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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2009
Health service policy and health policy have changed considerably over the past fifteen years and there is a pressing need for an up-to-date sociological analysis of health policy. Not only have policies themselves changed but new policy themes – such as evidence-based policy and practice, an increasing...
Chinese Sociology
State-Building and the Institutionalization of Globally Circulated Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
This book examines the institutional development of Chinese sociology from the 1890s to the present. It plots the discipline’s twisting path in the Chinese context, from early Western influences; through the institutionalization of the discipline in the 1930s-40s; its problematic relationship with...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Religion lies near the heart of the classical sociological tradition, yet it no longer occupies the same place within the contemporary sociological enterprise. This relative absence has left sociology under-prepared for thinking about religion’s continuing importance in new issues, movements, and...
Liquid Sociology
Metaphor in Zygmunt Bauman’s Analysis of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Zygmunt Bauman’s ’liquid sociology’ confronts the awesome task of reminding individual men and women that an alternative way of living together is within our eminent capabilities, if only we start to think differently about our world. The metaphor of ’liquidity’, which has become such a...
by Richard Howson
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Postmarxism is often depicted as a point of intersection for a set of inter-disciplinary theories that are in themselves complex and dense.
Bringing the postmarxist theory of Ernesto Laclau into the field of political sociology through a close reading and analysis of postmarxism and its relationship...
by Werner Pelz
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
In their efforts to emulate the methodology which had proved so successful in the natural sciences, the social sciences – including sociology – have not yet faced the question as to what constitutes understanding in their area with sufficient seriousness. This book asks again: what does understanding...
Sociology and Human Ecology
Complexity and Post-Humanist Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Traditionally, Sociology has identified its subject matter as a distinct set – social phenomena – that can be taken as quite different and largely disconnected from potentially relevant disciplines such as Psychology, Economics or Planetary Ecology.
Within Sociology and Human Ecology, Smith...
The Body and Society
Explorations in Social Theory
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2008
"This truly deserves to be considered a classic and I strongly encourage my students to read it from cover to cover. Turner's work on the body needs to be considered in its own right within courses on the sociology of the body."
- Dr Robert Meadows, Surrey University
"Remains...
Freud and Modern Society
An outline and analysis of Freud’s sociology
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
by Ronald Fletcher To devote a volume to Freud in a series on 'The Making of Sociology' might seem, to some readers, very strange. Freud, they might argue, was not only (and very explicitly) a psychologist, but also (and equally explicitly) a clinical psychologist, whose most immediate preoccupation...
Sociology in Belgium
A Sociological History
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
This book provides a historical-sociological analysis of the history of sociology in Belgium from the late-nineteenth until the early-twenty-first century. It sheds new light on the social structures that shaped and shape the orientations and work of sociologists in Belgium. The impact of three structural...
Norbert Elias
Post-philosophical Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
Few sociologists of the first rank have scandalised the academic world to the extent that Elias did. Developed out of the German sociology of knowledge in the 1920s, Elias’s sociology contains a sweeping radicalism which declares an academic ‘war on all your houses’. His sociology of the ‘human...
Sociology and Social Policy
Essays on Community, Economy, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
This collection of recent essays by the influential sociologist Herbert J. Gans brings together the many themes of Gans’s wide-ranging career to make the case for a policy-oriented vision for sociology. Sociology and Social Policy explicates and helps solve social problems by presenting a range...
Hoop Dreams on Wheels
Disability and the Competitive Wheelchair Athlete
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
Hoop Dreams on Wheels is a life-history study of wheelchair athletes associated with a premier collegiate wheelchair basketball program. The book, which grapples with the intersection of biography and history in society, situates the study in broader context with background on the history and sociology...
Sociology Today
Social Transformations in a Globalizing World
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
We are living in a turbulent world marked by fast, continuous social changes that affect the lives of individuals, families, communities, organizations, businesses, nation-states, and international networks. This fundamentally commits contemporary sociology to being a science of change.
This...