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The Normative Structure of Sociology: Conservative and Emancipatory Themes in Social Thought by Hermann Strasser 9781138790612
Booksplease Price: £54.59In this provocative analysis of the central issues and developments in modern social theory, Dr Strasser contends that enquiry into the function, tasks and mission of sociology as a discipline can be... -
Aspects Of Enlightenment: Social Theory And The Ethics Of Truth Thomas Osbourne 9781857288537
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89This 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: £86.28This 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... -
An Introduction to Social Work Theory David Howe 9781857421385
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £33.73Social 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: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49In 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: £60.08The principle purpose of Religious Education has traditionally been to instruct and inform, with discussion and questioning occupying a secondary position. This traditional approach gives... -
Debating Durkheim by Herminio Martins 9780415869546
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Leading International scholars are bought together in Debating Durkheim to discuss controversial issues in the work of this increasingly important founding father of sociology. The subjects covered... -
Sociology On Culture by John R. Hall 9780415284851
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £56.14Culture has become a touchstone of interdisciplinary conversation. For readers interested in sociology, the social sciences and the humanities, this book maps major classical and contemporary... -
Tributes: Personal Reflections on a Century of Social Research by Irving Horowitz 9780765802187
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.98In 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... -
Punishment: Theory and Practice by Mark Tunick 9780520077379
RRP: £53.00Booksplease Price: £47.65What actions should be punished? Should plea-bargaining be allowed? How should sentencing be determined? In this original, penetrating study, Mark Tunick explores not only why society punishes... -
The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Social Science by Lee McIntyre
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Social Science is an outstanding guide to the major themes, movements, debates, and topics in the philosophy of social science. It includes thirty-seven newly... -
Liminality and the Modern: Living Through the In-Between Bjorn Thomassen 9781138610941
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63This book provides the history and genealogy of an increasingly important subject: liminality. Coming to the fore in recent years in social and political theory and extending beyond is original use... -
Postmodernized Simmel by Deena Weinstein
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Originally published in 1993, this book opens a new and major line of interpretation, showing that Georg Simmel is the essential sociologist of the postmodern age. The authors trace the important... -
Harriet Martineau: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives by Michael R. Hill
Booksplease Price: £71.74The Essays in this volume explore the work of Harriet Martineau from a sociological perspective, highlighting her theoretical contributions in the areas of the sociology of labor, gender and... -
Understanding Human Society by Walter Goldschmidt
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Published in 1998, Understanding Human Society is a valuable contribution to the field of Social Science.Book InformationISBN 9780415605090Author Walter GoldschmidtFormat PaperbackPage Count -
Systematic Sociology V 8 by Karl Mannheim 9780415604444
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63First published in 1957. This is Volume VIII of Mannheim's collected works. When Karl Mannheim was proscribed by Hitler in 1933, like others on that first list he was at once offered academic posts... -
Levi-Strauss on Religion: The Structuring Mind by Paul-Francois Tremlett 9781845532789
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Levi-Strauss, the 'father of modern anthropology', is one of the most influential thinkers of the Twentieth Century. His development of 'structuralism' - the identification of patterns of human... -
The Routledge Handbook of the History and Sociology of Ideas Stefanos Geroulanos 9780367553296
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18The Routledge Handbook of the History and Sociology of Ideas establishes a new and comprehensive way of working in the history and sociology of ideas, in order to obviate several longstanding gaps... -
Rethinking Contemporary Social Theory by Roberta Garner
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89The 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: £38.99Booksplease Price: £37.14How 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: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Originally 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... -
Post-Disaster and Post-Conflict Tourism: Toward a New Management Approach by Hugues Seraphin 9781771888141
RRP: £116.00Booksplease Price: £100.90Post-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... -
Science and Religion: One Planet, Many Possibilities Lucas F. Johnston 9781032921235
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83This collection offers new perspectives on the study of science and religion, bringing together articles that highlight the differences between epistemological systems and call into question the... -
Durkheim and Postmodern Culture by Dr. Stjepan Mestrovic
