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Founders, Classics, Canons Modern Disputes Over the Origins and Appraisal of Sociology's Heritage
By Peter Baehr
Copyright 2002
310 Pages
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Routledge
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Routledge
310 Pages
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Routledge
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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... Read more
1: Introduction; 2: Founders of Discourse; 3: Founders of Institutions; 4: The Utility, Rhetoric, and Interpretation of Classic Texts; 5: Classicality: Criteria and Reception; 6: Canons; 7: A Concluding Look at the Three Concepts
Biography
Peter Baehr
