Marx, Durkheim, Weber by Kenneth Morrison

Marx, Durkheim, Weber by Kenneth Morrison

Every undergraduate course in sociology focuses on Marx, Durkheim and Weber, yet students often find their first contact with these writers to be a difficult experience: the language of these theorists is complicated and forbidding. This book provides a clear guide to their key ideas. Ken Morrison provides a lucid and reliable guide to their key ideas, not only explaining their meaning but also locating them in their philosophical and historical context. The student therefore gains an immediate understanding of both the roots and contemporary relevance of the concepts and how they relate to the classical tradition. The book also includes a helpful alphabetical concept glossary. This is organized in three sections and contains over 150 entries on the most difficult terms used by each writer, each one outlining both its historical origin and its various meanings.

`This is an excellent introduction to classical social theoryIt makes complex ideas highly accessible and attractive without resorting to simplification. Students of classical social theory and their lecturers will welcome this lucid, comprehensive text. For most students, it is the only book on the subject they will need. The book sets new standards for texts in this area and it will be a difficult act to follow.

The book is marked by an acute awareness of and sensitivity to the philosophical and historical background to the ideas covered.

Thus, the historical influences on many of the concepts are clearly articultated so that the reader is given a clear appreciation of some of the factors that impinged on the timing of the emergence of many of the ideas of these three founding fathers.

The impact of the philosophical background is carried forward into the chapters on the individual thinkers. This is an area that lecturers often try to get across to students but which the latter, not unreasonably, find difficult. Morrison′s expositions are excellent in this respect.

The Glossary is an excellent idea and will be widely used. It substantially enhances the book′s attractiveness to students′ - Alan Bryman, Professor of Sociology, University of Loughborough

Ken Morrison is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Wilfred Laurier University, Ontario, Canada

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ISBN 13	9780803975637
ISBN 10	0803975635
Title	Marx, Durkheim, Weber
Author	Kenneth Morrison
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Sage Publications Ltd
Year published	1995-11-08
Number of pages	384
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