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £110.39The present work is an elaboration of the author's previous efforts in Emile Durkheim and the Reformation of Sociology (1988) and The Coming Fin de Sibcle (1991) to demonstrate Durkheim's neglected... -
Studying Religion and Society: Sociological Self-Portraits by Titus Hjelm
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69How do you study religion and society? In this fascinating book, some of the most famous names in the field explain how they go about their everyday work of studying religions in the field. They... -
Alienation and the Carnivalization of Society by Jerome Braun
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18This book examines alienation from both a sociological and psychoanalytic perspective, revisiting classic treatments of the topic (Marx, Simmel, Weber) and exploring its relevance to understanding... -
Sociology and the Future of Work: Contemporary Discourses and Debates by Paul Ransome 9781138345621
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £110.69First published in 1999, this book adopts an explicitly forward-looking and dynamic approach in trying to understand not only where the sociology of work has come from but of where it is likely to go... -
Moral Markets: How Knowledge and Affluence Change Consumers and Products by Nico Stehr 9781594514579
RRP: £67.99Booksplease Price: £62.64Nothing affects modern society more than the decisions made in the marketplace, especially (but not only) the judgments of consumers. Stehr's designation of a new stage in modern societies with the... -
Passion and Paranoia: Emotions and the Culture of Emotion in Academia Charlotte Bloch 9781138250352
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98Analysing emotions and emotion-management in the academic organization, Passion and Paranoia shows how focusing on emotions in organizations can offer insights into important aspects and the dynamics... -
Educating the Virtues: An Essay on the Philosophical Psychology of Moral Development and Education by Professor David Carr 9781138007536
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89Tracing the views on moral life of such past philosophers as Plato, Aristotle and Kant, as well as of such theorists as Durkheim, Freud, Piaget and Kohlberg, the author sets forth a full discussion... -
Genomics Data Analysis: False Discovery Rates and Empirical Bayes Methods by David R. Bickel 9780367280369
Booksplease Price: £60.08Statisticians have met the need to test hundreds or thousands of genomics hypotheses simultaneously with novel empirical Bayes methods that combine advantages of traditional Bayesian and frequentist... -
Sociology and the Future of Work: Contemporary Discourses and Debates by Paul Ransome
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £35.44First published in 1999, this book adopts an explicitly forward-looking and dynamic approach in trying to understand not only where the sociology of work has come from but of where it is likely to go... -
The Balkanization of the West: The Confluence of Postmodernism and Postcommunism Stjepan Mestrovic 9780415087551
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89Passionate, vigorous and uncompromising this book takes the lid off the confused Western response to the Balkan war. The author raises a series of timely and acute questions about the future of... -
World of Our Making: Rules and Rule in Social Theory and International Relations by Nicholas Onuf
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98World of our Making is a major contribution to contemporary social science. Now reissued in this volume, Onuf's seminal text is key reading for anyone who wishes to study modern international... -
Studies in Social and Political Theory by Anthony Giddens
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.93The studies which comprise this book are essentially organized around a critical encounter with European social theory in its 'classical period' - i.e. from the middle years of the nineteenth century... -
Social Identities Between the Sacred and the Secular by Abby Day
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £52.44Focusing on the important relationship between the 'sacred' and the 'secular', this book demonstrates that it is not paradoxical to think in terms of both secular and sacred or neither, in different... -
Jurisprudence: Themes and Concepts Scott Veitch 9781032359946
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £35.44Jurisprudence: Themes and Concepts offers an original introduction to, and critical analysis of, the central themes studied in jurisprudence courses. The book is organised in three parts: Part I sets... -
The Expansion of Economics: Toward a More Inclusive Social Science: Toward a More Inclusive Social Science by Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman 9780765608659
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £24.38Economics, like most other social sciences, is not a pure discipline. Indeed, it has been enhanced by the fact that there is so much overlap between it and the related fields of business, industrial... -
Concepts of International Relations, for Students and Other Smarties by Iver B. Neumann 9780472074075
Booksplease Price: £59.25Concepts of International Relations, for Students and Other Smarties is not a stereotypical textbook, but an instructive, entertaining, and motivating introduction to the field of International... -
College Belonging: How First-year and First-Generation Students Navigate Campus Life by Lisa M. Nunn
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £98.70College Belonging reveals how colleges' and universities' efforts to foster a sense of belonging in their students are misguided. Colleges bombard new students with the message to "get out there!"...