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The Blackwell dictionary of modern social thought
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The Blackwell dictionary of modern social thought

Author: William Outhwaite
Publisher: Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, 2003.
Edition/Format: Book : English : 2nd edView all editions and formats
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"This Dictionary provides an authoritative and comprehensive overview of the main themes of social thought, principal schools and movements of thought and those institutions that have been the subject of social analysis or engendered significant doctrines and ideas." "Detailed entries cover major currents of thought, philosophical and cultural trends, and the individual social sciences from anthropology to welfare  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Encyclopédie (Descripteur de forme), Dictionnaire (Descripteur de forme)
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: William Outhwaite
ISBN: 0631221646 9780631221647 1405134569 9781405134569
OCLC Number: 49704935
Notes: Rev. ed. of: The Blackwell dictionary of twentieth-century social thought. 1993.
Description: xvi, 839 p. ; 26 cm.
Other Titles: Modern social thought, Blackwell dictionary of twentieth-century social thought.
Responsibility: edited by William Outhwaite.

Abstract:

"This Dictionary provides an authoritative and comprehensive overview of the main themes of social thought, principal schools and movements of thought and those institutions that have been the subject of social analysis or engendered significant doctrines and ideas." "Detailed entries cover major currents of thought, philosophical and cultural trends, and the individual social sciences from anthropology to welfare economics. These are supplemented by shorter accounts of specific concepts and phenomena." "This second edition updates about 200 entries and includes new entries on the Internet, ethnic cleansing and other topics. Each entry includes suggestions for further reading, and the volume contains a bibliography of all sources cited within the text."--BOOK JACKET.

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