The New Blackwell Companion to Major Social Theorists
Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd) (Hersteller)
978-1-4443-4317-5 (ISBN)
Volume I: 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 essays on social theorists writing in the classical tradition, more than half all-new for this Companion, written by some of the most eminent contemporary scholars in their field. In addition to detailing the make-up and development of specific social theories, each essay places the theorist and their ideas in personal, social, and historical context; and, integrates the most current scholarship to offer assessments as to their continuing relevance. Well-known theorists such as Comte, Spencer, Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Simmel, Mead, Schutz, and Parsons are represented, as well as theorists historically excluded from the sociological canon, including Ibn Khaldun, Martineau, Gilman, and Du Bois.
Other essays consider a set of classical theorists chosen for their particular relevance to contemporary theory: de Tocqueville on democracy, Schumpeter on capitalism, Mannheim on the sociology of knowledge, Veblen on consumer society, and Adorno on cultural theory. Edited by one of the most renowned figures in social theory, "The Wiley-Blackwell Companion" is an indispensable resource and reference to the life and times of the classical thinkers and their relevance to modern theorists and today's social world. "Volume II": 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. Transitioning from the classical theorists, "Volume II: Major Contemporary Theorists" includes 23 comprehensive essays on social theorists writing from the middle of the twentieth century up to the present day - and features 16 all-new essays written by some of the most eminent contemporary scholars in their field.
In addition to detailing the make-up and development of specific social theories, essays place the theorist and their ideas in personal, social, and historical context. In addition to addressing the central themes of contemporary social theory - social structure and organization; theories of self and identity; politics and power; culture and representation; epistemology and metatheory - newly emerging areas of study such as globalization; science, technology; and, consumerism are also considered. Along with updates to essays on major figures included in the original volume, coverage of several of the cutting-edge theorists dealing with urgent problems of the increasingly global world is now included - names such as Zygmunt Bauman, Dorothy Smith, Bruno Latour, Edward Said, Donna Haraway, and Ulrich Beck. Edited by one of the most renowned figures in social theory, "The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Major Contemporary Social Theorists" is an indispensable resource and reference to the most significant figures in current social theory.
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 .
List of Contributors vii Preface xv Introduction 1 Jeffrey Stepnisky 1 Norbert Elias 13 Richard Kilminster and Stephen Mennell 2 Henri Lefebvre 44 Kanishka Goonewardena 3 Robert K. Merton 65 Charles Crothers 4 Harold Garfinkel 89 Anne Warfield Rawls 5 Erving Goffman 125 Greg Smith 6 Zygmunt Bauman 155 Peter Beilharz 7 Gilles Deleuze 175 Ian Buchanan 8 Richard M. Emerson 193 Karen S. Cook and Joseph M. Whitmeyer 9 James S. Coleman 219 Guillermina Jasso 10 Michel Foucault 240 Couze Venn 11 Dorothy E. Smith 268 Marie L. Campbell and Marjorie L. DeVault 12 Niklas Luhmann 287 Rudolf Stichweh 13 Jean Baudrillard 310 Douglas Kellner 14 Jurgen Habermas 339 William Outhwaite 15 Pierre Bourdieu 361 Craig Calhoun 16 Immanuel Wallerstein 395 Christopher Chase-Dunn and Hiroko Inoue 17 Edward W. Said 412 Patrick Williams 18 Anthony Giddens 432 Christopher G. A. Bryant and David Jary 19 Giorgio Agamben 464 Catherine Mills 20 Ulrich Beck 480 Iain Wilkinson 21 Donna Haraway 500 Janet Wirth-Cauchon 22 Bruno Latour 520 Sal Restivo 23 Judith Butler 541 Moya Lloyd Index 561
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.9.2013 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Wiley Blackwell Companions to Sociology |
| Verlagsort | Chicester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 150 x 250 mm |
| Gewicht | 666 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4443-4317-3 / 1444343173 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4443-4317-5 / 9781444343175 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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