Bøger i Legacies of Social Thought Series serien

This new collection of Herbert J. Gans's scholarly and other writings, including excerpts from his most prominent ethnographic books, The Urban Villagers, The Levittowners, and Deciding What's News, will be a thought-provoking resource for social scientists, students, and all those who care about America.

This volume examines the effects of the unconscious on emotional experience asking if our drives are friend or foe in the search for a satisfactory life.

Based on intensive, long-term study, this comparative book traces the role of ethics in the formation of modernity in four Western nations (the U.S., Britain, France, and Germany).

This collection of Tilly's best writings on social change, states and institutions, urbanisation and historical sociology reveals the basis for his indelible influence on key questions in history and social science.

This volume brings together the significant essays and previously unpublished writings of Edwin M. Lemert. Lemert was one of the first authors to establish the foundations of the modern sociology of crime and social deviance and wrote with empirical insight on various related topics.

The first edition of Tally's Corner, a sociological classic, was the first compelling response to the culture of poverty thesis-that the poor are different and, according to conservatives, morally inferior-and alternative explanations that many African Americans are caught in a tangle of pathology owing to the absence of black men in families.

Since the 1967 publication of "Studies in Ethnomethodology", Harold Garfinkel has indelibly influenced the social sciences and humanities worldwide. This book, the sequel to "Studies", comprises Garfinkel's work over three decades to further elaborate the study of ethnomethodology.

This collection is a major contribution to the reconstruction of gender balance in African-American history -Manning Marable, Columbia University

This volume consists of 12 essays by prominent Goffman scholars, which critically assess Goffman's many contributions to various areas of study, including functionalism, social psychology, ethno-methodology and feminist theory.

This early book was a prelude to the multi-causal and multi-dimensional approach that scholars see reflected in Weber's later writings.