COMPREHENSIVE DICTIONARY OF SOCIOLOGY (2 Volume Set)

An excellent lexicographic work that does exactly what it sets out to do, namely provide brief information on various sociological terminologies. If you are studying Sociology, Anthropology or other cognate subjects, this book is probably essential. It is useful not only for the practitioners of Sociology, but also for those who are pursuing other branches of social science.
It has been written for students from school to university level. This book provides not only simple, one or two-line definitions but also entries that discuss the issues involved in the central concepts, theories and writings of Sociology and related science. Because of the comprehensiveness here, the readers will learn something. This dictionary provides a simple meaning of troublesome words and detailed introduction of important sociological theories.
This dictionary offers readers an accessible and lucid starting point for their enquiries and we hope people will find it a pleasure to use. This book is a dictionary of sociological language. It is the best possible dictionary for newcomers to the discipline. Effort has been made to keep entries relatively brief, but comprehensive, keeping an eye on the need of students.

J.P. Singh, an author and lexicographer, holds MPhil in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and PhD in Demography from the Australian National University, Canberra. He worked as Associate Professor of Research Methodology at TISS, Mumbai; Addl. Director of Population Research Centre, Patna University; Director (Higher Education), Government of Bihar; Director, Rural Institute at Birauli (Samastipur); Chairman-cum-Director of Bihar Hindi Granth Academy; Pro Vice-Chancellor, Patna University and Professor of Sociology at Patna University, Patna till his superannuation in 2015. He held Professional Associateship of the Population Institute, East-West Center, Hawaii (USA) twice and received advance training in Economics and Population at the ISS, The Hague (Netherlands) under the UNDP scheme. In addition to numerous research papers in professional journals from India and abroad and standard textbooks in Hindi, the author has published such lexicographic titles as Samaj Vigyan Vishwakosh (2009) and Manavshastra Shabdakosh (2019).