Bøger i Critical Concepts in Sociology serien

This collection brings together the indispensable secondary literature. It includes a major introduction which explains why power is a key concept and guides the reader through the contrasting attempts to understand it.

The state is a concept surrounded with much dispute. What exactly is the state? Does it act impartially? What changes has it undergone? These three volumes provide a reliable and comprehensive guide to these questions.

Here John Scott brings together the central theoretical contributions to the debate on class and status as aspects of stratification - an invaluable one-stop resource for all students of sociology.

This collection includes essays by all the main thinkers on modernity, such as Marx, Parsons, Mannheim, Giddens, Bourdieu and Adorno, as well as previously unseen material from lesser-known figures.

This set brings together published articles, papers and book chapters that are central to an informed understanding of race and ethnicity today

The aim of this collection is to bring together the principal sources in the development of the techniques of social network analysis.