Sociology category: 22581 books
by W.E.B Du Bois, Vann R. Newkirk II, Steve Prince
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
Restless Classics presents The Souls of Black Folk: W. E. B. Du Bois’s seminal work of sociology, with searing insights into our complex, corrosive relationship with race and the African-American consciousness. Reconsidered for the era of Obama, Trump, and Black Lives Matter, the new edition includes...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2017
This book explores how conditions for childbearing are changing in the 21st century under the impact of new biomedical technologies. Selective reproductive technologies (SRTs) - technologies that aim to prevent or promote the birth of particular kinds of children – are increasingly widespread across...
Land, Memory, Reconstruction, and Justice
Perspectives on Land Claims in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2010
Land is a significant and controversial topic in South Africa. Addressing the land claims of those dispossessed in the past has proved to be a demanding, multidimensional process. In many respects the land restitution program that was launched as part of the county’s transition to democracy in 1994...
The Myth of Individualism
How Social Forces Shape Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
The Myth of Individualism is a wonderful, concise introduction to sociology and sociological thinking, showing readers how social forces shape our lives and the world. Revised and updated throughout, the third edition of this powerful book continues to challenge the common belief that human behavior...
Full Circle
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
This is a personal history of the twentieth century as seen through the eyes of Edith Kurzweil, author, teacher, editor of Partisan Review, and a recent recipient of the National Medal of Humanities. The book opens with Kurzweil early adolescence in Vienna during the Nazi takeover. It ends with the...
Social Theory - Between modernism and postmodernism Enlightenment and Romance
Between modernism and postmodernism Enlightenment and Romance
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2008
Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Sociology - Classics and Theoretical Directions, grade: 2,0, Universität, course: Seminar, 8 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The term 'postmodern' has become a popular label for something about the life and thought of recent decades...
by Johannes Lenhard
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Sociology - Classics and Theoretical Directions, grade: 2:1, London School of Economics, language: English, abstract: According to Baudrillard, the contemporary 'value system' is based on binary oppositions. The most vital of those are good and evil, man and...
by Howard S. Becker
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2007
I Remember, one of French writer Georges Perec’s most famous pieces, consists of 480 numbered paragraphs—each just a few short lines recalling a memory from his childhood. The work has neither a beginning nor an end. Nor does it contain any analysis. But it nonetheless reveals profound truths...
by Megan Hilditch
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2017 in the subject Sociology - Gender Studies, grade: 75.0, Keele University, language: English, abstract: This study offers an examination of gender representations present in the Disney feature-length animations incorporated into the Princess Collection. The import...
The Politics of Truth
Selected Writings of C. Wright Mills
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2008
C. Wright Mills was a radical public intellectual, a tough-talking, motorcycle-riding anarchist from Texas who taught sociology at Columbia University. Mills's three most influential books--The Power Elite, White Collar, and The Sociological Imagination--were originally published by OUP and are considered...
The Drag Queen Anthology
The Absolutely Fabulous but Flawlessly Customary World of Female Impersonators
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Examine the cultural and political implications of male-to-female gender performance!
The Drag Queen Anthology: The Absolutely Fabulous but Flawlessly Customary World of Female Impersonators examines the phenomena of male-to-female gender performance and the people who live it. This provocative...
Anti-Muslim Prejudice
Past and Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This collection makes a unique contribution to the study of anti-Muslim prejudice by placing the issue in both its past and present context. The essays cover historical and contemporary subjects from the eleventh century to the present day. They examine the forms that anti-Muslim prejudice takes,...
Helvetius
His Life and Place in the History of Educational Thought
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Published in 1998, Helvetius is a valuable contribution to the field of Sociology and Social Policy.
by Anthony Elliott, Charles Lemert
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
In this comprehensive, stylish and accessible introduction to contemporary social theory, Anthony Elliott and Charles Lemert examine the major theoretical traditions from the Frankfurt School to globalization and beyond. When first published, the book’s wide range set new standards for introductory...