Praise for the First Edition: 'Totally reliable! the authors have produced a book urgently needed by all those charged with introducing students to the classics! quite indispensable' - Times Higher Education Supplement This is a fully updated and expanded new edition of the successful undergraduate [...]
From the team that brought you the bestselling Understanding Classical Sociology (SAGE Publications, 1995), we now have a companion volume dealing with the modern period of social theory. An introductory chapter situates the reader in the main changes in society and sociology following the classic p[...]