Perspectives In Sociology (Paperback - 2009)

From its test edition in 1979, perspective in Sociology has Provided generations of Undergraduates with s clear. reassuring introduction to me compilcation of Sociological theory. This fifth edition has been thoroughly revised. a chapter completely rewritten and two new chapters added While retaining Its emphasis and wealth of information about the rounding figures of sociology. since they Miami most subsequent work in sociological theory, it *so Includes much new material on contemporary social theory with particular reference to its attempts to tattle current problems and issues in the areas of gender, sexuality, and ethnicity in the postcolonial context. H retains on examination of the challenge sociology posed by the rise of poststructuralism with its questioning of the Enlightenment project It continues to retain information on thinkers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries whose relevance to modern social thought is only now being recognised. e.g. Nietzsche Saussure and Freud to draw connections between poststructurailst thinkers like Foucault and Derrida and the founding lathers.
New features include:
• a thoroughly revised text including particular attention to the linking and cross-referencing of chapters • a new chapter reviewing the rise of British sociology, with particular reference to the political context and the changing role of 'class' in sociological thinking • a new chapter describing the attempts of sociological theorists to explain current concerns, problems and issues in the areas of gender, (homo)sexuality and ethnicity in the context of the postcolonial world, and to show the similarities in these approaches. • a completely rewritten chapter on the 'synthesisers' - Bourdieu. Habermas and Giddens - and their attempts to generate a consensus from the apparently conflicting theories of their predecessors: Marx, Weber and Durkheim.

E.C. Cuff was formerly Head of the Department of Educational Stu Didsbury School of Education, Manchester Polytechnic.
W.W. Sharrock is Professor of Sociology at Manchester University.
D.W. Francis is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University.