Sociology category: 22581 books
by Christine Schlapa
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2007
Essay from the year 2007 in the subject Sociology - Gender Studies, grade: 88%, University of Auckland (Department of Sociology), course: Family, Women and the State, 24 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Today, a number of medical technologies with varying degrees of accuracy...
by David Hörnle
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Sociology - Political Sociology, Majorities, Minorities, grade: 1,1, Berlin School of Economics, 18 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Currently a hotly debated topic dominates the domestic section of the media in Germany: the...
Mobilizing Regions, Mobilizing Europe
Expert Knowledge and Scientific Planning in European Regional Development
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Regional development strategies are becoming more similar all around Europe, even though regional differences are more pronounced than ever and many European regions have become more autonomous actors. This thesis of a peculiar standardized diversification of sub-national space in the modern European...
Ulrich Beck
Pioneer in Cosmopolitan Sociology and Risk Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2014
This book presents Ulrich Beck, one of the world’s leading sociologists and social thinkers, as a Pioneer in Cosmopolitan Sociology and Risk Society. His world risk society theory has been confirmed by recent disasters – events that have shaken modern society to the core, signaling the end of...
Language, Structure and Reproduction (Routledge Revivals)
An Introduction to the Sociology of Basil Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Basil Bernstein is one of the most creative and influential of contemporary British sociologists, yet his work – especially that relating to language and social structure – is widely misunderstood and misrepresented. This book, first published in 1985, addresses the underlying themes and continuities...
Whose Music?
Sociology of Musical Languages
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Whose Music? combines historical, musicological, and sociological materials and styles of analysis in ways that connect to the field of sociology. The analyses of social class systems presented here speak in translatable ways to analyses of musical forms. Not only that, both are connected to an understanding...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
At a time when the public discussion of mental illness in society is reaching a high point, athletes and other sports insiders remain curiously silent about their private battles with a range of mental illnesses. While a series of professional athletes have exposed the deep, dark secret related to...
The Machine at Work
Technology, Work and Organization
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
This highly topical book is a concise and accessible account of the relationship between technology and work. Firstly, it reviews and critically assesses a variety of recent approaches to the social and cultural dimensions of technology. Secondly, it examines the implications of these new approaches...
The Cultural Sociology of Political Assassination
From MLK and RFK to Fortuyn and van Gogh
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
Developing the theory of cultural trauma in regard to the shattering potential effects of political assassinations, Eyerman examines political and social life in three different national contexts: Martin Luther King, Bobby Kennedy, and Harvey Milk in the U.S.; Theo Van Gogh in the Netherlands; and Olof Palme and Anna Lindh in Sweden
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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 Alex Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
"A brave foray into the interdisciplinary and a serious attempt to cover city life in all its complexity... Franklin's optimism about the city is refreshing. He revels in the growing human and cultural diversity and the 're-emergence and spread of a more tolerant, carnivalesque, culture-driven...
Youth, Arts, and Education
Reassembling Subjectivity through Affect
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
How are the arts important in young people’s lives? Youth, Arts and Education offers a groundbreaking theory of arts education. Anna Hickey-Moody explores how the arts are ways of belonging, resisting, being governed and being heard.
Through examples from the United Kingdom and Australia,...
Sociology of Love
The Agapic Dimension of Societal Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
This short book deals with a sociological concept: love-agape. It is an attempt to demonstrate that love-agape resists, indeed insists, as a fact that cannot be reduced or concealed. Its simple goal is to introduce agape into the vocabulary of sociological analysis by demonstrating its potential to...
The Informal Economy
Seasonal Work, Street Selling and Sex Work
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2016
This book examines the nature and regulation of the informal economy by means of a collective case study in a highly regulated Western country. The book, situated at the intersection of criminology and sociology, investigates the relation between formal, informal and criminal work in three urban and...