Goodwin, Glenn A.

Classical sociological theory : rediscovering the promise of sociology / Edited by:Craig Calhoun,Joseph Gerteis,James Moody,Steven Pfaff and Indermohan Virk - Blackwell : USA c2007. - ix, 496 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Roots of sociology, morals, and science -- August Comte (1798-1857) -- Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) -- Karl Marx (1818-1883) -- Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) -- Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) -- Georg Simmel (1858-1918) -- Max Weber (1864-1920) -- George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) -- Jane Addams (1860-1935) -- William Edward Burghardt (W.E.B.) De Bois (1868-1963) -- Classical American sociology and the promise of sociology -- Glossary of terms.

[This book] reflects sixty-plus years of experience teaching required undergraduate and graduate courses on classical sociological theory. It is a subject matter that both [authors] continue to feel passionately about, and one that [they] feel currently lakcs a text that can both create a similar passion for classical theory in students and present the substantive ideas of the founding men and women of sociology.... [This] text overcomes these limitations. -Pref.

9781405148542

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Sociology--History.
Sociology--Methodology--History.
Sociologists--Biography.

HM435 / .C53 2007

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