Sociology category: 22581 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Global Science and National Sovereignty: Studies in Historical Sociology of Science provides detailed case studies on how sovereignty has been constructed, reaffirmed, and transformed in the twentieth century by the construction of scientific disciplines, knowledge practices, and research objects....
by John G. Bruhn, Howard M. Rebach
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
This volume conceptualizes caregiving as an emerging sociological issue involving complex and fluctuating roles. The authors contend that caregiving must be considered in the context of the life span with needs that vary according to age, developmental levels, mental health needs and physical health...
Syphilis and Subjectivity
From the Victorians to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
This book demystifies the cultural work of syphilis from the late nineteenth century to the present. By interrogating the motivations that engender habits of belief, thought, and conduct regarding the disease and notions of the self, this interdisciplinary volume investigates constructions of syphilis...
Deviance
Social Constructions and Blurred Boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
Deviance: Social Constructions and Blurred Boundaries draws on up-to-date scholarship across a wide spectrum of deviance categories, providing a symbolic interactionist analysis of the deviance process. The book addresses positivistic theories of deviant behavior within a description of the deviance...
An End to the Crisis of Empirical Sociology?
Trends and Challenges in Social Research
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Research data are everywhere. In our everyday interactions, through social media, credit cards and even public transport, we generate and use data. The challenge for sociologists is how to collect, analyse and make best use of these vast arrays of information.
The chapters in this book address...
by Warren D. TenHouten
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
Founded upon the psychoevolutionary theories of Darwin, Plutchik and Izard, a general socioevolutionary theory of the emotions - affect-spectrum theory - classifies a wide spectrum of the emotions and analyzes them on the sociological, psychological and neurobiological levels.
This neurocognitive...
The Metropolis in Black and White
Place, Power and Polarization
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
The Metropolis in Black and White highlights a stark fact: America's metropolitan areas are more polarized along racial lines than at any time since the mid-1960s. Though urban areas have become multicultural, the editors argue that black-white racial differences will outlast ethnic differences in...
Moral Order and Social Disorder
American Search for Civil Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Drawing upon both classical insights and more recent writings, Hearn provides a compelling account of social breakdown in the United States. The book examines the conditions most responsible for the deterioration of social institutions, notably the family, and of communitarian interdependencies, such...
by Roswitha Fürst
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2003
Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject Sociology - Work, Profession, Education, Organisation, grade: 1,0 (A), Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (School of Social Science and Humanities), course: Sociology of work: Capita Selecta, 18 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract:...
Tie a Knot and Hang on
Providing Mental Health Care in a Turbulent Environment
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Tie a Knot and Hang On is an analysis of mental health care work that crosses the borders of diverse sociological traditions. The work seeks to understand the theoretical and empirical linkages between environmental pressures and activities and how these intersect with organizations and individuals....
An Invitation to Ethnomethodology
Language, Society and Interaction
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2004
This book offers a new and rigorous approach to observational sociology that is grounded in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis.
Throughout the authors encourage the reader to explore the social world at first hand, beginning with the immediate family context and then moving out into...
by Darin Barney
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
In The Network Society, Darin Barney provides a compelling examination of the social, political and economic implications of network technologies and their application across a wide range of practices and institutions.
Are we in the midst of a digital revolution? Have new information and communication...
The Sociology Of Development
The Impasse And Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Childhoods in India
Traditions, Trends and Transformations
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
This book highlights the significance of an interdisciplinary approach to understanding children and childhoods in the Indian context. While it is recognised that multiple kinds of childhoods exist in India, policy and practice approaches to working with children are still based on a singular model...