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
About the Author
George Ritzer is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, with awards that include the American Sociological Association's Distinguished Contribution to Teaching Award. He is the author of numerous books including The McDonaldization of Society (1993; 2008), The Globalization of Nothing (2003; 2007) Globalization: A Basic Text (2010) and the editor of The Encyclopedia of Social Theory (2005), The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (2007), The Blackwell Companion to Globalization (2007) and the forthcoming The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization. His work has been translated into over twenty languages.
J. Michael Ryan is an award winning teacher who has held academic positions at top-ranked universities across five continents. He is currently an Associate Professor of Sociology at Nazarbayev University (Kazakhstan) and has previously held academic positions in Egypt, Portugal, Ecuador, and the USA. Before returning to academia, Dr. Ryan worked as a research methodologist at the National Center for Health Statistics (which is part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) in Washington, D.C. where he led multiple projects to improve national statistical survey methodology. He is the author (with Serena Nanda) of COVID-19: Social inequalities and human possibilities, and (co-)editor of more than 15 volumes.
