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...

A comprehensive new collection covering the principal traditions and critical contemporary issues of social theory.

• Builds on the success of The Blackwell Companion to Social Theory, second edition with substantial revisions, entirely new contributions, and a fresh editorial direction
• Explores contemporary areas such as actor network theory, social constructionism, human rights and cosmopolitanism
• Includes chapters on demography, science and technology studies, and genetics and social theory
• Emphasizes key areas of sociology which have had an...

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology is a complete reference guide, reflecting the scope and quality of the discipline, and highlighting emerging topics in the field.

• Global in focus, offering up-to-date topics from an interdisciplinary, international set of scholars addressing key issues concerning globalization, social movements, and citizenship
• The majority of chapters are new, including those on environmental politics, international terrorism, security, corruption, and human rights
• Revises and updates all previously...