The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: Second Roxbury Edition by Talcott Parsons $24.95
A brilliant book which studies the psychological conditions which made possible the development of capitalist civilization. The book analyzes the connection between the spread of Calvinism and a new attitude toward the pursuit of wealth in post-Reformation Europe and England, and attitude which permitted, encouraged–even sanctified–the human quest for prosperity.
Race, Class, and Gender: An Anthology (Sociology) by Wadsworth Pub Co $31.95
Included in RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER are 64 interdisciplinary readings. The authors provide very accessible articles that show how race, class, and gender shape people's experiences, and help students to see the issues in an analytic, as well as descriptive way. The book provides conceptual grounding in understanding race, class, and gender; it has a strong historical and sociological perspective;...
Across the Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border by Anchor $14.95
Luis Alberto Urrea's Across the Wire offers a compelling and unprecedented look at what life is like for those refugees living on the Mexican side of the border—a world that is only some twenty miles from San Diego, but that few have seen. Urrea gives us a compassionate and candid account of his work as a member and "official translator" of a crew of relief...
The Philosophy of Money by David Frisby $57.95
The complete translation of Simmel's classic work in which he provides us with a dazzling and wide-ranging discussion of the social, psychological and philosophical aspects of the money economy.
New Science (Penguin Classics) by David Marsh $18.00
Although Vico lived his whole life as an obscure academic in Naples, his New Science is an astonishingly ambitious attempt to provide a comprehensive science of all human society by decoding the hitory, mythology, and law of the ancient world. "My imagination grows every time I read Vico as it doesn't when I read Freud or Jung."—James Joyce.
Emergence of Sociological Theory by Wadsworth Pub Co $91.95
This text provides an analysis of influential theorists in sociology from 1830 to 1930, focusing primarily on Comte, Spencer, Marx, Weber, Simmel, Durkheim, Pareto and Mead. It examines the scholars and schools who influenced these theorists, and covers the origin of the ideas of each theorist, their basic works and contributions, and the legacy of the abstract models and principles that they...
Social Darwinism in American Thought by Beacon Press $26.00
Social Darwinism in American Thought portrays the overall influence of Darwin on American social theory and the notable battle waged among thinkers over the implications of evolutionary theory for social thought and political action. Theorists such as Herbert Spencer and William Graham Sumner adopted the idea of the struggle for existence as justification for the evils as well as the benefits of...
Classical Sociological Theory by Mcgraw-Hill College $56.10
This text provides an overview of the history of classical sociological theory and the work of the major classical theorists. It concludes with a metatheoretical schema that informs the text, and provides an introduction to metatheorizing in sociology.
Social Things: An Introduction to the Sociological Life by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers $29.95
In fifteen years, Charles Lemert's Social Things has become a much-loved modern classic among teachers, students, and many other readers for introducing the sociological imagination through lively, memorable stories and interpretations. This fifth edition is fresh: the history of sociology section is updated to incorporate new discussions of the way sociological ideas have spread into numerous...
The Cosmic Race / La raza cosmica (Race in the Americas) by Didier T. Jaén $21.95
In this influential 1925 essay, presented here in Spanish and English, José Vasconcelos predicted the coming of a new age, the Aesthetic Era, in which joy, love, fantasy, and creativity would prevail over the rationalism he saw as dominating the present age. In this new age, marriages would no longer be dictated by necessity or convenience, but by love and beauty; ethnic obstacles, already in...