Table of Contents

* Acknowledgements* Introduction* Chapter 1: Nahal Abdo* Chapter 2: Ibn Khaldun* Chapter 3: Emile Durkheim* Chapter 4: Max Weber* Chapter 5: Karl Marx* Chapter 6: Rosa Luxemburg

About the Author

Nahla Abdo teaches in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University. She is also the author of Family, Women and Social Change in the Middle East: The Palestinian Case.