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Studying Society: The Essentials by Karen Evans
RRP: $94.48Booksplease Price: $88.70This 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: $88.18Booksplease Price: $83.35In 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: $94.48Booksplease Price: $88.70Postmarxism 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... -
The Problem of Sociology by David Lee
RRP: $83.98Booksplease Price: $80.41First 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... -
Sociology and Development by Tony Barnett
RRP: $159.58Booksplease Price: $147.61First 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: $94.48Booksplease Price: $88.70Embattled 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... -
Civil Society by Professor Keith Tester
RRP: $67.18Booksplease Price: $65.50This 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: $98.68Booksplease Price: $92.90Social 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: $14.68Booksplease Price: $11.63If 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... -
Cultural Economics and Theory: The evolutionary economics of David Hamilton by David Hamilton 9781138803022
RRP: $115.48Booksplease Price: $108.34David 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: $65.10Booksplease Price: $55.27Forthcoming 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 Dilemma of Penal Reform by Hermann Mannheim 9781032069975
RRP: $71.38Booksplease Price: $69.07First 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: $41.98Booksplease Price: $39.35Emile 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... -
The Fundamental Forms of Social Thought: An Essay in Aid of Deeper Understanding of History of Ideas by Werner Stark
RRP: $123.88Booksplease Price: $115.46Published 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: $94.48Booksplease Price: $89.33In 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: $96.58Booksplease Price: $86.92The 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... -
Post-Disaster and Post-Conflict Tourism: Toward a New Management Approach by Hugues Seraphin
RRP: $174.28Booksplease Price: $152.96Post-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: $111.28Booksplease Price: $104.77It 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: $111.28Booksplease Price: $104.77The 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: $102.88Booksplease Price: $95.82Fin 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: $199.48Booksplease Price: $190.43First 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... -
Carnival and Theater: Plebian Culture and The Structure of Authority in Renaissance England by Michael D. Bristol
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $95.82In 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: $79.78Booksplease Price: $76.19Polar 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... -
Aspects Of Enlightenment: Social Theory And The Ethics Of Truth Thomas Osbourne 9781857288537
RRP: $111.28Booksplease Price: $104.77This is an introductory account of social theory and the central role of enlightenment within it. Tom Osborne argues that: contemporary social theory can only fail when viewed as a "science of... -
Civil Society by Professor Keith Tester 9781138782273
Booksplease Price: $181.19This 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... -
Knowledge as Culture: The New Sociology of Knowledge E. Doyle McCarthy 9780415064972
RRP: $159.58Booksplease Price: $147.61Drawing 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: $50.38Booksplease Price: $49.43The 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: $102.88Booksplease Price: $95.82This 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: $83.98Booksplease Price: $79.78'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: $115.48Booksplease Price: $108.34What 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... -
Criminological Theory: Assessing Philosophical Assumptions Anthony Walsh 9781455777648
RRP: $165.88Booksplease Price: $152.96Criminologists 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: $94.48Booksplease Price: $88.70This 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... -
Contemporary Social Theory by Roger A. Salerno
RRP: $188.98Booksplease Price: $131.54Contemporary Social Theory helps students explore, describe, and discuss how social theory relates to their own experiences, popular culture, and the world in which they live. It advances the view... -
Archetypal Explorations: Towards an Archetypal Sociology by Richard M. Gray
RRP: $94.48Booksplease Price: $88.70Archetypal Expressions is a fresh approach to one of Jung's best-know and most exciting concepts. Richard M. Gray uses archetypes as the basis for a new means of interpreting the world and lays the... -
When Marx Mattered: An Intellectual Odyssey by Harold J. Bershady
RRP: $199.48Booksplease Price: $190.43A beautifully written, trenchant, and moving memoir, When Marx Mattered follows Harold J. Bershady's odyssey from childhood through his coming of intellectual age. The wounds and pleasures of his... -
Tributes: Personal Reflections on a Century of Social Research by Irving Horowitz 9781138517493
RRP: $67.18Booksplease Price: $66.13In one of his final works, Stephen Jay Gould spoke of the human race "as a wildly improbable evolutionary event well within the realm of contingency." Drawing on his personal knowledge of fifty... -
For Durkheim: Essays in Historical and Cultural Sociology by Edward A. Tiryakian 9781138262362
RRP: $115.48Booksplease Price: $108.97For Durkheim is a timely and original contribution to the debate about Durkheim at a time when his concerns on ethics, morality and civil religion have much relevance for our own troubled and divided... -
Rethinking Contemporary Social Theory by Roberta Garner
RRP: $111.28Booksplease Price: $104.77The authors recontextualize contemporary sociological theory to argue that in recent decades sociology has been deeply permeated by a new paradigm, conflict constructionism. Their analysis integrates... -
Sociology for Social Workers and Probation Officers by Viviene E. Cree
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $77.99How does a social work student make the connection between sociological knowledge and day-to-day social work? Sociology for Social Workers and Probation Officers provides an introduction to... -
Religious Transformation in Western Society (Routledge Revivals): The End of Happiness Harvie Ferguson 9780415615365
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $83.35Originally published in 1992, this remarkable book challenges many of the assumptions governing the Sociology of Religion and the Sociology of Culture by arguing that Western religion is neither...