TY - BOOK AU - Beamish,Rob TI - The promise of sociology: the classical tradition and contemporary sociological thinking SN - 1442601876 U1 - 301 PY - 2010/// CY - Toronto, Tonawanda, NY PB - University of Toronto Press KW - Cultura KW - Filosofía de la sociología KW - Sociología N1 - Incluye bibliografía; Why think sociologically? The millennial, knowledge, and culture ; The sociological imagination : beyond ´everyday stocks of knowledge´ -- The classical tradition. Marx and the dialectic of dynamic, unstable social formations ; Marx, the Communist Manifesto, and modernity ; From Descartes to Durkheim : towards a science of society ; Durkheim and the systematic study of social facts ; Weber and the interpretive understanding of social action ; The spirit of capitalism, modernity, and the postmodern world -- Sociology and contemporary culture. The fear of mass culture ; The dialectics of popular culture ; The promise of sociology ER -