Sociology category: 22581 books
Debating Humanity
Towards a Philosophical Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Debating Humanity explores sociological and philosophical efforts to delineate key features of humanity that identify us as members of the human species. After challenging the normative contradictions of contemporary posthumanism, this book goes back to the foundational debate on humanism between...
Form and Dialectic in Georg Simmel's Sociology
A New Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
This book shows that a dialectical conceptual model underpins Georg Simmel's writings. The book provides key examples of social forms – including fashion, the secret and money – as exemplifications of this method. The volume concludes with a reassessment of Simmel's relevance today.
The Sociology of Knowledge
An Essay in Aid of a Deeper Understanding of the History of Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Emotions Matter
A Relational Approach to Emotions
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
The sociology of emotions has recently undergone a renaissance, raising new questions for the social sciences: How should we define and study emotions? How are emotions related to perennial sociological debates about structure, power, and agency? Emotions Matter brings together leading international...
Understanding the Self and Others
Explorations in intersubjectivity and interobjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
How do we, as human beings, come to understand ourselves and others around us? This question could not be more timely or pertinent to the issues facing humankind today. At the heart of many of our world’s most troubling political and social problems lies a divergence, and sometimes a sharp contradiction,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
This Handbook provides the hidden common threads that tie sociological inquiry together and featuring eminent scholars, it separates itself from its predecessors in substance and organization. Rather than rehashing old debates or longingly gazing at the past, this book presents sociologists with new...
Sociological Theory (Routledge Revivals)
Pretence and Possibility
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
First published in 1973, this book is concerned with the question of whether Sociology is, or ought to be, a theoretical science. Keith Dixon argues that the pretence to the theoretical is a hindrance to the development of the field of Sociology, which devalues significant empirical work by giving...
The Sociology of Elite Distinction
From Theoretical to Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2009
This major new contribution to the study of consumption examines how dominant groups express and display their sense of superiority through material and aesthetic attributes, demonstrating that differences from one society to another, and across historical periods, challenge current understandings of elite distinction.
The American Science of Politics
Its Origins and Conditions
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2006
Originally published between 1943 and 1969, the volumes in the International Library of Sociology Political Sociology set were written against a backdrop of rapid and radical political change. Covering topics as wide-ranging as European federalism, democracy and dictatorship and voting, these titles are as relevant today as when they were first published.
Mysteries and Conspiracies
Detective Stories, Spy Novels and the Making of Modern Societies
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
The detective story, focused on inquiries, and in its wake the spy novel, built around conspiracies, developed as genres in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. During the same period, psychiatry was inventing paranoia, sociology was devising new forms of causality to explain the social...
Worlds of ScienceCraft
New Horizons in Sociology, Philosophy, and Science Studies
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
A response to complex problems spanning disciplinary boundaries, Worlds of ScienceCraft offers bold new ways of conceptualizing ideas of science, sociology, and philosophy. Beginning with the historical foundations of civilization and progress, assumptions about the categories we use to talk about...
Mainstream and Margins
Jews, Blacks and Other Americans
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
This volume of commentaries on racial and ethnic relations is a sociological assessment of a changing society and a personal statement about many of the most pressing racial issues since the 1954 Brown-Supreme court decision. From the perspective of humanistic sociology, Peter Rose shows that sociology...
by Dr Julienne Ford, Julienne Ford
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2006
Drawing on the great wealth of knowledge and experience of educational practitioners and theorists, the volumes in The Sociology of Education set of the International Library of Sociology explore the very important relationship between education and society. These books became standard texts for actual...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
This Fall 2013 (XI, 1) issue of Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, is entitled and dedicated to "Conversations with Enrique Dussel on Anti-Cartesian Decoloniality and Pluriversal Transmodernity." Despite the long established recognition and reputation of Dussel...