The Blackwell Dictionary of Sociology: A Users Guide to Sociological Language

This second edition of Allan G. Johnson′s one–volume dictionary includes 75 new entries, as well as an expanded biographical section, extensive revisions and updates, and more thorough cross–referencing. The combination of clear prose, engaging examples, a single author′s voice, and minimal assumptions about the average reader′s prior knowledge of the field, makes this a distinctive and valuable reference work.
Johnson defines amorphous and fuzzy sociological concepts in a lively and sensible way and his book provides an introduction to what it means to think sociologically. For a deeper understanding of social life, and of the only discipline dedicated to making sense of it in all its diversity, this Dictionary is a perfect guide.

Spis treści:
About this Book.
Dictionary Entries A–Z.
Biographical Sketches: A Selected Sociological Who′s Who.
Index.

Nota biograficzna:
Allan G. Johnson is Professor of Sociology at Hartford College for Women. His previous publications include The Forest and the Trees: Sociology as Life, Practice, and Promise (1997), The Gender Knot: Unraveling Our Patriarchal Legacy (1997), and Human Arrangements (fourth edition, 1996).

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This second edition of Allan G. Johnson′s one–volume dictionary includes 75 new entries, as well as an expanded biographical section, extensive revisions and updates, and more thorough cross–referencing. The combination of clear prose, engaging examples, a single author′s voice, and minimal assumptions about the average reader′s prior knowledge of the field, makes this a distinctive and valuable reference work.
Johnson defines amorphous and fuzzy sociological concepts in a lively and sensible way and his book provides an introduction to what it means to think sociologically. For a deeper understanding of social life, and of the only discipline dedicated to making sense of it in all its diversity, this Dictionary is a perfect guide.