Anthony Giddens is one of the largest modern sociologists who has made a significant contribution to the study of problems of modern theoretical sociology. He worked on the development of problems of stratification of modern society, the theory of social action and social structure, and the theory of society. E. Giddens's textbook "Sociology" is an almost exhaustive description of modern sociological knowledge and most professionally and theoretically substantiated structures the problem field of modern sociology, basing this presentation on the corresponding latest theory of society. In this regard, Giddens’s textbook compares favorably with all sociology textbooks existing in Russian. The textbook methodologically successfully combines systematic and historical approaches: the presentation of each problem is preceded by a consideration of existing views on it in the history of sociology. The textbook is certainly modern not only from a theoretical point of view development of problems, but also from the point of view of the factual material contained in it. We are talking about the theoretical and empirical correspondence of the content of the textbook to the latest state of society. I also recommend the textbook from Neil J. Smelser: SociologyThe second Russian edition of this textbook by Giddens: