Sociology category: 22581 books
by Georg Simmel
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
"That we shall know with whom we have to do, is the first precondition of having anything to do with another. The customary reciprocal presentation, in the case of any somewhat protracted conversation, or in the case of contact upon the same social plane, although at first sight an empty form,...
by Ross Coomber, Dr Fiona Measham, Dr Karenza Moore
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
'This is a great resource that reflects the huge expertise of the authors. It will be welcomed by students, researchers and indeed anyone wanting critical but comprehensive coverage of key issues and trends concerning drugs and society - locally and globally, historically and today.'
- Nigel South,...
Beyond Technocracy
Science, Politics and Citizens
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
"Will the ordinary man become a scientist?...Bucchi exposes the inadequacy of the ‘technochratic model’ but also the weaknesses of contemporary bioethics when facing the increasing dilemmas posed by science and technology to contemporary society."
-Il Corriere della Sera [Italian...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2019
This book is a novel and original collection of essays on Italians and food. Food culture is central both to the way Italians perceive their national identity and to the consolidation of Italianicity in global context. More broadly, being so heavily symbolically charged, Italian foodways are an excellent...
Society and Medicine
Essays in Honor of Renee C.Fox
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
"The essays in this volume pay tribute to the achievements of RenÚe C. Fox in the fields of medicine and sociology. Many of the contributors are Fox's colleagues and former students from medicine, sociology, nursing, and bioethics. The title--Society and Medicine--reflects the leitmotif in Fox's...
The Engaged Sociologist
Connecting the Classroom to the Community
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
This fully updated edition of The Engaged Sociologist by Kathleen Odell Korgen carries the public sociology movement into the classroom, while at the same time providing an engaging overview of the entire field. It demonstrates how to think sociologically, to develop a sociological eye, and to use...
Time, Innovation and Mobilities
Travels in Technological Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2006
In social theory and sociology, time and travel in technological cultures is one of the new and challenging research topics in the 'mobilities turn'. Yet surprisingly, contemporary practices of mobility have till now, seen only limited theorization within these disciplines. By analyzing historic and...
The Ceremonial Order of the Clinic
Parents, Doctors and Medical Bureaucracies
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
This title was first published in 2001. A classic ethnographic study of the interactions between paediatricians and parents of children thought to be neurologically handicapped. Strong used this work to systematize the often chaotic ideas of Erving Goffman, to explore the connections between micro...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
Some of the most prominent sociologists working in education today have collaborated to address a wide range of empirical and theoretical issues. Adopting an international perspective, this book foregrounds cutting-edge research that highlights both the diversity and complexity of understanding education in society.
Professions and the Public Interest
Medical Power, Altruism and Alternative Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2005
The importance and influence of professions in public life has grown increasingly over the twentieth century but the question of whether they subordinate their own self-interests to the public interest has yet to be adequately researched within a major sociological perspective. In Professions and...
The Public Shaping of Medical Research
Patient Associations, Health Movements and Biomedicine
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Patient organizations and social health movements offer one of the most important and illuminating examples of civil society engagement and participation in scientific research and research politics. Influencing the research agenda, and initiating, funding and accelerating the development of diagnostic...
by Tom Dwyer, Mikhail K Gorshkov, Ishwar Modi;Chunling Li;Mokong Simon Mapadimeng
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Youth are, by definition, the future. This book brings initial analyses to bear on youth in the five BRICS countries: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, which are home to nearly half of the world's youth. Very little is known about these youth outside of their own countries since the mainstream...
Sociological Work
Method and Substance
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Howard S. Becker is a leading contemporary sociologist who interprets society as collective action and sociology, therefore, as the study of collective action. This volume explores the theory and methods necessary to study collective action and social interaction. Becker includes most of his work...
Cycling
A Sociology of Vélomobility
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Cycling: A Sociology of Vélomobility explores cycling as a sociological phenomenon. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, it considers the interaction of materials, competencies and meanings that comprise a variety of cycling practices. What might appear at first to be self-evident actions...