Concise Encyclopedia of Comparative Sociology

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a collection of essays intended to communicate effectively the current state of knowledge in comparative sociology, the major aim of which is to identify similarities and differences between and among societies. Forty significant biographies are included.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 700
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 294mm x 184mm x 2mm
• Gewicht: 1692g
• ISBN-13: 9789004206243
• ISBN-10: 9004206248
• Artikelnr.: 40428749

Autorenporträt

Masamichi Sasaki, Ph.D.(1980), Sociology, Princeton University, is Professor of Sociology at Chuo University, Tokyo; Past President of International Institute of Sociology 1997-2001; Founding Editor of Comparative Sociology. His recent publications are (ed.) New Frontiers in Comparative Sociology (Brill, 2009) and Trust: Comparative Perspectives edited with Robert Marsh (Brill, 2012). Jack A. Goldstone, PhD (1981), is Hazel Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University, Senior Research Fellow at RANEPA, Moscow, and the author of Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World (UC Press, 1993) and many other works of comparative history. Ekkart Zimmermann, doctorate (1975), University of Cologne, Professor of Macrosociology from 1993-2011 at Dresden University of Technology. He has published widely in conflict research, including Political Violence, Crises, and Revolutions (Routledge, 2011). Being retired he now teaches at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich and at the Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen. Stephen K. Sanderson is Visiting Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Riverside. He specializes in sociological theory, comparative sociology, and evolution and human behavior. He has published 12 books in 18 editions and approximately 60 articles.