Sociology category: 22581 books
Rethinking Disability
Bodies, Senses, and Things
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
This text is a critical and empirically-based introduction to disability studies. It offers a comprehensive, book-length analysis of disability through the lens of Science and Technology Studies (STS), and presents a practice-oriented discussion of how bodies, senses and things are linked in everyday...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
The contribution of the German sociologist and philosopher Jurgen Habermas has proved seminal for attempts to understand the nature of social change in the context of global capitalism. This book provides an accessible introduction to his work and shows how his theories can be fruitfully applied to...
Pragmatism and Democracy
Studies in History, Social Theory, and Progressive Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
This volume examines the roots of pragmatist imagination and traces the influence of American pragmatism in diverse areas of politics, law, sociology, political science, and transitional studies. The work explores the interfaces between the Progressive movement in politics and American pragmatism....
Sensing the World
An Anthropology of the Senses
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Sensing the World: An Anthropology of the Senses is a highly original and comprehensive overview of the anthropology and sociology of the body and the senses. Discussing each sense in turn – seeing, hearing, touch, smell, and taste – Le Breton has written a truly monumental work, vast in scope...
by Professor Robert J. Holton
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
What causes global inequality? Why should we be concerned about it? Is inequality getting worse or are there signs of improvement and progress?
This critical analysis of the current state of global inequality pushes beyond ideological prejudice and simplistic explanations, to address these...
by George Mead
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) is a central, founding figure of modern sociology, comparable to Karl Marx and Max Weber. Mead's early work, prior to his posthumous publications that appeared after 1932, is believed to be a series of articles contemporary scholarship defines as disconnected. A previously...
by Emile Durkheim
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Émile Durkheim is often referred to as the father of sociology. Along with Karl Marx and Max Weber he was a principal architect of modern social science and whose contribution helped established it as an academic discipline. "The Division of Labor in Society", published in 1893, was his first major...
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The Sociology of the Colonies [Part 1]
An Introduction to the Study of Race Contact
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Otto Kirchheimer
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Why are certain methods of punishment adopted or rejected in a given social situation? To what extent is the development of penal methods determined by basic social relations? The answers to these questions are complex, and go well beyond the thesis that institutionalized punishment is simply for...
by Barry Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Intriguingly different in approach from conventional works in the same area of inquiry, this study deals with the central problems and concerns of the sociology of knowledge as it has traditionally been conceived of. In other words, it is concerned with the relationship of knowledge, social interests...
Interpreting Visual Ethnography
Texts, Photos and the Construction of Sociological Meanings
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
Focusing on the use of text in relation to a specific category of image - the photographic image - this book argues for a new appreciation of the relationship between texts and photographs in an age that seems to be dominated by visual images. With reference to a range of traditional and new media...
Experiencing Multiple Realities
Alfred Schutz’s Sociology of the Finite Provinces of Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
This book offers a theoretical investigation into the general problem of reality as a multiplicity of ‘finite provinces of meaning’, as developed in the work of Alfred Schutz. A critical introduction to Schutz’s sociology of multiple realities as well as a sympathetic re-reading and reconstruction...
Knowledge and Politics (RLE Social Theory)
The Sociology of Knowledge Dispute
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Karl Mannheim’s Ideology and Utopia has been a profoundly provocative book. The debate about politics and social knowledge that was spawned by its original publication in 1929 attracted the most promising younger scholars, some of whom shaped the thought of several generations. The book became a...
Schools of Thought
The Development of Linguistics from Bopp to Saussure
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book is based on the assumption that the development of science has to be understood both as a social and as an intellectual process. The division between internal and external history, between history of ideas and sociology of science, has been harmful not only to our understanding of scientific...