The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory: 5 Volume Set

The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory presents a comprehensive, interdisciplinary compendium of original entries focusing on the roots, evolution, and global development of contemporary social theory. Featuring contributions from a wide range of international scholars in the field, listings cover a broad spectrum of social concepts and theories drawn from disciplines ranging from political philosophy, legal studies, and social psychology to economics, social anthropology, gender studies, and more.

Coverage includes all the major concepts, schools of thought, key theories (and individual theorists behind them), and current trends relating to social theory, along with substantive discussions on related topics such as poverty, crime, modern social issues and problems, and others. As a counterbalance to the myriad issues of historical social theory, up–to–date coverage is also included on controversial contemporary debates relating to the clash of civilization, environmentalism, post–colonialism, post–humanism, cyborgs, and the life–extension project in the more than 850 in–depth entries each supplemented with abstracts, cross references, bibliographies, and suggestions for further study.

Comprehensive and authoritative, The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory represents an indispensable reference resource to all issues relating to the development and current state of social theory in today s globalized world.

Bryan S. Turner is the Presidential Professor of Sociology and Director of the Committee on Religion at the Graduate Center CUNY, and founding Director of the Institute of Religion Politics and Society at the Australian Catholic University, Melbourne. He won the Max Planck Award in 2015 and is an honorary professor at Potsdam University, Germany. He is the founding editor of Citizenship Studies and the Journal of Classical Sociology, and Turner s most recent books include Religion in Modern Society (2011) and The Religious and the Political (2013).