Return-Path: sendmail 5.67/UCSD-2.2-sun Sat, 20 Feb 93 11:51:46 -0800 for /usr/lib/sendmail -oc -odq -oQ/var/spool/lqueue -oi -fsocgrad-relay socgrad-list Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1993 11:26:28 -0800 (PST) From: Berch Berberoglu Subject: Two new books for intro soc classes To: socgrad@ucsd.edu Those of you teaching introductory sociology classes from a critical/ progressive/left perspective, might be interested in using two new books put together especially for this purpose: 1. Berch Berberoglu, AN INTRODUCTION TO CLASSICAL AND CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL THEORY (New York: General Hall, 1993) 16 chapters examining the works of 13 classical and 13 contemporary social theorists including Marx, Engels, Durkheim, Weber, Mosca, Pareto, Michels, Freud, Gramsci, Lenin, Kollontai, W.E.B. Du Bois, Frazier, Parsons, Merton, C.W. Mills, Domhoff, Althusser, Poulantzas, Miliband, Trimberger, Block, Skocpol, Wallerstein, Therborn, and Szymanski) $16.95 paper 153pp. 2. Berch Berberoglu (editor), CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES IN SOCIOLOGY: A READER (Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co., 1991) 2nd ed. will be out June 1993. A collection of mostly originally written essays by well known authors including James O'Connor, Howard Sherman, Jerry Lembcke, Vicente Navarro, David Schweitzer, Victor Perlo, Martha Gimenez, etc., covering a variety of topics, including: class, exploitation of labor, income and wealth inequality, corporate structure, alienation, the state, education, aging and public policy, urban social problems, poverty, racism, sexism and theories of women's oppression, environment and ecological crisis, imperialism and the Third World, social movements and social change. The book can also be used in social problems courses. 300 pp. $23.95 paper. If you are interested in either or both of these books, please let me know and I'll send you a flyer and arrange a free exam copy for course adoption. Please supply the following for the exam copy: Name:______________________ Course number and title:______________________ Present texts being used:_________________________________________________ Address and phone no.:____________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ ************************************************************************** If you have any further questions regarding the above, you may contact me at the following address: Berch Berberoglu Department of Sociology University of Nevada, Reno Reno, NV 89557 Phone: (702) 784 6647 Fax: (702) 784 1358 E-mail: berchb@unssun.scs.unr.edu Thanks very much.