Sociology category: 22581 books
Fiction and Social Reality
Literature and Narrative as Sociological Resources
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
In spite of their differing rhetorics and cognitive strategies, sociology and literature are often concerned with the same objects: social relationships, action, motivation, social constraints and relationships, for example. As such, sociologists have always been fascinated with fictional literature....
The Sociology of Space
Materiality, Social Structures, and Action
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
In this book, the author develops a relational concept of space that encompasses social structure, the material world of objects and bodies, and the symbolic dimension of the social world. Löw’s guiding principle is the assumption that space emerges in the interplay between objects, structures...
by Nina Bandelj, Elizabeth Sowers
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
Should governments be involved in economic affairs? Challenging prevailing wisdom about the benefits of self-regulating markets, Nina Bandelj and Elizabeth Sowers offer a uniquely sociological perspective to emphasize that states can never be divorced from economy. From defining property rights and...
Global Powers
Michael Mann's Anatomy of the Twentieth Century and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Michael Mann is a central figure in contemporary sociology. His analysis of how the four sources of social power - ideological, economic, military and political - have shaped world history is a major contribution to social science. In this volume, distinguished scholars assess Mann's work, focusing...
Will Europe Work?
Integration, Employment and the Social Order
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2004
In the post war years European integration was driven by nation states attempting to stimulate economic growth and social cohesion through European trade and cooperation. The results were prosperous, and unified Western European societies were based on full employment and redistributive welfare states....
Education and Sociology
An Encyclopedia
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Kinship and Cohort in an Aging Society
From Generation to Generation
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Kinship and Cohort in an Aging Society brings together scholars whose common link is their intellectual intersection with the work of Vern Bengtson, an esteemed family sociologist whose accomplishments include foundational theoretical contributions to the study of families and intergenerational relations...
by Nico Smit
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2009 in the subject Sociology - Work, Profession, Education, Organisation, grade: 83%, University of Cape Town, language: English, abstract: Drawing on information gathered by means of one-on-one interviews, and supplemented and supported by a vast depth...
Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders
Homeless in San Francisco
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2010
Winner of the 2011 Robert Park Award for the Best Book in Community and Urban Sociology, American Sociological Association, 2011
Co-winner of the 2011 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book in the Sociology of Culture, American Sociological Association, 2011
When homelessness reemerged...
The Decent Society
Planning for Social Quality
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
The search for ‘the Decent Society’ – a fit place in which to live – has informed policy at both governmental and international level. This book analyses its nature and devises a consistent way of measuring the concept world-wide on the basis of a coherent theory of agency within social structure....
by R. N. Morris, John Mogey
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Pierre Bourdieu
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Much orthodox economic theory is based on assumptions which are treated as self-evident: supply and demand are regarded as independent entities, the individual is assumed to be a rational agent who knows his interests and how to make decisions corresponding to them, and so on. But one has only to...
by Mirela Shira
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Scientific Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Sociology - Political Sociology, Majorities, Minorities, grade: 2, University of Vienna (Institut für den Donauraum und Mitteleuropa), course: Modul Soziologie, language: English, abstract: Eighteen years ago, mobility in eastern and central Europe...
Advocacy for Social Change
Coalitions and the Organizations That Lead Them
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
This book portrays how small, geographically dispersed, and progressive social change and social service organizations working within a coalition can influence national-level social policies. Based on extensive empirical research on two national organizations and their local affiliates, one focusing...