Sociology category: 22581 books
by David Lee, Howard Newby
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
First Published in 1983. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Ross Coomber, Joseph F. Donnermeyer, Karen McElrath
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
"A crucial text for whetting the academic appetite of those studying criminology at university. The comprehensive engagement with key crime and deviance debates and issues make this a perfect springboard for launching into the complex, diverse and exciting realm of researching criminology."
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Conceptualising the Social World
Principles of Sociological Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2011
This comprehensive and authoritative statement of fundamental principles of sociological analysis integrates approaches that are often seen as mutually exclusive. John Scott argues that theorising in sociology and other social sciences is characterised by the application of eight key principles of...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
If today students of social theory read Jurgen Habermas, Michel Foucault and Anthony Giddens, then proper regard to the question of culture means that they should also read Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall and Slavoj Zizek. The Routledge Handbook of Social and Cultural Theory offers a concise, comprehensive...
Conversations with Anthony Giddens
Making Sense of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Anthony Giddens has been described as 'the most important English social philosopher of our time'. Over twenty-five years, and even more books, he has established himself as the most widely-read and widely-cited social theorist of his generation. His ideas have profoundly influenced the writing and...
Culture, Society, and Democracy
The Interpretive Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
This volume addresses the key question of the intersection of sociology and politics, and asks what a non-Marxist cultural perspective can offer the Left. Written by leading scholars, it develops new conceptions of social critique, new techniques of interpretive analysis, and new concepts for the...
Sociological Impressionism (Routledge Revivals)
A Reassessment of Georg Simmel's Social Theory
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
When Sociological Impressionism was first published in 1981, it was the first comprehensive study on Simmel’s social theory to appear in English since 1925. A pioneering work, it did much to bring about the rediscovery of Georg Simmel as one of the key sociologists of the twentieth century. David...
Solidarity in Individualized Societies
Recognition, Justice and Good Judgement
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
In today’s individualized, culturally diverse and globalized society, many sociologists have concluded that the conceptualizations developed by classical sociology are no longer sufficient to promote social cohesion. So what kind of solidarity can achieve this? Engaging with recent thought in social...
How "National" is Social Theory? Critical notes on some worrying trends in the recent theorizing of Richard Munch
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
World sociology would lose in the comprehensiveness of its perspective and the variety of its approaches to social reality if the American standardization of a professionalized discipline continued its ascendancy. European sociology needs to resist this trend just as Europe inevitably has to resist...
Delimiting Modernities
Conceptual Challenges and Regional Responses
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
This collection seeks to contribute to the many long-standing discussions on modernity, but also and more specifically to the more recent debates over trends to pluralize modernity. These debates are current in many different academic disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, literature and postcolonial...
by Michael Hviid Jacobsen, Soren Kristiansen
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
Part of the SAGE Social Thinker series, this book serves as a concise and inviting introduction to the life and works of Erving Goffman, one of the most prominent social theorists in postwar sociology. Goffman’s ideas continue to influence scholars in various fields and have also attracted many...
The Interactionist Imagination
Studying Meaning, Situation and Micro-Social Order
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
This book outlines the history and developments of interactionist social thought through a consideration of its key figures. Arranged chronologically, each chapter illustrates the impact that individual sociologists working within an interactionism framework have had on interactionism as perspective...
by Kenneth Thompson, Ken Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Freedom and Consumerism
A Critique of Zygmunt Bauman's Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
How does Bauman understand the concept of freedom, and how does this understanding relate to the political traditions of conservatism, liberalism and socialism? Mark Davis offers a critical enquiry into the sociology of Zygmunt Bauman, focusing on his English-language writings from the 1960s onwards....