Reclaiming the Sociological Classics The State of the Scholarship

by Camic, Charles

• ISBN13: 9781577180302
• ISBN10: 1577180305
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-01-06
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This volume is a collection of original essays by sociologists and intellectual historians who have been leading figures in recent scholarship on the classical sociological theorists.

Author Biography

Charles Camic is Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	vi
Introduction: Classical Sociological Theory as a Field of Research	1	(10)
Charles Camic
1 A New Look at Auguste Comte	11	(34)
Mary Pickering
2 Rethinking Marx (in a Post-Marxist World)	45	(36)
Moishe Postone
3 Spencer and His Critics	81	(31)
Valerie A. Haines
4 Classical Social Theory with the Women Founders Included	112	(30)
Lynn McDonald
5 The Other Durkheim: History and Theory in the Treatment of Classical Sociological Thought	142	(31)
Robert Alun Jones
6 Simmel Reappraised: Old Images, New Scholarship	173	(35)
Donald N. Levine
7 Max Weber's Sociology: Research Strategies and Modes of Analysis	208	(34)
Stephen Kalberg
8 W. I. Thomas and Robert E. Park: Conceptualizing, Theorizing, and Investigating Social Processes	242	(20)
Martin Bulmer
9 George Herbert Mead and the Renaissance of American Pragmatism in Social Theory	262	(20)
Hans Joas
10 Acclaiming the Reclaimers: The Trials of Writing Sociology's History	282	(17)
Alan Sica
Index	299