Encyclopedia of Social Theory

Although sociology, as a narrow discipline, has not reached the prominence it promised 30 years ago, the broad spectrum of the social sciences permeates the whole of modern academic life. This academic predominance is reflected in the extraordinary range of encyclopedias and other reference tools that have become available ever since Seligman and Johnson (1930‐1935) started the ball rolling with an outstanding, and still useful, piece of scholarship. Pride of place for the social sciences in general currently goes to Smelser and Baltes (2001). Borgatta and Montgomery (2000) is the largest recent encyclopedia of sociology I know of, but...