The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Major Social Theorists 2 Volume Set 1st Edition by George Ritzer, Jeffrey Stepnisky 9781444330786 1444330780

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ISBN 10: 1444330780

ISBN 13: 9781444330786

Author: George Ritzer, Jeffrey Stepnisky

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

Table of contents:

Volume 1

• Chapter 1: Ibn Khaldūn

• Chapter 2: Auguste Comte

• Chapter 3: Harriet Martineau

• Chapter 4: Alexis de Tocqueville

• Chapter 5: Karl Marx

• Chapter 6: Herbert Spencer

• Chapter 7: Thorstein Veblen

• Chapter 8: Georg Simmel

• Chapter 9: Émile Durkheim

• Chapter 10: Charlotte Perkins Gilman

• Chapter 11: Max Weber

• Chapter 12: George Herbert Mead

• Chapter 13: William Edward Burghardt Du Bois

• Chapter 14: Joseph A. Schumpeter

• Chapter 15: Karl Mannheim

• Chapter 16: Alfred Schutz

• Chapter 17: Talcott Parsons

• Chapter 18: Theodor W. Adorno

Volume 2

• Chapter 1: Norbert Elias

• Chapter 2: Henri Lefebvre

• Chapter 3: Robert K. Merton

• Chapter 4: Harold Garfinkel

• Chapter 5: Erving Goffman

• Chapter 6: Zygmunt Bauman

• Chapter 7: Gilles Deleuze

• Chapter 8: Richard M. Emerson

• Chapter 9: James S. Coleman

• Chapter 10: Michel Foucault

• Chapter 11: Dorothy E. Smith

• Chapter 12: Niklas Luhmann

• Chapter 13: Jean Baudrillard

• Chapter 14: Jürgen Habermas

• Chapter 15: Pierre Bourdieu

• Chapter 16: Immanuel Wallerstein

• Chapter 17: Edward W. Said

• Chapter 18: Anthony Giddens

• Chapter 19: Giorgio Agamben

• Chapter 20: Ulrich Beck

• Chapter 21: Donna Haraway

• Chapter 22: Bruno Latour

• Chapter 23: Judith Butler

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