The Wiley-Blackwell companion to major social theorists /

"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 I: Major Classical Theorists presents 18 comprehensive es...

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Other Authors: Ritzer, George, Ed, Stepnisky, Jeffrey, Ed
Format: Printed Book
Published: Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
Series:Blackwell companions to sociology ;
Subjects:
Sociologists-Biography.
Social sciences-Philosophy.
Online Access:http://books.google.co.in/books?id=MDwdmVUMIh8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Wiley-Blackwell+companion+to+major+social+theorists&hl=en&sa=X&ei=rP2nU6vkDNGhugTWnILYAg&ved=0CBwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=The%20Wiley-Blackwell%20companion%20to%20major%20social%20theorists&f=false
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: v. 1. Classical social theorists
  • Preface.
  • List of Contributors.
  • Introduction (Jeffrey Stepnisky).
  • 1. Ibn Khaldun (Syed Farid Alatas).
  • 2. Auguste Comte (Mary Pickering).
  • 3. Harriett Martineau (Susan Hoecker-Drysdale).
  • 4. Alexis de Tocqueville (Laura Janara).
  • 5. Karl Marx (Robert J. Antonio).
  • 6. Herbert Spencer (Mark Francis).
  • 7. Thorstein Veblen (Ken McCormick).
  • 8. Georg Simmel (Lawrence A. Scaff).
  • 9. Émile Durkheim (Tara Milbrandt and Frank Pearce).
  • 10. Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Judith A. Allen).
  • 11. Max Weber (Stephen Kalberg).
  • 12. George Herbert Mead (Dmitri N. Shalin).
  • 13. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (Paul C. Taylor).
  • 14. Joseph Schumpeter (Harry F. Dahms).
  • 15. Karl Mannheim (Colin Loader).
  • 16. Alfred Schutz (Jochen Dreher).
  • 17. Talcott Parsons (Victor Lidz).
  • 18. Theodor W. Adorno (Harry F. Dahms).
  • Index.
  • v. 2. Contemporary social theoristss.
  • Preface.
  • List of Contributors.
  • Introduction (Jeffrey Stepnisky).
  • 1. Norbert Elias (Richard Kilminster and Stephen Mennell).
  • 2. Henri Lefebvre (Kanishka Goonewardena).
  • 3. Robert K. Merton (Charles Crothers).
  • 4. Harold Garfinkel (Anne Rawls).
  • 5. Erving Goffman (Greg Smith).
  • 6. Zygmunt Bauman (Peter Beilharz).
  • 7. Gilles Deleuze (Ian Buchanan).
  • 8. Richard Emerson (Karen S. Cook and Joseph M. Whitmeyer).
  • 9. James S. Coleman (Guillermina Jasso).
  • 10. Michel Foucault (Couze Venn).
  • 11. Dorothy Smith (Marie Campbell and Marjorie DeVault).
  • 12. Niklas Luhmann (Rudolf Stichweh).
  • 13. Jean Baudrillard (Douglas Kellner).
  • 14. Jürgen Habermas (William Outhwaite
  • 15. Pierre Bourdieu (Craig Calhoun).
  • 16. Immanuel Wallerstein (Christopher Chase-Dunn and Hiroko Inoue).
  • 17. Edward W. Said (Patrick Williams).
  • 18. Anthony Giddens (Christopher G.A. Bryant and David Jary).
  • 19. Giorgio Agamben (Catherine Mills).
  • 20. Ulrich Beck (Iain Wilkinson).
  • 21. Donna Haraway (Janet Wirth-Cauchon).
  • 22. Bruno Latour (Sal Restivo).
  • 23. Judith Butler (Moya Lloyd).
  • Index.

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