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Pathology of the Capitalist Spirit: An Essay on Greed, Loss, and Hope by D. Levine 9781137325556
Booksplease Price: £46.74Pathology of the Capitalist Spirit is about capital and about the economic system that bears its name. In this book, Levine argues that our pursuit of ever-more wealth in the form of capital... -
The New Century: Bergsonism, Phenomenology and Responses to Modern Science Keith Ansell-Pearson 9781844656110
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.54This volume covers the period between the 1890s and 1930s, a period that witnessed revolutions in the arts and society which set the agenda for the rest of the century. In philosophy, the period saw... -
Ethnological Imagination: A Cross-Cultural Critique Of Modernity by Fuyuki Kurasawa 9780816642403
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46A significant intervention in contemporary debates about cross-cultural understandingFuyuki Kurasawa unearths what he terms "the ethnological imagination," a substantial countercurrent of thought... -
Politics of Religion in Western Europe: Modernities in conflict? by François Foret 9781032923413
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83Religion is becoming increasingly important to the study of political science and to re-examine key concepts, such as democracy, securitization, foreign policy analysis, and international relations... -
The Art of Losing Control: A Philosopher's Search for Ecstatic Experience by Jules Evans
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Since the Enlightenment, western culture has written off ecstatic experience as a form of mental illness. But why should rationality be considered the highest part of human nature when we are capable... -
The EU's Government of Industries: Markets, Institutions and Politics Bernard Jullien (Bordeaux University currently working at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris.) 9781138214910
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63To what extent is business activity governed at a European scale? Since the advent of the recent economic crisis, the EU's choices about the euro, debt ratios and interest rates have caught the... -
Exaltation: Ecstatic Experience in Pentecostalism and Popular Music by Mark Jennings 9783034313483
RRP: £68.50Booksplease Price: £60.99Based on two richly described case studies - a Pentecostal worship service and popular music festival - this book draws on sociology, theology and religious studies in order to understand the... -
Durkheim: A Critical Introduction by Kieran Allen
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.04Emile Durkheim, along with Karl Marx and Max Weber, is one of the three 'founding fathers of sociology'. This is the first book to situate his sociology in the context of his republican politics,... -
Debating the Neoliberal City Gilles Pinson 9780367218805
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63The concept of the neoliberal city has become a key structuring analytical framework in the field of urban studies. It explains both the ongoing transformation of urban policies and the socio-spatial... -
Durkheim: A Critical Introduction by Kieran Allen 9780745337418
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £66.05Emile Durkheim, along with Karl Marx and Max Weber, is one of the three 'founding fathers of sociology'. This is the first book to situate his sociology in the context of his republican politics,... -
Religion as Poetry by Andrew M. Greeley
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49Religion as Poetry continues in the grand tradition of the sociology of religion pioneered by Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, and Talcott Parsons, among other giants in intellectual history. Too many... -
New Evolutionary Social Science: Human Nature, Social Behavior, and Social Change by Heinz-Jurgen Niedenzu
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £60.94Social scientists have long declared their autonomy from the natural sciences, and in doing so have tended to neglect important biological constraints on human nature. Many sociological theories have... -
Understanding Theories of Religion: An Introduction Ivan Strenski (University of California, Riverside, USA) 9781444330847
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £27.77Featuring comprehensive updates and additions, the second edition of Understanding Theories of Religion explores the development of major theories of religion through the works of classic and... -
Seminal Sociological Writings: From Auguste Comte to Max Weber by Richard A. Altschuler 9781884092978
RRP: £15.20Booksplease Price: £12.11This book fills a void by assembling seminal writings from many original works that created the "science of society" - by Auguste Comte, Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx, Herbert Spencer, George Herbert... -
Moral Order and Social Disorder: American Search for Civil Society by Frank Hearn
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £32.89Drawing upon both classical insights and more recent writings, Hearn provides a compelling account of social breakdown in the United States. The book examines the conditions most responsible for the... -
Schooling Reimagined: Educating for a More Ethical Society David H Hargreaves 9781350471351
Booksplease Price: £97.93If 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,... -
Theodicy of Culture and the Jewish Ethos: David Koigen's Contribution to the Sociology of Religion by Martina Urban 9783110247725
RRP: £156.50Booksplease Price: £106.94This volume presents the theory of culture of the Russian-born German Jewish social philosopher David Koigen (1879-1933). Heir to Hermann Cohen's neo-Kantian interpretation of Judaism, he transforms... -
The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Emotion by John Corrigan 9780190608583
Booksplease Price: £59.88The academic study of religion recently has turned to the investigation of emotion as a crucial aspect of religious life. Researchers have set out in several directions to explore that new terrain... -
Rethinking International Relations by Bertrand Badie
RRP: £22.95Booksplease Price: £22.65In this thought-provoking book, Bertrand Badie argues that the traditional paradigms of international relations are no longer sustainable, and that ignorance of these shifting systems and of... -
Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism Roger Berkowitz 9783111674681
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £22.30The Make America Great Again movement in the United States gives voice to a rising nationalism and tribalism we see around the world, from Modi's India, to Putin's Russian, Orban's Hungary, and... -
