1st Edition

Macrosociology Four Modern Theorists

By Frank W. Elwell Copyright 2006
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

Social theorists dwell on the canonical works of Marx, Weber, and Durkheim but little on the theories of the major contemporary macrotheorists. This book fills this gap with a focus on the work of four modern theorists who have taken on the larger questions spawned by classical social theory. C. Wright Mills, Marvin Harris, Immanuel Wallerstein, and Gerhard Lenski have examined such phenomena and... Read more
Chapter 1 The Sociology of C. Wright Mills; Chapter 2 Marvin Harris’s Cultural Materialism; Chapter 3 Wallerstein’s World-Systems Analysis; Chapter 4 Gerhard Lenski’s Ecological-Evolutionary Theory; Chapter 5 Meta-Analysis;

Biography

Frank W. Elwell