The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory

ISBN-13: 9781118430866 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 2864 str.

Turner, Bryan S.

Opis

The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory presents a comprehensive, interdisciplinary compendium of original entries focusing on the roots, evolution, and global development of contemporary social theory. Featuring contributions from a wide range of international scholars in the field, listings cover a broad spectrum of social concepts and theories drawn from disciplines ranging from political philosophy, legal studies, and social psychology to economics, social anthropology, gender studies, and more. Coverage includes all the major concepts, schools of thought, key theories (and individual theorists behind them), and current trends relating to social theory, along with substantive discussions on related topics such as poverty, crime, modern social issues and problems, and others. As a counterbalance to the myriad issues of historical social theory, up–to–date coverage is also included on controversial contemporary debates relating to the clash of civilization, environmentalism, post–colonialism, post–humanism, cyborgs, and the life–extension project in the more than 850 in–depth entries each supplemented with abstracts, cross references, bibliographies, and suggestions for further study. Comprehensive and authoritative, The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory represents an indispensable reference resource to all issues relating to the development and current state of social theory in today s globalized world.

The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory presents a comprehensive, interdisciplinary compendium of original entries focusing on the origins, evolution, and global development of contemporary social theory.

O autorze

Bryan S. Turner is professor of Sociology in the Institute for Religion, Politics, and Society at the Australian Catholic University (Melbourne). He won the Max Planck Award in 2015 and is an honorary professor at Potsdam University Germany, where he directs the Centre for Citizenship, Social Pluralism and Religious Diversity.

Chang Kyung–Sup is professor of Sociology at Seoul National University, South Korea.

Cynthia F. Epstein is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and currently a Visiting Scholar at Columbia Law School.

Peter Kivisto is the Richard A. Swanson Professor of Social Thought at Augustana College, where he has taught for over 30 years.

William Outhwaite taught at the universities of Sussex and Newcastle, where he is emeritus professor.

J. Michael Ryan is currently a researcher for the TRANSRIGHTS Project at The University of Lisbon (Portugal).

Blurb

The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory presents a comprehensive, interdisciplinary compendium of original entries focusing on the roots, evolution, and global development of contemporary social theory. Featuring contributions from a wide range of international scholars in the field, listings cover a broad spectrum of social concepts and theories drawn from disciplines ranging from political philosophy, legal studies, and social psychology to economics, social anthropology, gender studies, and more.

Coverage includes all the major concepts, schools of thought, key theories (and individual theorists behind them), and current trends relating to social theory, along with substantive discussions on related topics such as poverty, crime, modern social issues and problems, and others. As a counterbalance to the myriad issues of historical social theory, up–to–date coverage is also included on controversial contemporary debates relating to the clash of civilization, environmentalism, post–colonialism, post–humanism, cyborgs, and the life–extension project in the more than 850 in–depth entries each supplemented with abstracts, cross references, bibliographies, and suggestions for further study.

Comprehensive and authoritative, The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory represents an indispensable reference resource to all issues relating to the development and current state of social theory in today′s globalized world.

This work is also available as an online resource at www.socialtheoryencyclopedia.com