In Bad Faith: What's Wrong With the Opium of the People by Andrew Levine 9781616144708
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £16.14For readers interested in political theory and political activism, as well as anyone puzzled by the persistence of theistic conviction in the modern world, this critique of religious belief provides... -
Euroscepticism within the EU Institutions: Diverging Views of Europe by Nathalie Brack
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Since its origins, there have been competing views concerning the nature, scope and objectives of the process of integration and of the European Union. Attitudes towards Europe and European... -
Reading Modernity, Modernism and Religion Today: Spinoza and Van Gogh Patrick Grant 9781032896694
Booksplease Price: £54.15Feelings of rootlessness, fragmentation and loneliness are endemic in today's secular societies. In the late nineteenth century, Emile Durkheim described this kind of social malaise as anomie, a... -
Durkheim and the Internet: On Sociolinguistics and the Sociological Imagination by Jan Blommaert 9781350055193
Booksplease Price: £70.89This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Sociolinguistic evidence is an undervalued resource for social theory... -
Agitpop: Political Culture and Communication Theory by Arthur Asa Berger
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63In this entirely sophisticated and scholarly account of political culture, Arthur Asa Berger shows how the variety of cultural preferences creates the foundations of communication theory. Using the... -
Imitation, Contagion, Suggestion: On Mimesis and Society Christian Borch 9780367478049
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Terrorist attacks seem to mimic other terrorist attacks. Mass shootings appear to mimic previous mass shootings. Financial traders seem to mimic other traders. It is not a novel observation that... -
Narcotic Cities: Counter-Cartographies of Drugs and Spaces by Mélina Germes 9783986120009
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £29.20With debates about the decriminalization of drugs on the rise, an exploration of drug maps is long overdue. Narcotic Cities traces the complex entanglements of drugs, institutions, activities, and... -
Concise Reader in Sociological Theory – Theorists, Concepts, and Current Applications by M Dillon
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £34.87Essential writings from classical and contemporary sociological theorists engagingly introduced and brought to life for students This Concise Reader in Sociological Theory contains excerpts from the... -
Self, War, and Society: George Herbert Mead's Macrosociology by Mary Jo Deegan 9781412847575
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) is a founding figure in the field of sociology. His stature is comparable to that of his contemporaries Emile Durkheim and Max Weber. Mead's contribution was a... -
Sociology Saves the Planet: An Introduction to Socioecological Thinking and Practice by Thomas Macias 9780367627577
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £37.14Highlighting how the environment and society are intrinsically linked, this book argues that environmental concerns need to be treated as a core concept in the study of sociology.Given its focus on... -
Global Problems, Global Solutions: Prospects for a Better World JoAnn A. Chirico (The Pennsylvania State University, University College) 9781506347783
RRP: £121.00Booksplease Price: £109.47Global Problems, Global Solutions: Prospects for a Better World approaches social problems from a global perspective with an emphasis on using one's sociological imagination. Perfect for instructors... -
The Modernization of the Western World John McGrath 9781032740072
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.28Covering Western history from the ancient world to the current era of globalization, The Modernization of the Western World describes the forces of social change and what they have meant to the lives... -
The Oedipus Complex: Focus of the Psychoanalysis-Anthropology Debate Eric Smadja 9781138213197
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This book examines the contentious relationship between psychoanalysis and anthropology as it has played out in disputes surrounding the Oedipus complex. Here, Eric Smadja explores the complicated... -
Crime and Horror in Victorian Literature and Culture, Volume II by Matthew Kaiser 9781516521159
Booksplease Price: £87.54This two-volume anthology charts the socioeconomic, cultural, and psychological anxieties that shaped nineteenth-century British literature and popular culture. In a rapidly changing world, in an era... -
Animals in the Sociologies of Westermarck and Durkheim by Salla Tuomivaara 9783030268657
Booksplease Price: £46.91This 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... -
Genesis and Validity: The Theory and Practice of Intellectual History. by Martin Jay
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £64.89There is no more contentious and perennial issue in the history of modern Western thought than the vexed relationship between the genesis of an idea and its claim to validity beyond it. Can ideas or... -
Introduction to Sociology: Concepts and Theories Brij Mohan (University of Delhi, India.) 9781032270371
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99This textbook explores the emergence of sociology as a distinct social science. Focusing on the evolution of social theories, movements and ideas through history, it analyses the dynamic relationship... -
Durkheim by Gianfranco Poggi 9780198780878
Booksplease Price: £51.63Founders of Modern Political and Social Thought present critical examinations of the work of major political philosophers and social theorists, assessing both their initial contribution and... -
Genesis and Validity: The Theory and Practice of Intellectual History. by Martin Jay 9780812224962
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61There is no more contentious and perennial issue in the history of modern Western thought than the vexed relationship between the genesis of an idea and its claim to validity beyond it. Can ideas or... -
Weber and Toennies: Comparative Sociology in Historical Perspective by Werner J. Cahnman 9781412857086
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49This collection of selected essays by Werner J. Cahnman brings together out of scattered dispersion his writings about Max Weber, Ferdinand Toennies, and historical sociology. The great theoretical...