Description: "This is the second edition of The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. The first edition was published almost two decades ago, in 2007. An enormous number of changes have occurred since then in the social world that is the subject matter of sociology, as well as in the sociology of that world.Thus the main mission of this second edition is to update this encyclopedia by bringing previously published entries up to date and by adding a wide range of new entries. As a result of the latter, the number of volumes of this encyclopedia has increased from 11 to 12, and the number of entries has increased from 239 to 2,272"--
