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This concise text, covers both classical and contemporary social thought. It traces the major schools of thought over the past 150 years as they appear and reappear in different chapters and looks at important new voices in social theory. The treatment of individual theories and theorists is balanced with the development of key themes and ideas about social life

Introducing Sociological Theory offers a comprehensive, navigable and highly readable introduction to the main schools of thought in sociology, along with the philosophical ideas that underpin them. 8 broad theoretical traditions, or perspectives, are explained helping you to recognize the scope and range of sociological theory and to think sociologically and see the social world in different ways. The author skilfully and revealingly engages with each theoretical perspective showing what it actually means, why it utilises certain concepts over others, and how it generates and derives from evo

"Classical Sociological Theory, Eighth Edition, provides a comprehensive overview of the major theorists and schools of sociological thought from the Enlightenment roots of theory through the early 20th century. The integration of key theories with biographical sketches of theorists and the requisite historical and intellectual context helps students to better understand the original works of classical authors as well as to compare and contrast classical theories"--

Society as a system of subsystems -- Manifest and latent functions : the Matthew effect -- An automated utopia : systems theory -- From functionalism to structuralism -- Constructivist structuralism : habitus -- The analysis of socially constructed reality -- Interactionism -- Dramaturgy -- Ethnomethodology -- The information society -- A new modernity -- Individuals as the basis of social actions -- The theory of communicative action -- The dialogic turn in the social sciences

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Half-Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: The Enlightenment: Philosophical Foundations -- Chapter 2: Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) -- Chapter 3: The Romantic-Conservative Reaction -- Chapter 4: Auguste Comte (1798-1857) -- Chapter 5: The Philosophical Orientations of Karl Marx (1818-1883) -- Chapter 6: Marx's Relation to Hegel and Feuerbach -- Chapter 7: Marx's Historical Sociology -- Chapter 8: Max Weber (1864-1920) -- Chapter 9: Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923) -- Chapter 10: Gaetano Mosca (1858-1941) -- Chapter 11: Robert Michels (1876-1936) -- Chapter 12: Émile Durkheim (1858-1917) -- Chapter 13: Karl Mannheim (1893-1947) -- Chapter 14: George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) -- Epilogue -- Index -- Back Cover.