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The Anthem Companion to Alexis de Tocqueville contains original interpretations of Tocquevilles major writings on democracy and revolution as well as his lesser- known writings on colonies, prisons and minorities. Each chapter compares Tocquevilles ideas on a given subject with those of other leading social theorists.

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This book examines various concepts in Schutzs philosophical theory and considers issues in theory of knowledge, social science, and the theory of society.

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This edited volume provides a comprehensive survey of the life and work of David Ricardo (17721823), a major contributor to the British classical school of political economy.

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The purpose of the volume is to provide a comprehensive overview of Erving Goffmans continued importance within the field of sociology and related social science disciplines.

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The Anthem Companion to Harold Garfinkel brings together leading scholars and upcoming researchers in contemporary ethnomethodology to bring out the experimental character of Garfinkels legacy in the social sciences and beyond.

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The Anthem Companion to Immanuel Wallerstein explores many of the topics central to Wallersteins understanding of the modern world-system and offers a comprehensive guide to the full range of his work.

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This book seeks to place Louis Maurice Halbwachs in his historical and intellectual context, showing that his work was sensitive to the events of his time, and that the development of his analysis could be influenced by happenstance.

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The Anthem Companion to mile Durkheim intends to offer different practical attempts to build on Durkheims legacy and investigate the issues and controversies that characterise contemporary societies and thus contribute to develop further this path of critical enquiry into classical sociology.

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The Anthem Companion to Niklas Luhmann is a major contribution to analysing the work of one of the greatest social theorists of the twentieth century. This companion provides the latest scholarly interpretations of a thinker who revolutionised the theoretical foundation of the discipline of sociology.

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The Anthem Companion to Philip Selznick is a collection of essays by renowned authors on the preeminent sociologist.

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'The Anthem Companion to Pierre Bourdieu' provides an introduction to the French sociologist's thought and an evaluation of the international significance of his work from a range of national perspectives.

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Raymond Aron is an exceptional figure among twentieth-century sociological and political thinkers. The book focuses on the sociological work of this author of the century, who analyzed his age both in its grand-scale political and socio-economic traits and in the complex social and political ramifications of its day-to-day life.

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Robert K. Merton (RKM) was an important figure in the mid-nineteenth development of sociology in terms of social theory, methodology and several substantive areas key to understanding modern societies the sociologies of science, media, professions and bureaucracy. This book reveals the different components of RKMs work and how each relates to the other.

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The Anthem Companion to Robert Bellah is the first major collection of writings on the life and work of one of the foremost twentieth-century sociologists of religion.

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This collection of articles by an international group of leading experts has its special focus on the relevance of Karl Jaspers's philosophy for the social sciences. It also includes classical evaluations of Jaspers's thinking by renowned authors Talcott Parsons and Jrgen Habermas.