This unique hybrid of text and readings combines the major writings of sociology’s core classical and contemporary theorists with an historical as well as theoretical framework for understanding them. This novel approach provides students the analytical guidance necessary to interpret the readings. No other theory text combines such "student-friendly" explanation and analysis with original theoretical works.
The book also provides an overarching scaffolding that students can use to examine, compare, and contrast each theorist’s major themes and concepts.
It would be planetwide space that would serve as the basis for transforming everyday life. Needless to say, state and private ownership of the means of production would wither away under such a system.
... described by Frantz Fanon, whose penetrating work represents an important precursor to what would later become postcolonial studies. As a black colonial subject, Fanon, like Spivak, draws from his personal experiences as an Other to ...
This book examines the assumptions and concepts of the five major sociological theories and the classical roots of the modern theories. It focuses specifically on functionalism, conflict theory, theories of...
Cultural processes and causal pathways to Durkheim, E., and M. Mauss. 1963. ... Chicago: University of Chicago Press. theorizing “omnivorousness”: Genetic and relational Fourcade, M. 2016. Ordinalization. ... London: Friedman, A. 2011.
This comprehensive collection of classical sociological theory is a definitive guide to the roots of sociology from its undisciplined beginnings to its current influence on contemporary sociological debate.
In The Transition to Statehood in the New World, ed. G. D. Jones and R. R. Kautz. Cambridge; Cambridge University Press. Eberhard, W. 1965. Conquerors and Rulers: Social Forces in Modern China. Leiden: Brill. Geertz, C. 1980.
The Fourth Edition of this widely taught book includes: Selections that trace the history of classical sociological theory, from its undisciplined roots to its modern influence on contemporary sociological debate Readings describing the ...
This volume is designed as a basic text for upper level and graduate courses in contemporary sociological theory.
Pp. 43–69 in On Individuality and Social Forms, edited by Donald N. Levine. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ———. 1903/1971. “The Metropolis and Mental Life.” Pp. 324–39 in On Individuality and Social Forms, edited by Donald N.