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Publisher: Blackwell, Malden, MA and Oxford, 2007
Last visited November 2007, URL: www.sociologyencyclopedia.com/public, Pricing information available on request from the publisher, Also available as an 11-volume printed set (ISBN 978 1 4051 2433 1; £995)
The comprehensive Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology is intended to help readers understand sociology as a "cultural product" (Introduction). The Encyclopedia covers traditional aspects of the discipline, points to emerging developments, and explores relationships between sociology and related disciplines. The General Editor is George Ritzer, Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland. Managing editors J. Michael Ryan and Betsy Thorn coordinate an international team of advisory editors. Worldwide contributors number some 1,400 new or established scholars.
The Encyclopedia covers concepts, theories, persons and issues in 22 overlapping categories, including Crime and Deviance; Media and Sport; Demography and Ecology; Education; Family and...