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Emotions: A Social Science Reader by Monica Greco
RRP: €63.06Booksplease Price: €59.73Are emotions becoming more conspicuous in contemporary life? Are the social sciences undergoing an an 'affective turn'? This Reader gathers influential and contemporary work in the study of emotion... -
Collective Effervescence Sébastien Tutenges 9781439926826
RRP: €109.48Booksplease Price: €87.58Forthcoming Fall 2025About the AuthorSEbastien Tutenges is Professor at Aarhus University and Editor-in-Chief of the Nordic Journal of Criminology. He is the author of Intoxication: An Ethnography of... -
The Power of Sports: Media and Spectacle in American Culture by Michael Serazio
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €32.96A provocative, must-read investigation that both appreciates the importance of-and punctures the hype around-big-time contemporary American athletics In an increasingly secular, fragmented, and... -
An Analysis of Marcel Mauss's The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies The Macat Team 9781912128587
Booksplease Price: €7.95Marcel Mauss's 1925 essay The Gift is an enduring classic of sociological and anthropological analysis by a thinker who is one of the founding fathers of modern anthropology. The Gift exploits... -
Human Nature and Collective Behavior: Papers in Honor of Herbert Blumer by Tamotsu Shibutani
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €54.30Tamotsu Shibutani is professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Social Processes: An Introduction to Sociology and Improvised News: A Sociological... -
The Gift by The Macat Team 9781912302123
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €22.30Marcel Mauss's 1925 essay The Gift is an enduring classic of sociological and anthropological analysis by a thinker who is one of the founding fathers of modern anthropology. The Gift exploits... -
Sociology and Development by Tony Barnett
RRP: €90.43Booksplease Price: €83.65First Published in 1988. This stimulating and original book examines how sociological theory helps us to understand development. The author, writing with clarity and from long practical experience in... -
Embattled Reason: Volume 1, Essays on Social Knowledge by Reinhard Bendix 9781138509481
RRP: €53.54Booksplease Price: €50.27Embattled Reason constitutes an intellectual profile of one of America's preeminent sociologists. This collection of essays, published over the course of thirty years, embodies a series of... -
Sociology through Relation: Theoretical Assessments from the French Tradition by Christian Papilloud 9783319650722
Booksplease Price: €96.06This book delivers a top-down understanding of relation as a macro-phenomenon in society. This understanding rests on the reconstruction of an ongoing debate in the French tradition about the purpose... -
Studying Society: The Essentials by Karen Evans
RRP: €53.54Booksplease Price: €50.27This introductory text combines study skills and research methods to provide students with an invaluable guide to the techniques, practical skills and methods of study that will enable them to... -
Dialogical Social Theory by Donald N. Levine
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €47.23In his final work, Donald N. Levine, one of the great late-twentieth-century sociological theorists, brings together diverse social thinkers. Simmel, Weber, Durkheim, Parsons, and Merton are set into... -
The Sociology of Postmarxism by Richard Howson 9780367866068
RRP: €53.54Booksplease Price: €50.27Postmarxism is often depicted as a point of intersection for a set of inter-disciplinary theories that are in themselves complex and dense.Bringing the postmarxist theory of Ernesto Laclau into the... -
Civil Society by Professor Keith Tester
RRP: €38.07Booksplease Price: €37.12This major study discusses some of the meanings and preconditions of freedom, responsibility and social order. The author argues that these are problems of modernity. The imagination of civil society... -
The Political Sciences Routledge Library Editions: Political Science vol 46: General Principles of Selection in Social Science and History by Hugh Stretton 9780415652575
RRP: €55.92Booksplease Price: €52.65Social science is a social activity as well as a method of discovery. The researchers' values and politics colour their work and so do their choices of scientific method. This book is about both -... -
The Little Book of Sociology: A Pocket Guide to the Study of Society Rasha Barrage 9781800077188
RRP: €8.32Booksplease Price: €6.59If you've always wanted to know how societies function - and why sometimes they don't - this beginner's guide to sociology has got the essential theories and thinkers covered Sociology has almost... -
The Fundamental Forms of Social Thought: An Essay in Aid of Deeper Understanding of History of Ideas by Werner Stark
RRP: €70.20Booksplease Price: €65.43Published in 1998, The Fundamental Forms of Social Thought is a valuable contribution to the field of Sociology and Social Policy.Book InformationISBN 9780415604970Author Werner StarkFormat... -
Social and Legal Norms: Towards a Socio-legal Understanding of Normativity by Matthias Baier
RRP: €53.54Booksplease Price: €50.62In an era where new areas of life and new problems call for normative solutions while the plurality of values in society challenge the very basis for normative solutions, this book looks at a growing... -
Deviance Today Addrain Conyers 9780367819545
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €49.25The second edition of Deviance Today is a contemporary collection of original chapters in the field of deviant behavior. This new edition has 16 new chapters. All of the chapters reflect the current... -
The Dilemma of Penal Reform by Hermann Mannheim 9781032069975
RRP: €40.45Booksplease Price: €39.14First Published in 1939, The Dilemma of Penal Reform presents Hermann Mannheim's discussion on the impact of economic, social, and legal factors on methods of punishment. Set against the background... -
On Suicide by Robert Easthope 9781912303724
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €22.30Emile Durkheim's 1897 On Suicide is widely recognized as one of the foundational classic texts of sociology. It is also one that shows the degree to which strong interpretative skills can often... -
