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Animal Rights Activism: A Moral-Sociological Perspective on Social Movements Kerstin Jacobsson 9781041175599
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08We're in an era of ever increasing attention to animal rights, and activism around the issue is growing more widespread and prominent. In this volume, Jonas Lindblom and Kerstin Jacobsson use the... -
How Institutions Think by Professor Mary Douglas
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69First published in 1986 Mary Douglas' theory of institutions uses the sociological theories of Emile Durkheim and Ludwig Fleck to determine not only how institutions think, but also the extent to... -
Fringe Regionalism: When Peripheries Become Regions by Frank Mattheis 9783319974088
Booksplease Price: £51.94This book introduces the novel concept of fringe regionalism to the field of international studies. It examines how regions are practiced by peripheral borderlands rather than centrally planned, thus... -
Multiculturalism and the Nation in Germany: A Study in Moral Conflict by 9781032217703
RRP: £140.00Booksplease Price: £128.38Multiculturalism and the Nation in Germany: A Study in Moral Conflict examines the new debates surrounding matters of multiculturalism, immigration, and national identity in Germany in the wake of... -
Transforming the Sacred into Saintliness: Reflecting on Violence and Religion with Rene Girard by Wolfgang Palaver
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £16.52Studies into religion and violence often put religion first. Rene Girard started with violence in his book Violence and the Sacred and used the Durkheimian term 'sacred' as its correlate in his study... -
Stigma: How We Treat Outsiders by Gerhard Falk 9781573928809
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.09What is it in human nature that leads us to label some as insiders and stigmatize others as outsiders? Sociologist Gerhard Falk examines the social psychology that motivates this process of... -
Marcel Mauss: A Centenary Tribute Wendy James 9781571817037
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £85.16Marcel Mauss, successor of Emile Durkheim and one-time teacher of Claude Levi-Strauss, continues to inspire social scientists across various disciplines. Only selected texts of Mauss's work have been... -
Society and Its Metaphors: Language, Social Theory and Social Structure by Jose Lopez 9780826463852
Booksplease Price: £81.47Both classical and contemporary social theorists have created a range of frameworks to formulate and develop concepts of social structure. Focusing on the work of the key theorists, Emile Durkheim,... -
Community of Citizens: On the Modern Idea of Nationality Dominique Schnapper 9781138508347
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98In this critically acclaimed work, for which she was awarded the Prix de L'Assemblee Nationale in 1994, sociologist Dominique Schnapper offers a learned and concise antidote to contemporary assaults... -
Marcel Mauss: A Centenary Tribute Wendy James 9781571817051
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £24.36Marcel Mauss, successor of Emile Durkheim and one-time teacher of Claude Levi-Strauss, continues to inspire social scientists across various disciplines. Only selected texts of Mauss's work have been... -
Durkheim is Dead!: Sherlock Holmes is Introduced to Social Theory by Arthur Asa Berger 9780759102996
Booksplease Price: £113.11In this sociology textbook/mystery novel, students can join Sherlock Holmes and Watson as they discover a new area ripe for acrimony and intrigue: social theory. In 1910, the most prominent social... -
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe by Jeremy Adler 9781789141986
Booksplease Price: £15.66This new critical biography provides a complete picture of German novelist, playwright and poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The book offers fresh, thought-provoking interpretations of all the major... -
Why the Church?: Self-Optimization or Community of Faith Hans Joas 9781503638037
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14Why did Christianity produce the special organizational form "church" in the first place? Is it possible to be a Christian without the church? To what extent is Christian faith in community with... -
Classic and Contemporary Readings in Sociology by Ian Marsh 9780582320239
Booksplease Price: £46.65Classic and Contemporary Readings in Sociology introduces the reader to sociological issues, theories and debates, providing extracts of primary source material, from both classical and contemporary... -
Secularization and Cultural Criticism: Religion, Nation, and Modernity Vincent P. Pecora (University of California at Los Angeles) 9780226653129
Booksplease Price: £28.55Religion is an undiscovered country for much of the secular academy, which remains deeply ambivalent about it as an object of study. On the one hand, secular scholars agree that it is time to take... -
Teaching Durkheim by Terry F. Godlove 9780195165289
Booksplease Price: £46.96Emile Durkheim's work on religion occupies a central place in religious studies classrooms today. At the undergraduate level, Durkheim is widely taught in large Introduction to Religion courses and... -
Understanding Cultural Sociology Dick Houtman 9781803929927
Booksplease Price: £82.30This fascinating book discusses the particularities, pleasures and promises of a sociology that underscores the significance of culture as a vital dimension of social life. It advocates an... -
Risk and Culture: An Essay on the Selection of Technological and Environmental Dangers by Mary Douglas
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.54Can we know the risks we face, now or in the future? No, we cannot; but yes, we must act as if we do. Some dangers are unknown; others are known, but not by us because no one person can know... -
Pragmatism and Social Theory by Hans Joas 9780226400426
Booksplease Price: £30.43Rising concerns among scholars about the intellectual and cultural foundations of democracy have led to a revival of interest in the American philosophical tradition of pragmatism. In this book, Hans... -
Durkheim and After: The Durkheimian Tradition, 1893-2020 by Philip Smith 9781509518272
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05Emile Durkheim's major works are among the founding texts of the discipline of sociology, but his importance lies also in his immense legacy and subsequent influence upon others. In this book,... -
