Key Sociological Thinkers - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0814781160 ISBN 13 : 9780814781166

Editeur : New York University Press, 1998

Synopsis

A clear and manageable overview of major sociological developments for the lay reader

Despite the fact that most of us think often about society and social life, few of us have had extensive schooling in how to organize or structure such thought. Guided by the belief that the sociological imagination is impoverished if accessible only to a handful of specialists, Key Sociological Thinkers provides the lay reader with a clear and manageable overview of the major sociological developments from Marx to the present day.

Twenty-one concise, thorough chapters introduce the key thinkers in the field; their driving impulses, issues central to their work, substantive examples of the theory in action, their legacy, as well as reading lists meant to stimulate further research. The book's range includes not only canonical figures, such as Marx, Weber, and Durkheim, but feminist, post-structuralist, and post-colonialist thinkers of recent decades, including Nancy Chodorow, Michel Foucault, and Stuart Hall. Other sociologists and social theorists overed include Sigmund Freud, Georg Simmel, Herbert Blumer, Talcott Parsons, Robert Merton, Simone de Beauvoir, Norbert Elias, Erving Goffman, David Lockwood, Harold Garfinkel, Louis Althusser, Jurgen Habermas, Pierre Bourdieu, Arlie Hochschild, and Anthony Giddens.

Key Sociological Thinkers is ideal for students new to the field, veterans looking to brush up, and anyone eager to expand their understanding of the world in which we live.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Rob Stones is Lecturer in Sociology and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the University of Essex and author of Sociological Reasoning: Towards a Past-Modern Sociology.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New York University Press
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0814781160
• ISBN 13: 9780814781166
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 366
• Éditeur: Stones Rob
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• Personne responsable: non disponible