By George Ritzer,Jeffrey Stepnisky

ISBN-10: 1444330780

ISBN-13: 9781444330786

Reflecting rising learn and ongoing reassessments of social conception, The Wiley- Blackwell better half to Major Social Theorists deals major updates and revisions to the unique Blackwell better half released a decade in the past.

Volume 1

  • Features updates and revisions to all essays from unique quantity, plus the addition of eleven new authors
  • Includes six new essays that includes insurance of theorists no longer incorporated in unique quantity: Ibn Khaldun, de Tocqueville, Schumpeter, Mannheim, Veblen, and Adorno
  • Supplemented with accomplished bibliographies on fundamental and secondary resources, with a quick reader's advisor accompanying every one essay
  • Addresses carrying on with relevance of so much theories and their value to modern scholarship

 Volume 2

  • Features updates and revisions to all essays from unique quantity, plus the addition of sixteen new authors
  • Includes eleven new essays that includes assurance of theorists now not integrated in unique quantity, together with Deleuze, Bauman, Smith, Luhmann, Agamben, and others
  • Supplemented with accomplished bibliographies on fundamental and secondary resources, with a short reader's consultant accompanying every one essay
  • Essays put in social and ancient context to permit readers to work out how theorists have answered to urgent modern social and political issues

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