Sociology

The idea of children's agency is central to the growing field of childhood studies. In this book David Oswell argues for new understandings of children's agency. He traces the transformation of children and childhood across the nineteenth, twentieth and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610271394Author Neil J SmelserFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Quid Pro, LLCPublisher Quid Pro, LLCWeight(grams) 594gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398430914Author Abigail Smith-BuckleFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

The individual that the social sciences take as an object is most often studied in a particular context or from a single dimension. The actor is analysed as a student, worker, consumer, spouse, reader, sportsperson, a voter etc. However, in societies...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780789318244Author Carol ClerkFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Universe PublishingPublisher Universe PublishingWeight(grams) 703gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

An exploration and discussion of the relationship between man and woman. Couples talk about the intimate details of their relationship and express their innermost feelings. Carl Rogers is the innovator of client-centred therapy. In this book he takes...

Julia Kristeva examines melancholia across art, literature, philosophy, the history of religion and culture, and psychoanalysis. She describes the depressive as one who perceives the sense of self as a crucial pursuit and a nearly unattainable goal and...

How does a sign represent something other than itself? How do we understand the meaning of a written symbol? Can clothes be a sign? Can sounds? Signs and symbols represent ideas and objects and, over time, these marks and gestures have multiplied into...

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of football.About the AuthorRichard Giulianotti is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Aberdeen.Reviews"At last, a real sociology of football which, crucially, examines central elements...

In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes readers on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall...

An important literary and philosophical figure, Georges Bataille has had a significant influence on other French writers, such as Foucault, Derrida and Baudrillard. The Thirst for Annihilation is the first book in English to respond to Bataille's...

Symbolic interactionism is one of the most enduring - and certainly the most sociological - of all social psychologies. In this landmark work, Norman K. Denzin traces its tortured history from its roots in American pragmatism to its present-day encounter...

For decades women have been playing competitive sports thanks in large part to the protective cover of Title IX. Since passage of that law, the number of women participating in sports and the level of competition in high school, college, and...

`This is an excellent introduction to classical social theory. For most students it is the only book on the subject that they will need. The expositions are clear and comprehensive, outlining with almost alarming clarity ideas with which many of us have...

We have long since lost our faith in the idea that human beings could achieve human happiness in some future ideal state-a state that Thomas More, writing five centuries ago, tied to a topos, a fixed place, a land, an island, a sovereign state under a...

In 1861, the great journalist and social advocate Henry Mayhew published London Labour and the London Poor, an oral history of those living and working on the streets of Victorian London. Nothing on this scale had been attempted before. On the surface,...

He was a debt-ridden dandy, a mid-ranking novelist armed with enormous political ambition. She was a moneyed widow twelve years older than her new husband, always overdressed for society dinners and never one to hold her tongue. From the outset, Mary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140195743Author Charles HayesFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint ArkanaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams) 550g

An anthropologist looks at our modern world - and shows how we can build a better, more connected one Increasingly, we are coming to see difference, whether in the form of conflicting values or growing ethnic diversity, as an existential threat...

An original and approachable account of how archaeology can tell the story of the English village. Shapwick lies in the middle of Somerset, next to the important monastic centre of Glastonbury: the abbey owned the manor for 800 years from the 8th to the...

Many writers have written about the delights of the former kingdom of the South Saxons, its Downs, villages, countryside, people and their ways but _Visitors' Historic Britain - West Sussex_ is the first book to take readers on a tour of discovery of...

Sociology is the intellectual discipline that seeks to provide answers to those questions by the deployment of argument and evidence. In doing so it will often question basic assumptions that we all make about our social world and therefore has the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523095032Author Howard J. RossFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Berrett-Koehler PublishersPublisher Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Michael Billig presents a major challenge to orthodox conceptions of nationalism in this elegantly written book. While traditional theorizing has tended to the focus on extreme expressions of nationalism, the author turns his attention to the everyday,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143034940Author Charlie LeDuffFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 352gDimensions(mm) 214mm * 138mm...

Dreamscapes of Modernity offers the first book-length treatment of sociotechnical imaginaries, a concept originated by Sheila Jasanoff and developed in close collaboration with Sang-Hyun Kim to describe how visions of scientific and technological...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416575993Author W Keith CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster

An Introduction to Japanese Society provides a highly readable introduction to Japanese society by internationally renowned scholar Yoshio Sugimoto. Taking a sociological approach, the text examines the multifaceted nature of contemporary Japanese...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525540397Author Scott GallowayFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 153gDimensions(mm) 170mm * 106mm *...

COVID-19: Surviving a Pandemic provides critical insights into survival strategies employed by communities and individuals around the world during the pandemic.A central question since this pandemic began has been how to survive it. That question has...

What if you aren't who you think you are? What if you don't really know the people closest to you? And what if your most deeply-held beliefs turn out to be ... wrong? In Stop Being Reasonable, philosopher and journalist Eleanor Gordon-Smith...

'I fight hard and love strong. I'm a traveller.'Paddy Doherty loves his life as an Irish traveller, but as a child he felt like an outsider. He was different to his siblings. On the rare occasions he went to school, he was bullied for being a gypsy boy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156027519Author Evgenia Semenova GinzburgFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Harvest BooksPublisher Harvest BooksWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

The second edition of this remarkably lucid text, provides a wide-ranging historical introduction to social theory. The new edition preserves, and further enhances, the book's striking qualities - its clarity, reliability, comprehensiveness and...

Queen Victoria was obsessed with it. Socrates' last words were about it. Charles Darwin and Louis Pasteur made their scientific breakthroughs using it. Hailed as a messenger of the gods, powerful sex symbol, gambling aid, all-purpose medicine and handy...

Over the past half-century, the social terrain of health and illness has been transformed. What were once considered normal human events and common human problems-birth, aging, menopause, alcoholism, and obesity-are now viewed as medical conditions. For...

The Sociology of Early Childhood is a theoretically and historically grounded examination of young children's experiences in contemporary society. Arguing that a sociology of early childhood must bring together and integrate different disciplines, this...

Critical legal studies is the most important development in progressive thinking about law of the past half century. It has inspired the practice of legal analysis as institutional imagination, exploring, with the materials of the law, alternatives for...

This expanded and updated edition of Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences: The State of the Art revisits the use of complexity theory across the social sciences and demonstrates how complexity informs approaches to various contemporary issues in the...

Providing an authoritative and comprehensive overview of the classical and the contemporary, this volume is an indispensable guide to the vibrant and expanding field of sociology. Featuring over 600 entries, from concise definitions to discursive essays,...