Derek Robbins provides the first complete assessment of the sociological achievements of one of the key European sociologists of the 20th century. Bourdieu has made decisive contributions to theory, method and professional practice, all of which are discussed here, providing an unparalleled distillation of Bourdieu's work.

A guide to Baudrillard. It is organized into eight sections including: Theoretical Issues; Postmodernism; Culture; War; America; Seduction; Fiction and Art; and, Baudrillard and Other Social Theorists.

Zygmunt Bauman is widely acknowledged as the most interesting and consistent of postmodern sociologists. Yet his work is widely dispersed across a number of fields and his critical interpretation is scattered across a wide array of disciplines. This major four-volume collection draws together these important materials for the first time. The contributions in the four-volume set are organized around themes, as follows:

* Biographical

* Communism and Eastern Europe

* Modernity and the Holocaust

* Marxism, class and political economy

* Sociology: Weber,...