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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... -
The Human Problems of an Industrial Civilization by Elton Mayo
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63In this volume Mayo discusses the Hawthorne experiments, relating the findings about human relations within the Hawthorne plant to the social environment in the surrounding Chicago area. The Chicago... -
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!"... -
Max Weber's Insights and Errors Stanislav Andreski 9780415611077
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Max Weber (1864-1920) is generally recognised as one of the founding fathers of modern sociology. His ideas continue to be discussed by sociologists and historians and much homage is paid to his... -
Transatlantic Voyages and Sociology: The Migration and Development of Ideas by Cherry Schrecker
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.48Transatlantic Voyages and Sociology explores the transatlantic journeys which have inspired American and European sociologists and contributed to the development of sociology in Europe and in North... -
Key Facts: Jurisprudence Peter Halstead 9781444138283
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.04Key Facts is the essential revision series for anyone studying law, including LLB, ILEX and post-graduate conversion courses.The Key Facts series provides the simplest and most effective way for you... -
Literature & Propaganda by 9780415845670
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89First Published in 2002. It is easy to see that we are living in a time of rapid and radical social change. It is much less easy to grasp the fact that such change will inevitably affect the nature... -
Curriculum and the Specialization of Knowledge: Studies in the sociology of education Michael Young 9781138814929
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £49.04This book presents a new way for educators at all levels - from early years to university - to think about curriculum priorities. It focuses on the curriculum as a form of specialised knowledge,... -
The Limits of Public Choice: A Sociological Critique of the Economic Theory of Politics Lars Udehn 9780415125123
RRP: £67.99Booksplease Price: £62.94Public choice has been one of the most important developments in the social sciences in the last twenty years. However there are many people who are frustrated by the uncritical importing of ideas... -
Fact and Symbol: Essays in the Sociology of Art and Literature by Cesar Grana
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Graa's work critically examines the continual rebirth of cultural romances on the part of literary intellectuals. His disdain for contrived rejections of modernity and for grand destructive gestures... -
Social Theory: Classical and Contemporary - A Critical Perspective Berch Berberoglu 9781138125490
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.14Social Theory provides a sophisticated yet highly accessible introduction to classical and contemporary social theories. The author's concise presentation allows students and instructors to focus on... -
Simmel and Since (Routledge Revivals): Essays on Georg Simmel's Social Theory David Frisby 9780415609036
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Originally published in 1992, this book, written by one of the world's leading experts on Simmel, provides a fascinating set of insights into a thinker who is fast becoming recognized as the... -
College Belonging: How First-year and First-Generation Students Navigate Campus Life by Lisa M. Nunn 9781978807655
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £23.99College 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!"... -
Theory of Action: Towards a New Synthesis Going Beyond Parsons by Richard Munch
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98Modern sociology owes its existence and the progress it has made to the integration of differing kinds of orientations. In this work, first published 1987, Professor Richard Munch sets out to... -
Outdoor Adventure and Social Theory by Elizabeth C. J. Pike
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89Adventure and outdoor sports - from rock climbing to freestyle kayaking - are a modern social phenomenon that can tell us much about the relationship between sport, culture and contemporary society... -
The Sociology of Knowledge: An Essay in Aid of a Deeper Understanding of the History of Ideas Stark F. Werner 9780415605069
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63This is Volume XVII of twenty-two in a collection on Social Theory and Methodology. Originally published in 1958, this book presents an essay in aid of a deeper understanding of the history of ideas... -
Rationality and the Study of Religion by Jeppe Sinding Jensen
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Does rationality, the intellectual bedrock of all science, apply to the study of religion?Religion, arguably the most subjective area of human behaviour, has particular challenges associated with its... -
Collective Violence, Democracy and Protest Policing David Mansley (Lancaster University, United Kingdom) 9781138922396
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99In this book David Mansley argues that the frequency with which violence intrudes on to the streets is related to both how society is governed and how it is policed. With the help of an innovative... -
Methodological Individualism: Background, History and Meaning Lars Udehn 9781138871274
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £55.28Throughout the history of social thought, there has been a constant battle over the true nature of society, and the best way to understand and explain it. This volume covers the development of... -
Beyond the Ruling Class: Strategic Elites in Modern Society Suzanne Keller 9781560005506
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.93Influential minorities have existed in some form in all human societies. Throughout history, such elites have evoked varied responses--respeet. hos-tility, fear. envy, imitation, but never... -
