Visions of the Sociological Tradition

by Donald Nathan Levine

Book Overview

Don Levine moves from the origins of systematic knowledge in ancient Greece to the present day to present an account that is at once a history of the social science enterprise and an introduction to the cornerstone works of Western social thought.

"Visions" has three meanings, each of which corresponds to a part of the book. In Part 1, Levine presents the ways previous sociologists have rendered accounts of their discipline, as a series of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226475476
• ISBN13: 9780226475479
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"