Sociology category: 22581 books
Men's Intrusion, Women's Embodiment
A critical analysis of street harassment
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Research on violence against women tends to focus on topics such as sexual assault and intimate partner violence, arguably to the detriment of investigating men’s violence and intrusion in women’s everyday lives. The reality and possibility of the routine intrusions women experience from men in...
All Joy and No Fun
The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Thousands of books have examined the effects of parents on their children. In All Joy and No Fun, award-winning journalist Jennifer Senior now asks: what are the effects of children on their parents?
In All Joy and No Fun, award-winning journalist Jennifer Senior tries to tackle this question,...
by Talcott Parsons
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Talcott Parsons needs little introduction to anyone acquainted with the literature of sociology. Few men have dominated their fields so much as Dr. Parsons does his.
In this collection of nineteen essays, Dr. Parsons focuses his attention on subjects ranging from the social structure of Japan to propaganda...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2005
The Encyclopedia of Social Theory contains over 500 entries varying from concise definitions of key terms and short biographies of key theorists to comprehensive surveys of leading concepts, debates, themes and schools. The object of the Encyclopedia has been to give thorough coverage of the central topics in theoretical sociology as well as terms
The Reinvention of Politics
Rethinking Modernity in the Global Social Order
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Those who advocate ideas about "postmodernity" and "post-industrialism" offer radical critiques of existing social and political institutions. But they provide very little in place of those institutions. It is all very well to criticize the limitations of social democracy, the...
The Cultural Contradictions of Anti-Capitalism
The Liberal Spirit and the Making of Western Radicalism
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
Does contemporary anti-capitalism tend towards, as Slavoj Žižek believes, nihilism, or does it tend towards, as Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri believe, true egalitarian freedom?
Within The Cultural Contradictions of Anti-Capitalism, Fletcher presents an answer that manages to tend towards...
Buying into Fair Trade
Culture, Morality, and Consumption
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Stamped on products from coffee to handicrafts, the term “fair trade” has quickly become one of today’s most seductive consumer buzzwords. Purportedly created through fair labor practices, or in ways that are environmentally sustainable, fair-trade products give buyers peace of mind in knowing...
The Philadelphia Negro
A Social Study
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
In 1897 the promising young sociologist William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) was given a temporary post as Assistant in Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania in order to conduct a systematic investigation of social conditions in the seventh ward of Philadelphia. The product of those...
Black Families
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
The condition and characteristics of the black family have been subjects of intense debate since at least the 1960s, when the Moynihan Report and the culture of poverty theses held sway. Since then a consistent theme has been that black families are pathological. Despite the fact that research has...
Book Review: The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
The little things that make a difference
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
It can be hard for busy professionals to find the time to read the latest books. Stay up to date in a fraction of the time with this concise guide.The Tipping Point is a bestselling book by Malcolm Gladwell and explains how social phenomena come about and what triggers a social epidemic. Using case studies...
Before You Say I do
Falling in Love Without Falling Into Trouble
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
What is LOVE?
While attending a sociology workshop in a higher learning institution, I asked a simple question; “what is love?” I was utterly surprised that none of the thousand students present could give me a satisfactory definition of love.
BEFORE YOU SAY I DO sheds much light on how to find...
Norbert Elias's Lost Research
Revisiting the Young Worker Project
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Based on the re-discovery of a lost sociological project led by Norbert Elias at the University of Leicester, this book re-visits the project: The Adjustment of Young Workers to Work Situations and Adult Roles. Norbert Elias's Lost Research makes use of the interview booklets documenting the lives...
by William Outhwaite
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Does it make sense to speak of a European society, above and beyond its component states and regions? In this major new book William Outhwaite argues that it does. He goes beyond the study of individual states and specific regions of Europe to examine the changing contours of the continent as a whole,...
by Rudolf Schlesinger
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Published in 1998, Marx His Time and Ours is a valuable contribution to the field of Sociology and Social Policy.