Durkheim is generally considered to be the main founder of modern sociology. In France his ideas contributed to the rise of "structuralism", while in the English-speaking world he is regarded as the originator of "functionalism". This is comprehensive analysis of the development of his ideas.

Durkheim (Modern Masters)

Politics & Social Sciences

Giddens, Anthony

Social Sciences

Fontana/Collins

The Class Structure of the Advanced Societies

HarperCollins, Publishers

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The class structure of the advanced societies (Harper torchbooks ; TB 1845)

Harper&Row

Barnes&Noble

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

Hutchinson

Class Structure Of Advan

RANDOM HOUSE UK

Capitalism is analyzed in original essays by Paul Volcker, Polly Toynbee and George Soros, among others.

On The Edge

Business & Money

Hutton, Will

International

Vintage Books

Emile Durkheim (Penguin modern masters)

Penguin??Books

Sociology: A Brief but Critical Introduction offers a lively, discursive and jargon-free introduction to sociology, accessible to the lay reader as well as to the student. It incorporates discussion of recent developments in both social theory and empirical social research - developments to which Giddens has directly contributed.

Sociology, a Brief but Critical Introduction

Merton, Robert K.

Harcourt College Pub.

In this new and brilliantly organized book of essays, Anthony Giddens discusses three main theoretical traditions in social science that cut across the division between Marxist and non-Marxist sociology: interpretive sociology, functionalism, and structuralism. Beginning with a critical examination of the importance of structuralism for contemporary sociology, the author develops a comprehensive account of what he calls "the theory of structuration." One of the main themes is that social theory must recognize, as it has not done hitherto, that all social actors are knowledgeable about the social systems they produce and reproduce in their conduct. In order to grasp the significance of this, he argues, we have to reconsider some of the most basic concepts in sociology. In particular, Giddens argues, it is essential to recognize the significance of time-space relations in social theory. He rejects the distinction between synchrony and diachrony, or statics and dynamics, involved in both structuralism and functionalism, and offers extensive critical commentary on the latter as an approach to sociology. The book, which can be described as a "non-functionalist manifesto," breaks with the three main theoretical traditions in the social sciences today while retaining the significant contributions each contains. In so doing Giddens discusses a range of fundamental problem areas in the social sciences: power and domination, conflict and contradiction, and social transformation. He concludes with an overall appraisal of the key problems in social theory today.

Central Problems in Social Theory: Action, structure and contradiction in social analysis (Contemporary Social Theory, 2)

Sociology

Red Globe Press

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