Sociology category: 22581 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Fifty Key Sociologists: The Contemporary Theorists covers the life, work, ideas and impact of some of the most important thinkers in this discipline.
Concentrating on figures writing predominantly in the second half of the twentieth century, such as Zygmunt Bauman, Pierre Bourdieu, Judith Butler,...
Interpretation and Social Knowledge
On the Use of Theory in the Human Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
For the past fifty years anxiety over naturalism has driven debates in social theory. One side sees social science as another kind of natural science, while the other rejects the possibility of objective and explanatory knowledge. Interpretation and Social Knowledge suggests a different route, offering...
The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences
Positivism and Its Epistemological Others
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2005
The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences provides a remarkable comparative assessment of the variations of positivism and alternative epistemologies in the contemporary human sciences. Often declared obsolete, positivism is alive and well in a number of the fields; in others, its influence is...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
The Routledge Companion to Social Theory provides an authoritative, comprehensive and provocative introduction to the key traditions of thought in social theory today. This ground-breaking reference work brings together major contributors, both established and emergent new voices, to reflect on the...
by Piet Strydom
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Contemporary critical theory’s methodology is currently taking shape under the impact both of transformative internal develops within the discipline, and of external pressures and incentives arising from a series of international debates.
In this book, Piet Strydom presents a groundbreaking...
by Martyn Hammersley
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
This stimulating and refreshing study, written by one of the leading commentators in the field, provides novel answers to these crucial questions.
"What's Wrong With Ethnography provides a fresh look at the rationale for and distinctiveness of ethnographic research in sociology, education and...
Systems Thinking, Critical Realism and Philosophy
A Confluence of Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Systems Thinking, Critical Realism and Philosophy: A Confluence of Ideas seeks to re-address the whole question of philosophy and systems thinking for the twenty first century and provide a new work that would be of value to both systems and philosophy. This is a highly opportune time when different...
by Tim May, Malcolm Williams
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
This is an accessible introduction to the philosophy of social research which relates philosophical ideas to actual research practice. The book makes effective use of illustrations from the UK, US and Europe to examine specific problems and broader issues. The book is intended for undergraduate and...
by Warren H. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
Fourteen years ago the author came to Quaker Hill as a resident, and has spent at least a part of each of the intervening years in interested study of the locality. For ten of those years the fascination of the social life peculiar to the place was upon him. Yet all the time, and increasingly of late,...
The Age of Structuralism
From Levi-Strauss to Foucault
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Structuralism began in linguistics and was enlarged by Claude Levi-Strauss into a new way of thinking that views our world as consisting of relationships between structures we create rather than of objective realities. The Age of Structuralism examines the work of seven writers who either expanded...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2005
Long recognised as a foundational figure in the development of social scientific thought, Emile Durkheim's work has been the subject of intense debate over the years. This authoritative and comprehensive collection of essays re-examines the impact of Durkheim's thought, considering the historical...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
In Visual Culture the 'visual' character of contemporary culture is explored in original and lively essays. The contributors look at advertising, film, painting and fine art journalism, photography, television and propaganda. They argue that there is only a social, not a formal relation between vision...
CROWD PSYCHOLOGY: Understanding the Phenomenon and Its Causes (10 Books in One Volume)
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Instincts of the Herd, The Social Contract, A Moving-Picture of Democracy, Psychology of Revolution, The Analysis of the Ego...
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
This carefully crafted collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: The Social Contract (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind (Gustave Le Bon) The Psychology of Revolution (Gustave Le Bon) Group Psychology and the Analysis of the...
Max Weber and Michel Foucault
Parallel Life-Works
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Max Weber and Michael Foucault are among the most controversial and fascinating thinkers of our century. This book is the first to jointly analyse them in detail, and to make effective links between their lives and work; it coincides with a substantial resurgence of interest in their writings.
The...