Sociology category: 22581 books
by Michael Young, Peter Wilmott
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
First published in 1957 ,and reprinted with a new introduction in 1986, Michael Young and Peter Willmott’s book on family and kinship in Bethnal Green in the 1950s is a classic in urban studies.
A standard text in planning, housing, family studies and sociology, it predicted the failure...
Anthropology of Los Angeles
Place and Agency in an Urban Setting
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
The Anthropology of Los Angeles: Place and Agency in an Urban Setting questions the production and representations of L.A. by revealing the gray spaces between the real and imagined city. Contributors to this urban ethnography document hidden histories that connect daily actors within cultural systems...
Tourism and Gentrification in Contemporary Metropolises
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Tourism gentrification is a critical shaping force of socio-economic and contemporary urban landscapes. This book aims to be the first substantive text on this subject, explaining the multiple and complex relationships between tourism and gentrification and their outcomes and manifestations in contemporary...
Capitalism and Modern Social Theory
An Analysis of the Writings of Marx, Durkheim and Max Weber
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 1973
Giddens's analysis of the writings of Marx, Durkheim and Weber has become the classic text for any student seeking to understand the three thinkers who established the basic framework of contemporary sociology. The first three sections of the book, based on close textual examination of the original...
Nation-States and Nationalisms
Organization, Ideology and Solidarity
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
Despite many predictions made over the last two hundred years that nation-states and nationalism are transient phenomena that will eventually fade away, the historical record and contemporary events show otherwise. Nationalism still remains the most popular, potent and resilient ideological discourse...
by Profesor Bryan S Turner
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
This wide-ranging and assured book, written by one of the leading Weber scholars in the English-speaking world, shows us the many sides of Max Weber. The book provides an authoritative guide to the current burning issues in social theory, religion, rationalization, the body, modernization and capitalism....
by Professor Bryan S Turner
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
It is often thought that the development of capitalism and the modernization of culture have brought about a profound decline of religious belief and commitment. The history of Christianity in the last two decades appears to be a good illustration of this general process of secularization with the...
Torture
A Sociology of Violence and Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Torture is indisputably abhorrent. Why, you might ask, would you even want to think or read about torture? That is a very good question, and one this book addresses in a compelling and enlightening way. Torture is a very important issue, not least because millions of people around the world have been...
The Anglican Communion at a Crossroads
The Crises of a Global Church
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Worldwide debates over issues of sexuality and gender have come to a head in recent years in mainline and evangelical churches, with the Anglican Communion—a worldwide network of churches that trace their practice to Canterbury and claim some 85 million members—among the most publicly visible...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
This book brings together leading figures in history, sociology, political science, feminism and critical theory to interpret, evaluate, criticize and update Weber's legacy. In a collection of specially commissioned pieces and translated articles the Weberian scholarship recognizes Max Weber as the...
by Stanislav Andreski
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Max Weber (1864-1920) is generally recognised as one of the founding fathers of modern sociology. His ideas continue to be discussed by sociologists and historians and much homage is paid to his contribution to knowledge. However, such is the awe which the breadth of his knowledge inspires that most...
Henri Lefebvre on Space
Architecture, Urban Research, and the Production of Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
In this innovative work, Lukasz Stanek frames a uniquely contextual appreciation of Henri Lefebvre’s idea that space is a social product. Stanek explicitly confronts both the philosophical and the empirical foundations of Lefebvre’s oeuvre, especially his direct involvement in the fields of urban...
Climate Change as Social Drama
Global Warming in the Public Sphere
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Climate change is not just a scientific fact, nor merely a social and political problem. It is also a set of stories and characters that amount to a social drama. This drama, as much as hard scientific or political realities, shapes perception of the problem. Drs Smith and Howe use the perspective...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
When citizens take to the streets or pack assembly halls or share their ideas through the minority press, they often give voice to truths and logic that have otherwise been given little or no airing through the available institutional channels offered by democratic states. Such discourses offer new...