Sociology category: 22581 books
by Jenny Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
We spend more time shopping than doing anything else, after sleep and work. So why is it not taken more seriously? The answer: we take shopping for granted. Indeed, culture can only ‘work’ by being taken for granted. This paradox – that what is most familiar, like shopping, is also the hardest...
by Peter Jackson, Helene Brembeck, Jonathan Everts
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2018
This book questions the simplistic view that convenience food is unhealthy and environmentally unsustainable. By exploring how various types of convenience food have become embedded in consumers’ lives, it considers what lessons can be learnt from the commercial success of convenience food for those...
Hannah Arendt
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
Hannah Arendt is one of the most famous political theorists of the twentieth century, yet in the social sciences her work has rarely been given the attention it deserves. This careful and comprehensive study introduces Arendt to a wider audience.
Finn Bowring shows how Arendt's writings have...
by Jeffrey J. Sallaz
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Work is, and always will be, a central institution of society. What makes a capitalist society unique is that it treats the human capacity to engage in labor as a basic commodity. This can be a source of dynamism, as when innovative firms raise wages to attract the best and brightest. But it can also...
The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity
A Study in Sociological Semantics and the Sociology of Science
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
From the names of cruise lines and bookstores to an Australian ranch and a nudist camp outside of Atlanta, the word serendipity--that happy blend of wisdom and luck by which something is discovered not quite by accident--is today ubiquitous. This book traces the word's eventful history from its 1754...
Sports and Society in the Middle East
Cairo Papers in Social Science Vol. 34, No. 2
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
The sociology of sports in the Middle East has been neglected compared to other world regions. This volume aspires to encourage a greater focus on this topic. Here are assembled papers that discuss various aspects of this subject. As it happens all deal with football (soccer) largely in Egypt but...
Digital Life
Chats and Games and their exemplary effects on the identify development and identity analysis of children and adolescents
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
Scientific Essay from the year 2010 in the subject Sociology - Children and Youth, University of the Arts Berlin, language: English, abstract: Users are the web's social beings and thus they turn it into a social web. Every day the Internet is becoming interesting to more and more users, due to the...
Individual and Society
Sociological Social Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Unlike other texts for undergraduate sociological social psychology courses, this text presents the three distinct traditions in sociological social psychology—symbolic interactionism, social structure and personality, and group processes and structures—and emphasizes the different theoretical...
Schools and Society
A Sociological Approach to Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
This comprehensive anthology features classical readings on the Sociology of Education, as well as current, original essays by notable contemporary scholars. Assigned as a main text or a supplement, this fully updated Sixth Edition uses the open systems approach to provide readers with a framework...
by Keith Tester
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Timely and original, this collection of essays from the leading figures in their fields throws new and valuable light on the significance and future of flânerie. The flâneur is usually identified as the ‘man of the crowd’ of Edgar Allen Poe and Charles Baudelaire, and as one of the heroes of...
Radicalism in French Culture
A Sociology of French Theory in the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
An invisible pattern draws together most studies dealing with French cultural radicalism in the 1960s with intellectual creation reduced to individual creation and the role of semiotic and social factors that influence intellectual innovation minimized. Sociological approaches often see a more or...
The Metaphorical Society
An Invitation to Social Theory
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2001
This book introduces the novice reader to modern social theory through the creative exploration of eight major metaphors that have shaped Western understandings of human society. Rigney vividly yet concisely examines each major theoretical perspective in sociology, including functionalism, conflict...
by Professor Stephen Kalberg
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Stephen Kalberg's The Social Thought of Max Weber, the newest volume of the SAGE Social Thinkers series, provides a concise introduction to the work, life, and influence of Max Weber, considered to be one of three most important founders (along with Marx and Durkheim) of sociology. The book serves...
by Peter Kropotkin
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
When my attention was drawn, later on, to the relations between Darwinism and Sociology, I could agree with none of the works and pamphlets that had been written upon this important subject. They all endeavoured to prove that Man, owing to his higher intelligence and knowledge, may mitigate the harshness...