The Wiley-Blackwell companion to major social theorists

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, plusthe 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 bibliographies on primary and secondary sources, with a brief reader's guide accompanyingeach essay Addresses continuing relevance of most theories and their importance to contemporary scholarship Volume 2 Features updates and revisions to allessays from original volume, plus the addition of 16 new authors Includes 11 new essays featuring coverage of theorists not included in original volume, including Deleuze, Bauman, Smith, Luhmann, Agamben, and others Supplemented withcomprehensive bibliographies on primary and secondary sources, with a brief reader's guide accompanying each essay Essays placed in social and historical context to allow readers to see how theorists have responded to pressing contemporary social and political issues INDICE: Classical. Preface. List of Contributors. Introduction (Jeffrey Stepnisky). 1. Ibn Khaldun (Syed Farid Alatas). 2. Auguste Comte (Mary Pickering). 3. Harriett Martineau (Susan Hoecker-Drysdale). 4. Alexis de Tocqueville (Laura Janara). 5. Karl Marx (Robert J. Antonio). 6. Herbert Spencer (Mark Francis). 7. Thorstein Veblen (Ken McCormick). 8. Georg Simmel (Lawrence A. Scaff).9. Émile Durkheim (Tara Milbrandt and Frank Pearce). 10. Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Judith A. Allen). 11. Max Weber (Stephen Kalberg). 12. George Herbert Mead (Dmitri N. Shalin). 13. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (Paul C. Taylor). 14. Joseph Schumpeter (Harry F. Dahms). 15. Karl Mannheim (Colin Loader). 16. Alfred Schutz (Jochen Dreher). 17. Talcott Parsons (Victor Lidz). 18. Theodor W. Adorno (Harry F. Dahms). Index. Contemporary. Preface. List of Contributors. Introduction (Jeffrey Stepnisky). 1. Norbert Elias (Richard Kilminster and Stephen Mennell). 2. Henri Lefebvre (Kanishka Goonewardena). 3. Robert K. Merton (Charles Crothers). 4. Harold Garfinkel (Anne Rawls). 5. Erving Goffman (Greg Smith). 6. Zygmunt Bauman (Peter Beilharz). 7. Gilles Deleuze (Ian Buchanan). 8. Richard Emerson (Karen S. Cook and Joseph M. Whitmeyer). 9. James S. Coleman (Guillermina Jasso). 10. Michel Foucault (Couze Venn). 11. Dorothy Smith (Marie Campbell and Marjorie DeVault). 12. Niklas Luhmann (Rudolf Stichweh). 13. Jean Baudrillard (Douglas Kellner). 14. Jürgen Habermas (William Outhwaite 15. Pierre Bourdieu (Craig Calhoun). 16. Immanuel Wallerstein (Christopher Chase-Dunn and Hiroko Inoue). 17. Edward W. Said (Patrick Williams). 18. Anthony Giddens (Christopher G.A. Bryant and David Jary). 19. Giorgio Agamben (Catherine Mills). 20. Ulrich Beck (Iain Wilkinson). 21. Donna Haraway (Janet Wirth-Cauchon). 22. Bruno Latour (Sal Restivo). 23. Judith Butler (Moya Lloyd). Index.

• ISBN: 978-1-4443-3078-6
• Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 1232
• Fecha Publicación: 15/04/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés