Founders, Classics, Canons: Modern Disputes Over the Origins and Appraisal of Sociology's Heritage

by Peter Baehr

Book Overview

Founders, classics, and canons have been vitally important in helping to frame sociology's identity. Within the academy today, a number of positions-feminist, postmodernist, postcolonial-question the status of "tradition."

In Founders, Classics, Canons, Peter Baehr defends the continuing importance of sociology's classics and traditions in a university education. Baehr offers arguments against interpreting, defending, and attacking sociology's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1412857058
• ISBN13: 9781412857055
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"