Aimed at students and non-specialists, this is an overview of the major sociological developments from Marx to the present. Twenty-one chapters introduce key thinkers in the field: their driving impulses, issues central to their work, substantive examples of the theory in action, their legacy, and reading lists to stimulate further research. The range incorporates not only canonical figures such as Marx, Weber and Durkheim, but also feminist, post-structuralist and post-colonialist thinkers of recent decades, including Sigmund Freud, Georg Simmel, Herbert Blumer, Talcott Parsons, Robert Merton, Simone de Beauvoir, Norbert Elias, Erving Goffman, David Lockwood, Harold Garfinkel, Louis Althusser, Jurgen Habermas, Pierre Bourdieu, Arlie Hochschild and Anthony Giddens.
Rob Stones is Lecturer in Sociology and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the University of Essex and author of Sociological Reasoning: Towards a Past-Modern Sociology.
""Disability Harassment" provides a detailed, complex, and interwoven series of argument and legal strategies that can be used by lawyers to address the school and work based abuses experienced by individuals with disabilities." -"Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education", "Provides a progression of well-documented, horrific stories of abuse that are experienced by both children and adults, by both individuals and who were born with a disability and by individuals who became disabled." -Harold A. Johnson, Michigan State University "Weber accomplishes three significant tasks in "Disability Harassment" he demonstrates the existence of disability harassment, explains the harm that it causes, and provides courts with tools to prevent future instances of disability-based maltreatment. "Disability Harassment" thereby contributes to the anti-discrimination literature by focusing attention on the comparatively less examined, but pervasive phenomenon of intentional mistreatment of people with disabilities." -"Northwestern University Law Review", "Weber is at his best when he explains the terrible cruelty of marginalizing and segregating children from their peers on account of disability." -"Trial", "Weber lays out an understandable explanation of the remedies that exist for people who are harassed based on disability, including those that are available under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Rehabilitation Act, and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). . . . Few lawyers practice in the area of disability law. One perhaps unintended benefit of the book is that it may recruit trial lawyers to Weber's cause. His passion for the subject gives life to the pages of the book and may inspire trial lawyers to get involved in these types of cases. . . . In the end, Weber makes it clear that practitioners can protect the rights of children and workers with disabilities. And he succeeds in making his main point: that children and workers ought to be treated equally and evaluated on their merits, not their afflictions. This book helps trial lawyers get closer to that laudable goal." -"Trial Review",
