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1. Bruno Latour

   Hybrid Thoughts in a Hybrid World

   By Anders Blok, Torben Elgaard Jensen

   Series: Key Sociologists

   French sociologist and philosopher, Bruno Latour, is one of the most significant and creative thinkers of the last decades. Bruno Latour: Hybrid Thoughts in a Hybrid World is the first comprehensive and accessible English-language introduction to this multi-faceted work. The book focuses on core...

   Published September 12th 2012 by Routledge
2. Niklas Luhmann

   By Christian Borch

   Series: Key Sociologists

   Niklas Luhmann offers an accessible introduction to one of the most important sociologists of our time. It presents the key concepts within Luhmann’s multifaceted theory of modern society, and compares them with the work of other key social theorists such as Jürgen Habermas, Michel Foucault, and...

   Published March 29th 2011 by Routledge
3. Jean Baudrillard

   Against Banality

   By William Pawlett

   Series: Key Sociologists

   This uniquely engaging introduction to Jean Baudrillard’s controversial writings covers his entire career focusing on Baudrillard’s central, but little understood, notion of symbolic exchange. Through the clarification of this key term a very different Baudrillard emerges: not the nihilistic...

   Published November 14th 2007 by Routledge
4. Erving Goffman

   By Greg Smith

   Series: Key Sociologists

   Decades after his death, the figure of Erving Goffman (1922–82) continues to fascinate. Perhaps the best-known sociologist of the second half of the twentieth century, Goffman was an unquestionably significant thinker whose reputation extended well beyond his parent discipline. A host of concepts...

   Published August 2nd 2006 by Routledge
5. Auguste Comte

   By Mike Gane

   Series: Key Sociologists

   Auguste Comte is widely acknowledged as the founder of the science of sociology and the 'Religion of Humanity'. In this fascinating study, the first major reassessment of Comte’s sociology for many years, Mike Gane draws on recent scholarship and presents a new reading of this remarkable figure....

   Published July 5th 2006 by Routledge
6. Zygmunt Bauman

   By Tony Blackshaw

   Series: Key Sociologists

   This timely book provides the definitive concise introduction to the phenomenon of Zygmunt Bauman. After introducing the man, his major influences and his special way of 'thinking sociologically', author Blackshaw traces the development of Bauman's project by identifying and explaining the major...

   Published August 17th 2005 by Routledge
7. Max Weber

   The Lawyer as Social Thinker

   By Frank Parkin

   Series: Key Sociologists

   Relates the categories of Weber's social thinking to the intellectual context of legal thinking and theory in which he was educated. As such, this is the only account of the key sources of Weber's sociology of law....

   Published January 13th 2004 by Routledge
8. Marx and Marxism

   2nd Edition

   By Peter Worsley

   Series: Key Sociologists

   Karl Marx probably had more influence on the political course of the last century than any other social thinker. There are many different kinds of Marxism, and the Twentieth Century saw two huge Marxist states in total opposition to one another. In the West, Marxism has never presented a...

   Published November 13th 2002 by Routledge
9. Pierre Bourdieu

   2nd Edition

   By Richard Jenkins

   Series: Key Sociologists

   This short critical introduction to Pierre Bourdieu's thought is a model of clarity and insight. Where Bourdieu's own writings are often complex, even ambiguous, Richard Jenkins is direct, concise and to the point. He emphasizes Bourdieu's contributions to theory and methodology while also dealing...

   Published October 9th 2002 by Routledge
10. Max Weber

    2nd Edition

    By Frank Parkin

    Series: Key Sociologists

    This study of Weber's sociology, written by an eminent authority, is a clear and illuminating discussion of the most important elements of Weber's thinking. The book concentrates on four main elements of Weber's work: his approach to sociological method, ethical neutrality and historical...

    Published October 2nd 2002 by Routledge