Alex Law is Professor of Sociology at Abertay University, Dundee.

• Introduction: Classical Social TheoryAlienationAnomieBase and SuperstructureBureaucracyCapital Civil SocietyClassClass, Status and PartyCollective Effervescence Collective RepresentationsCommodity FetishismConscience Collective Division of Labour (Smith and Ferguson)Division of Labour (Marx)Division of Labour in Society (Durkheim)FashionGemeinschaft and GesellschaftHistorical MaterialismIdeal-TypesIdeologyLegitimate DominationMechanical and Organic SolidarityMetropolisMode of ProductionModernityMoneyNormal and PathologicalPositivismPrimitive AccumulationProtestant Ethic and the ′Spirit of Capitalism′Rationality and RationalizationSacred and ProfaneSocial ActionSocial FactsSocial Forms and SociationSocial MorphologySocial SpaceSuicideTotemismValue FreedomVerstehen

I think this will prove to be a very useful text for undergraduate students. Alex Law has produced a comprehensive list of key classical social theory concepts and provides an accessible account of the meaning of central terms, their place in the work of the classical analysts considered and the contemporary significance of their ideas. In addition he has offered useful additional reading guidance from which students will derive considerable benefit. I would certainly recommend the text to my students and I think they would find it a very useful addition to the libraryBarry SmartUniversity of Portsmouth