Sociology category: 22581 books
Introduction to Gender
Social Science Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Thoroughly updated in this second edition, Introduction to Gender offers an interdisciplinary approach to the main themes and debates in gender studies. This comprehensive and contemporary text explores the idea of gender from the perspectives of history, sociology, social policy, anthropology, psychology,...
Bi America
Myths, Truths, and Struggles of an Invisible Community
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Gain an in-depth understanding of the unique struggles of the bisexual community!
To me the gay and straight worlds are exactly the same; equally limited, judgmental, and bourgeois . . . just mirror images of each other. I truly like and overlap with some of the gay world, but my roots refuse...
Religion, Culture & Society
A Global Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
"The reader is taken on a global exploration of the forms and diversities of religions and their social and cultural contexts... It is up to the minute in research and theory, and comfortably grounded in the traditions of the social explanation of things religious and spiritual."
- Gary...
Between Sex and Power
Family in the World 1900-2000
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
The institution of the family changed hugely during the course of the twentieth century. In this major new work, Göran Therborn provides a global history and sociology of the family as an institution and of politics within the family, focusing on three dimensions of family relations: on the rights...
by Christian Karner
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
Mixing theories of the everyday with a wide range of case studies, this book explains the 'character' of ethnicity, from being a political tool of exclusion, to a source of meaning and solidarity, and the relationship between culture, power and identity.
Combining theories of the everyday with...
by W. M. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Evangelical Youth Culture
Alternative Music and Extreme Sports Subcultures
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
This book offers a theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich study of the intersections of contemporary Christianity and youth culture, focusing on evangelical engagements with punk, hip hop, surfing, and skateboarding. Ibrahim Abraham draws on interviews and fieldwork with dozens of musicians...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Creative Labour
Media Work in Three Cultural Industries
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
What is it like to work in the media? Are media jobs more ‘creative’ than those in other sectors? To answer these questions, this book explores the creative industries, using a combination of original research and a synthesis of existing studies.
Through its close analysis of key issues...
Angry Abolitionists and the Rhetoric of Slavery
Moral Emotions in Social Movements
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
This book is an original application of rhetoric and moral-emotions theory to the sociology of social movements. It promotes a new interdisciplinary vision of what social movements are, why they exist, and how they succeed in attaining momentum over time. Deepening the affective dimension of cultural...
Qualitative Complexity
Ecology, Cognitive Processes and the Re-Emergence of Structures in Post-Humanist Social Theory
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
Offering a critique of the humanist paradigm in contemporary social theory, Qualitative Complexity is the first comprehensive sociological analysis of complexity theory. Drawing from sources in sociology, philosophy, complexity theory, 'fuzzy logic', systems theory, cognitive science and evolutionary...
by Stefan Lochner
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
Essay from the year 2004 in the subject Sociology - Political Sociology, Majorities, Minorities, grade: G, Credits 6, University of Dalarna, language: English, abstract: It is very difficult to give a proper and precise definition of the social group or milieu of intellectuals because of its heterogenity...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Digital technologies, digital media, and mobile technologies now shape the experience of everyday life in the Western world, yet the way our quotidian lives are enmeshed with these technologies is far from clearly understood. Through studies of the digital everyday, sociologists are beginning to reinvigorate...
CyberGenetics
Health genetics and new media
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Online genetic testing services are increasingly being offered to consumers who are becoming exposed to, and knowledgeable about, new kinds of genetic technologies, as the launch of a 23andme genetic testing product in the UK testifies. Genetic research breakthroughs, cheek swabbing forensic pathologists...