collection of penetrating works by contemporary social scientists on Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, and Max Weber—the "holy trinity" of the social sciences. Together, the eighteen articles in this volume 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.

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