Critical analysis of the relation between sociological theory and recent debates in cultural studies. Examines the problems of theorising issues such as modernity, mass culture and postmodernity and advocates a historical and context-based approach. A distinctive sociological perspective is developed based on Marx, Weber, Bourdieu and Bakhtin.

Critical analysis of the relation between sociological theory and recent debates in cultural studies. Examines the problems of theorising issues such as modernity, mass culture and postmodernity and advocates a historical and context-based approach. A distinctive sociological perspective is developed based on Marx, Weber, Bourdieu and Bakhtin.

This text offers an account of the rise of sociological thought from its origins in the 18th century. Beginning with the classical sociology of Marx, Durkheim, Weber and Simmel, it ends by discussing salient 1990s sociological theories of Foucault, Baudrillard, Giddens, Habermas and others.

This text offers an account of the rise of sociological thought from its origins in the 18th century. Beginning with the classical sociology of Marx, Durkheim, Weber and Simmel, it ends by discussing salient 1990s sociological theories of Foucault, Baudrillard, Giddens, Habermas and others.