He illustrates and supports his claims with statistical data and his own impressive empirical study of trust, carried out in Poland after the collapse of communism. This conceptually creative and ...

This course reviews some of the most important developments in contemporary sociological theory. It examines work in such areas as relational sociology; rational-choice theory and ethnomethodology; ...

Randall Collins convincingly argues that much of Max Weber's work has been misunderstood, and that many of his most striking and sophisticated theories have been overlooked. By analysing hitherto ...

Students on Tom’s Sociology of Evil module use existing sociological theory and apply those theories to current examples of ‘evil’ using their own case studies to see how these things fit together.