Laura Desfor Edles

Scott Appelrouth

Sociological Theory in the Classical Era, Fourth Edition is an innovative text/reader for courses in classical theory. It introduces you to important original works by sociology's key classical theorists while providing a thorough framework for understanding these challenging readings. For each theorist, the editors supply a biographical sketch, discuss intellectual influences and core ideas, and offer contemporary applications of those ideas. In addition to the seven major theorists covered, the book also connects their work to "Significant Others"—writers and thinkers who may have derived much of their own perspectives from Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Gilman, Simmel, Du Bois, and Mead.

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Sociological Theory in the Classical Era

This is a book that will be used in a one semester course where the breadth of the development of sociological theory is covered in one semester. The book will be a hybrid of text and readings by providing both original works and a theoretical and historical framework with which to better understand the readings. The proposed readings will consist of the major writings of sociology's key theorists, and Edles/Applerouth will provide a historical and theoretical framework for understanding them. This is a major difference from the ...

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