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The concept of industrial society plays a dominant role in the social sciences. The ‘Great Divide’ between pre-industrial and industrial societies is common

Two main criteria have guided the selection and presentation of the material for this text-book. Firstly, there is the claim that sociology is a science. Throug

The studies which comprise this book are essentially organized around a critical encounter with European social theory in its 'classical period' – i.e. from t

This book is abut the place of space in the study of class formation. It consists of a set of papers that fix on different aspects of the human geography of cla

'In this remarkable collection of essays, Holton and Turner demonstrate that Parsonian sociology addresses the most central problems of our time – issues of s