Parsons and Merton
Goffman
Schutz and Garfinkel
Gramsci
Lukacs
Althusser
Marcuse
Adorno
Homans, Coleman and Boudon
Levi-Strauss, Barthes and Butler
Foucault
Elias
Bourdieu
Giddens
Habermas
Luhmann
Gellner and Mann
Collins
de Beauvoir, Oakley and Smith
Hochschild, Hill Collins and Latour
Steven Loyal is an Associate Professor in Sociology at University
College Dublin
Sinisa Malesevic is Professor and Head/Chair of UCD School of
Sociology. Previously, he held research and teaching appointments
at the Institute for International Relations (Zagreb), the Centre
for the Study of Nationalism, CEU (Prague) and at the National
University of Ireland, Galway. He also held visiting research
fellowships at the London School of Economics and the Institute for
Human Sciences (Vienna). He is also a Member of the Royal Irish
Academy. Professor Malesevic is a comparative historical and
political sociologist whose main research interests include the
study of war and organized violence, ethnicity and nationalism,
ideology, as well as sociological theory. He has authored six
books and has edited or co-edited another five volumes. He has also
authored over 60 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters.
Malesevic and Loyal have given us the most comprehensive,
accessible, international and up-to-date guide to sociological
theory, ancient and modern: a magnificent achievement.
*Professor Emeritus Stephen Mennell*
Two seasoned and very well-established sociologists have
written a book that offers a masterly survey of the major
social theorist from Plato to such 20th century masters as
Habermas, Luhmann and Foucault. Written in a clear and lively
style, incorporating historical, political and social context
as well as the main ideas of the theorists, this book proves itself
a worthy successor to Lewis Coser’s very successful Masters of
Sociological Thought, whose inspiration it acknowledges. A
boon to all students embarking on the study of classical and
contemporary social thought.
*Krishan Kumar*
These two volumes [Classical Sociological Theory and Contemporary
Social Theory] succeed brilliantly where introductory
textbooks typically fail. Viewing sociology as a tradition with
many variants, they present the lives and works of its ancestors
and major exponents across its history to the present. They do
so vividly, clearly and accurately, setting the distinctive ideas
of each in their historical and intellectual context, commenting on
where they continue to have present-day relevance and where they
need to be criticized and sometimes rejected. Comprehensive,
reliable, precise and concise, they are a much-needed successor to
Lewis Coser’s magisterial Masters of Sociological Thought.
*Steven Lukes*
Loyal and Malesivic offer a tour de force through the rise and
transformation of social thought – one that never compromises on
social thought’s dynamic character, its place in a historical and
political context, and the insights it provides into social
dynamics of the contemporary world.
*Benedikte Brincker*
All sociological theory is, at its core, an effort to better
understand the social world and our experience within it. As such
it may be seen as both an intellectual endeavour and a tool of
empowerment. Loyal and Malesevic have brought together key social
thinkers from across the ages and drawn out why it is that their
theories have been so influential. The authors explain and evaluate
sociological theories in light of the thinkers’ own social contexts
in a way that is both fresh and illuminating. Readers at all levels
will appreciate the breadth and ambition of these books, the depth
of the authors’ research and the quality of their analysis.
Classical Sociological Theory and Contemporary Sociological Theory
are themselves a remarkable contribution to sociological
scholarship.
*Katy Hayward*
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