Indian and Western Philosophical Concepts in Religion by Pankaj Jain 9781793623157
Booksplease Price: £75.81Philosophical concepts are influential in the theories and methods to study the world religions. Even though the disciplines of anthropology and religious studies now encompass communities and... -
Schooling Reimagined: Educating for a More Ethical Society David H Hargreaves 9781350471368
Booksplease Price: £30.54If the society that lies ahead is to be a better and more ethical one, schools play a key role in its realisation. Since the 1944 Education Act implemented at the end of World War II in Europe,... -
The Economy of Religion in American Literature: Culture and the Politics of Redemption by Andrew Ball 9781350231672
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £90.46Examining how economic change influences religion, and the way literature mediates that influence, this book provides a thorough reassessment of modern American culture. Focusing on the period... -
The Search for a Methodology of Social Science: Durkheim, Weber, and the Nineteenth-Century Problem of Cause, Probability, and Action by S. Turner 9789048184170
Booksplease Price: £92.16Stephen Turner has explored the ongms of social science in this pioneering study of two nineteenth century themes: the search for laws of human social behavior, and the accumulation and analysis of... -
The French Worker: Autobiographies from the Early Industrial Era by Mark Traugott 9780520079328
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £29.00This anthology, drawn from the autobiographies of seven men and women whose lives span the nineteenth century, provides a rare glimpse of the everyday lives of workers in the age of early... -
The Search for a Methodology of Social Science: Durkheim, Weber, and the Nineteenth-Century Problem of Cause, Probability, and Action by S. Turner 9789027720672
Booksplease Price: £90.56Stephen Turner has explored the ongms of social science in this pioneering study of two nineteenth century themes: the search for laws of human social behavior, and the accumulation and analysis of... -
Animals in the Sociologies of Westermarck and Durkheim by Salla Tuomivaara 9783030268626
Booksplease Price: £65.96This book explores why animals, at some point, disappeared from the realm and scope of sociology. The role of sociology in the construction of a science of the 'human' has been substantial, building... -
Crime, Broadsides and Social Change, 1800-1850 by Kate Bates 9781137597885
Booksplease Price: £46.91This book explores the form, function and meaning of crime and execution broadsides printed in nineteenth-century Britain. By presenting a detailed discourse analysis of 650 broadsides printed across... -
Stability and Change: Innovation in an Educational Context by Sheila Rosenblum 9781461332367
Booksplease Price: £46.58Nearly a century ago, Emile Durkheim founded the sociology of educa- tion on the French cultural and structural premise that the function of educators is to transmit culture from one generation to... -
For Rene Girard: Essays in Friendship and in Truth by Sandor Goodhart 9780870138621
Booksplease Price: £39.05In his explorations of the relations between the sacred and violence, Rene Girard has hit upon the origin of culture - the way culture began, the way it continues to organize itself. The way... -
Humiliation in International Relations: A Pathology of Contemporary International Systems by Bertrand Badie 9781782256199
Booksplease Price: £102.21In international relations (IR), some states often deny the legal status of others, stigmatising their practices or even their culture. Such acts of deliberate humiliation at the diplomatic level are... -
Defining Magic: A Reader Bernd-Christian Otto 9781908049803
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Magic has been an important term in Western history and continues to be an essential topic in the modern academic study of religion, anthropology, sociology, and cultural history. 'Defining Magic' is... -
Faith in Markets?: Abrahamic Religions and Economics by Benedikt Koehler 9780255368247
RRP: £17.50Booksplease Price: £16.53Are religions influenced by economics? Are economics influenced by religions? If so, how - and why? Faith in Markets? charts the intersection between faith and economics in Judaism, Christianity and... -
Humiliation in International Relations: A Pathology of Contemporary International Systems by Bertrand Badie 9781509934669
Booksplease Price: £43.76In international relations (IR), some states often deny the legal status of others, stigmatising their practices or even their culture. Such acts of deliberate humiliation at the diplomatic level are... -
Pragmatism and Social Theory by Hans Joas 9780226400419
Booksplease Price: £116.94Rising concerns among scholars about the intellectual and cultural foundations of democracy have led to a revival of interest in the American philosophical tradition of pragmatism. In this book, Hans... -
Durkheim is Dead!: Sherlock Holmes is Introduced to Social Theory by Arthur Asa Berger 9780759103009
Booksplease Price: £33.49In this sociology textbook/mystery novel, students can join Sherlock Holmes and Watson as they discover a new area ripe for acrimony and intrigue: social theory. In 1910, the most prominent social... -
Marx's Wager: Das Kapital and Classical Sociology by Thomas Kemple 9783031080647
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £36.44Marx's masterpiece Capital (Das Kapital) ignored or misread as well as selectively and creatively interpreted by the generation of social scientists that came after him. Emile Durkheim, Max Weber,... -
Post-Liberalism: The Death of a Dream by Melvyn L. Fein 9781412864053
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £32.89Liberalism is dying-despite its superficial appearance of vigour. Most of its adherents still believe it is the wave of the future, but they are clinging to a sinking dream. So says Melvyn L. Fein,... -
Social Meanings of Suicide by Jack D. Douglas 9780691621173
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £51.87This book presents a review and criticism of all sociological literature on suicide, from Emile Durkheim's influential Suicide (1897) to contemporary writings by sociologists who have patterned their... -
Rethinking Durkheim and his Tradition by Warren Schmaus 9780521037952
Booksplease Price: £32.12This book offers a reassessment of the work of Emile Durkheim in the context of a French philosophical tradition that had seriously misinterpreted Kant by interpreting his theory of the categories as...