George Ritzer - The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Sociology

WILEY-BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO SOCIOLOGY

The Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Sociology provide introductions to emerging topics and theoretical orientations in sociology as well as presenting the scope and quality of the discipline as it is currently configured. Essays in the Companions tackle broad themes or central puzzles within the field and are authored by key scholars who have spent considerable time in research and reflection on the questions and controversies that have activated interest in their area. This authoritative series will interest those studying sociology at advanced undergraduate or graduate level as well as scholars in the social sciences and informed readers in applied disciplines.

The Blackwell Companion to Major Classical Social Theorists

Edited by George Ritzer

The Blackwell Companion to Major Contemporary Social Theorists

Edited by George Ritzer

The Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology

Edited by Kate Nash and Alan Scott

The Blackwell Companion to Criminology

Edited by Colin Sumner

The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements

Edited by David A. Snow, Sarah A. Soule, and Hanspeter Kriesi

The Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Families

Edited by Jacqueline Scott, Judith Treas, and Martin Richards

The Blackwell Companion to Law and Society

Edited by Austin Sarat

The Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Culture

Edited by Mark Jacobs and Nancy Hanrahan

The Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities

Edited by Mary Romero and Eric Margolis

The New Blackwell Companion to Social Theory

Edited by Bryan S. Turner

The New Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology

Edited by William C. Cockerham

The New Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Religion

Edited by Bryan S. Turner

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Major Social Theorists

Edited by George Ritzer and Jeffrey Stepnisky

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Sociology

Edited by George Ritzer

Also available:

The Blackwell Companion to Globalization

Edited by George Ritzer

The New Blackwell Companion to the City

Edited by Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson

Contributors

Graham Allan is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Keele University, UK. His main research interests concern the sociology of informal relationships, particularly family sociology and the sociology of friendship. His recent publications include Stepfamilies (2011), co-authored with Graham Crow (Southampton University, UK) and Sheila Hawker, and The End of Children? Changing Trends in Childbearing and Childhood (2011) , co-edited with Nathan Lauster (University of British Columbia).

Robert J. Antonio teaches social theory at the University of Kansas. He has been interested in theories and processes of modernization, anti-modernization, postmodernization, neomodernization, and globalization. Currently, he is focusing on the impact of the global system of production and consumption on the throughput of resources and production of waste and especially on the sustainability of the economic and cultural imperative of unplanned, exponential growth, central to modern capitalism and especially to todays neoliberal regime of accumulation.

Nachman Ben-Yehuda s work focuses on how, why, where, and when challenges to the status quo emerge and function as catalysts for processes of social change or stability. His books focus on betrayal and treason, the Masada myth, political assassinations, politics and deviance, the European witchcraze, deviant sciences and scientists, using archaeology for national purposes, and (with Erich Goode) moral panics. His 2010 book Theocratic Democracy examines public constructions of unconventional behavior amongst fundamentalists. His current work examines the culture of submarine warfare and atrocities. Ben-Yehuda is in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

Suzanne M. Bianchi is Dorothy Meier Chair in Social Equities and Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is a past President of the Population Association of America. Her research focuses on time use, gender equality in American families and workplaces, and intergenerational family ties and population aging.

Stewart R. Clegg is Research Professor and Director of the Centre for Management and Organization Studies Research at the University of Technology, Sydney; Visiting Professor of Organizational Change Management, Maastricht University Faculty of Business; Visiting Professor and International Fellow in Discourse and Management Theory, Centre of Comparative Social Studies, Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam; and he is also a Visiting Professor at Copenhagen Business School and EM-Lyon. A prolific publisher in leading academic journals in social science, management, and organization theory, he is also the author and editor of many books, including Power and Organizations (Clegg, Courpasson and Phillips 2006) and Frameworks of Power (1989).