Social Thought

Alan Sica is a leading social theory scholar, director of an interdisciplinary social thought program at The Pennsylvania State University, former editor of the journal Sociological Theory, and former Chair of the ASA section on Social Theory.

This comprehensive, multicultural, and cross-disciplinary anthology examines social theory and social thought from the major figures of the Enlightenment in France and England through the Postmodernists of the late twentieth century.

Offering an extraordinary breadth of coverage, the book includes selections from 144 authors, writing between 1690 and the present, who dealt with issues of equality, social justice, gender relations, political structures, family life, ethnic relations, political-economics, and other perennial questions that confront social actors and the societies in which they exist. Dr. Sica provides headnotes for each selection and introductions to the book's seven historical divisions.