CAPITALISM AND MODERN SOCIAL THEORY
By Anthony Giddens
Cambridge University Press, 1971, 261 pages
Subtitled An analysis of the writings of Marx, Durkheim and Max Weber, it is a review of some of the major thoughts expressed by the three referenced authors. Giddens reviews some life history of each of the theorists, and offers interpretation and context. He shares snippets of the actual writings, but is focused more on explanation than quotation.
The work reads like a text book. The history surrounding the authors’ lives are helpful in understanding some of their philosophical direction. Other thought leaders preceded these three men and had an influence on them, but Giddens sees much of what they write as original and foundational to many future publications of successor sociologists. Their philosophies differ in many ways from each other.
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