<p>The writings of Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) have exerted an extraordinary influence over the development of modern social thought to the extent that he is generally considered to be the founder of modern sociology. His conception of social science has infused a variety of disciplines including sociology, anthropology, political economy, archaeology and linguistics. In France his ideas contributed to the rise of ‘structuralism’, while in the English speaking world – his influence is particularly strong in America – he is regarded as the principal originator of ‘functionalism’.Durkheim’s writings have always aroused controversy. Anthony Giddens’ clear, comprehensive analysis of the development of his ideas is therefore especially welcome. He shows that Durkheim’s work is unified by a consistent concern with central themes, while pointing to some of its basic weakness.“Anthony Giddens summarises with marvellous compression and judgement Durkheim’s closely contested ideas on the division of labour, sociological method and its application to the study of suicide, the state and politics, moral authority and education, religion and the theory of knowledge.”C.G.A. BRYANT, 'British Book News' Durkheim is generally considered to be the main founder of modern sociology. In France his ideas contributed to the rise of "structuralism", while in the English-speaking world he is regarded as the originator of "functionalism". This is comprehensive analysis of the development of his ideas.</p>

Durkheim

Politics & Social Sciences

ANTHONY GIDDENS

Social Sciences

Fontana Press

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

Talcott Parsons

SCRIBNER'S.

A brilliant book which studies the psychological conditions which made possible the development of capitalist civilization. The book analyzes the connection between the spread of Calvinism and a new attitude toward the pursuit of wealth in post-Reformation Europe and England, and attitude which permitted, encouraged–even sanctified–the human quest for prosperity.

Max, Weber

Allen& Unwin

The class structure of the advanced societies (Hutchinson university library: sociology)

Hutchinson

The studies which comprise this book are essentially organized around a critical encounter with European social theory in its 'classical period' – i.e. from the middle years of the nineteenth century until the First World War – and have the aim of working out some of the implications of that encounter for the position and prospects of the social sciences today. The issues involved relate to the following series of problems: method and epistemology; social development and transformation; the origins of 'sociology' in nineteenth-century social theory; and the status of social science as critique. In each of these areas, Giddens develops views that challenge existing orthodoxies, and connects these ideas to a reconstruction of social theory in the contemporary era.

Studies in social and political theory

Hutchinson of London

Sociology: A Brief but Criticial Introduction

Sociology

Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, Inc.

viii 182p paperback, index, a clean copy from a Cambridge college library

Sociology, a brief but critical introduction

London: Macmillan 1982. (Contemporary Social Theory)

Introduction to Sociology 7th Edition (Ebook)

W.W.Norton

Essentials of Sociology

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