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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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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,... -
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... -
Made in France: Societal Structures and Political Work by Andy Smith 9781526172020
Booksplease Price: £23.54How has French society been made, by whom and why? And how in turn has it influenced the French? This book sets out the institutionalized rules and norms that continue to structure France, together... -
Christianity and Heavy Metal as Impure Sacred within the Secular West: Transgressing the Sacred by Jason Lief 9781498506328
Booksplease Price: £91.39This book explores the symbolic connections between Christianity and Heavy Metal music in the context of the secular West. Heavy Metal uses symbols and imagery taken from Christianity, even if the... -
Pluralism and the Idea of the Republic in France by Julian Wright 9780230272095
Booksplease Price: £46.28The idea of the centralized State has played a powerful role in shaping French republicanism. But for two hundred years, many have tried to find other ways of being French and Republican. These... -
Classical Social Theory in Use: Interpretation and Application for Educators and Other Non-Specialists by Robert Bickel 9781623960704
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £43.23This book provides an introduction to classical social theory through discussion, application, and synthesis of the work of Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, and George Herbert Mead. Rather than merely... -
Schumpeter’s General Theory of Capitalism by Tristan Velardo 9781032628752
Booksplease Price: £58.38Joseph A. Schumpeter made multiple contributions to economic science and beyond. Drawing on this wide range of writings, this book argues that Schumpeter provided a theoretical account of capitalism... -
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... -
Rethinking Durkheim and his Tradition by Warren Schmaus 9780521838160
RRP: £90.99Booksplease Price: £82.59This 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... -
Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age by Robert N. Bellah
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £22.52A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice An ABC Australia Best Book on Religion and Ethics of the Year Distinguished Book Award, Sociology of Religion Section of the American Sociological... -
![Karl Marx's "Capital", a Guide to all three Volumes I-III: 2nd Edition by Kenneth Smith 9781839980008](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/2292336/2291686/9781839980008__87953.1710896269.jpg?c=1 "Karl Marx's "Capital", a Guide to all three Volumes I-III: 2nd Edition by Kenneth Smith 9781839980008")
Karl Marx's "Capital", a Guide to all three Volumes I-III: 2nd Edition by Kenneth Smith 9781839980008
Booksplease Price: £21.03This guide uniquely presents the three volumes of Capital in a different order of reading to that in which they were published, placing them instead in the order that Marx himself sometimes... -
The Messages of Tourist Art: An African Semiotic System in Comparative Perspective by Bennetta Jules-Rosette 9781475718294
Booksplease Price: £46.74Tourist art may be a billion dollar business. Nevertheless, such art is despised. What is worse, the "bad" culture is seen as driving out the "good. " Commer cialization is assumed to destroy... -
Classical Social Theory in Use: Interpretation and Application for Educators and Other Non-Specialists by Robert Bickel 9781623960711
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £71.67This book provides an introduction to classical social theory through discussion, application, and synthesis of the work of Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, and George Herbert Mead. Rather than merely...