Three Sociological Traditions

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Three Sociological Traditions is a concise intellectual history of sociology organized around the development of three schools of thought. While traditional histories of sociology focus on three key figures—Marx, Weber, and Durkheim—Randall Collins reorganizes sociology and shows us how sociological ideas are built up within three rival traditions. Marx and Weber, together with their followers make up the "conflict tradition"; Durkheim's "ritual solidarity tradition" stretches from predecessors such as Comte up through present-day sociologists such as Goffman and Basil Bernstein; and a "micro-interactionist" tradition stretches from Cooley, Mead, and Husserl through Blumer and Garfinkel.
Collins, one of the most lively and exciting writers in sociology today, traces the intellectual highlights of these three main schools from classical theories to current developments, introducing students to the roots of sociology and indicating the areas where progress has been made in our... Tovább

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Three Sociological Traditions is a concise intellectual history of sociology organized around the development of three schools of thought. While traditional histories of sociology focus on three key figures—Marx, Weber, and Durkheim—Randall Collins reorganizes sociology and shows us how sociological ideas are built up within three rival traditions. Marx and Weber, together with their followers make up the "conflict tradition"; Durkheim's "ritual solidarity tradition" stretches from predecessors such as Comte up through present-day sociologists such as Goffman and Basil Bernstein; and a "micro-interactionist" tradition stretches from Cooley, Mead, and Husserl through Blumer and Garfinkel.
Collins, one of the most lively and exciting writers in sociology today, traces the intellectual highlights of these three main schools from classical theories to current developments, introducing students to the roots of sociology and indicating the areas where progress has been made in our understanding, the areas where controversy still exists, and the direction in which sociology is headed. Students of introductory sociology, sociological theory, and the history of social thought will find this a fresh, thorough, and thought-provoking examination.
ALSO PUBLISHED BY OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Three Sociological Traditions: Selected Readings Edited by Randall Collins
Organized along the same lines as Three Sociological Traditions, this capsule guide to the development of modern sociology contains excerpts and commentary on three main schools of sociological thought. Selections may be used with the main text or on their own.
The Author
Randall Collins is a scholar and author of numerous books and articles including Sociological Insight and Conflict Sociology.
Oxford University Press, New York
Cover design by Leslie Phillips
ISBN 0-19-503519-4 Vissza