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"Fifty Key Sociologists: The Contemporary Theorists covers the life, work, ideas and impact of some of the most important thinkers within this discipline. This volume concentrates on those figures whose main writings were based predominantly in the second half of the twentieth century. A-Z entries make this book easy to navigate and figures covered include: Zygmunt Bauman; Pierre Bourdieu; Judith Butler; Michel Foucault; and Claude Levi-Strauss."--BOOK JACKET.