CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY

"This book is a condensed version of Ideology and the Development of Sociological Theory. In its abridged form, the text focuses on the most distinguished classical thinkers in a more manageable size. It provides complete, systematic expositions of the classical sociological thinkers, theories, and concepts--from the 18th-century Enlightenment to the 20th century. The author demonstrates that much of what we call classical sociological thinking emerged and developed in the historical context of a long and intensive debate: First with the 18th-century Enlightenment, and later with its true heir in the 19th century, Karl Marx. The sociologists covered in the abridged text include Mary Wollstonecraft, Auguste Comte, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Vilfredo Pareto, Gaitano Mosca, Robert Michels, Émile Durkheim, Karl Mannheim, and George Herbert Mead."--