Sociology category: 22581 books
Medical regulation and revalidation
A critical introduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
Medical sociology has long been concerned with the role played by specialist forms of expertise in enabling the governance of ‘troublesome’ social groups – including those who are unwell, ‘deviant’ and criminally insane. However, only recently has it begun to explore how the state ensures...
The Social Self and Everyday Life
Understanding the World Through Symbolic Interactionism
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
An engaging text that enables readers to understand the world through symbolic interactionism
This lively and accessible book offers an introduction to sociological social psychology through the lens of symbolic interactionism. It provides students with an accessible understanding of this perspective...
The Social Organization of Disease
Emotions and Civic Action
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Empirically, this book is a case-study analysis of dissolution processes in German AIDS organizations. Indeed, why is it that civic organizers start out with a commitment to a cause but end up dissolving their organization? This question is exactly what Kleres seeks to tackle within The Social Organization...
by Robert Holton, Bryan S. Turner
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2010
First published in 1989, this re-issue concerns itself with the relevance of Max Weber's sociology for the understanding of modern times. The book outlines key tenets of Weber's sociology and points to the valuable legacy of Weber's thought in contemporary intellectual debate, particularly with...
Theoretical Principles of Sociology, Volume 3
Mesodynamics
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
The meso-level realm of social reality is structured by corporate and categoric units, along with their respective cultures. Unlike the macro and micro realms of social reality, the meso-level does not reveal its own unique forces. Rather, the dynamics of meso-structures and cultures are driven by...
by Florian Znaniecki
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
This major expression of one of the leaders of the Chicago School, one of the most important schools of thought in contemporary American sociology, includes his recognized masterpieces of sociological research and writing. Hughes pioneered studies in a variety of sociological subjects: social institutions,...
Civilized Rebels
An Inside Story of the West’s Retreat from Global Power
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
Civilized Rebels compares in depth four very well-known literary and political figures, who all opposed arrogant regimes and became prisoners. Through comparative biographies of Oscar Wilde, Jean Améry, Nelson Mandela and Aung San Suu Kyi, it explores the long-term process of the retreat of the West...
The Romance of Culture in an Urban Civilisation
Robert E. Park on Race and Ethnic Relations in Cities
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
In this book, originally published in 1990, the author presents a general, critical overview of Robert E. Park and the Chicago school of American sociology. Lal concentrates on the contribution that Park and those working within the Chicago school tradition have made to the area of urban race and...
by Jonathan H. Turner
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Written by award-winning scholar, Jonathan Turner, Contemporary Sociological Theory covers the range of diversity of theory in nine theoretical traditions, and variants of theoretical approaches in these traditions. The result is a comprehensive review of present-day theorizing in sociology covering...
Handbook on Evolution and Society
Toward an Evolutionary Social Science
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
"Handbook on Evolution and Society" brings together original chapters by prominent scholars who have been instrumental in the revival of evolutionary theorizing and research in the social sciences over the last twenty-five years. Previously unpublished essays provide up-to-date, critical surveys of...
Theoretical Principles of Sociology, Volume 2
Microdynamics
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
Micro-level dynamics revolve around face-to-face interactions among individuals. What occurs within encounters is constrained by their embedding with corporate and categoric units and, by extension, institutional domains, stratification systems, community networks, societies, and inter-societal systems....
The Social Scientist's Soapbox
Adventures in Writing Public Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Whether your goal is to share little-known or misunderstood information, work to create policy changes, or raise awareness about a pressing social issue, this book will help you start communicating with the public and share your research with a broader audience.
Using examples from social scientists...
Ritual as a Missing Link
Sociology, Structural Ritualization Theory, and Research
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Up to now, ritual has been under-utilised for studying human behaviour. This book narrows the gap in our understanding of the social causes and consequences of our actions by focusing on the ritualised behaviours that define much of our daily lives. Knottnerus breaks new ground by comprehensively...
by Bart Landheer
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The academic or scientific occupation with international relations is not always an encouraging task. At times one gets an image of the enormous psychic and physical forces which operate in the international realm, and it then seems that the role of the publicist is almost a negligible one. If one,...