Politics, Sociology, and Social Theory: Encounters with Classical and Contemporary Social Thought

by Anthony Giddens

Book Overview

This book is built upon a series of critical encounteres with major figures in classical and present-day social and political thought. The volume offers not only a challenging critique of major traditions of social and political analysis, but unique insights into the ideas which Anthony Giddens has developed over the past two decades.

The volume includes discussions of politics and sociology in the thought of Max Weber, together with analyses...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804726248
• ISBN13: 9780804726245
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"