Masters of Sociological Thought: Ideas in Historical and Social Context - Hardcover

Coser, Lewis A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0155551302 ISBN 13: 9780155551305

Publisher: Harcourt College Pub, 1977

Synopsis

A history of sociological theory presented through a study of major theorists from the early 20th century to the present. Contains separate chapters on Comte, Marx, Spencer, Durkheim, Simmel, Weber, Veblen, Cooley, Mead, Park, Parento, Mannheim,and Sorokin, a chapter on William I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki, and a concluding chapter on major American fingures of recent decades.

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Titles of related interest also from Waveland Press: Coser-Rosenberg, Sociological Theory: A Book of Readings, Fifth Edition (ISBN 9780881334579) and Lengermann-Niebrugge, The Women Founders: Sociology and Social Theory 1830-1930, A Text/Reader (ISBN 9781577665090).

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"Professor Coser’s evident skill for epitomizing complex ideas without trivializing them enables him to cut deep below the surface to their assumptions. As a result, this exposition of classical sociological thought is critical in tone, comprehensive in scope, and conscientious in its attention to detail. I know of no other book that so thoroughly and so compactly sets out the essentials of this wide range of classical theory." — Robert K. Merton, from the Foreword

About this edition

• Publisher: Harcourt College Pub
• Publication date: 1977
• ISBN 10: 0155551302
• ISBN 13: 9780155551305
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 611