Sociology category: 22581 books
by Dr Simon Bradford
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
How can sociology inform our understanding of young people's experiences? Introducing core theories by drawing on a range of cultural resources - from pioneering research to genre-defining films - this book demonstrates how a sociological imagination can enhance informal educational and social welfare approaches to work with young people.
Race, Class, and Power
Ideology and Revolutionary Change in Plural Societies
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Examining in detail the apparently inexorable polarization of society in such countries as Rwanda, Algeria, and South Africa, the author questions whether current theories correctly explain the past or offer adequate guides for the future. In their place he puts forward an alternative neo-Durkheimian...
Growth Cultures
The Global Bioeconomy and its Bioregions
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
This groundbreaking book is the first comparative analysis of the relative strengths of global bioregions. Growth Cultures investigates the rapidly growing phenomena of biotechnology and sets this study within a knowledge economy context. Philip Cooke proposes a new knowledge-focused theoretical framework,...
by Christoph Behrends
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2008
Essay from the year 2005 in the subject Sociology - Political Sociology, Majorities, Minorities, grade: 1,5, University of Leicester (Department of Sociology), course: Identity and Society, 19 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The issue about 'race' is still of great significance...
by Pip Jones, Liz Bradbury
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
This revised edition of this extremely popular introduction to social theory has been carefully and thoroughly updated with the latest developments in this continually changing field. Written in a refreshingly lucid and engaging style, Introducing Social Theory provides readers with a wide-ranging,...
Populism
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
Populism: An Introduction is the first introduction to the theme of populism. It will introduce the principal theories, definitions, models and contemporary debates. A number of global case studies will be used to illustrate the concept:
• Russian populism;
• Latin American populism;
•...
Entanglements of Modernity, Colonialism and Genocide
Burundi and Rwanda in Historical-Sociological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
This book offers a novel sociological examination of the historical trajectories of Burundi and Rwanda. It challenges both the Eurocentric assumptions which have underpinned many sociological theorisations of modernity, and the notion that the processes of modernisation move gradually, if precariously,...
by S. Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
This book explores sociological debates in relation to culture, taste and value. It argues that sociology can contribute to debates about aesthetic value and to an understanding of how people evaluate.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
This book examines the life and works of Jane Addams who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (1931). Addams led an international women's peace movement and is noted for spearheading a first-of-its-kind international conference of women at The Hague during World War I. She helped to found the Women's...
Ulrich Beck
An Introduction to the Theory of Second Modernity and the Risk Society
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Since the 1980s, Ulrich Beck has worked extensively on his theories of second modernity and the risk society. In Ulrich Beck, Mads P. Sørensen and Allan Christiansen provide an extensive and thorough introduction to the German sociologist’s collected works. The book covers his sociology of work,...
Normativity in Legal Sociology
Methodological Reflections on Law and Regulation in Late Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
The field of socio-legal research has encountered three fundamental challenges over the last three decades – it has been criticized for paying insufficient attention to legal doctrine, for failing to develop a sound theoretical foundation and for not keeping pace with the effects of the increasing...
Rethinking Sociological Theory
Introducing and Explaining a Scientific Theoretical Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Stephen K. Sanderson s latest book recaptures a scientific theoretical sociology, one whose fundamental aim is the formulation of real theories that can be empirically tested. Sanderson reviews the major theoretical traditions within contemporary sociology, explicating their key principles, critically...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Philip Rieff (1922–2006) was a preeminent American social and cultural theorist. The original essays in The Anthem Companion to Philip Rieff offer an important new assessment of the major works of Philip Rieff by leading writers in the fields of social and cultural theory. These essays are the first...
Realism and Sociology
Anti-Foundationalism, Ontology and Social Research
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
In recent years, methodological debates in the social sciences have increasingly focused on issues relating to epistemology. Realism and Sociology makes an original contribution to the debate, charting a middle ground between postmodernism and positivism.
Critics often hold that realism tries to assume...