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Key sociological thinkers

Title

Key sociological thinkers / edited by Rob Stones.

Format

Book

Edition

3rd edition.

Published

London : Palgrave/Macmillan Education, 2017. ©2017

Description

477 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other contributors

Stones, Rob, 1957- editor.

Notes

First edition published 1998; second edition published 2008. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Expanded table of contents
• List of key concept glossary boxes
• Notes on contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction / Rob Stones
• pt. 1
• 1. Karl Marx / Bob Jessop
• After Marx: culture and politics in twentieth- and twenty-first century Marxism: Antonio Gramsci & Ernesto Laclau
• 2. Max Weber / Lawrence A. Scaff
• 3. Émile Durkheim / Edward A. Tiryakian
• 4. Georg Simmel / Patrick Watier
• 5. W.E.B. Du Bois / Reiland Rabaka
• 6. G.H. Mead / Filipe Carreira da Silva
• 7. Talcott Parsons / Robert Holton.

• pt. 2
• 8. Robert K. Merton / Piotr Sztompka
• After Merton: structural thinking in the twenty-first century: Ulrich Beck
• 9. Norbert Elias / Jason Hughes
• 10. Erving Goffman / Susie Scott
• 11. Harold Garfinkel / John Heritage
• 12. Louis Althusser / Ted Benton
• After Althusser: state theory: Nicos Pulantzs & Bob Jessup
• 13. Jürgen Habermas / William Outhwaite
• After Habermas: critical theory and recognition: Nancy Fraser & Axel Honneth
• 14. Pierre Bourdieu / Derek Robbins
• After Bourdieu: adding morals and emotions to habitus: Andrew Sayer
• 15. Michel Foucault / Lawrence Barth.

• pt. 3
• 16. Dorothy E. Smith / Karin Widerberg
• 17. Stuart Hall / Michèle Barrett
• 18. Nancy J. Chodorow / Karin A. Martin
• Before and after Chodrow: fruitful dialectics in feminist thought: Simone de Beauvoir & Carol Gilligan
• 19. Anthony Giddens / Ira J. Cohen
• After Giddens: social and system integration: Nicos Mouzelis
• 20. Michael Mann / Ralph Schroeder
• Before Mann: the tradition of historical sociology: Barrington Moore & Theda Skocpol
• 21. Zygmunt Bauman / Tony Blackshaw
• 22. Arlie Russell Hochschild / Simon Williams
• 23. Bruno Latour / Steve Matthewman
• 24. Jeffrey C. Alexander / Jason L. Mast
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index.

Summary

This broad-ranging text offers an introduction to the theorists who have made a key contribution to the discipline of sociology, with four new chapters considering the work of Theodor Adorno, Michael Mann, Dorothy Smith and Zygmunt Bauman.

Subject headings

Sociology. Sociologists.

ISBN

9781137332226 (pbk.) 1137332220