Sociology category: 22581 books
From Financial Crisis to Social Change
Towards Alternative Horizons
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
This edited collection critically engages with a range of contemporary issues in the aftermath of the North Atlantic financial crisis that began in 2007. From challenging the erosion of academic authority to the myth that parliamentary democracy is not worth engaging with, it addresses three interrelated...
Youth and Social Class
Enduring Inequality in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
This book addresses the recent marginalisation of class theory in youth sociology. The authors argue for the importance of reinstating class analysis as central to understanding young people’s lives in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. Their analysis recognises that in periods of social...
by Beate Littig
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
For courses in Environmental studies, Environmental Sociology, Environmental geography and Development studies; Women's studies and Women's issues options on a wide variety of degree courses. Combining theory with practice, this concise, accessible text provides a comprehensive introduction to the...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
The role of behavioral and social sciences in the courtroom setting has expanded exponentially in the past few decades. It is now widely recognized that scientists in these areas provide critical contextual information for legal decision making, and that there is a reliable knowledge base for doing...
The Clinical Experience, Second edition (1997)
The Construction and Reconstrucion of Medical Reality
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
This second edition, published in 1997 follows the original edition from 1981 which was the only published ethnography of medical education in the UK. The theoretical, methodological and substantive issues continue to be of importance to the sociology and anthropology of medicine and medical knowledge....
by Nicholas J. Spykman
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Contemporary sociology increasingly seems to be adopting a perspective similar to that on which Georg Simmel's analysis and interpretations rested. To a significant degree, therefore, sociologists continue to turn to Simmel for a basic understanding of the forms and processes of social life. Nicholas...
Research Methods and Methods in Context Revision Notes for AS Level and A Level Sociology, AQA Focus
Research Methods and Methods in Context Revision Notes for AS Level and A Level Sociology, AQA Focus
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
This brief set of revision notes has been designed to help students revise for the research methods section of both the AS and A level Sociology exams. It should be sufficient to get students through both the AQA, OCR and Welsh Board Syllabuses.Contents:Introduction to Research Methods –...
The Social after Gabriel Tarde
Debates and Assessments
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
The social sciences and humanities are now being swept by a Tardean revival, a rediscovery and reappraisal of the work of this truly unique thinker, for whom ‘everything is a society and every science a sociology’. Tarde is being brought forward as the misrecognised forerunner of a post-Durkheimian...
Race, Sport and Politics
The Sporting Black Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Written by one of the leading international authorities on the sociology of race and sport, this is the first book to address sport's role in 'the making of race', the place of sport within black diasporic struggles for freedom and equality, and the contested location of sport in relation to the politics...
Doing Sociology in India
Genealogies, Locations, and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
This important volume on the history of sociology in India locates scholars, scholarship, theories, perspectives, and practices of the discipline in different cities and regions of the country over a century. It argues that this history is enmeshed in political projects of constructing a ‘society’,...
An Introduction to the Sociology of Ignorance
Essays on the Limits of Knowing
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Ignorance is typically thought of as the absence or opposite of knowledge. In global societies that equate knowledge with power, ignorance is seen as a liability that can and should be overcome through increased education and access to information. In recent years, scholars from the social sciences,...
Managing Chineseness
Identity and Ethnic Management in Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
This book explores the personal experiences of professionals who are a part of the post-colonial and late-industrializing reality in the global value chain in Singapore. Looking at Chinese Singaporean employees at a French multi-national firm, the author explores the evolving social constructions...
The Sociology of Generations
New Directions and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
This book suggests that the enduring problem of generations remains that of knowledge: how society conceptualises the relationship between past, present and future, and the ways in which this is transmitted by adults to the young. Reflecting on Mannheim’s seminal essay ‘The Problem of Generations’,...
Public Sociology Capstones
Non-Neoliberal Alternatives to Internships
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Social science departments, both nationally and internationally, market boundless career destinations for their graduates but fail to identify the pathways to these lucrative destinations, and appear oblivious to the social forces that threaten their existence, such as the discerning parent’s investment...