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This book is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the roots, current debates and future development of social theory. It draws together a team of outstanding international scholars, and presents an authoritative and panoramic critical survey of the field. The volume is divided into three parts. The first part examines the classical tradition. Included here are critical discussions of Comte, Spencer, Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Simmel, Mead, Freud, Mannheim and classical feminist thought. This part conveys the classical tradition as a living resource in social theory, it demonstrates not only the critical significance of classical writings, but their continuing relevance. The second part moves on t
Copyright
Editorial arrangement and Chapter 1 © George Ritzer and Barry Smart 2001
Chapter 2 © John Rundell 2001
Chapter 3 © Jonathan H. Turner 2001
Chapter 4 © Gregor McLennan 2001
Chapter 5 © Sam Whimster 2001
Chapter 6 © Birgitta Nedelmann 2001
Chapter 7 © Mike Gane 2001
Chapter 8 © Hans Joas 2001
Chapter 9 © David Kettler and Volker Meja 2001
Chapter 10 © John O'Neill 2001
Chapter 11 © Patricia Madoo Lengermann and Jill Niebrugge-Brantley 2001
Chapter 12 © Mark Abrahamson 2001
Chapter 13 © Robert J. Holton 2001
Chapter 14 © Robert J. Antonio 2001
Chapter 15 © Craig Calhoun and Joseph Karaganis 2001
Chapter 16 © Richard Harvey Brown and Douglas Goodman 2001
Chapter 17 © Kent L. Sandstrom, Daniel D. Martin and Gary Alan Fine 2001
Chapter 18 © Harvie Ferguson 2001
Chapter 19 © Wes Sharrock 2001
Chapter 20 © Linda D. Molm 2001
Chapter 21 © Douglas D. Heckathorn 2001
Chapter 22 © Mary F. Rogers 2001
Chapter 23 © Charles Lemert 2001
Chapter 24 © Stephen Crook 2001
Chapter 25 © Mitchell Dean 2001
Chapter 26 © Barry Barnes 2001
Chapter 27 © Robert van Krieken 2001
Chapter 28 © Peter Halfpenny 2001
Chapter 29 © Shanyang Zhao 2001
Chapter 30 © Douglas Kellner 2001
Chapter 31 © George Ritzer, Douglas Goodman and Wendy Wiedenhoft 2001
Chapter 32 © Anthony Elliott 2001
Chapter 33 © Chris Shilling 2001
Chapter 34 © Roland Robertson 2001
Chapter 35 © Gerard Delanty 2001
Chapter 36 © Peter Beilharz 2001
Chapter 37 © Nico Stehr 2001
Chapter 38 © Barry Smart 2001
Chapter 39 © Karin Knorr Cetina 2001
This paperback edition first published 2003
First published 2001
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Library of Congress Control Number 2002114572
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