Mappers of society : the lives and legacies of great sociologists / Ronald Fernandez.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003.Description: xix, 291 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0275974359
  • 9780275974350
  • 0275974340
  • 9780275974343
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 301/.092/2 B 21
LOC classification:
  • HM478 .F47 2003
Contents:
Karl Marx -- Emile Durkheim -- Max Weber -- Georg Simmel -- George Herbert Mead -- Thorstein Veblen -- Erving Goffman -- Peter L. Berger.
Summary: Annotation Fernandez examines the lives and ideas of sociologists who shaped the main contours of the discipline. Weber, Marx, Durkheim, and Simmel fashioned the early ideas and approaches of sociology, and their ideas are still central to the discipline. Veblen, Mead, Goffman, and Berger added crucial conceptual approaches; they also serve to underscore the length and breadth of Sociology as a science.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Karl Marx -- Emile Durkheim -- Max Weber -- Georg Simmel -- George Herbert Mead -- Thorstein Veblen -- Erving Goffman -- Peter L. Berger.

Annotation Fernandez examines the lives and ideas of sociologists who shaped the main contours of the discipline. Weber, Marx, Durkheim, and Simmel fashioned the early ideas and approaches of sociology, and their ideas are still central to the discipline. Veblen, Mead, Goffman, and Berger added crucial conceptual approaches; they also serve to underscore the length and breadth of Sociology as a science.

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