{"product_id":"9781884092978","title":"Seminal Sociological Writings: From Auguste Comte to Max Weber: An Anthology of Groundbreaking Works that Created the Science of Sociology","description":"\u003cp\u003eSeminal Sociological Writings: From Auguste Comte to Max Weber is an invaluable primary research resource for professors, students, and laypersons interested in the birth and growth of the social sciences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt fills a void in the literature by assembling seminal writings from many original works that created the science of society—by Auguste Comte, Émile Durkheim, Karl Marx, Herbert Spencer, George Herbert Mead, Ferdinand Tönnies, Georg Simmel, Thorstein Veblen, Max Weber, and other founders of sociology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe seminal writings in this anthology originally appeared in articles and books published from the mid 19th century to the early 20th century. They are, therefore, primary source documents that allow modern students to see how the authors introduced the paradigm-changing constructs that shattered earlier perceptions of reality. They include social class, conspicuous consumption, division of labor, collective consciousness, social self, survival of the fittest, anomie, charisma, definition of the situation, and other concepts that dominate how social scientists today think about and study human relationships, institutions, societies, and cultures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn addition to allowing students to experience the great theorists' thoughts and reasoning processes directly, these primary source documents provide an invaluable research resource because they were written by the theorists in the first person, as they were undergoing their groundbreaking theoretical insights and discoveries, and while they were recording, reflecting on, witnessing, and living through the phenomena that engaged them as they occurred.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor these reasons and more, Seminal Sociological Writings: From Auguste Comte to Max Weber is an important resource that can serve as either a primary or ancillary text in courses on theory, and will enlighten all scholars and laypersons interested in the birth and development of the social sciences.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Altschuler, Richard \u0026 Associates, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49816383586544,"sku":"9781884092978","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781884092978","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}