Rational Choice Theory and Religion: Summary and Assessment by Lawrence A. Young
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £55.84Rational Choice Theory and Religion considers one of the major developments in the social scientific paradigms that promises to foster a greater theoretical unity among the disciplines of sociology,... -
Magic: The Basics by Michael D. Bailey 9781138809604
Booksplease Price: £110.39Magic: The Basics is a concise and engaging introduction to magic in world history and contemporary societies. Presenting magic as a global phenomenon which has manifested in all human cultures, this... -
Challenges for Religious Education: Is There a Disconnect Between Faith and Reason? by Richard Pring
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £33.73Major social changes, especially as a result the more multicultural nature of society, have raised important issues about the teaching of religion and the rational basis of different religious faiths... -
History, Sociology and Education by History of Education Society
Booksplease Price: £108.12Originally published in 1971, this volume examines the relationship between the history and sociology of education.History does not stand in isolation, but has much to draw from and contribute to,... -
History, Sociology and Education History of Education Society 9780415489614
Booksplease Price: £20.99Originally published in 1971, this volume examines the relationship between the history and sociology of education.History does not stand in isolation, but has much to draw from and contribute to,... -
A Social Theory of the Nation-State: The Political Forms of Modernity Beyond Methodological Nationalism Daniel Chernilo 9780415439930
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89A Social Theory of the Nation-State: the political forms of modernity beyond methodological nationalism, construes a novel and original social theory of the nation-state. It rejects nationalistic... -
Discovering Sociology: Studies in Sociological Theory and Method by John Rex
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Professor John Rex was one of Britain's most eminent sociologists, and a teacher of a whole generation of sociology students. In this book he presents a stimulating introduction to the major issues... -
Introducing Sociological Theory Darren O'Byrne 9781408203880
Booksplease Price: £41.66Introducing Sociological Theory offers a comprehensive, navigable and highly readable introduction to the main schools of thought in sociology, along with the philosophical ideas that underpin them... -
True Believers and the Great Replacement: Understanding Anomie and Alienation Alf H. Walle 9781032428017
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83True Believers and the Great Replacement explores the responses of segments of Western cultures who fear that changes in the racial, religious, and ethnic makeup of society threaten their way of life... -
Magic: The Basics Michael D. Bailey 9781138809611
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.54Magic: The Basics is a concise and engaging introduction to magic in world history and contemporary societies. Presenting magic as a global phenomenon which has manifested in all human cultures, this... -
Growing-Up Modern: The Western State Builds Third-World Schools by Bruce Fuller
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89The modern state - First and Third Worlds alike - pushes tirelessly to expand mass education and to deepen the schools' effect upon children. First published in 1991, Growing-Up Modern explores why,... -
The Routledge International Handbook of Existential Human Science by Huon Wardle 9780367742348
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08This volume is the first handbook to explore existentialism as epistemology and method. Transdisciplinary in scope, it considers the nature of human subjectivity and how human experience ought to be... -
The New Sociology of Knowledge: The Life and Work of Peter L. Berger by Michaela Pfadenhauer
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63A classical sociologist can be defined as someone whose "works occupied a central position among the sociological ideas and notions of an era." Following this criterion, Michaela Pfadenhauer... -
Weber and Durkheim: A Methodological Comparison by Henrik Jensen
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Weber and Durkheim: A methodological comparison is a systematic, comparative analysis of the methodologies of Max Weber and Emile Durkheim. Jensen shows how Weber and Durkheim analyse Protestants and... -
Beyond New Atheism and Theism: A Sociology of Science, Secularism, and Religiosity Sal Restivo 9781032500942
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This book addresses the flaws and fallacies in the grounds for atheism and theism - flaws and fallacies that contaminate the arguments of non-believers and believers alike. Focusing on the highly... -
Time, Leisure and Well-Being by 9780367522834
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24The significance of work and leisure as elements of our social fabric have puzzled philosophers and social scientists for generations. This ambitious new study considers historical views of work and... -
Investigating Information Society by Hugh Mackay
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.68This lively and engaging text introduces students to the major debates and data on the information society, and at the same time teaches them how to research it. It gives an overview of: *... -
Citizenship and Capitalism: The Debate over Reformism by Professor Bryan S. Turner 9781138991323
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63In this study of politics in capitalist society Bryan Turner explores the development of citizenship as a way of demonstrating the effective use of political institutions by the working class and... -
Understanding Modernity: Toward a new perspective going beyond Durkheim and Weber by Richard Munch
Booksplease Price: £50.71First Published in 1988, this volume works towards a new understanding and exploration of the rise and development of modern society, taking its lead from two classical theorists, Emile Durkheim and...