The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

ANTHONY GIDDENS

Talcott Parsons

SCRIBNER'S.

A brilliant book which studies the psychological conditions which made possible the development of capitalist civilization. The book analyzes the connection between the spread of Calvinism and a new attitude toward the pursuit of wealth in post-Reformation Europe and England, and attitude which permitted, encouraged–even sanctified–the human quest for prosperity.

Max, Weber

Allen& Unwin

The class structure of the advanced societies (Hutchinson university library: sociology)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Hutchinson

The studies which comprise this book are essentially organized around a critical encounter with European social theory in its 'classical period' – i.e. from the middle years of the nineteenth century until the First World War – and have the aim of working out some of the implications of that encounter for the position and prospects of the social sciences today. The issues involved relate to the following series of problems: method and epistemology; social development and transformation; the origins of 'sociology' in nineteenth-century social theory; and the status of social science as critique. In each of these areas, Giddens develops views that challenge existing orthodoxies, and connects these ideas to a reconstruction of social theory in the contemporary era.

Studies in social and political theory

Hutchinson of London

Sociology: A Brief but Criticial Introduction

Sociology

Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, Inc.

viii 182p paperback, index, a clean copy from a Cambridge college library

Sociology, a brief but critical introduction

London: Macmillan 1982. (Contemporary Social Theory)

What, if anything, is valid in Marx's work today, following the events of 1989 and after in Eastern Europe? The second edition of this highly regarded critical encounter with historical materialism and other major perspectives in social thought, shows how a critical theory of the advanced societies can still draw on marxism - if only sparingly - and remains an endeavour of fundamental importance in the social sciences at the present time.

A Contemporary Crit ique o f Hist orical Material ism: "Power, Pro" perty and "the State v. 1 (Contemporary social theory) [Nov 01, 1981] Giddens, Anthony"

Politics & Government

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Essentials of Sociology

W.W.Norton

Introduction To Sociology - Custom Edition, Part 1 for Portland Community College, Rock Creek

W.W.Norton&Company

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