Sociology category: 22581 books
Structure, Culture and Agency
Selected Papers of Margaret Archer
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Professor Margaret Archer is a leading critical realist and major contemporary social theorist. This edited collection seeks to celebrate the scope and accomplishments of her work, distilling her theoretical and empirical contributions into four sections which capture the essence and trajectory of...
The Sociology of Katrina
Perspectives on a Modern Catastrophe
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
The second edition of The Sociology of Katrina brings together the nation's top sociological researchers in an effort to deepen our understanding of the modern catastrophe that is Hurricane Katrina. Five years after the storm, its profound impact continues to be felt.
This new edition explores...
Italian Sociology,1945–2010
An Intellectual and Institutional Profile
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
This book provides a comprehensive profile of the development of sociology in Italy from the post-war period to the present day. The first English-language account of the history of Italian sociology, it focuses on the process of institutionalization of the discipline within the Italian university...
by Robert L. Kerr
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
The Sociology of Sports-Talk Radio is the latest sports-media scholarship from the author of How Postmodernism Explains Football and Football Explains Postmodernism, winner of the 2017 Outstanding Book Award from the National Communication Association ’s Communication and Sport Division.
The...
Australian Sociology
Fragility, Survival, Rivalry
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Battered and bruised by injuries (often self-inflicted) sustained in the first half of the twentieth century since 1950 sociology in Australia has fought its way back into the academic mainstream. This has not been easy; its fortunes seem forever mixed – good in some places and dismal in others. But it has proved itself resilient, it is a survivor.
by Olli Pyyhtinen
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
While Georg Simmel is widely known, the impact of his work has been far from straightforward, with the ways in which his ideas have been taken up by later thinkers as complex and diverse as the ideas themselves. The Simmelian Legacy is a comprehensive study of the work of this influential sociologist...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
W. E. B. Du Bois is the founding figure of the sociological study of the Black Church. His discussion of the six functions of Philadelphia’s Black Church in The Philadelphia Negro (1899) represented an early example of a “functional analysis” of a religious group. In The Negro Church (1903),...
Scholars and Southern Californian Immigrants in Dialogue
New Conversations in Public Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Immigration has been a contested issue for decades. This distinctive volume of essays on Southern Californian immigration is inspired by Michael Burawoy’s call for academic consideration to be more open and accessible to people in what he calls “public sociology.” The essays in Scholars and...
American Soldiers in Iraq
McSoldiers or Innovative Professionals?
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
American Soldiers in Iraq offers a unique snapshot of American soldiers in Iraq, analyzing their collective narratives in relation to the military sociology tradition.
Grounded in a century-long tradition of sociology offering a window into the world of American soldiers, this volume serves...
Sociological Traditions
Methods and Perspectives in the Sociology of India
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
Sociological Traditions book looks at the sociology of India from two perspectives: first, understanding the cultural traditions of India with special reference to religious and ethical values; and second, exploring the growth of the sociological traditions of India.
Divided in two parts, the...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
This volume approaches the study of Muslim societies through an evolutionary lens, challenging Islamic traditions, identities, communities, beliefs, practices and ideologies as static, frozen or unchangeable. It assumes that there is neither a monolithic, essential or authentic Islam, nor a homogeneous...
Political and Military Sociology, an Annual Review
Volume 44, Democracy, Security, and Armed Forces
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The latest volume of the Political and Military Sociology annual review features empirical research on topics that focus on security, military training, culture, and the challenges of bureaucracy, law, and violence in democracies. The articles cover an impressive geographic range from Europe to Africa...
Lobbying and Society
A Political Sociology of Interest Groups
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
Lobbying and political interest groups occupy an ambivalent place in advanced democracies. Lobbying is viewed with suspicion, but is also a critical avenue for voices in policy debates.
This insightful book injects a new sociological understanding of politics and policy. Interest groups help...
An Introduction to Sociology
Feminist Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
This third edition of this best-selling book confirms the ongoing centrality of feminist perspectives and research to the sociological enterprise, and introduces students to the wide range of feminist contributions in key areas of sociological concern. Completely revised, this edition includes:
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