Anthony Giddens is one of the world's best known sociologists. Since becoming director of the London School of Economics in 1997, he has also played a leading public role, not least as 'Blair's guru' and author of The Third Way . This book opens up for academic and general readers who Giddens is, what he has done in academic life over more than forty years, and how his work over the last decade on modernity, globalisation and transformation of personal life underpins his current public and political activities.
Anthony Giddens is one of the world's best known sociologists. Since becoming director of the London School of Economics in 1997, he has also played a...
This book, first published in 1976, discusses four classical paradigms for sociology the positivism of Saint-Simon and Comte, Durkheim, Marx and Weber and four contemporary developments or revisions of them the "sociologie active "of Dumazedier and his colleagues in France, sociology in Socialist Poland, the work of Dahrendorf and the new sociology of Mills and his successors. Christopher Bryant suggests that no neutral language exists in which to compare the characteristics of these different paradigms, yet highlights those features which are common to all of them. Unique in its approach...
This book, first published in 1976, discusses four classical paradigms for sociology the positivism of Saint-Simon and Comte, Durkheim, Marx and We...
Christopher Bryant Henk A. Becker Christopher G. A. Bryant
In an age when continued financial and other support for teaching and research in sociology cannot be taken for granted, sociologists have been surprisingly slow to provide a clear statement of the achievements of sociology in the western world since 1950. What Has Sociology Achieved? does this by assembling twelve essays specially commissioned from distinguished authors, to which the editors add an introduction setting out the issues and a concluding chapter which draws together recurrent themes.
In an age when continued financial and other support for teaching and research in sociology cannot be taken for granted, sociologists have been surpri...
