Classical Theorists in the Social Sciences: From Western Ideas to African Realities

This book is a useful companion to every social science student who desires an understanding of classical theoretical developments in and evolution of the disciplines. Introduction to Sociological Theories - Dejo Abdulrahman - Political Theory: Nature, Substance, Relevance and the State of the Discipline in the Nigerian Universities - Ogundiya Ilufoye Sarafa - Socrates: Laying the Foundations of the Traditions of Political Philosophy - Sulaiman Y. Balarabe Kura - The Quintessential Plato, 427-347 BC - Sulaiman Y. Balarabe Kura - John Locke, Jean Jacques Rousseau and the Social Contract Theory: Implications for Contemporary Nigerian Politics - Luqman SAKA, Adebiyi, O.M and Bakare, A.R - Immanuel Kant and the African Realities - Seun Bamidele - Aristotle's Political Theory and Consolidating the Traditions of the Classics: Postulations, Applications and Limitations - Sulaiman Y. Balarabe Kura - Ibn Khaldun and the Foundation of Sociological Thinking - Dare Ojo Omonijo - John Stuart Mill's Political Philosophy and the Shaping of Political and Economic Structures - James Apam - The Birth of Sociology: From August Comte to Herbert Spencer - Tunde Salman - The Political Philosophy of Edmund Burke - Azeez Olaniyan & Ayodeji O. Adedeji - The Political Thought of Jeremy Bentham: 1748-1852 - S. M. Omodia and Oluwasuji, C. Olawole - Classical Sociological Statements: A Durkheimian Perspective - Abdullahi A.A., Aliyu, T.K & Mahmoud, K. O. - Jean Bodin: Beyond Sovereignty - Ibrahim Baba Shatambaya - The Life and Works of David Ricardo: A Review of Literature - Olarinde O. Muftau & A.A. Bello - Karl Marx and the African Realities - Godwin Etta Odok - Max Weber and the Emergence of Interpretive Sociology - Jimoh Amzat & Victor Kolo - Vilfredo Pareto as a Social Theorist and Scholar - S. Akinmay¿wa Lawal and Isaac A. Adedeji - George Herbert Mead: The Emergence and Relevance of Interactionism - Olayinka Akanle & Adejare Gbenga Sunday - Contemporary Sociological Discourses: Cooley's Perspective - Abdullahi, Ali Arazeem and Issah, Moshood - Ervin Goffman's Perspectives on Contemporary Social Realities - Victor Kolo and Jimoh Amzat - The New Strand of Functionalism of Robert K. Merton - Bashir Bello - Talcott Parsons, Beyond Structural-Functionalism: Understanding Emerging Systems and Processes in Modern Africa - Isaac A. Adedeji - Introduction to Social Exchange Theory - Dejo Abdulrahman - John Rawls on the Theory of Justice - Ogundiya Ilufoye Sarafa and Samuel Oyewole - Anthony Giddens, Structuration Theory and Modernity - S. Akinmay¿wa Lawal - Introduction to Feminist Thinkers - Oluwatoyin Olatundun Ilesanmi. Dejo Abdulrahman, Ilufoye S. Ogundiya, and Jimoh Amzat are at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Usmano Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Nigeria.