TY  - BOOK
AU  - Swingewood,Alan
TI  - A short history of sociological thought
SN  - 9780333801994 (pbk.) :
AV  - HM19 .S975 2000
U1  - 301.09 SWI 
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Basingstoke
PB  - Macmillan
KW  - Sociology
KW  - History
KW  - Society
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Social theory
KW  - thema
KW  - c 1500 onwards to present day
KW  - History of ideas
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -