The Art of Sociological Argument

GRAHAM CROW is Reader in Sociology at the University of Southampton, UK. He is widely published and is the author of Comparative Sociology and Social Theory and Social Solidarities amongst other books. His research interests include sociological theory, comparative sociology and the sociology of families and communities.

Acknowledgements.- Introduction: The Importance of Sociological Argument.- Karl Marx: Sociology as Radical Criticism.- Emile Durkheim: Sociology as the Identification of Social Facts.- Max Weber: Sociology as the Science of Interpretive Understanding.- Talcott Parsons: Sociology as Systematic Reflection.- Charles Wright Mills: Sociology as an Imaginative Craft.- Erving Goffman: Sociology as an Eye for Detail.- Michel Foucault: Sociology as Shocking.- Ann Oakley: Sociology as Emancipation.- Conclusion.- Bibliography.