✦ LIBER ✦
Richard Altschuler (Ed.). Seminal Sociological Writings: From Auguste Comte to Max Weber: An Anthology of Groundbreaking Works That Created the Science of Sociology. New York: Gordian Knot Books, 2010. xx + 166 pp. $22.95 (paper). ISBN-13: 978-1884092978. Louis Breger. A Dream of Undying Fame: How Freud Betrayed His Mentor and Invented Psychoanalysis. New York: Basic Books, 2009. 160 pp. $22.95 (cloth). ISBN-10: 0465017355. Paul A. Erickson and Liam D. Murphy (Eds.). Readings for a History of Anthropological Theory (3rd ed.). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010. xv + 632 pp. $64.95 (paper). ISBN-13: 978-1442600690. Bernard V. Lightman. Victorian Popularizers of Science: Designing Nature for New Audiences. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. 568 pp. $45.00 (cloth). ISBN-13: 978-0226481180. Thomas Szasz. Coercion as Cure: A Critical History of Psychiatry. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2007. 293 pp. $34.95 (cloth). ISBN-13: 978-0765803795
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 43 KB
- Volume
- 46
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-5061
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✦ Synopsis
Intended as a primary or ancillary textbook in courses on sociological theory, this collection could serve equally well in courses on the history of sociology, the social sciences, or social psychology. It includes a selection from one of the best-known works of each of the following sixteen mid-nineteenth-and twentieth-century pioneers of "the science of society":