The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Major Social Theorists, 2 Volume Set

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George Ritzer, Jeffrey Stepnisky
John Wiley & Sons, Mar 31, 2011 - Social Science - 1232 pages
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Reflecting emerging research and ongoing reassessments of social theory, The Wiley- Blackwell Companion to Major Social Theorists offers significant updates and revisions to the original Blackwell Companion published a decade ago.

Volume 1

  • Features updates and revisions to all essays from original volume, plus the addition of 11 new authors
  • Includes six new essays featuring coverage of theorists not included in original volume: Ibn Khaldun, de Tocqueville, Schumpeter, Mannheim, Veblen, and Adorno
  • Supplemented with comprehensive bibliographies on primary and secondary sources, with a brief reader's guide accompanying each essay
  • Addresses continuing relevance of most theories and their importance to contemporary scholarship

 Volume 2

  • Features updates and revisions to all essays from original volume, plus the addition of 16 new authors
  • Includes 11 new essays featuring coverage of theorists not included in original volume, including Deleuze, Bauman, Smith, Luhmann, Agamben, and others
  • Supplemented with comprehensive bibliographies on primary and secondary sources, with a brief reader's guide accompanying each essay
  • Essays placed in social and historical context to allow readers to see how theorists have responded to pressing contemporary social and political issues
 

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Contents

Introduction
1
1 Ibn Khaldun
12
2 Auguste Comte
30
3 Harriet Martineau
61
4 Alexis de Tocqueville
96
5 Karl Marx
115
6 Herbert Spencer
165
7 Thorstein Veblen
185
11 Max Weber
305
12 George Herbert Mead
373
13 William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
426
14 Joseph A Schumpeter
448
15 Karl Mannheim
469
16 Alfred Schutz
489
17 Talcott Parsons
511
18 Theodor W Adorno
559

8 Georg Simmel
205
9 Émile Durkheim
236
10 Charlotte Perkins Gilman
283
Index
582
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About the author (2011)

George Ritzer is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland. His books include The McDonaldization of Society (6th ed., 2011), Enchanting a Disenchanted World (3rd ed. 2010), The Globalization of Nothing (2nd ed., 2007), and Globalization: A Basic Text (2010). 

Jeffrey Stepnisky is a member of the Sociology Department at Grant MacEwan University in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He was Managing Editor for the Encyclopedia of Social Theory (2005) and The Journal of Consumer Culture.

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TitleThe Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Major Social Theorists, 2 Volume Set
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Sociology
EditorsGeorge Ritzer, Jeffrey Stepnisky
PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons, 2011
ISBN1444396609, 9781444396607
Length1232 pages
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