Social Theory

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781835011447Author Eva van den Broek & Tim den HeijerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Bedford Square PublishersPublisher Bedford Square Publishers

Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) was one of the most recognizable and controversial public intellectuals throughout the 1960s until his death in the late 1970s, but today Marcuse's work largely stands in the shadows of other Frankfurt School members and other...

With the message that everything in a sense is alive, thus allowing us to join forces with new politico-ethical communities stretching across human and nonhuman realms, the new materialisms have captivated the minds of many academics, artists, and...

Unemployment and the economic crisis are the brutal facts of life in the everyday world around us. For many, the only retreat from this is to the privatized world of the suburbs, middle-class housing estates and high rise developments - a separate world...

This book criticizes recent performative solutions to racism ('diversity' programs at universities, for example) and White people's 'Fragility' or intolerance of mature criticism. These ideas are locked in an intellectually gated and defensive...

Using George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four as a guide for interpreting the role of the American state in the 21st century - paying particular attention to how the government responded to the life and death issues of terrorism, Covid-19, and climate...

The Western Crisis of Truth in the Early 21st Century explores the symbolic, experiential, and associative side of contemporary political culture, arguing that phenomena such as 'post-truth', digitalization, mediatization, propaganda, illiberalism or...

Originally published in 1924, Development of Social Theory was written to expand on an outline of the subject in order to turn it into a year's course of graduate study. From Plato to the writers and teachers of the time, it presents the theorists...

The first integrative sociological work on boredom, providing a novel exploration of boredom as an emotion dependent on socio-cultural circumstance The Sociology of Boredom offers fresh insights into one of the most widespread, yet neglected, human...

Why does hope appear in certain epochs and places, only at other times to disappear from people's lives and from society as a whole? This book addresses hope from a sociological perspective, offering a theoretical framework and a set of concepts to...

Love and Sexuality in Social Theory considers the role that love and sexuality play in private and public life. Drawing on both classical and contemporary social theory, it presents both theoretical and empirical studies of love and sexuality as social...

This book brings together the work of the late Anders Petersen, presenting his exciting and innovative transdisciplinary paradigm that offers insights into anxiety, depression and grief, and the connection between these conditions and the failings of...

This collection of articles by an international group of leading experts has its special focus on the relevance of Karl Jaspers's philosophy for the social sciences. It also includes classical evaluations of Jaspers's thinking by renowned authors Talcott...

Erving Goffman is the most cited American sociologist. There is no shortage of studies exploring Goffman's scholarship but no extant biography of Erving Goffman. The chief reason is that a man who looked behind the facades people erect to protect their...

An accessible, fun and practical introduction to behavioural science, featuring insightful examples from the laboratory, advertising and marketing, as well as from daily life.How do house flies help save millions of euros? Presented with the image of a...

An accessible, fun and practical introduction to behavioural science, featuring insightful examples from the laboratory, advertising and marketing, as well as from daily life.How do house flies help save millions of euros? Presented with the image of a...

"Where else but in America," captains of industry are fond of saying, "could a penniless immigrant like Andrew Carnegie achieve so much?" "Any place else that has reached the same stage of industrial development," is the answer implicit in Social...

Although sociology is present as a discipline or as a social practice in most countries in the world, its future as a not-only Western social science has hardly been addressed before. In this book, a team of interdisciplinary scholars have been working...

When the mundane reality of paying taxes takes on moral significanceIn My Tax Dollars, Ruth Braunstein maps the contested moral landscape in which Americans experience and make sense of the tax system. Braunstein tells the stories of Americans who view...

This book explains how the Columbia model of sociology, which was based on the methodology of P.F. Lazarsfeld, became a dominant sociological school of thought in American and European post-war sociology. Providing an overview of Lazarsfeld's inventions...

This book provides solid sociological foundations to computational social science (CSS). CSS is an emerging research field, and many books with those words in the title are on the market. However, CSS has not become mainstream in sociology, for which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356409934Author Dev Nath PathakFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Bloomsbury Academic IndiaPublisher Bloomsbury IndiaWeight(grams) 460gDimensions(mm)...

Social structure is arguably the central concept of sociology, and in recent years a much wider public has taken up with fresh vigor the sociological idea that persistent inequalities are rooted in social structures. Yet there seem to be as many...

A brief but engaging look at the importance of trust.Gert Tinggaard Svendsen explores how to cultivate this elusive feeling-and why developing trust is so important for maintaining a happy, stable, and economically sound society. Without it, societies...

Originally published in 1971 and now reissued with a new Preface by John Offer this book examines the historical origins, (both institutional and academic) of social policy and administration and the theoretical contribution of such key figures in the...

This unique Handbook charts shifts in the relationship between risks and inequalities over the last few decades, analysing how inequalities shape risk and how risks condition and intensify inequalities. Expert contributors examine the impacts of...

It seems clear that many formerly stable societies in wealthy developed countries appear to be falling into an apparent state of 'permacrisis' accompanied by an increasingly angry and irrational social and political culture that is undermining the peace...

When he was ten Nicholas Hagger's dentist, Howard Carter's brother, told him about the opening of Tutankhamun's tomb, and he was later given a shawabti (funerary figurine) of Tutankhamun that came from the tomb. As a teenager he was fascinated by the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682854457Author Joshua ScottFormat HardbackPage Count 211Imprint Willford PressPublisher Willford PressWeight(grams) 780gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm *...

In Sociology of Waiting, Paul Christopher Price investigates how people wait and analyzes what individuals do while waiting. It is a key feature within U.S. and other societies; waiting is universal. Sociologically, waiting gets at order and our ability...

Positive Prejudice as Interpersonal Ethics examines prejudice not merely as a negative attitude toward others but as a general orientation that enables perception and understanding. Prejudicial attitudes appear in all daily human interactions; these...

The Covid-19 pandemic and the disruptions of climate change are features of post-normal times. In Sociology in Post-Normal Times, Charles Thorpe contends that the modern project of creating normalcy within the nation state has broken down. Integral to...

What Work Means goes beyond the stereotypes and captures the diverse ways Americans view work as a part of a good life. Dispelling the notion of Americans as obsessive workaholics, Claudia Strauss presents a more nuanced perspective. While some live to...

Boundaries, borders and margins are related concepts and realities, and each of these can be conceptualized and organized in closed or open ways-with degrees of closure or openness. The logics of stasis and closure, as well as cults of exclusivist and...

Thinking Systematics (TSS) is conceived as a "toolkit for the mind" - designed to improve how we think about the world, analyze information and pursue our goals. Smith and Hayslip make a compelling argument that individual thinking and collective...

We have many histories of social theory-what different authors attempted to do as they responded to previous theories. But we know precious little about how they did this in structural terms-what scaffolding they adopted and adapted to make their claims...

A wide-ranging cultural history centered around the concepts of real estate, the family home, and the American dream, and how they evolved over the years, Home Ownership in America: A Socio-Cultural History of Housing in the United States traces...

Memory is at the center of a diverse array of political conflicts, moral disputes, and power dynamics. This book illustrates how scholars use different interpretive lenses to study and explain profound conflicts rooted in the past. Addressing issues of...

A powerful new history of the idea of race, forcing us to rethink today's culture wars. Is white privilege real? How racist is the working class? Why has left-wing antisemitism grown? Who benefits most when anti-racists speak in racial terms? The...

First published in 1981, Social Change offers a critical review of the main classical and modern theories of social change, and a study of the processes of change in western societies since modernization. It focusses on the cardinal aspects of society,...