Post-Disaster and Post-Conflict Tourism: Toward a New Management Approach by Hugues Seraphin
RRP: €98.76Booksplease Price: €86.68Post-disaster and post-conflict tourism has recently emerged as a prominent topic of research and considers new risks that jeopardize tourism travel to destinations that have recently experienced... -
Orientalism, Postmodernism and Globalism by Professor Bryan S Turner
RRP: €63.06Booksplease Price: €59.37It is often thought that the development of capitalism and the modernization of culture have brought about a profound decline of religious belief and commitment. The history of Christianity in the... -
Educability, Schools and Ideology by Michael Flude
RRP: €63.06Booksplease Price: €59.37The sociology of education has been at the forefront of new developments in sociological theory. This book examines and criticizes a number of these new developments and discusses some empirical work... -
Fin de Siecle Socialism and Other Essays by Martin Jay 9780415572965
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €54.30Fin de Siecle Socialism, originally published in 1988, demonstrates the lively potential for cultural criticism in intellectual history. Professor Jay discusses such controversies as the... -
Intimacy and Alienation: Forms of Estrangement in Female/Male Relationships by Arthur G. Neal 9780815333340
RRP: €113.04Booksplease Price: €107.91First published in 2000. Intimacy and Alienation is an examination of contemporary male/female relationships. The authors present a conceptual framework for the types and degrees of estrangement... -
The Problem of Sociology by David Lee
RRP: €47.59Booksplease Price: €45.57First Published in 1983. Designed for first-year graduates, this book provides an introduction to key themes and research in sociology. Written by two lecturers and based on the long experience of... -
Criminological Theory: Assessing Philosophical Assumptions Anthony Walsh 9781455777648
RRP: €94.00Booksplease Price: €86.68Criminologists can benefit from questioning the underlying assumptions upon which they rest their work. Philosophy has the ability to clarify our thoughts, inform us of why we think about things the... -
Environmental Politics In France by Brendan Prendiville
RRP: €53.54Booksplease Price: €50.27This book analyzes the history and growth of the French environmental movement from its origins in the "back to the earth" wave of the early 1970s to its current influence on every political party... -
Carnival and Theater: Plebian Culture and The Structure of Authority in Renaissance England by Michael D. Bristol
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €54.30In this title, first published in 1985, Michael Bristol draws on several theoretical and critical traditions to study the nature and purpose of theatre as a social institution: on Marxism, and its... -
Polar Expeditions: Rituals, Crews, and Hazardous Ventures by 9781032322896
RRP: €45.21Booksplease Price: €43.17Polar Expeditions employs structural ritualization theory to show how rituals enriched the lives of crewmembers on 19 polar expeditions over a 100-year period. J. David Knottnerus identifies and... -
Knowledge as Culture: The New Sociology of Knowledge E. Doyle McCarthy 9780415064972
RRP: €90.43Booksplease Price: €83.65Drawing on the Marxist, French structuralist and American pragmatist traditions, this is a lively and accessible introduction to the sociology of knowledge.Book InformationISBN 9780415064972Author E... -
Cults, New Religions and Religious Creativity Geoffrey Nelson 9780415614429
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €28.01The twentieth century has been marked by an unprecedented outburst of religious activity on a world-wide scale, and in particular by a mushrooming of numerous religious movements. This work, first... -
Democracy: A Short, Analytical History: A Short, Analytical History by Roland N. Stromberg
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €54.30This text sums up the democratic experience in modern Western civilisation. It defines the term and notes the confusions in it, and its changing meanings over the past two centuries or so. It records... -
Postmodernism is Not What You Think Charles C. Lemert 9781594511530
RRP: €47.59Booksplease Price: €45.21'Charles Lemert is one of the most thoughtful and interesting of sociology's postmodernists. He recurrently finds new angles of vision and is especially helpful for overcoming the pernicious... -
Culture in Mind: Toward a Sociology of Culture and Cognition Karen A. Cerulo 9780415929448
RRP: €65.44Booksplease Price: €61.39What is thought and how does one come to study and understand it? How does the mind work? Does cognitive science explain all the mysteries of the brain? This collection of fourteen original essays... -
Cultural Economics and Theory: The evolutionary economics of David Hamilton by David Hamilton 9781138803022
RRP: €65.44Booksplease Price: €61.39David Hamilton is a leader in the American institutionalist school of heterodox economics that emerged after WWII. This volume includes 25 articles written by Hamilton over a period of nearly half a... -
Collective Effervescence Sébastien Tutenges 9781439926833
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €31.32Forthcoming Fall 2025About the AuthorSEbastien Tutenges is Professor at Aarhus University and Editor-in-Chief of the Nordic Journal of Criminology. He is the author of Intoxication: An Ethnography of... -
An Introduction to Social Work Theory David Howe 9781857421385
RRP: €41.64Booksplease Price: €40.14Social workers need to recognize the critical role that theory plays both in the way they make sense of what is going on and in the way they order their work. Such recognition clarifies practice for... -
Radical Sociology of Durkheim and Mauss by Mike J. Gane 9781138879942
RRP: €59.49Booksplease Price: €55.32In this outstanding collection, Mike Gane brings together a selection of key articles on Durkheim and Mauss showing their points of convergence and divergence. Included here are Mauss's 'A... -
Patterns of Belief: Religions in Society by Eric Carlton 9781138927261
Booksplease Price: €71.50The principle purpose of Religious Education has traditionally been to instruct and inform, with discussion and questioning occupying a secondary position. This traditional approach gives...