by KennethMorrison (Author)
Every undergraduate course in sociology focuses on Marx, Durkheim and Weber, yet students often find their first contact with these writers to be a difficult experience: the language of these theorists is complicated and forbidding. This book provides a clear guide to their key ideas.
Ken Morrison provides a lucid and reliable guide to their key ideas, not only explaining their meaning but also locating them in their philosophical and historical context. The student therefore gains an immediate understanding of both the roots and contemporary relevance of the concepts and how they relate to the classical tradition.
The book also includes a helpful alphabetical concept glossary. This is organized in three sections and contains over 150 entries on the most difficult terms used by each writer, each one outlining both its historical origin and its various meanings.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 384
Edition: 1
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Published: 08 Nov 1995
ISBN 10: 0803975635
ISBN 13: 9780803975637
The book is marked by an acute awareness of and sensitivity to the philosophical and historical background to the ideas covered.
Thus, the historical influences on many of the concepts are clearly articultated so that the reader is given a clear appreciation of some of the factors that impinged on the timing of the emergence of many of the ideas of these three founding fathers.
The impact of the philosophical background is carried forward into the chapters on the individual thinkers. This is an area that lecturers often try to get across to students but which the latter, not unreasonably, find difficult. Morrison's expositions are excellent in this respect.
The Glossary is an excellent idea and will be widely used. It substantially enhances the book's attractiveness to students' - Alan Bryman, Professor of Sociology, University of Loughborough
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