About this Book.
Dictionary Entries A-Z.
Biographical Sketches: A Selected Sociological Who's Who.
Index.
Allan G. Johnson is Professor of Sociology at Hartford College for Women. His previous publications include The Forest and the Trees: Sociology as Life, Practice, and Promise (1997), The Gender Knot: Unraveling Our Patriarchal Legacy (1997), and Human Arrangements (fourth edition, 1996).
"All praise to Allan Johnson for this fine second edition of the
very best portable dictionary of sociology. Clear and knowing, it
skillfully anatomizes the concepts basic to a sociological
understanding of social life. It belongs in every college and
public library and in many a personal library as well." Robert K.
Merton, Columbia University
"Here is a book that every academic library and every department of
sociology should own. The author's short opening essay is clear and
valuable [and he] has chosen his vocabulary items well. Every word
I looked up was there. His essay definitions are good, and closely
representative of the discipline, [and] he precisely grasps the
distinctive elements of each concept." Contemporary Sociology
" It is a portable dictionary that will help undergraduates and
others interested in understanding the central concepts of
sociology by offering them a representative sampling of some
specialized areas within the field and some important concepts from
related disciplines-such as Authority, Feminism and Teleoogical
Explanation. This is unique in one respect. The others are edited
collections of entries composed by many writers, but Johnson wrote
this entire work in an effort to present the whole conceptual
framework with one continuos voice." Booklist, Chicago,
Illinois
"Inexpensive, with an attractive format, this dictionary would be
helpful for sociology students and would make a good, if not
essential, addition to library collections." P. Flaherty, Eastern
Kentucky University
"Intended to serve as a guidebook, this dictionary is so well
written that it could also be read cover to cover. All public
libraries should have a copy of this work in their reference
sections." Libraries Unlimited, American Reference Books
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