The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory presents a comprehensive, interdisciplinary compendium of original entries focusing on the origins, evolution, and global development of contemporary social theory.

Volume I Editors vii Contributors xi Lexicon xxxiii Introduction xlv Social Theory A–C 1 Volume II Social Theory D–G 513 Volume III Social Theory H–M 1025 Volume IV Social Theory N–R 1565 Volume V Social Theory S–Z 1997 Index 2663

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. This work is also available as an online resource at www.socialtheoryencyclopedia.com