Sociology category: 22581 books
by Niels Reeh
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
Since 2001, history has proven the classic and once dominant theories of secularization wrong. Instead of abandoning the subject of secularization, Niels Reeh’s Secularization Revisited demonstrates how the collapse of formerly dominant secularization theories indicates fundamental conceptual challenges...
The Sociology of Language and Religion
Change, Conflict and Accommodation
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
This is an eclectic collection of essays which successfully demonstrate how the Sociology of Language and Religion as a disciplinary paradigm responds to change, conflict and accommodation. The multiple religious coverage in the essays (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) as well as more or less global panorama.
by Jukka Gronow
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
The modern society of consumption is a society of fashion. Fashion has extended its influence over various fields of social life and, together with taste, become central to our understanding of the inner dynamics of any modern society.
The Sociology of Taste looks at the role of taste - or the aesthetic...
Emotion and Social Structures
The Affective Foundations of Social Order
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
The past decades have seen significant advances in the sociological understanding of human emotion. Sociology has shown how culture and society shape our emotions and how emotions contribute to micro- and macro-social processes. At the same time, the behavioral sciences have made progress in understanding...
Sociological Paradigms and Organisational Analysis
Elements of the Sociology of Corporate Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
The authors argue in this book that social theory can usefully be conceived in terms of four broad paradigms, based upon different sets of meta-theoretical assumptions with regard to the nature of social science and the nature of society. The four paradigms - Functionalist, Interpretive, Radical Humanist...
Seeing Religion
Toward a Visual Sociology of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
The potential of visual research methods in the sociology of religion is vast, but largely untapped. This comes as a surprise, however, given the visual, symbolic, and material nature of religion and spirituality. Evidence of religious faith and practice is materially present in everything from clothing...
Acting Politics
A Critical Sociology of the Political Field
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Following Bourdieu, this book seeks ‘to think about politics without thinking politically’, advancing the view that politics as conventionally understood does not take place in a social vacuum, but in the context of a certain topography of society that cannot be reduced to formal spaces (such...
by Seth Christopher Yaw Appiah
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
Master's Thesis from the year 2015 in the subject Sociology - Miscellaneous, grade: A (70.0), Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL WORK), course: SOCIOLOGY, language: English, abstract: Incidence and prevalence of reproductive health difficulties have...
by Oakley, Ann
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
In this ground-breaking book, acclaimed sociologist Ann Oakley undertook one of the first serious sociological studies to examine women’s work in the home. She interviewed 40 urban housewives and analysed their perceptions of housework, their feelings of monotony and fragmentation, the length of...
Social Theory as a Vocation
Genres of Theory Work in Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
In this unprecedented collection, Donald N. Levine rejuvenates the field of social theory in the face of lagging institutional support. The work canvasses the universe of types of theory work in sociology and offers probing examples from his array of scholarly investigations.Social Theory as a Vocation...
Deciphering Goffman
The Structure of his Sociological Theory Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Challenging the ‘classical’ conception of Goffman’s sociology, this book offers a new interpretation based on a comprehensive examination of previous interpretations and critical assessments of Goffman’s work.
Epistemologically, the book acknowledges the important but overlooked influences...
Some recent trends in United States methodology and general sociology
Published in Sociologia n. 2/2017. Rivista quadrimestrale di Scienze Storiche e Sociali. Un contributo dell’Istituto Luigi Sturzo alla rinascita della Sociologia in Italia
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Because the amount of research and publication in the United States is much too vast to permit a thorough review in one session, two topics have been selected for each of the two areas assigned to this reporter: methodology and general sociology.
by Jamie Cleland
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Association football is now the global sport, consumed in various ways by millions of people across the world. Throughout its history, football has been a catalyst as much for social cohesion, unity, excitement and integration as it can be for division, exclusion and discrimination. A Sociology of...
Social Science of the Syringe
A Sociology of Injecting Drug Use
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
This book addresses the history of harm reduction. It evaluates the consequences and constraints, stakes and costs of the policy of needle exchange for the purposes of harm prevention and health research. Vitellone situates the syringe at the centre of empirical research and theoretical analysis,...