The emergence of sociological theory in the philosophy of the Enlightenment and its development in the classical theorists: the sociological positivism of Comte, the historical materialism of Marx, sociological holism and functionalism of Durkheim and Weber’s historical and comparative sociology and theory of social action. The influence of both the substantive theories of these classical theorists about industrialism, capitalism, social order and rationalisation, and of the conceptual issues they raised about the nature of social science on later sociological theory up to the present day. Modern functionalism, social action theory, symbolic interactionism, ethnomethodology, structuralism, neo-Marxism and post-modernism in the work of Parsons, Merton, Mead, Garfinkel, Habermas, Giddens, Bourdieu and Althusser.
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