Key Sociological Thinkers - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0814781160 ISBN 13: 9780814781166

Casa editrice: New York Univ Pr, 1998

Riassunto

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.

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Aimed at students and non-specialists, this is an overview of the major sociological developments from Marx to the present. Twenty-one chapters introduce key thinkers in the field: their driving impulses, issues central to their work, substantive examples of the theory in action, their legacy, and reading lists to stimulate further research. The range incorporates not only canonical figures such as Marx, Weber and Durkheim, but also feminist, post-structuralist and post-colonialist thinkers of recent decades, including 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.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: New York Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0814781160
• ISBN 13: 9780814781166
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 366
• Redattore: Stones R.
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile