| Description |
xxiv, 297 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
What's the point? -- The main characters and the main ideas -- What is society and how do we study it? Durkheim : the discovery of social facts -- Karl Marx : the primacy of production -- Max Weber : the primacy of social action -- Georg Simmel : society as form and process, an outsider's view -- Conclusion to part 1 : the first basic dualism of social theory -- Conceptions of social structure. Durkheim : drunk and orderly -- Was Marx a Marxist? -- The liberal Weber -- Simmel : the social and the personal -- Conclusion to part 2 : the theorists contrasted -- History and social change. Durkheim's organic analogy -- Marx and the meaning of history -- Weber as a tragic liberal : the rise of the West -- Simmel : countering an overdose of history? -- Conclusion : the framework of social theory -- Dramatis personae |
| Summary |
Providing an account of the key ideas of Marx, Weber, Durkheim and Simmel, Craib establishes their contemporary relevance and enduring significance in terms of their contribution to understanding contemporary problems such as race and gender |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-291) and index |
| Subject |
Social sciences -- Philosophy.
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Sociology -- Philosophy.
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| LC no. |
96024111 |
| ISBN |
0198781164 (alk. paper) |
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0198781172 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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