Social Theory: Roots and Branches (Readings)
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ISBN: 1891487965 / Publisher: Roxbury Pub Co, September 2002
Seventy selections comprise this introductory sociological reader. Kivisto (Augustana College) has o...
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Seventy selections comprise this introductory sociological reader. Kivisto (Augustana College) has organized the material into sections containing writings the founding figures of the discipline from 1840 to 1920 ("roots") and contributions from the proliferations of schools that followed ("branches"). Marx, Durkheim, Weber, and Simmel are naturally accorded significant attention in the first section, but the writings of more peripheral figures such as Nietzsche, William James, Freud, W.E.B. Du Bois, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Jane Addams are also included. The section on "branches" similarly contains expected and perhaps unexpected voices. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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