Ideology and the Development of Sociological Theory

By Irving M. Zeitlin

Book Overview

This book provides complete, systematic expositions of the classical sociological thinkers, theories, and concepts--from the 18th-century Enlightenment to the 20th century. It features broad, extended, and balanced coverage of both the European theorists of Social Structure as well as the Classical American Theorists of Social Psychology. Covers Montesquieu; Rousseau; Mary Wollstonecraft; Bonald and Maistre; Saint-Simon; Auguste Comte; Alexis de Tocqueville; Harriet Martineau; Harriet Taylor and John Stuart Mill; Karl Marx; Frederick Engels; Max Weber; Gaitano Mosca; Robert Michels); ?mile Durkheim; Karl Mannheim; Charles Sanders Peirce; William James; John Dewey; George Herbert Mead. For anyone interested in Classical Social Theory and Classical Principles of Social Psychology.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0134501721
• ISBN13: 9780134501727
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Pearson College Div
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.0" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

A concise introduction to the sociological forerunners

I found this book very readable and interesting, which includes a few early female theorists - a pleasant surprise! Reads not at all like a textbook, but more like an entertaining summary of very important social theorists.