The Blackwell companion to major contemporary social theorists
By: edited by George Ritzer.
Contributors: Ritzer, George.
Series: Blackwell companions to sociology -- 7
Publisher: Blackwell
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 362
Subjects: Sociologists -- Biography; Social sciences -- Philosophy
Genres: Biography.
Description: Includes original essays by leading scholars, this companion to the major contemporary social theorists covers the life and work of 13 major theorists such as Elias, Baudrillard, Habermas, Butler, Giddens and Bourdieu. Bibliographies of the theorists' works are included.
Notes: Originally published in: The Blackwell companion to       major social theorists in 2000 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: Introduction: metatheorizing contemporary social          theorists / Todd Stillman; title: Robert K. Merton / Piotr Sztompka; title: Erving Goffman / Gary Alan Fine and Philip Manning; title: Richard M. Emerson / Karen S. Cook and Joseph Whitmeyer; title: James Coleman / Siegwart Lindenberg; title: Harold Garfinkel / Anne Rawls; title: Daniel Bell / Malcolm Waters; title: Norbert Elias / Richard Kilminster and Stephen Mennell; title: Michel Foucault / Barry Smart; title: Jürgen Habermas / William Outhwaite; title: Anthony Giddens / Christopher G. A. Bryant and David Jary; title: Pierre Bourdieu / Craig Calhoun; title: Jean Baudrillard / Douglas Kellner; title: Judith Butler / Patricia T. Clough.