A Brief History of Social Sciences and Political Thought

This book offers an approach to studying social sciences and political theory. It combines specially selected extracts from social sciences classic texts accompanied with commentaries. The reader is drawn into a dialogue with the Western political tradition's principal thinkers, whose ideas provide a common currency to debate about the problems facing modern societies. Each chapter explains the key concepts of political debate and the historical contexts which led thinkers to their different understandings of the nature of society.