Masters of Sociological Thought
Masters of Sociological Thought . Ideas in historical and social context is the title of an introduction to the classics of sociology by Lewis A. Coser .
Structure and evaluation
Coser, himself a classic of the sociology of conflict , a subtle connoisseur of North American and European sociology, excellent precision and calm assessor, subdivides, encyclopedically exemplary, every contribution in The Work ("The Work") - The Man ("The Human") - The Intellectual Context ("The intellectual context") - The Social Context ("The social context") - In Summary ("Als Résumé"). The whole thing also comes together to form an epochal historiography as a sociology of science . Robert K. Merton's preface rightly praises his master student's skill for epitomizing complex ideas without trivializing them and emphasizes the need in sociology for "disciplined eclecticism " (1977: vii, viii).
Content
Coser treats chronologically (also with illustrations)
- Auguste Comte - Karl Marx - Herbert Spencer - Émile Durkheim - Georg Simmel - Max Weber - Thorstein Veblen - Charles H. Cooley - George Herbert Mead - Robert Ezra Park - Vilfredo Pareto - Karl Mannheim - Pitirim A. Sorokin - William I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki .
He supplemented the second edition with Recent trends in American sociological theory , in which he added the approaches of George C. Homans , Robert K. Merton , Kingsley Davis , Wilbert Ellis Moore and Robin Murphy Williams , Marion Joseph Levy junior and Talcott Parsons , outlines the exchange theories , symbolic interactionism , frame analysis , labeling theory and conflict theories.
Individual evidence
- ↑ New York et al. a .: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1971, ² 1977