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

Herausgegeben von Ritzer, George; Stepnisky, Jeffrey

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Blackwell Companions to Sociology
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons / Wiley-Blackwell
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 1232
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 180mm x 71mm
• Gewicht: 2472g
• ISBN-13: 9781444330786
• ISBN-10: 1444330780
• Artikelnr.: 33238945

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Volume I: Classical. List of Contributors. Preface. Introduction (Jeffrey Stepnisky
Grant MacEwan University
Alberta
Canada). 1. Ibn Khaldun (Syed Farid Alatas
National University of Singapore). 2. Auguste Comte (Mary Pickering
San Jose State University
USA). 3. Harriet Martineau (Susan Hoecker-Drysdale
American University
Washington DC
USA). 4. Alexis de Tocqueville (Laura Janara
University of British Columbia
Vancouver
Canada). 5. Karl Marx (Robert J. Antonio
University of Kansas
USA). 6. Herbert Spencer (Mark Francis
University of Canterbury
Christchurch
New Zealand). 7. Thorstein Veblen (Ken McCormick
University of Northern Iowa
USA). 8. Georg Simmel (Lawrence A. Scaff
Wayne State University
Detroit
USA). 9. Émile Durkheim Tara Milbrandt (University of Alberta
Canada and Frank Pearce
Queen's University
Kingston
Ontario
Canada). 10. Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Judith A. Allen
Indiana University
USA). 11. Max Weber (Stephen Kalberg
Boston University
USA). 12. George Herbert Mead (Dmitri N. Shalin
University of Nevada
USA). 13. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (Paul C. Taylor
Pennsylvania State University
USA). 14. Joseph A. Schumpeter (Harry F. Dahms
University of Tennessee
Knoxville
USA). 15. Karl Mannheim (Colin Loader
University of Nevada
Las Vegas). 16. Alfred Schutz (Jochen Dreher
University of Konstanz
Germany
and University of St. Gallen
Switzerland). 17. Talcott Parsons (Victor Lidz
Drexel University College of Medicine
Philadelphia
USA). 18. Theodor W. Adorno (Harry F. Dahms
University of Tennessee
Knoxville
USA). Index. Volume II: Contemporary. 1. Norbert Elias (Richard Kilminster
University of Leeds
UK
and Stephen Mennell
University College Dublin
Ireland). 2. Henri Lefebvre (Kanishka Goonewardena
University of Toronto
Canada). 3. Robert K. Merton (Charles Crothers
Auckland University of Technology
New Zealand). 4. Harold Garfinkel (Anne Warfield Rawls
Bentley University
USA
and L'École des hautes etudes en sciences sociales
Paris
France). 5. Erving Goffman (Greg Smith
University of Salford
UK). 6. Zygmunt Bauman (Peter Beilharz
La Trobe University
Australia). 7. Gilles Deleuze (Ian Buchanan
Cardiff University). 8. Richard M. Emerson (Karen S. Cook
Stanford University
USA
and Joseph M. Whitmeyer
UNC Charlotte
USA). 9. James S. Coleman (Guillermina Jasso
New York University
USA). 10. Michel Foucault (Couze Venn
Nottingham Trent University
UK
and University of Johannesburg
South Africa). 11. Dorothy E. Smith (Marie L. Campbell
University of Victoria
Canada
and Marjorie L. DeVault
Syracuse University
USA). 12. Niklas Luhmann (Rudolf Stichweh
University of Lucerne
Switzerland). 13. Jean Baudrillard (Douglas Kellner
University of California
Los Angeles
USA). 14. Jürgen Habermas (William Outhwaite
Newcastle University
UK). 15. Pierre Bourdieu (Craig Calhoun
New York University
USA). 16. Immanuel Wallerstein (Christopher Chase-Dunn
University of California
Riverside
USA
and Hiroko Inoue
University of California
Riverside
USA). 17. Edward W. Said (Patrick Williams
Nottingham Trent University
UK). 18. Anthony Giddens (Christopher G. A. Bryant
University of Salford
UK
and David Jary
Open University
UK). 19. Giorgio Agamben (Catherine Mills
University of Sydney
Australia). 20. Ulrich Beck (Iain Wilkinson
University of Kent
UK). 21. Donna Haraway (Janet Wirth-Cauchon
Drake University
USA). 22. Bruno Latour (Sal Restivo
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy
USA
and Northeastern University
Shenyang
China). 23. Judith Butler (Moya Lloyd
Loughborough University
UK). Index.

Rezensionen

"The in-depth, readable, and thoughtful treatment accorded each theorist makes this resource a vital addition to social science reference collections. Highly recommended. (Choice, 1 October 2011)