Sociology category: 22581 books
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Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Discussing the relationship between social work and sociology, this book explores how the two have become more and more divided, moving from one single discipline, to two separate, but related, fields.
Both sociology and social work focus on social problems, social structure, social integration...
Knowledge and Social Structure (RLE Social Theory)
An Introduction to the Classical Argument in the Sociology of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
The primary concern of this study is to present, elucidate and analyse the developments which have characterized the sociology of knowledge, and which have set for it the outlines of its major problematics. Peter Hamilton examines the most distinctive approaches to the determinate relationship between...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Karl Mannheim is a classic of sociology. “The Anthem Companion to Karl Mannheim” helps us to accompany him in his open, experimental thinking, the generation of new questions, the recognition of thought experiments as well as the care for controlling evidence, and his negotiations with colleagues...
The Alienated Mind (Routledge Revivals)
The Sociology of Knowledge in Germany 1918-1933
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
This book, first published in 1983, with a second edition in 1992, investigates the emergence of the sociology of knowledge in Germany in the critical period from 1918 to 1933. These years witnessed the development of distinctive paradigms centred on the works of Max Scheler, Georg Lukács and Karl...
Readings in Indian Sociology
Volume VII: Sociology of Environment
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Environment is of great concern to every society because people depend upon it for resource mobilization, livelihood and existence. Our environment or ecosystem is endangered because of population pressure, migration, technological changes, changes in land use for livelihood practices and depletion...
Religion and Families
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
This is the first multidisciplinary text to address the growing scholarly connection between religion and family life. The latest literature from family studies, psychology, sociology, and religion is reviewed along with narratives drawn from interviews with 200 racially, religiously, and regionally...
Political and Military Sociology
Volume 40: An Annual Review
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Several contributions in this volume focus on the modern Middle East, with other articles examining justifications for war, the return of war veterans, white nationalists, and the activities of the Moral Majority.Maria Markantonatou addresses the blurring of distinctions between civilians and combatants....
The Human Rights City
New York, San Francisco, Barcelona
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2019
We are used to thinking of human rights as a matter for state governments to deal with. Much less investigated is the question of what cities do with them, even though urban communities and municipalities have been discussing human rights for quite some time.
In this volume, Grigolo borrows...
Readings in Indian Sociology
Volume I: Towards Sociology of Dalits
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Towards Sociology of Dalits, features 11 select articles with a comprehensive introductory chapter which provide a panoramic outline of the content of Dalit studies in India over time and space. The location of Dalits has been inseparably linked with the caste and economy of Indian society giving...
by Bulent Diken, Carsten Bagge Laustsen
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Sociology through the Projector takes issue with the question of how contemporary film can help answering the general, abstract but still urgent question: what is the social today? This book explains the performative relation to contemporary social theory in which cinema functions as a tool for social...
by Margaret S. Archer
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
First published in 1979, this now classic text presents a major study of the development of educational systems, focusing in detail on those of England, Denmark, France, and Russia - chosen because of their present educational differences and the historical diversity of their cultures and social structures....
A Sociology of the Total Organization
Atomistic Unity in the French Foreign Legion
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Examining the organization of everyday life inside the regiments of the French Foreign Legion, this book takes its theoretical point of departure in the notion of the voluntary total organization; that is to say, an institution that constitutes a geographically delimited place of residence and work...
The Sociology of Religion
Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
This clear introduction to the sociology of religion combines a discussion of key theorists with a modern emphasis on the diversity of religious beliefs and practices. Malcolm Hamilton's expanded second edition brings the discussion fully up-to-date, and extends its material on secularization and...
by Giuseppe Giordan, Linda Woodhead
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Prayer is a central aspect of religion. Even amongst those who have abandoned organized religion levels of prayer remain high. Yet the most basic questions remain unaddressed: What exactly is prayer? How does it vary? Why do people pray and in what situations and settings? Does prayer imply a god,...