This concise encyclopedia is the most complete international survey
of sociology ever created in one volume.
* Contains over 800 entries from the whole breadth of the
discipline
* Distilled from the highly regarded Blackwell Encyclopedia of
Sociology, with entries completely revised and updated to provide
succinct and up-to-date coverage of the fundamental topics
* Global in scope, both in terms of topics and contributors
* Each entry includes references and suggestions for further
reading
* Cross-referencing allows easy movement around the volume
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contributors.
Introduction.
Acknowledgments.
Timeline.
Lexicon.
Sociology A-Z.
Index.
Über den Autor
George Ritzer is Distinguished University Professor at the
University of Maryland, with awards that include the American
Sociological Association’s Distinguished Contribution to Teaching
Award. He is the author of numerous books including The
Mc Donaldization of Society (1993; 2008), The Globalization
of Nothing (2003; 2007) Globalization: A Basic Text
(2010) and the editor of The Encyclopedia of Social Theory
(2005), The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (2007),
The Blackwell Companion to Globalization (2007) and the
forthcoming The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization. His
work has been translated into over twenty languages.
J. Michael Ryan is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the
University of Maryland at College Park. He was senior managing
editor of The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (2007) and
is managing editor of the online edition of that project as well as
for several other forthcoming encyclopedias from Blackwell. Mike
also served as managing editor of the Journal of Consumer
Culture for four years. He has published more than a dozen
articles and book chapters on consumption, sexuality,
globalization, and social theory and has been the recipient of
numerous awards for his commitment to teaching, LGBT rights, and
social change.
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