Key Sociological Thinkers
3rd edition

Key Sociological Thinkers provides a clear and contextualised overview of the best of sociological thought. Written by leading academics, it offers stimulating and insightful assessments of twenty-four of the most influential thinkers in sociology : from Marx, Weber and Simmel to Chodorow, Foucault and Bauman. In addition, there are extended glossary accounts of thirteen further theorists who have influenced, or been influenced by, these key thinkers.
The third edition of this popular and established text is updated to cover the lives, works and legacies of Mead, Du Bois, Latour and Alexander, and to include five newly-authored chapters on Durkheim, Merton, Goffman, Bourdieu and Giddens. It contains a major new introduction, linking sociological theory to events and processes in three different historical periods of modernity. With frameworks for deep learning around group discussion, and much-valued Seeing Things Differently sections to demonstrate how each thinker's ideas can be used to illuminate aspects of social life in new ways, this continues be an essential text for all students of sociological theory.
Online-only chapters on Adorno, Blumer, De Beauvoir, Freud and Lockwood can be found at palgravehighered.com/stones.