Understanding Classical Sociology: Marx, Weber, Durkheim

By John A. Hughes, Wes W. Sharrock, Peter J. Martin

Book Overview

Praise for the First Edition

Totally reliable... the authors have produced a book urgently needed by all those charged with introducing students to the classics... quite indispensable′ - Times Higher Education Supplement

This is a fully updated and expanded new edition of the successful undergraduate text. Providing a lucid examination of the pivotal theories of Marx, Durkheim and Weber, the authors submit that these figures have decisively shaped the discipline. They show how the classical apparatus is in use, even though it is being directed in new ways in response to the changing character of society.

Written with the needs of undergraduates in mind, the text is essential reading for students in sociology and social theory.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761954678
• ISBN13: 9780761954675
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Sage Publishing Ltd
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.7" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Classical Sociology Understood

As a student of sociology, I found the text to be definitive and an excellent resource during my studies. The text offers a clear analyasis that is very readable and user friendly to the less initiated in the ranks. A very good companion for Giddens in the study of classical sociological ideology.