Classical and Contemporary Sociological Theory: Text and Readings provides students with the best of both worlds—carefully-edited excerpts from the original works of sociology′s key thinkers accompanied by an analytical framework that discusses the lives, ideas, and historical circumstances of each theorist. This unique format enables students to examine, compare, and contrast each theorist’s major themes and concepts.
Contemporary Sociological Theory and Its Classical Roots: The Basics is a brief survey of sociology′s major theorists and theoretical approaches, from the Classical founders to the present.
This volume is designed as a basic text for upper level and graduate courses in contemporary sociological theory.
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.
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...
... 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 ...
Nearly all of the major perspectives, focal points and debates in environmental sociology are reflected in this collection of essays.
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.
New York: McClure, Phillips & Company. ———. 1904. Human Work. New York: McClure, Phillips & Company. ———. 1911/1970. The Man-Made World, or Our Androcentric Culture. New York: Charlton; New York: Source Book Press. ———. 1923.
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Praised for its conversational tone, personal examples, and helpful pedagogical tools, the Fourth Edition of Explorations in Classical Sociological Theory: Seeing the Social World is organized around the modern ideas of progress, knowledge, ...