Social Theory: Roots and Branches: Readings

by Peter J. Kivisto

Book Overview

Edited by Peter Kivisto, this acclaimed collection of accessible primary source readings enables students to experience "firsthand" a wide range of perspectives that are shaping current sociological... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1891487965
• ISBN13: 9781891487965
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Roxbury Publishing Company
• Length: 499 Pages
• Weight: 1.89 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Very helpful book!

I used this book for a class, and it was extraordinarily informative. It's basically an anthology of the writings of social philosophers. The section on Bordieu is especially good, with a short exerpt from Durkheim's entry earlier in the text. The table of contents is organized into Classical and Contemporary Social Theory, and respectively from there on. The only failing of this book is that it does not include and index (!!) which can occasionally make leafing through the TOC a little laborious, when looking for a particular name. This second edition also includes Martineau, who, for some weird and unexplainable reason, was left out of the first edition.