Sociology category: 22581 books
Ritual, Emotion, Violence
Studies on the Micro-Sociology of Randall Collins
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2018
Microsociologists seek to capture social life as it is experienced, and in recent decades no one has championed the microsociological approach more fiercely than Randall Collins. The pieces in this exciting volume offer fresh and original insights into key aspects of Collins’ thought, and of microsociology...
Family Continuity and Change
Contemporary European Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
This volume provides readers with recent sociological approaches to family understanding, theorising and practices within the context of continuities and change, both across generations and during individual life courses. The contributors uniquely investigate the friction between persisting family...
Political and Military Sociology
Volume 41, The Social Implications of National Defense: An Annual Review
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Political and Military Sociology, Volume 41 explores the social elements and impact of national defense. The origin of government is a response to a society's common interest in security and defense. In recent years, security and defense issues, and government responses, have become increasingly prominent...
Surviving Dictatorship
A Work of Visual Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Written as a book for undergraduate students as well as scholars, Surviving Dictatorship is a work of visual sociology and oral history, and a case study that communicates the lived experience of poverty, repression, and resistance in an authoritarian society: Pinochet’s Chile.
It focuses...
Sociology and Human Rights
A Bill of Rights for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2011
Edited by renowned scholars, Judith Blau and Mark Frezzo, this groundbreaking anthology examines the implications that human rights have for the social sciences. The book provides readers with a wide-ranging collection of articles, each written by experts in their fields who argue for an expansion...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
*Research in the Sociology of Education *is an important and established series, highlighting how societal contexts shape the educational experiences and outcomes of individual children and youth.
Including five single-country studies from settings as diverse as rural China, Germany and...
Theoretical Sociology
1830 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Written by award-winning scholar Jonathan Turner, Theoretical Sociology: 1830 to the Present covers new and emerging aspects of sociological theory and examines the significant contributions of both modern and founding theorists. Nine sections present detailed analyses of key theories and paradigms,...
Theoretical Sociology
A Concise Introduction to Twelve Sociological Theories
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
What can sociological theory tell us about the basic forces that shape our world? With clarity and authority, Theoretical Sociology: A Concise Introduction to Twelve Sociological Theories, by leading theorist Jonathan H. Turner, seeks to answer this question through a brief, yet in-depth examination...
New Perspectives on Sport and 'Deviance'
Consumption, Peformativity and Social Control
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2004
The everyday makeup of contemporary sport is increasingly characterised by a perceived explosion of 'deviance' - violence, drug taking, racism, homophobia, misogyny, corruption and excess. Whereas once these behaviours may have been subject to the moral judgments of authority, in the face of dramatic...
The Significance Test Controversy
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Tests of significance have been a key tool in the research kit of behavioral scientists for nearly fifty years, but their widespread and uncritical use has recently led to a rising volume of controversy about their usefulness. This book gathers the central papers in this continuing debate, brings...
British Sociology's Lost Biological Roots
A History of Futures Past
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
A new and innovative account of British sociology's intellectual origins that uses previously unknown archival resources to show how the field's forgotten roots in a late nineteenth and early twentieth-century debate about biology can help us understand both its subsequent development and future potential.
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Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2016
‘The Anthem Companion to C. Wright Mills’ offers the best contemporary work on C. Wright Mills, written by the best scholars currently working in this field. Original, authoritative and wide-ranging, the critical assessments of this volume will make it ideal for Wright Mills students and scholars...
by David Spurling
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
This book shows how society is changing, in terms of class, ethnicity and attitudes towards gender and work. It covers research methods, which are important for sociology and many other subjects. It relates to the different theories about modern society, including modernisation theory functionalism...
Theorising Childhood
Citizenship, Rights and Participation
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
Focusing on children's citizenship, participation and rights, this edited collection draws on the work of a number of leading scholars in the sociology of childhood. The contributors explore a range of themes including: tensions between pragmatism and grand theory; revisiting agency/structure debates...