Understanding Classical Sociology: Marx, Weber, Durkheim

Martin, Peter J, Sharrock, Wes, Hughes, John

ISBN 10: 0761954678 / ISBN 13: 9780761954675

Published by Sage Publications Ltd, 2003

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Understanding Classical Sociology: Marx, Weber, Durkheim
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761954678
• ISBN 13: 9780761954675
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Used; Very Good

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Synopsis

Praise for the First Edition:

`Totally reliable… the authors have produced a book urgently needed by all those charged with introducing students to the classics… quite indispensable′ - Times Higher Education Supplement

This is a fully updated and expanded new edition of the successful undergraduate text. Providing a lucid examination of the pivotal theories of Marx, Durkheim and Weber, the authors submit that these figures have decisively shaped the discipline. They show how the classical apparatus is in use, even though it is being directed in new ways in response to the changing character of society.

Written with the needs of undergraduates in mind, the text is essential reading for students in sociology and social theory.

About the Author

Wes Sharrock has spent his entire career since 1965 in sociology until his retirement in 2017 at the University of Manchester. His main interests have been in the philosophy of social science and in ethnomethodology, and he has published widely on issues of sociological principle and empirical research in these areas.

Wes has explored two central themes―the relevance of fieldwork and an understanding of ordinary language for an understanding of social practice and the respecification of social theory―pursuing them across a huge variety of settings, from ordinary scenes of everyday social life through to complex domains of practical action and reasoning in various academic and industrial work situations. An ethnomethodologist of international reputation, alongside his other contributions, Wes coedited with Mike Lynch the four-volume 2003 Sage collection Harold Garfinkel.