Böcker i The International Library of Essays in Classical Sociology-serien

Marx's approach to analyzing society and especially his critique of capitalist society, continues to influence the work of a large number of scholars world-wide. In this volume, the authors bring together a sampling of the best writings over the years that illustrate and critique Marx's method and explain what it is and how to put it to work.

Features several seminal essays on W E B Du Bois' contributions to sociology and critical social theory: from Du Bois as inventor of sociology of race, to Du Bois as the first sociologist of American religion; and from Du Bois as a pioneer of urban and rural sociology, to Du Bois as innovator of sociology of gender and culture.

An appreciation of Durkheim. Dealing with classic Durkheimian subjects such as religion, social solidarity and suicide, it focuses on Durkheim's inquiry into political theory, comparative ethnology, social reconstruction, questions of civil society, and his articulation of an individualism in conversation with Marx, Hegel, Spencer and others.

Max Weber is a magisterial figure in the social sciences. His fundamental contributions to the methodological and conceptual apparatus of sociology remain of continuing relevance to contemporary debates, while his astonishing range and quality of work on topics ranging from the comparative sociology of religion to political sociology.