TY  - BOOK
AU  - Goodwin,Glenn A.
AU  - Scimecca,Joseph A.
TI  - Classical sociological theory: rediscovering the promise of sociology 
SN  - 0534624693 (pbk.)
U1  - 301.0922 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Belmont, CA
PB  - Thomson/Wadsworth
KW  - Sociology
KW  - History
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Sociologists
KW  - Biography
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Roots of sociology, morals, and science -- August Comte (1798-1857) -- Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) -- Karl Marx (1818-1883) -- Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) -- Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) -- Georg Simmel (1858-1918) -- Max Weber (1864-1920) -- George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) -- Jane Addams (1860-1935) -- William Edward Burghardt (W.E.B.) De Bois (1868-1963) -- Classical American sociology and the promise of sociology -- Glossary of terms
N2  - [This book] reflects sixty-plus years of experience teaching required undergraduate and graduate courses on classical sociological theory. It is a subject matter that both [authors] continue to feel passionately about, and one that [they] feel currently lakcs a text that can both create a similar passion for classical theory in students and present the substantive ideas of the founding men and women of sociology.... [This] text overcomes these limitations. -Pref
ER  -