Classical Sociological Theory

6 ed
ISBN: 978-0-07-802665-2
Verlag: McGraw-Hill Education - Europe

Buch, Englisch, 608 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 786 g

Reihe: B&B Sociology

Written by one of the foremost authorities on sociological theory, this text gives readers a comprehensive overview of the major classical theorists and schools of sociological thought. The integration of key theories with biographical sketches of theorists and the requisite historical and intellectual context helps students to better understand the original works of classical authors as well as to compare and contrast classical theories.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ritzer, George

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Biographical and Autobiographical SketchesPreface

Part I. Introduction to SociologicalChapter 1. A Historical Sketch of Sociological Theory: The Early Years Chapter 2. A Historical Sketch of Sociological Theory: The Later Years

Part II: Classical Sociological Theory Chapter 3. Alexis de Tocqueville Chapter 4. August Comte Chapter 5. Herbert Spencer Chapter 6. Karl Marx Chapter 7. Emile Durkheim Chapter 8. Max Weber Chapter 9. Georg Simmel Chapter 10. Early Women Sociologists and Classical Sociological Theory, 1830-1930 Chapter 11. W.E.B. DuBoisChapter 12. Thorstein Veblen Chapter 13. Joseph SchumpeterChapter 14. Karl Mannheim Chapter 15. George Herbert Mead Chapter 16. Alfred Schutz Chapter 17. Talcott Parsons ReferencesPermissions AcknowlegmentsIndexAcknowledgments

Über Autor(innen)

Ritzer, George
George Ritzer is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, where he has been a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher and won a Teaching Excellence award by the American Sociological Association, and in 2004, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by LaTrobe University, Melborune, Australia. He has served as Chair of the American Sociological Association's Sections on Theoretical Sociology and organizations and Occupations. He held the UNESCO Chair in Social Theory at the Russian Academy of Sciences, a Fulbright-Hay Chair at York University in Canada, and a Fulbright-Hays award to the Netherlands. He has been Scholar-in-Residence at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study and the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences. Dr. Ritzer's main theoretical interests lie in metatheory as well as applied social theory. In metatheory, his contributions include Metatheorizing in Sociology(Lexington Books, 1991), Sociology: A Multiple Paradigm Science (Allyn and Bacon, 1975, 1980), and Toward an Integrated Sociological Paradigm (Allyn and Bacon). Professor Ritzer is perhaps best known for the McDonaldization of Society (4/e, 2004); translated into more than a dozen languages) and several related books (also with a number of translations, including Expressing America: A Critique of the Global Credit Card Society (1995), Enchanting a Disenchanted World: Revolutionizing the Means of Consumption (2/e, 2005),The Globalization of Nothing (2/e, 2007), and (with Craig Lair) Outsourcing: Globalization and Beyond. He edited the Encyclopedia of Social Theory (2005), and is the founding editor of the Journal of Consumer Culture. He just completed editing the eleven-volume Encyclopedia of Sociology (2007) and The Blackwell Companion to Globalization (2007). In 2006, McGraw-Hill published the second edition of Professor Ritzer's Contemporary Sociological Theory and Its Classic Roots: The Basics. In 2007, McGraw-Hill will publish the seventh edition of Modern Sociological Theory, and the fifth edition of Classical Sociological Theory. The latter texts, as well as this one, have been translated into a number of languages.