Description

A concise and extremely well-written history of sociology.

The first part analyzes the conditions for the formation of social thought in the 18th century and its further development towards positivism, evolutionism and Marxism. The second describes the complex reaction to positivism and Marxism by representatives of classical sociology (Weber, Durkheim, Simmel, etc.). The third part examines the most pressing problems of New Age sociology and the most important theoretical approaches to solving them.

For philosophers, political scientists, sociologists, students and lecturers of humanities universities.