Sociology category: 22581 books
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Disability
Looking Towards the Future: Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2018
How can a deep engagement with disability studies change our understanding of sociology, literary studies, gender studies, aesthetics, bioethics, social work, law, education, or history?
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Disability (the companion volume to Manifestos for the Future of Critical...
Digital Music Distribution
The Sociology of Online Music Streams
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
The digital music revolution and the rise of piracy cultures has transformed the music world as we knew it. Digital Music Distribution aims to go beyond the polarized and reductive perception of ‘piracy wars’ to offer a broader and richer understanding of the paradoxes inherent in new forms of...
Quality
From Plato to Performance
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
The notion of quality features prominently in contemporary discourse. Numerous ratings, rankings, metrics, auditing, accreditation, benchmarking, smileys, reviews, and international comparisons are all used regularly to capture quality.
This book paves the way in exploring the socio-political...
Body Problems
Running and Living Long in a Fast-Food Society
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2019
Body Problems addresses the relationship betweenthe body and society in a fast-food culture. Agger focuses on issues of food, exercise, work, dieting and eating disorders, fashion, bariatric and cosmetic surgery, and health. He addresses a growing, fundamental dilemma that we have ample access to...
Latina Teachers
Creating Careers and Guarding Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
Winner, 2018 Outstanding Contribution to Scholarship Book Award presented by the American Sociological Association's Section on Race, Class, and Gender
Honorable Mention, 2018 Distinguished Contribution to Research Book Award presented by the American Sociological Association's Latina/o Sociology...
Divorce in Transnational Families
Marriage, Migration and Family Law
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
This book uniquely focuses on the role of family law in transnational marriages. The author demonstrates how family law is of critical importance in understanding transnational family life. Based on extensive field research in Morocco, Egypt and the Netherlands, the book examines how, during marriage...
Sociological Paradigms and Organisational Analysis
Elements of the Sociology of Corporate Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2019
Originally published in 1979. A classic in its field, Sociological Paradigms and Organisational Analysis argues that social theory can usefully be conceived in terms of four broad paradigms, based upon different sets of meta-theoretical assumptions with regard to the nature of social science and the...
by Howard Nixon II
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
This book shows how the dynamic interplay of a powerful "golden triangle" of sports, media, and business interests with social, cultural, economic, and political forces shapes sport in a changing world. This edition is a condensed and updated version of the first edition, with an emphasis...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
This volume provides researchers and scholars with a broad overview of the contributions of social psychologists and sociologists to the study of sexual relationships and sexual expression across the life course. These contributions include analyses of the dynamics of several types of contemporary...
Social and Cultural Dynamics
Revisiting the Work of Pitirim A. Sorokin
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Marking the 50th anniversary of Pitirim A. Sorokin’s death, this Brief offers a critical analysis of the renowned sociologist’s theories while highlighting some of his more overlooked ones. Topics explored include cultural dynamics; the relationship between culture, society, and personality; social...
by James T. Tedeschi
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
The nature of social power, the ability of individuals to affect the behavior and belief of others, is central to any understanding of the dynamics of change in our society. It is therefore surprising that social scientists, and especially social psychologists, have devoted relatively little attention...
by Kate Nash
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
The language of human rights is the most prominent 'people-centred' language of global justice today. This textbook looks at how human rights are constructed at local, national, international and transnational levels and considers commonalities and differences around the world. Through discussions...
Love and Society
Special Social Forms and the Master Emotion
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Why does love matter?
Love and Society discusses the meaning and importance of love for contemporary society. Love is not only an emotion that occurs in our intimate relationships; it is a special emotion that allows us to relate to each other in a lasting fashion, to create out of our individual...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
The middle-class nuclear family model has long dominated discourses on family in Japan. Yet there have always been multiple configurations of family and kinship, which, in the context of significant socio-economic and demographic shifts since the 1990s, have become increasingly visible in public discourse....