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Marx, Durkheim, Weber: Formations of Modern Social Thought [Paperback]

Kenneth Morrison (Author)
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0803975635 978-0803975637 December 29, 1995
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 s


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`This is an excellent introduction to classical social theory. It makes complex ideas highly accessible and attractive without resorting to simplification. Students of classical social theory and their lecturers will welcome this lucid, comprehensive text. For most students, it is the only book on the subject they will need. The book sets new standards for texts in this area and it will be a difficult act to follow.

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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  • Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd (December 29, 1995)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0803975635
  • ISBN-13: 978-0803975637
  • Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.4 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Best available discussion of the works of social theory., July 13, 1997
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This is an outstanding book! It is the clearest, most explicit exposition of the central works of Marx, Durkheim and Weber available. Its theoretical discussions surpasses all secondary literature I know of including the treatments of Giddens, Aron, Nisbet, Zeitlin, Ritzer and Turner. Its strongest sections include discussions of the materialist theory of history, alienation, theory of suicide, rationalization and the Protestant ethic. In addition, the book contains a concept glossary describing in the clearest way possible terms such as ideology, anomie, means of production, division of labour etc. The book is superb for undergraduates and graduates in political and social theory
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars this book is a must have, October 4, 2005
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I'm a Sociology major who got this book at the recommendation of one of my teachers. It is a very helpful book though it would be nice if it included Parsons/Structural Functionalism as well.
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First Sentence:
Karl Marx was born on May 5, 1818 in Trier, a small city situated in the southern part of the German Rhineland. Read the first page
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
negative interdicts, production shapes social relations, social suicide rate, segmental societies, restitutive sanctions, repressive sanctions, social subject matter, common conscience, representative rites, simple use values, conjugal group, piacular rites, anomic division, private economic gain, egoistic suicide, legal domination, elementary religion, various social spheres, human social action, value rational action, fatalistic suicide, classifying societies, altruistic suicide, charismatic domination, social wants
Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Max Weber, German Ideology, New York, Philosophy of Right, Young Hegelians, Eighteenth Brumaire, Karl Marx, Critique of Political Economy, Emile Durkheim, General Economic History, Heinrich Rickert, French Revolution, International Publishers, Georg Hegel, Jewish Question, The Free Press, The Rules of Sociological Method, John Calvin, Cambridge University Press, Collected Works, Frederick Engels, Guy Oakes, Immanuel Kant, Industrial Revolution, Oxford University Press
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