Classical Theorists in the Social Sciences

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. Akinmayọwa 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. Akinmayọwa Lawal – Introduction to Feminist Thinkers – Oluwatoyin Olatundun Ilesanmi.