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1 online resource (xx, 688 pages) |
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Dictionary |
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Includes graphical cross-reference mapper. |
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From publisher description--Providing an authoritative and comprehensive overview of the classical and the contemporary from accounts to Zola, Irving, this volume is an indispensable guide to the vibrant and expanding field of sociology. Featuring over 600 entries, from concise definitions to discursive essays, written by leading international academics, the Dictionary offers a truly global perspective, examining both American and European traditions and approaches. Entries cover schools, theories, theorists and debates, with substantial articles on all key topics in the field. |
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Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; How to use this Dictionary; A; accounts; act; action research; action theory; actor network theory; adaptation; addiction; Adorno, Theodor Wiesengrund (1903-1969); aesthetics; affirmative action; affluent society; affluent worker; African-American studies; age; age differentiation; age group; ageism; agency and structure; aging; alienation; Althusser, Louis (1918-1990); ancient society; Annales School; anomie; antiglobalization movements; Archer, Margaret (1943- ) |
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Arendt, Hannah (1906-1975)Aron, Raymond (1905-1983); arts; Asian-American studies; Asiatic mode of production; assimilation; associative democracy; attitude; attitude scales; audience; audience research; Austro-Marxism; authoritarian personality; authoritarianism; authority; automation; autopoiesis; B; Bales, Robert Freed (1916-2004); Barthes, Roland (1915-1980); base/superstructure; Baudrillard, Jean (1929- ); Bauman, Zygmunt (1925- ); de Beauvoir, Simone (1908-1986); Beck, Ulrich (1944- ); Becker, Howard S. (1928- ); behaviorism; Bell, Daniel (1919- ); bell curve; Bellah, Robert N. (1927- ) |
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Bendix, Reinhard (1916-1991)Benjamin, Walter (1892-1940); Berger, Peter L. (1929- ); Bernstein, Basil (1924-2000); bias; biological reductionism; biologism; biopolitics; biotechnology; Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies; black economy; black studies; Blau, Peter M. (1918-2002); Blumer, Herbert (1900-1987); body; Bogardus scale; Boudon, Raymond (1934- ); Bourdieu, Pierre (1930-2002); British Marxist historians; burden of dependency; bureaucracy; bureaucratization; Burgess, Ernest W. (1886-1966); C; Canguilhem, Georges (1904-1995); capitalism; capitalist mode of production. |
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Carceral societycare; career; case study; Castells, Manuel (1942- ); causal explanation; causal inference; causal modeling; causality; cause; census; charisma; Chicago School of Sociology; Chicano studies; childhood/children; Chodorow, Nancy (1944- ); church-sect typology; Cicourel, Aaron Victor (1928- ); citizenship; city; civic culture; civil religion; civil rights; civil rights movement; civil society; civilization; civilizing process; class conflict; class consciousness; class interest; cluster analysis; coding; cognitive dissonance; cohorts; Coleman, James S. (1926-1995) |
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Collective actioncollective behavior; collective goods; collective rights; Collège de Sociologie; Collins, Randall (1941- ); colonialism; color blind; commodity Fetishism; communism; communitarianism; community; community enterprise; community studies; companionate marriage; comparative method; complexity theory; Comte, Auguste (1798-1857); concentric zone theory; conjugal roles; conservatism; consumer society; consumption; consumption cleavages; consumption function; control group; convergence; conversation analysis; Cooley, Charles Horton (1864-1929); corporate crime; correlation. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Sociology -- Dictionaries.
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Sociology -- Dictionaries. |
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Turner, Bryan S.
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Available from some providers with title: Credo Reference |
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Available from some providers with title: Xreferplus |
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Dictionary of Sociology |
| Other Form: |
Cambridge dictionary of sociology 052183290X (DLC) 2006023248 (OCoLC)70173369 |
| ISBN |
9780511371455 (electronic book) |
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0511371454 (electronic book) |
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9780511481116 (electronic book) |
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051148111X (electronic book) |
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1281155926 |
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9781281155924 |
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9780511369759 (e-book) |
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0511369751 (e-book) |
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9781849722124 |
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1849722129 |
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052183290X (hardback) |
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0521540461 (paperback) |
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9780521832908 |
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9780521540469 |
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9786611155926 |
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6611155929 |
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