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The Encyclopedia of Social Theory is an indispensable reference source for anyone interested in the roots of contemporary social theory. It examines the global landscape of all the key theories and the theorists behind them, presenting them in the context needed to understand their strengths and weaknesses. Led by internationally renowned scholar George Ritzer, the Encyclopedia of Social Theory draws together a team of more than 200 international scholars covering the developments, achievements, and prospects of social theory from its inception in the 18th century to the present. Understanding that social theory can both explain and alter the social world, this two-volume set serves as not only a foundation for learning, but also an inspiration for creative and reflexive engagement with the rich range of ideas it contains.

Nothing : a brief (no need to be lengthy) introduction -- Conceptualizing nothing (and something) -- Meet the nullities -- Globalization -- Grobalization/glocalization and something-nothing -- The ultimate example of nothing and its grobalization? : large-scale consumption sites on the Internet -- A few (by necessity) concluding thoughts on nothing (and its globalization) -- Concluding thoughts on globalization (and nothing)

Introduction: narratives, geistesgeschichtes, and the history of social theory / Douglas J. Goodman -- Auguste Comte / Mary Pickering -- Harriet Martineau / Susan Hoecker-Drysdale -- Herbert Spencer / Jonathan H. Turner -- Karl Marx / Robert J. Antonio -- Max Weber / Stephen Kalberg -- Émile Durkheim / Robert Alun Jones -- Georg Simmel / Lawrence A. Scaff -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman / Charles Lemert -- George Herbert Mead / Dmitri N. Shalin -- W.E.B. Du Bois / Charles Lemert -- Alfred Schutz / Mary Rogers -- Talcott Parsons / Victor Lidz.

Introduction: metatheorizing contemporary social theorists / Todd Stillman -- Robert K. Merton / Piotr Sztompka -- Erving Goffman / Gary Alan Fine and Philip Manning -- Richard M. Emerson / Karen S. Cook and Joseph Whitmeyer -- James Coleman / Siegwart Lindenberg -- Harold Garfinkel / Anne Rawls -- Daniel Bell / Malcolm Waters -- Norbert Elias / Richard Kilminster and Stephen Mennell -- Michel Foucault / Barry Smart -- Jürgen Habermas / William Outhwaite -- Anthony Giddens / Christopher G.A. Bryant and David Jary -- Pierre Bourdieu / Craig Calhoun -- Jean Baudrillard / Douglas Kellner -- Judith Butler / Patricia T. Clough.