Randall Collins, Michael Makowsky

The Discovery of Society

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This classic text explores the lives and ideas of the social thinkers who have shaped and continue to forge traditions in sociology. Focusing on the great names in the field, it weaves biographical and conceptual details into a tapestry of the history of social thought of the 19th and 20th centuries. Written in a narrative style that is accessible and exciting, this text serves as an excellent supplement for courses in social and sociological theory, the history of social thought, the history of sociology, and introduction to sociology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McGraw Hill LLC
• 8th edition
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 157mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780073404196
• ISBN-10: 0073404195
• Artikelnr.: 26366509

Autorenporträt

Randall Collins is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Riverside. He earned his A.B. at Harvard in 1963, his M.A. at Stanford in 1964, and received his Ph.D. at University of California, Berkley in 1969. He is the author of numerous books and articles, such as Conflict Sociology: Toward an Explanatory Science, The Credential Society, Three Sociological Traditions, Weberian Sociological Theory, and Theoretical Sociology. Many of his works are of international interest, and have been translated into Italian, Duthc, Spanish, Korean, Chinese, Rumanian, German, and Arabic.

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION Society and Illusion
Chapter 1. The Prophets of Paris: Saint-Simon and Comte
Chapter 2. Sociology in the Underground: Karl Marx
Chapter 3. The Last Gentleman: Alexis de Tocqueville
Chapter 4. Nietzsche's Madness
Chapter 5. Do-Gooders, Evolutionists and Racists
Chapter 6: Dreyfus' Empire: Emile Durkheim
Chapter 7: Max Weber: The Disenchantment of the World
Chapter 8: Sigmund Freud: Conquistador of the Irrational
Chapter 9: The Discovery of the Invisible World: Simmel, Cooley and Mead
Chapter 10. The Discovery of the Ordinary World: Thomas, Park, and the
Chicago School
Chapter 11. The Emergence of African-American Sociology: DuBois, Frazier,
Drake and Cayton
Chapter 12. The Construction of the Social System: Pareto and Parsons
Chapter 13. Hitler's Shadow: Mannheim and Mills
Chapter 14. Erving Goffman and the Theatre of Social Encounters
Chapter 15. Cultural Capital, Revolution, the World-system, and
Globalization: the Theories of Pierre Bourdieu, Theda Skocpol, and Immanuel
Wallerstein
Bibliographical Suggestions
Index