"Fifty Key Sociologists: The Formative Theorists covers the life, work, ideas and impact of some of the most important thinkers within this discipline. This volume concentrates on those historical figures whose main writings were based in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. A-Z entries make this book easy to navigate and figures covered include: Jane Addams; Theodor Adorno; Gyorgy Lukacs; Pitirim Sorokin; and Max Weber."--Jacket.