to critique of social arrangements and institutions, in a similar manner to the work of Karl Marx. In the last decades of the twentieth century it also stood against various forms of 'postmodernism'. It is one of a range of types of philosophical realism, as well as forms of realism advocated within social science such as analytic realism and subtle realism. See also Bibliography of sociology List of sociologists Outline of sociology Subfields of sociology Timeline of sociology Philosophy of social science Notes References Further reading Gerhard Lenski. 1982. Human societies: An introduction to macrosociology, McGraw Hill Company. Nash, Kate. 2010. Contemporary Political Sociology: Globalization, Politics, and Power. Wiley-Blackwell Publishers. Samuel William Bloom, The Word as Scalpel: A History of Medical Sociology, Oxford University Press 2002 Raymond Boudon A Critical Dictionary of Sociology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989 Craig Calhoun, ed. Sociology in America. The ASA Centennial History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Deegan, Mary Jo, ed. Women in Sociology: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook, New York: Greenwood Press, 1991. A. H. Halsey, A History of Sociology in Britain: Science, Literature, and Society, Oxford University Press 2004 Barbara Laslett (editor), Barrie Thorne (editor), Feminist Sociology: Life Histories of a Movement, Rutgers University Press 1997 Moebius, Stephan: Sociology in Germany. A History, Palgrave Macmillan 2021 (open access), ISBN 978-3-030-71866-4. T.N. Madan, Pathways : approaches to the study of society in India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1994 Sorokin, Pitirim. Contemporary Sociological Theories (1928) online free guide to major scholars Guglielmo Rinzivillo, A Modern History of Sociology in Italy and the Various Patterns of its Epistemological Development, New York, Nova Science Publishers, 2019 Sorokin, Pitirim and Carle C Zimmerman. Principles of Rural-Urban Sociology (3 vol 1927) online free Steinmetz, George. 'Neo-Bourdieusian Theory and the Question of Scientific Autonomy: German Sociologists and Empire, 1890s-1940s', Political Power and Social Theory Volume 20 (2009): 71-131. Sociology Sociology