The Sociological Ambition: Elementary Forms of Social and Moral Life

by Chris Shilling, Philip A. Mellor, Philip A Mellor

Book Overview

This book situates sociology in its historical, philosophical and theological contexts and examines how the founders of the discipline developed competing analyses of the processes elementary to social and moral life through their distinctive sociological contributions. Surveying a range of sociological analyses from Comte to feminism, postmodernism and rational choice theory, this book examines the various attempts that have been made to reconstruct...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761965491
• ISBN13: 9780761965497
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 3.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.1"