Macrosociology: The Study of Sociocultural Systems
Elwell, Frank W.

Description

This work examines the relevance of the classical social theory of Marx, Durkheim, Weber, and Spencer in understanding sociocultural systems today.

Reviews

“. . . unique in the vast array of sociology theory texts because of two distinctive features: a focus upon social systems with social evolution as its primary theme, and the attempt to link directly the master of the past to today’s contemporary theorists.” – Prof. Lillian Daughaday, Murray State University

Table of Contents

Foreword by Dr. Davis Joyce
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Classical View of Sociocultural Systems
Part 1: Domestic and International Capitalism
1. The Sociology of Karl Marx
2. Harry Braverman’s Marxist Analysis
3. John Bellamy Foster’s Ecological-Marxism
Part 2: The Division of Labor and Anomie
4. The Sociology of Emile Durkheim
5. Robert K. Merton’s Functional Analysis
6. Robert Nisbet’s Leviathan
7. Neil Postman’s Technological Determinism
Part 3: Bureaucracy and Rationalization
8. Verstehen: The Sociology of Max Weber
9. The Sociology of Norbert Elias
10. George Ritzer’s Rationalization of Consumption
Part 4: Population, Production, and Evolution
11. T. Robert Malthus’s Social Theory
12. Gerhard Lenski’s Ecological-Evolutionary Theory
13. Stephen K. Sanderson’s Evolutionary Materialism
14. Common Ground
Bibliography
Index

ISBN10:  0-7734-4900-0   ISBN13:  978-0-7734-4900-8    Pages:  492    Year:  2009   

Series: hors série Number: 0

Subject Area: Sociology 

Imprint: Edwin Mellen Press

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