Sociology category: 22581 books
Our Social World
Introduction to Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
Our Social World: Introduction to Sociology inspires students to develop their sociological imaginations, to see the world and personal events from a new perspective, and to confront sociological issues on a day-to-day basis. Organized around the "Social World" model, a conceptual framework...
Sleep and Society
Sociological Ventures into the Un(known)
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Exploring the sociological aspects of sleep and their links to current health debates, this unique text discusses why sleep has been so neglected in sociological literature and examines significant modern issues such as:
the 24-hour society
sleep and work
homelessness
dream analysis
the medicalization...
Families with Futures
Family Studies into the 21st Century, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Noted for its interdisciplinary approach to family studies, Families with Futures provides an engaging, contemporary look at the discipline's theories, methods, essential topics, and career opportunities. Featuring strong coverage of theories and methods, readers explore family concepts and processes...
Human Resource Management, ideology and gender
An explorative approach to recruiting practices and the special case of executive search firms
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2008
Project Report from the year 2007 in the subject Sociology - Work, Profession, Education, Organisation, grade: 1,0 (A), National University of Singapore (Department of Sociology), course: Sociology of work, 19 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The impact of organizational practices...
European Civil Service in (Times of) Crisis
A Political Sociology of the Changing Power of Eurocrats
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
This book, part of the new wave of political sociology in EU studies, examines the dialectics of construction/deconstruction of the European civil service through a succession of empirically grounded case studies. Breaking with the usual representations of ‘Eurocrats’, it sheds light on a hidden...
A Sociology of Crime
Second edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Hester and Eglin’s A Sociology of Crime has an outstanding reputation for its distinctive and systematic contribution to the criminological literature. Through detailed examples and analysis, it shows how crime is a product of processes of criminalisation constituted through the interactional and...
Postmodern Cowboy
C. Wright Mills and a New 21st-century Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
More than 50 years ago, C. Wright Mills heralded a new age for sociology for the 1960s and beyond. Yet his forward-looking vision also foretold some of the social conditions we associate, more recently, with postmodern society. This intellectual biography of Mills emphasizes early life experiences...
by Emanuel de Kadt, Gavin Williams
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Originally published in 1974 Sociology and Development are a selection papers from the British Sociological Association’s conference on development. The book combines both theoretical discussion and empirical material drawn from both urban and rural areas in Africa, Latin America, China, the USSR...
by Giuseppe Giordan, Adam Possamai
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
This book provides a sociological understanding of the phenomenon of exorcism and an analysis of the reasons for its contemporary re-emergence and impact on various communities. It argues that exorcism has become a religious commodity with the potential to strengthen a religion’s attraction to adherents,...
The Sociology of Religion
A Substantive and Transdisciplinary Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2008
Most Sociology of Religion texts are decidedly staid and uninteresting, covering "contemporary" developments which are only contemporary only from a disciplinary perspective. They are not contemporary if viewed from the perspective of the religion's practioners (in religious and non-religious...
Death, Deeds, and Descendents
Inheritance in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Clignet's analysis of inheritance patterns in modern America is the first sustained treatment of the subject by a sociologist. Clignet shows that even today inheritance serves to perpetuate both familial wealth and familial relations. He examines what leads decedents to chose particular legal instruments...
Understanding Industrial Organizations
Theoretical Perspectives in Industrial Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Understanding Industrial Organizations critically reviews the approaches developed by industrial sociologists to analyze industrial organizations. It outlines four general perspectives on organizations - systems thinking, contingency approach, the action approach and labour process for a more adequate...
The Structure of Schooling
Readings in the Sociology of Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
The Structure of Schooling: Readings in the Sociology of Education by Richard Arum, Irenee Beattie, and Karly Ford exposes students to examples of sociological research on schools, with a focus on the school as community. Now in its Third Edition, this engaging reader has broadened its scope even...
The Sociology of Consumption
A Global Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
The Sociology of Consumption: A Global Approach offers college students, scholars, and interested readers a state-of-the-art overview of consumption the desire for, purchase, use, display, exchange, and disposal of goods and services.
The book’s global focus, emphasis on social inequality,...