Blackwell Companions to Sociology: The Blackwell Companion to Major Social Theorists

Editor/Author Ritzer, George
Publication Year: 2000
Publisher: Wiley

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ISBN: 978-0-631-20710-8
Category: Social Sciences - Sociology
Book Status: Available
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The Companion to Major Social Theorists offers a broad-ranging survey of classical and contemporary social theory. In original essays especially commissioned for this volume, leading experts and practitioners examine the life and work of 25 major theorists, discussing the social and intellectual context of their writings and offering an analysis of the impact of their work over time. Contributions are especially commissioned for this volume, and are by leading experts and practitioners in the field. Covers the key figures who shaped classical social theory, such as Marx, Weber and Durkheim, as well as figures such as Martineau, DuBois, and Simmel. Dedicates coverage is given to contemporary social theorists, including Goffman, Elias, Foucault, Giddens, Bourdieu and Butler. Essays include biographical sketches, the social and intellectual context, and the impact of the theorist's work on social theory. Includes bibliographies of the theorist's most important works as well as key secondary works.

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Table of Contents

  • Preface
  • List of Contributors
  • Introduction: Toward a More Open Canon - George Ritzer and Douglas Goodman
  • Part I: Classical Social Theorists
  • 1 Auguste Comte - Mary Pickering
  • 2 Harriet Martineau - Susan Hoecker-Drysdale
  • 3 Herbert Spencer - Jonathan H. Turner
  • 4 Karl Marx - Robert J. Antonio
  • 5 Max Weber - Stephen Kalberg
  • 6 Émile Durkheim - Robert Alun Jones
  • 7 Georg Simmel - Lawrence A. Scaff
  • 8 Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Charles Lemert
  • 9 George Herbert Mead - Dmitri N. Sbalin
  • 10 W. E. B. Du Bois - Charles Lemert
  • 11 Alfred Schutz - Mary Rogers
  • 12 Talcott Parsons - Victor Lidz
  • Part II: Contemporary Social Theorists
  • 13 Robert K. Merton - Piotr Sztompka
  • 14 Erving Goffman - Gary Alan Fine and Philip Manning
  • 15 Richard M. Emerson - Karen S. Cook and Joseph Whitmeyer
  • 16 James Coleman - Siegwart Lindenberg
  • 17 Harold Garfinkel - Anne Rawls
  • 18 Daniel Bell - Malcolm Waters
  • 19 Norbert Elias - Richard Kilminster and Stephen Mennell
  • 20 Michel Foucault - Barry Smart
  • 21 Jürgen Habermas - William Outhwaite
  • 22 Anthony Giddens - Christopher G. A. Bryant and David Jary
  • 23 Pierre Bourdieu - Craig Calhoun
  • 24 Jean Baudrillard - Douglas Kellner
  • 25 Judith Butler - Patricia T. Clough