Description
Book SynopsisA classic introductory text for students. Major sociological theories are clearly explained and it is shown how they can illuminate contemporary social problems.
Table of ContentsPreface Part One: The Problem of Sociology 1 Prologue: to the reader 2 Sociology and the growth of industrial society Part Two: Industrial Society as Regress—Tönnies and ‘Community’ 3 Urbanism as a way of life? 4 A loss of community Part Three: Industrial Society as Progress—Evolutionary Accounts of Society 5 Classic evolutionary doctrines and the diversity of morals 6 Evolutionary themes in modern social science: nature versus nurture 7 Evolutionary themes in modern social science: cultural variation and technical Development Part Four: Industrial Society as Capitalist Society—Marx and Marxism 8 Marx and the critique of political economy 9 Marxism and the theory of capitalist development 10 Marxism and contemporary society Part Five: Industrial Society as Disenchantment—Weber and Rationalization 11 Max Weber and the rationalization of the modern world 12 Weber and the origins of capitalism 13 Bureaucracy, democratic politics and socialism Part Six: Industrial Society as Organic Solidarity—Durkheim, the Division of Labour and Moral Science 14 Moral obligation and individual life 15 Anomie, disorder and conflict Part Seven: Industrial Society as Structural Differentiation—Functionalism and its Discontents 16 Societies as systems: functionalist models of social order 17 Functionalists, family and gender Part Eight: Industrial Order and the Fragmentation of Self 18 The fragmentation of consciousness 19 Consciousness and control 20 Epilogue
