* Focuses on the roots of historical and comparative sociology and social movements to give students a concise introduction to the method and substance of modern sociology..* Places special emphasis on the examiniation of such key concepts as social class, inequality, and the world system..* NEW: section on Eastern Europe and the USSR..* Updated tables and statistical references. .* New examples throughout..* Several key discussions reworked (e.g., section in Ch .1 on the rise of American sociology). .* Discussion on inequality in Ch. 5 reorganized.
- ISBN10 0534204007
- ISBN13 9780534204006
- Publish Date 22 February 1993
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 5 July 2014
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Cengage Learning, Inc
- Imprint Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc
- Edition 3rd Revised edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 416
- Language English