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Article: Politics, Sociology, and Social Theory: Encounters with Classical and Contemporary Social Thought.
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- American Political Science Review
- Article date:
- September 1, 1996
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By Anthony Giddens. Stanford University Press, 1995. 304p. $45.00 cloth, $16.95 paper.
These two recent books, both by respected social theorists, offer a valuable look at the development of classical social theory since the middle of the nineteenth century and its relevance at the end of the twentieth century. In the final years of this century, it is highly pertinent to ask whether social theorizing largely produced before the end of the nineteenth century can possibly serve to illuminate contemporary society. (By classical social theory these authors mean roughly the theories of Marx, Durkheim, and Weber, along with subsequent elaborations and criticisms of these ...