Classical Sociology

Bryan S. Turner is Professor of Sociology in the Asian Research Institute (ARI) at the National University of Singapore. Previously he was Professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cambridge from 1998-2005. His research interests include globalization and religion, concentrating on such issues as religious conflict and the modern state, religious authority and electronic information, religious, consumerism and youth cultures, human rights and religion, the human body, medical change, and religious cosmologies. He is Joint Chief Editor of the journal Citizenship Studies and serves on the editorial boards of several prestigious journals.

Preface - The Sociological Classics Part I CLASSICAL THEORY The Central Themes of Sociology: An Introduction Max Weber's Reception into Classical Sociology Max Weber and Karl Marx Max Weber on Economy and Society Emile Durkheim on Civil Society Karl Mannheim on Ideology and Utopia Karl Mannheim and the Sociology of Culture Georg Simmel and the Sociology of Money Talcott Parsons on the Social System Part II THE EARLY SOCIOLOGY OF INSTITUTIONS The Sociology and Anthropology of Religion The Sociology of the City The Sociology of Social Stratification The Sociology and Anthropology of the Family The Sociology of Generations - with Ron Eyerman The Sociology of Citizenship Conclusion - Coherence and Rupture in the Discipline of Sociology