Author Description

Fifty Key Sociologists: The Contemporary Theorists Covers The Life, Work, Ideas And Impact Of Some Of The Most Important Thinkers Within This Discipline. This Volume Concentrates On Those Figures Whose Main Writings Were Based Predominantly In The Second Half Of The Twentieth Century. A-z Entries Make This Book Easy To Navigate And Figures Covered Include: Zygmunt Bauman; Pierre Bourdieu; Judith Butler; Michel Foucault; And Claude Levi-strauss.--book Jacket. Louis Althusser -- Roland Barthes -- Jean Baudrillard -- Zygmunt Bauman -- Simone De Beauvoir -- Ülrich Beck -- Howard S. Becker -- Basil Bernstein -- Pierre Bourdieu -- Judith Butler -- Manuel Castells -- Randall Collins -- Gilles Deleuze -- Mary Douglas -- Norbert Elias -- Frantz Fanon -- Shulamith Firestone -- Michel Foucault -- Harold Garfinkel -- Clifford Geertz -- Ernest Gellner -- Anthony Giddens -- Paul Gilroy -- Erving Goffman -- Alvin W. Gouldner -- Georges Gurvitch -- Jürgen Habermas -- Stuart Hall -- Donna Haraway -- George Homans -- C.l.r. James -- Melanie Klein -- Viola Klein -- Ernesto Laclau -- Claude Lévi-strauss -- David Lockwood -- Niklas Luhmann -- Robert Merton -- Ralph Miliband -- C. Wright Mills -- Ann Oakley -- Talcott Parsons -- Orlando Patterson -- Edward Said -- Dorothy Smith -- Gayatri Spivak -- Charles Tilly -- Alain Touraine -- Immanuel Wallerstein -- William Julius Wilson. Edited By John Scott. Simultaneously Published In The Us And Canada. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.