Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Second Edition 2nd Edition

I learned a lot from this book. Keeping all the information straight was my biggest problem. I bought it for school.

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I have been reading several books about Durkheim, Marx, and Weber for my dissertation, and I found this book of one of the best. What makes me like this book are three. First, this book is written in plain English. I didn't expect reading those scholars' work is this much easy to understand. The author thoroughtly review those scholars' books directly and then put his extensive comments and explanations. Just reading direct quotes of those scholars made me "what..? what..?" but once reading the author's explanations, I was like "ah..oh..I see...." Second, the author often makes comparisons between the scholars. For example, I understand what Marx and Weber talk about social class but didn't get the similarities and differences in the arguments between the scholars. But, the author often makes comparisons in writing social class. Lastly, the author explains something again and again. Some may find this redundant, but since the content of this book is heavy, explaining one concept by using various words and sentences helped me understand Durkheim, Marx, and Weber.

This is an excellent course text for sociological theory. Students will find this book to be one of the best overall guides to classical social theory and the central ideas of Marx, Durkheim and Weber. It is especially useful for writing term assignments and essays on all topics related to sociological theory because of the extent of the factual information provided and because the concept glossary offers students the clearest definitions of all the central terms and concepts found in the works of classical theory.

Very interesting book, it is a course textbook that I am using for Sociology theory.

Exactly as advertised

I was surprised to receive the south asian addition... wasn't happy about it. It is the same as the other book, just a different cover page and publisher...

This well known text book us n excellent introduction to classical sociology. It provides a very readable summary of the three founding figures whose work laid the foundation of sociology as a discipline. Each section outlines the major theoretical contribution of each authority. The test is written using no jargon and so is easily understood by non-specialists and as such is a good introductory work. It has a good bibliography which will provide a starting point for further reading.

who said the book is great - readable and academic outline of three key thinkers that enables you to pretend to have read sonme of their great works.This was second hand and was delivered quickly and in better condition than described.