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v Titles listed are available to qualified instructors on a complimentary review basis. Request review copies at sagepub.com! THE SOCIAL THOUGHT OF ERVING GOFFMAN Michael Hviid Jacobsen • Soren Kristiansen, both at Aalborg University, Denmark One of the most prominent social theorists in post-war sociology, Erving Goffman's ideas continue to influence scholars in various fields and has also attracted many readers outside conventional academia. Goffman's overall research agenda was the exploration of what he termed the interaction order—that is, the micro social order that regulates the co-mingling of people in each other's immediate presence. He coined several new concepts with which to grasp and understand the complexities and basic social restructuring of everyday life, many of which are now part of sociology's standard vocabulary. PAPERBACK ISBN: 978-1-4129-9803-1 • OCTOBER 2014 • 248 PAGES • THE SOCIAL THOUGHT OF KARL MARX Justin P. Holt, New York University This volume provides an introduction to the work of Karl Marx, one of the most revered, reviled, and misunderstood figures in modern history. The book serves as an excellent introduction to the full range of Marx's major themes—alienation, economics, social class, capitalism, communism, materialism, environmental sustainability—and considers the extent to which they are relevant today. PAPERBACK ISBN: 978-1-4129-9784-3 • © 2015 288 PAGES • THE SOCIAL THOUGHT OF GEORG SIMMEL Horst J. Helle, University of Munich, Germany This volume provides an introduction to the work of Georg Simmel. It closely examines the writings and ideas of Simmel that introduced a new way of looking at culture and society and helped establish sociology's place among the academic fields. The book focuses on the key intellectual concerns of Simmel, including the process of individualization, religion, private and family life, cities, and modernization. PAPERBACK ISBN: 978-1-4129-9765-2 • © 2015 128 PAGES • THE SOCIAL THOUGHT OF EMILE DURKHEIM Alexander Riley, Bucknell University, University of California San Diego, Wesleyan University This volume provides an introduction to the work of Emile Durkheim, one of the informal "holy trinity" of sociology's founding thinkers, along with Weber and Marx. The author shows that Durkheim's perspective is arguably the most properly sociological of the three. He thought through the nature of society, culture, and the complex relationship of the individual to the collective in a manner more concentrated and thorough than any of his contemporaries during the period when sociology was emerging as a discipline. PAPERBACK ISBN: 978-1-4522-0263-1 • © 2015 • 280 PAGES • SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY IN THE CLASSICAL ERA: Text and Readings THIRD EDITION Laura Desfor Edles, California State University, Northridge, University of California, Northridge • Scott Appelrouth, California State University, Northridge Trained at UCLA and at NYU respectively, Laura Desfor Edles and Scott Appelrouth were frustrated by their inability to find a sociological theory text that could inspire enthusiasm in undergraduate students while providing them with analytical tools for understanding theory and exposing them to original writings from pivotal theorists. They developed this widely used text/reader to fill that need. This title introduces students to original major writings from sociology's key classical theorists as well as from a variety of other voices, and also provides a helpful theoretical and historical framework with which to understand these challenging readings. For each theorist, the authors give a biographical sketch, discuss intellectual influences and core ideas, and offer contemporary examples of those ideas. This book also makes frequent use of photos, diagrams, tables, and charts to help illustrate important concepts. See full table of contents at sagepub.com New to this Edition: • Examples throughout have been updated, providing newer, more timely applications of classical theory to contemporary social life • Ten new conceptual diagrams have been added to illustrate complex ideas • Chapter 1 has been revised to better connect the intellectual, political, cultural, and economic origins of sociological theory to earlier events: the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, and the French Revolution • The chapter on Karl Marx compares working condi- tions in China's high-tech manufacturing centers to the conditions Marx witnessed in Europe at the height of the Industrial Revolution • The chapter on Emile Durkheim expand on his ideas about the social functions of crime, and how crime can create opportunities for progressive social change PAPERBACK ISBN: 978-1-4522-0361-4 • NOVEMBER 2014 • 480 PAGES • online resources • Sociological Theor y SAGE Social Thinkers Series Edited by Javier Trevino, each volume in the SAGE Social Thinkers series provides a concise introduction to the life, work, and influences of a major figure in the sociological canon. The books are ideal for use as a self-contained volumes or in conjunction with other sociological theory texts.

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