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Hope must spring eternal among scholarly publishers when no less than three dictionaries of sociology show up in the space of a year. Don't they know that any red-blooded undergraduate student, when confronted with an unfamiliar word or phrase, will 1) ask his or her roommate or 2) check Google? A nudge from a savvy professor or librarian will hopefully send young scholars in the direction of real reference tools. This dictionary, prepared by an international roster of contributors and edited by Turner (sociology, National Univ. of Singapore), offers more than 600 unusually substantial, thoughtful A-to-Z ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More