| This volume contains our second collection of penetrating works by modern social scientists on Karl Marx, Émile Durkheim, and Max Weber — the “holy trinity” of sociology and other social sciences. Although their paradigm changing treatises were first published between the mid-19th and early 20th centuries, they contain ideas and methods that still largely define what social scientists think about, and how they analyze societal phenomena, in the disciplines of sociology, economics, political science, education, geography, anthropology, and social psychology. How do contemporary social scientists conceive of the great masters's concepts, methods, and findings? Have modern intellectual, technological, and sociopolitical trends and events — such as postmodernism, multiculturalism, the Internet, globalization, and feminism — affected the way social investigators use and dissect Marx, Durkheim and Weber? Do findings from recent studies tend to validate or discredit the work of the classical theorists? These and related questions are answered in this anthology, which assembles for the first time a rich collection of 18 works by contemporary social scientists. Together, they clearly show how leading theorists and researchers apply and analyze concepts such as class, anomie, bureaucracy, suicide, community, rationality, conflict, justice, religious ritual, identity, and meaning, which are at the heart of the writings of Marx, Durkheim, and Weber. Marx, Durkheim and Weber are the theorists almost everyone would like students to know about after finishing a course in classical theory. . . . Consider a statement made by [Herbert] Gans: “The discussion and worship of Durkheim, Marx, Weber, and a handful of other classical and contemporary theorists, seems in fact to be enough to satisfy the discipline’s need for collective memory.” Therefore, Marx the Father, Weber the Son and Durkheim the Holy Ghost?. . . Or is it Marx as Brahman, Weber as Siva and Durkheim as Vishnu? — J. I. (Hans) Bakker, from a review of The Living Legacy of Marx, Durkheim & Weber in The Canadian Review of Sociology (1999). Copyright©2000 by Richard Altschuler & Associates, Inc. All rights reserved.ISBN 1-884092-55-1Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 00-90081Cover Design: Josh Garfield | Testimonials | How to Contact Us | | Gordian Knot Books | | Richard Altschuler & Associates | |