Sociology category: 22581 books
by Bryan S. Turner, Robert J. Holton
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
'In this remarkable collection of essays, Holton and Turner demonstrate that Parsonian sociology addresses the most central problems of our time – issues of sickness and health, power and inequality, the nature of capitalism and its possible alternatives. They develop a mature and original perspective...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
This edited volume offers a collection of papers that present a comparative analysis of the development of Shari’a in countries with Muslim minorities, such as America, Australia, Germany, and Italy, as well as countries with Muslim majorities, such as Malaysia, Bangladesh, Turkey, and Tunisia.
The...
Sociology of Crisis
Visualising Urban Austerity
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
The global financial crisis has demonstrated the impact and implications of late capitalism and its bedfellow, globalisation. In the European context, crisis is seen as a threat to the stability of the region, rather than a local or national concern. Post-2008, crisis is social and political, rather...
Sociology
Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
In Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life, David M. Newman shows students how to see the "unfamiliar in the familiar"—to step back and see organization and predictability in their take-for-granted personal experiences.
With his approachable writing style and lively...
Civil Society and Class Politics
Essays on the Political Sociology of Seymour Martin Lipset
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Seymour Martin Lipset's work throughout a long and distinguished career has been stamped by several features: a powerful linkage of research data and social theory, innovative views of historical events, and a realization that politics is an activity native to all human beings, voters and non-voters,...
Readings in Indian Sociology
Volume IV: Sociology of Health
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Sociology of Health, contains empirical and theoretical articles that apply sociological concepts and methods to the understanding of health and illness and the organization of medicine and healthcare. Further the articles also try to explore the understanding of the process by which social practices and human health are related.
Postcolonial Sociologies
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Postcolonial theory has mostly been confined to literary studies and the humanities, but it has been slowly making its way into social science. This is a welcome development but poses new challenges. How can postcolonial thought be most fruitfully translated and incorporated into sociology? This special...
by Kevin White
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
The bestselling An Introduction to the Sociology of Health and Illness has long been the go-to text for students looking for a clear, engaging and theoretically informed introduction to this dynamic topic.
Written with a truly sociological and critical perspective, and thoroughly updated to...
The Sociology of Medical Screening
Critical Perspectives, New Directions
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
The Sociology of Medical Screening: Critical Perspectives, New Directions presents a series of readings that provide an up-to-date overview of the diverse sociological issues relating to population-based medical screening.
Features new research data in most of the contributions
Includes contributions...
Toward a Reflexive Political Sociology of the European Union
Fields, Intellectuals and Politicians
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
This book argues that contemporary European politics creates new forms of
transnational power that challenge the traditional parameters of the nation-state.
Kauppi identifies and critically explores the evolving dynamics between national
and transnational spaces, groups and knowledge,...
Democratic Culture and Moral Character
A Study in Culture and Personality
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
This book returns critical theory to its roots in both psychology and the social sciences. It shows some of the relationships between equality in a political and social sense and personal identity that either relates well to such equality, or rebels against it. All this reflects processes of social...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Critical Themes in Indian Sociology brings together the writings of a number of scholars—both well established and younger, in India and in different parts of the world—on various themes that express the richness and diversity that defines sociological scholarship on India. The book reflects changes...
The dialectics of agency and structure in transitional democracy
An actor-network analysis of Nigeria's political transition
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2015 in the subject Sociology - Political Sociology, Majorities, Minorities, grade: 1,8, University of Freiburg (Institute of Sociology), course: Sociology, language: English, abstract: This thesis argues that we can no longer ignore elite's enrolment of...
Sociology of Religion
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2019
Sociology of Religion is a collection that seeks to explore the relationship between the structure and culture of religion and various elements of social life in the United States. This reader is an ideal standalone course text and can also serve as supplement to the text written by the same author...