Sociology category: 22581 books

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by Richard Kilminster, Cash Ahenakew, Kim Bachechi
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013

Sociology throws new light on the world we think we know. It can challenge long-held assumptions and it offers a spectrum of possibilities to extend our understandings of everyday life, politics, culture and relationships. It opens our eyes to alternatives for tackling social problems and connects...
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Protestant, Catholic, Jew

An Essay in American Religious Sociology

by Will Herberg
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012

"The most honored discussion of American religion in mid-twentieth century times is Will Herberg's Protestant-Catholic-Jew. . . . [It] spoke precisely to the mid-century condition and speaks in still applicable ways to the American condition and, at its best, the human condition." —Martin...
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Click

The Forces Behind How We Fully Engage with People, Work, and Everything We Do

by Ori Brafman, Rom Brafman
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010

You know the feeling. You meet someone new—at a party or at work—and you just hit it off. There is an instant sense of camaraderie. In a word, you “click.” From the bestselling authors of Sway, Click is a fascinating psychological investigation of the forces behind what makes...
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by Arpad Szakolczai
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007

This book offers a sociological analysis of the Renaissance, focusing on the concept of grace, and the unity that exists between its various meanings: theological, anthropological (gift-giving, Mauss; and sociability, Simmel), and aesthetical (beauty and gracefulness). Since the seminal work...
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Politics, Sociology and Social Theory

Encounters with Classical and Contemporary Social Thought

by Anthony Giddens
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013

Built upon a series of critical encounters with major figures in classical and present-day social and political thought, this volume offers not only a challenging critique of major traditions of social and political analysis, but unique insights into the ideas which Giddens has developed over the past two decades.
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A Sociology of Modernity

Liberty and Discipline

by Peter Wagner
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Cover of The Antinomies of Classical Thought: Marx and Durkheim (Theoretical Logic in Sociology)
by Jeffrey C. Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014

This volume challenges prevailing understanding of the two great founders of sociological thought. In a detailed and systematic way the author demonstrates how Marx and Durkheim gradually developed the fundamental frameworks for sociological materialism and idealism. While most recent interpreters...
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by Peter Wagner
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013

We are all modern today. But modernity today is not what it used to be. Over the past few decades, modernity has been radically changed by globalization, individualization, new inequalities, and fundamentalism. A novel way of analysing contemporary societies is needed. This book proposes such an analysis. Every...
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Fashion and Age

Dress, the Body and Later Life

by Julia Twigg
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2013

Throughout history certain forms and styles of dress have been deemed appropriate - or more significantly, inappropriate - for people as they age. Older women in particular have long been subject to social pressure to tone down, to adopt self-effacing, covered-up styles. But increasingly there are...
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War in Social Thought

Hobbes to the Present

by Hans Joas, Wolfgang Knöbl
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2012

This book, the first of its kind, provides a sweeping critical history of social theories about war and peace from Hobbes to the present. Distinguished social theorists Hans Joas and Wolfgang Knöbl present both a broad intellectual history and an original argument as they trace the development of...
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by John Martyn Chamberlain
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012

This book provides a comprehensive examination of the complex issues surrounding the regulation of the medical profession. It offers up-to-date information on the current legislative framework and institutional arrangements surrounding the regulation in the United Kingdom. Well organized and written...
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The Persistence of Taste

Art, Museums and Everyday Life After Bourdieu

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Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018

This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of the social practice of taste in the wake of Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology of taste. For the first time, this book unites sociologists and other social scientists with artists and curators, art theorists and art educators, and art, design and cultural...
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Knowledge as Culture

The New Sociology of Knowledge

by E. Doyle McCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2005

Drawing on the Marxist, French structuralist and American pragmatist traditions, this is a lively and accessible introduction to the sociology of knowledge.
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Knowledge, Power and Educational Reform

Applying the Sociology of Basil Bernstein

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Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2006

This book is made up of a selection of writings from an international team of scholars, highlighting the contribution made to the field of educational policy and educational policy research by Basil Bernstein's work on the sociology of pedagogy. These contributors explore, analyse and engage with...
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