Description: This concise encyclopedia is the most complete international survey of sociology ever created in one volume.
- Contains over 800 entries from the whole breadth of the discipline
- Distilled from the highly regarded Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, with entries completely revised and updated to provide succinct and up-to-date coverage of the fundamental topics
- Global in scope, both in terms of topics and contributors
- Each entry includes references and suggestions for further reading
- Cross-referencing allows easy movement around the volume
Review Quotes:
"The editor [of The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology] has now miraculously condensed those 11 volumes into this one comparatively inexpensive paperback ... As an up-to-date cheap printed reference source this book stands more or less alone ... The entries are clear and comprehensible, there are some useful suggestions for further reading, the cross-referencing is good, and there is a simple straightforward index with no indentations. I am very happy to recommend this book to any student still interested in buying printed works." (Reference Reviews, 2012)