Key Concepts in Classical Social Theory / Edition 1

by Alex Law

Overview

A concise and student-friendly companion to a subject that's central to sociology degrees, and yet can often seem dense and impenetrable to undergraduates approaching the classics for the first time.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781847876027
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	01/19/2011
Series:	SAGE Key Concepts series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Alex Law is Professor of Sociology at Abertay University, Dundee.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Classical Social Theory
Alienation
Anomie
Base and Superstructure
Bureaucracy
Capital
Civil Society
Class
Class, Status and Party
Collective Effervescence
Collective Representations
Commodity Fetishism
Conscience Collective
Division of Labour (Smith and Ferguson)
Division of Labour (Marx)
Division of Labour in Society (Durkheim)
Fashion
Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft
Historical Materialism
Ideal-Types
Ideology
Legitimate Domination
Mechanical and Organic Solidarity
Metropolis
Mode of Production
Modernity
Money
Normal and Pathological
Positivism
Primitive Accumulation
Protestant Ethic and the 'Spirit of Capitalism'
Rationality and Rationalization
Sacred and Profane
Social Action
Social Facts
Social Forms and Sociation
Social Morphology
Social Space
Suicide
Totemism
Value Freedom
Verstehen

Editorial Reviews

I think this will prove to be a very useful text for undergraduate students. Alex Law has produced a comprehensive list of key classical social theory concepts and provides an accessible account of the meaning of central terms, their place in the work of the classical analysts considered and the contemporary significance of their ideas. In addition he has offered useful additional reading guidance from which students will derive considerable benefit. I would certainly recommend the text to my students and I think they would find it a very useful addition to the library
Barry Smart
University of Portsmouth

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