Classical sociological theory
Subtitle: rediscovering the promise of sociology
By: Glenn A. Goodwin, Joseph A. Scimecca.
Contributors: Scimecca, Joseph A.
Publisher: Thomson/Wadsworth
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Belmont, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
Subjects: Sociology -- History.; Sociology -- Methodology -- History.; Sociologists -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: [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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Roots of sociology, morals, and science; title: August Comte (1798-1857); title: Harriet Martineau (1802-1876); title: Karl Marx (1818-1883); title: Herbert Spencer (1820-1903); title: Emile Durkheim (1858-1917); title: Georg Simmel (1858-1918); title: Max Weber (1864-1920); title: George Herbert Mead (1863-1931); title: Jane Addams (1860-1935); title: William Edward Burghardt (W.E.B.) De Bois (1868-1963); title: Classical American sociology and the promise of sociology; title: Glossary of terms.