On Symbols and Society

Kenneth Burke

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• Kenneth Burke's innovative use of dramatism and dialectical method have made him a powerful critical force in an extraordinary variety of disciplines-... Lees meer

Karl Marx on Society and Social Change

Karl Marx

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• This volume presents those writings of Marx that best reveal his contribution to sociology, particularly to the theory of society and social change. T... Lees meer

The Chicago School of Sociology

Martin Bulmer

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• From 1915 to 1935 the inventive community of social scientists at the University of Chicago pioneered empirical research and a variety of qualitative ... Lees meer

On Collective Memory

Maurice Halbwachs

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• How do we use our mental images of the present to reconstruct our past? Maurice Halbwachs (1877-1945) addressed this question for the first time in hi... Lees meer

On Social Structure and Science

Robert K Merton

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• Robert K. Merton is unarguably one of the most influential sociologists of his time. A figure whose wide-ranging theoretical and methodological contri... Lees meer

Georg Simmel on Individuality and Social Forms

Georg Simmel

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• "Of those who created the intellectual capital used to launch the enterprise of professional sociology, Georg Simmel was perhaps the most original and... Lees meer

Talcott Parsons on Institutions and Social Evolution

Talcott Parsons

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• Talcott Parsons is regarded, by admirers and critics alike, as a major creator of the sociological thought of our time. Despite the universal recognit... Lees meer

Emile Durkheim on Institutional Analysis

Emile Durkheim

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• Ranging from Durkheim's original lecture in sociology to an excerpt from the work incomplete at his death, these selections illuminate his multiple ap... Lees meer

The City

Robert E Park, Ernest W Burgess

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• First published in 1925, The City is a trailblazing text in the fields of urban history, urban sociology, and urban studies. Its innovative combinatio... Lees meer

On Intersubjectivity and Cultural Creativity

Martin Buber

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• One of the foremost religious and social philosophers of the twentieth century, Martin Buber also wrote extensively on sociological subjects, particul... Lees meer

On the Practice of Sociology

Pitirim a Sorokin

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• Sorokin (1889-1968) rose from a peasant childhood in Russia to become one of the most erudite, insightful, and critical figures in the history of soci... Lees meer

On Social Organization and Social Control

Morris Janowitz

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• In the four decades following the end of World War II, Morris Janowitz (1919-88) published major works in macrosociology, urban and political sociolog... Lees meer

Emile Durkheim on Morality and Society

Emile Durkheim

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• Emile Durkheim is best known in this country as a great sociologist and methodologist. Yet it was Durkheim's reflections on morality and society that ... Lees meer

Sociology and Its Publics

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• Sociology faces troubling developments as it enters its second century in the United States. A loss of theoretical coherence and a sense of disciplina... Lees meer

W. E. B. DuBois on Sociology and the Black Community

W E B DuBois

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• Historian, journalist, educator, and civil rights advocate W. E. B. Du Bois was perhaps most accomplished as a sociologist of race relations and of th... Lees meer

On Civilization, Power, and Knowledge, 1998

Norbert Elias

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• Nobert Elias (1897-1990) is among the great sociologists of the twentieth century. Born in Germany, Elias earned a doctorate in philosophy and then tu... Lees meer