A short history of sociological thought / Alan Swingewood.
Material type: TextPublication details: Basingstoke : Macmillan, 2000.Edition: 3rd edDescription: xi, 269p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780333801994 (pbk.) :
- 9780333801987 (hbk.) :
- 0333801989
- 301.09 SWI
- HM19 .S975 2000
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Previous ed.: 1991.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-263) and index.
1.Modernity, industrialisation and the rise of sociology -- 2.Marxism: a critical science of capitalist development -- 3.Critique of positivism I: Durkheim -- 4.Critique of positivism II: social action -- 5.Marxism after Marx -- 6.Functionalism -- 7.Self and society: sociological interactionism -- 8.Structrualism and post-structuralism -- 9.Sociological thought and the problems of agency and structure -- 10.Postmodernity and sociological though -- 11.New directions in sociological thought.
This text focuses on the rise of sociological thought from the 18th century. Beginning with the classical sociology of Marx, Durkheim, Weber and Simmel, it ends by discussing salient 1990s sociological theories of Foucault and others.