Sociology category: 22581 books
Patriarchy at Work
Patriarchal and Capitalist Relations in Employment, 1800-1984
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
The concept of 'patriarchy' is one which signals a sharp divide between traditions of feminist thought. Sylvia Walby attempts to conceptualize 'patriarchy' in a way that takes account not only of the complexity of relationships of gender, but also of the subtleties of the interconnections of patriarchy...
Racialized Boundaries
Race, Nation, Gender, Colour and Class and the Anti-Racist Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2005
This wide-ranging and accessible book examines race in relation to social divisions such as ethnicity, gender and class. It provides a major new approach to studying the boundaries of race, and will be of interest to students of sociology, ethnic studies and gender studies.
by Shaun Best
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2001
Introduction to Politics and Society comprehensively demonstrates how key theoretical and concepts in political science have foretold, rationalized and shaped politics in the contemporary world.
Students will discover the meaning of `power', `authority', `coercion', `surveillance' and `legitimacy'....
by FRANK Parkin
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Originally published in 1974, The Social Analysis of Class Structure is an edited collection addressing class formation and class relations in industrial society. The range and variety of the contributions provide a useful guide to the central concerns of British sociology in the 1970s. Encompassing...
by Edmund F. Du Cane
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
This vintage book contains a detailed treatise on the history and development of punishment and crime prevention. It explores how the ideas concerning crime and how to deal with it have changed throughout the ages, as well as analysing the way that we deal with such behavior in modern society. A thought-provoking...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
First published in 1975, this collection of essays expands upon the themes and ideas developed in the editors’ previous work, the visionary and groundbreaking text: The New Criminology.
Directed at orthodox criminology, this is a partisan work written by a group of criminologists committed...
Lifers
Seeking Redemption in Prison
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2010
John Irwin writes about prisons from an unusual academic perspective. Before receiving a Ph.D. in sociology, he served five years in a California state penitentiary for armed robbery. This is his sixth book on imprisonment – an ethnography of prisoners who have served more than twenty years in a...
by Arghya Ray
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Document from the year 2015 in the subject Sociology - Religion, , language: English, abstract: Without the fear of contradicting anyone, it can generally be held that academicians worldwide describe Karl Marx as an atheist. This point needs not to be challenged or scrutinised in great depths. The...
Living the Secular Life
New Answers to Old Questions
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
“A humane and sensible guide to and for the many kinds of Americans leading secular lives in what remains one of the most religious nations in the developed world.” —The New York Times Book Review
Over the last twenty-five years, “no religion” has become the fastest-growing religious...
Islam Under Siege
Living Dangerously in a Post- Honor World
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
In this groundbreaking book, Akbar Ahmed, one of the world's leading authorities on Islam, who has worked in the Muslim world but lives in the West, explains what is going wrong in his society by referring to Islamic history and beliefs. Employing theological and anthropological perspectives, he attempts...
Global Heartland
Displaced Labor, Transnational Lives, and Local Placemaking
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
Global Heartland is the account of diverse, dispossessed, and displaced people brought together in a former sundown town in Illinois. Recruited to work in the local meat-processing plant, African Americans, Mexicans, and West Africans re-create the town in unexpected ways. Drawing on ethnographic...
Digital Democracy
Discourse and Decision Making in the Information Age
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2005
Digital Democracy considers how technological developments might combine with underlying social, economic and political conditions to produce new vehicles for democratic practice.
The growth of new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) such as the Internet, alongside growing concerns about...
Evaluating European Education Policy-Making
Privatization, Networks and the European Commission
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
This collection is an inside look at European Commission policy-making in education and the privatization of policy-making in the European Union. Along with contributions from leading academics in the field of educational policy and policy-sociology, this book also introduces the voices of policy consultants and policy-makers.
by Dr Arvind-Pal Singh Mandair
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Sikhism's short but relatively eventful history provides a fascinating insight into the working of misunderstood and seemingly contradictory themes such as politics and religion, violence and mysticism, culture and spirituality, orality and textuality, public sphere versus private sphere, tradition...