:::::::The perspectives outlined are long-standing traditions, but they are still relevant across academic disclipines. Run a search on a database of academic journals, such as JSTOR and ProjectMuse and sort the results from the most recent to the oldest entries, and note how many articles are still making reference to the classic works, especially Max Weber. Also, there are still Marxists in academia. TheAmerican Sociological Association, for example, still has a Marxist Section. (On that note, this article actually is short of references to recent Marxist scholarship, such as the work of Charles Tilly, David Harvey, and Immanuel Wallerstein. Still, I would resist the creation of a new section covering contemporary neo-Marxist sociology, such as a section on Worlds Systems Theory.  |