Roots Of Sociology

Name: Roots Of Sociology
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Taylor & Francis Ltd

The Roots of SociologyScottish Enlightenment and the Civilising Process\nAuthor(s): Alex Law\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367491819, 978-0367491819\nSynopsis\nThis book argues that of todays core social scientific disciplines, it is sociology that has inherited the capacious ambitions of the Scottish Enlightenment. \n\nDeparting from the practice of classifying thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment using modern disciplinary categories that they themselves would not have recognised categories that obscure the fact that these figures were engaged in what they considered to be a wide-ranging, historical science of society it argues that sociology continues to explore many of the central themes in their work: historical processes, relations of power, societal differentiation and integration, morality, jurisprudence, violence, civil society and the state, as well as social divisions of class, gender, race and n.