding and defining the discipline of sociology, the field's classical theorists typically receive only cursory attention in standard introductory texts. Written specifically for undergraduate students, this supplemental text, Fred Pampel's Sociological Lives and Ideas brings to life the fundamental ideas of Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, Georg Simmel, George H. Mead, and W.E.B. DuBois by placing them in the context of each theorists' biography. By exploring the lives and times of these key figures, students will gain a richer understanding of their intellectual legacies, as well as of the ways in which their work can be applied to current issues.
Even in their subsequent work , one associates James Coleman , Peter Rossi , Allen Barton , and Morris Rosenberg with Paul Lazarsfeld ; and Lewis and Rose Coser , Peter and Zena Blau , Suzanne Keller , Alvin Gouldner , and Norman Kaplan ...
In this book, a team of sociologists presents a groundbreaking model of concepts and categorization that can guide sociological and cultural analysis of a wide variety of social situations.
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Let us turn to Michael Raposa's (1999) Boredom and the Religious Imagination. Raposa identifies different levels of boredom: being bored by something or we can be bored by ourselves. In these circumstances, we are forced to 'spend time' ...
This collection of thirteen life stories recaptures the history of a political and intellectual movement that created feminist sociology as a field of inquiry.
Now available for the first time in print and e-book formats Classical and Contemporary Sociological Theory: Text and Readings offers students with the best of both worlds—carefully-edited excerpts from the original works of sociology′s ...
This updated edition of the authoritative text: Contains both classical and contemporary theories in a single text Builds on excerpts from original theoretical writings with detailed discussion of the concepts and ideas under review ...
Masters of Sociological Thought: Ideas in Historical and Social Context
217-218; Collier 1982, p. 66).” Vargas, a loser in the presidential election of 1930, took control of the government in a coup d'etat. He was backed by young military officers and a faction of the oligarchy that included more of those ...