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CRISIS OR RENEWAL? ON USING THE LEGACY OF SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 1998

BARRY SANDYWELL
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, University of York
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Abstract

Richard W. Hadden, Sociological Theory: An Introduction to the Classical Tradition. London: Broadview Press, 1997, paperback £17.95, 170 pp. ISBN 0-55111-095-4.

John Holmwood, Founding Sociology? Talcott Parsons and the Idea of General Theory. London and New York: Longman, 1996, paperback £12.50, x+141 pp. ISBN 0-582-29165-8.

W. G. Runciman, A Treatise on Social Theory, Volume III: Applied Social Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, £50.00 (paperback £17.95), xvii+329 pp. ISBN 0-521-58801-4 pbk and 0-521-24960-0 hbk.

Ian McIntosh, Classical Sociological Theory: A Reader. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997, £45.00 (paperback £14.95), 259 pp. ISBN 0-7486-0809-5 pbk and 0-7486-0873-7 hbk.

Ian Craib, Classical Social Theory: An Introduction to the Thought of Marx, Weber, Durkheim, and Simmel. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997, £40.00 (paperback £13.99) xxiv+297 pp. ISBN 0-19-878117-2 pbk and 0-19-878116-4 hbk.

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© 1998 BSA Publications Ltd

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