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Processual Sociology by Andrew Abbott
Booksplease Price: $52.03For the past twenty years, noted sociologist Andrew Abbott has been developing what he calls a processual ontology for social life. In this view, the social world is constantly changing-making,... -
Chaos of Disciplines by Andrew Abbott
Booksplease Price: $55.67In this new study, Andrew Abbott presents a fresh and daring analysis of the evolution and development of the social sciences. "Chaos of Disciplines" reconsiders how knowledge actually changes and... -
Time Matters: On Theory and Method by Andrew Abbott
Booksplease Price: $70.88What do variables really tell us? When exactly do inventions occur? Why do we always miss turning points as they transpire? When does what doesn't happen mean as much, if not more, than what does?... -
Methods of Discovery: Heuristics for the Social Sciences by Andrew Abbott 9780393978148
Booksplease Price: $49.73Abbott helps social science students discover what questions to ask. This exciting book is not about habits and the mechanics of doing social science research, but about habits of thinking that... -
System of Professions: Essay on the Division of Expert Labour by Andrew Abbott
Booksplease Price: $59.92In The System of Professions Andrew Abbott explores central questions about the role of professions in modern life: Why should there be occupational groups controlling expert knowledge? Where and why... -
Department and Discipline: Chicago Sociology at One Hundred Andrew Abbott 9780226000992
Booksplease Price: $59.34In this history of the Chicago School of Sociology, Andrew Abbott investigates central topics in the emergence of modern scholarship, paying special attention to "schools of science" and how such... -
Digital Paper: A Manual for Research and Writing with Library and Internet Materials by Andrew Abbott
Booksplease Price: $39.23Today's researchers have access to more information than ever before. Yet the new material is both overwhelming in quantity and variable in quality. How can scholars survive these twin problems and... -
Digital Paper: A Manual for Research and Writing with Library and Internet Materials by Andrew Abbott 9780226167640
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $150.74Today's researchers have access to more information than ever before. Yet the new material is both overwhelming in quantity and variable in quality. How can scholars survive these twin problems and... -
Professions and Metaphors: Understanding professions in society by Andreas Liljegren
RRP: $91.63Booksplease Price: $85.68Professions and Metaphors: Understanding Professions in Society explores the way that two traditions have contributed to our understanding of both theory and society over recent decades. In the first... -
Knowledge for Whom?: Public Sociology in the Making Andreas Hess 9781032921655
RRP: $79.93Booksplease Price: $75.72This ground-breaking volume is a follow-up to Intellectuals and Their Publics. In contrast to the earlier book, which was mainly concerned with the activity of intellectuals and how it relates to the... -
Varieties of Social Imagination by Barbara Celarent 9780226433967
Booksplease Price: $52.03In July 2009, the American Journal of Sociology (AJS) began publishing book reviews by an individual writing as Barbara Celarent, professor of particularity at the University of Atlantis. Mysterious... -
Varieties of Social Imagination by Barbara Celarent
Booksplease Price: $180.04In July 2009, the American Journal of Sociology (AJS) began publishing book reviews by an individual writing as Barbara Celarent, professor of particularity at the University of Atlantis. Mysterious... -
Seeing the World: How US Universities Make Knowledge in a Global Era by Mitchell L. Stevens 9780691158693
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $66.98An in-depth look at why American universities continue to favor U.S.-focused social science research despite efforts to make scholarship more cosmopolitan U.S. research universities have long... -
Seeing the World: How US Universities Make Knowledge in a Global Era by Mitchell L. Stevens 9780691202938
Booksplease Price: $55.67An in-depth look at why American universities continue to favor U.S.-focused social science research despite efforts to make scholarship more cosmopolitanU.S. research universities have long... -
Professional Powers: A Study of the Institutionalization of Formal Knowledge Eliot Freidson (University of California, San Francisco, US) 9780226262253
Booksplease Price: $53.86"This is an immensely useful book for sociologists working in a wide range of sub-fields. It confirms Freidson's status among the leading exponents of the old Chicago tradition. This book is catholic... -
Public Sociology: Fifteen Eminent Sociologists Debate Politics and the Profession in the Twenty-first Century by Dan Clawson 9780520251380
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $49.16In 2004, Michael Burawoy, speaking as president of the American Sociological Association, generated far-reaching controversy when he issued an ambitious and impassioned call for a 'public sociology'... -
The Life of Hinduism by John Stratton Hawley 9780520249141
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $49.16"The Life of Hinduism" brings together a series of essays - many recognized as classics in the field - that present Hinduism as a vibrant, truly 'lived' religion. Celebrating the diversity for which... -
Social Sequence Analysis: Methods and Applications by Benjamin Cornwell 9781107500549
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $51.23Social sequence analysis includes a diverse and rapidly growing body of methods that social scientists have developed to help study complex ordered social processes, including chains of transitions,... -
Sociology in America: A History Craig Calhoun 9780226090955
Booksplease Price: $71.86Though the word "sociology" was coined in Europe, the field of sociology grew most dramatically in America. Despite that disproportionate influence, American sociology has never been the subject of... -
Social Change and Politics: 1920-1976 by Morris Janowitz 9781412810920
RRP: $103.33Booksplease Price: $97.87This classic study deals with social control in advanced industrial society, especially the United States, and particularly the half-century after World War I. The United States is representative of... -
Engaging the Past: The Uses of History Across the Social Sciences by Eric H. Monkkonen 9780822314400
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $40.74Vigorous historical exploration has increased across the social sciences in the past two decades. Originally published as a series of articles in the journal Social Science History, the essays in... -
The Future of the City of Intellect: The Changing American University by Steven Brint
RRP: $234.00Booksplease Price: $188.08Based on new data and new analytical frameworks, this book assesses the forces of change at play in the development of American universities and their prospects for the future. The book begins with a... -
The Future of the City of Intellect: The Changing American University by Steven Brint 9780804745314
RRP: $56.53Booksplease Price: $48.83Based on new data and new analytical frameworks, this book assesses the forces of change at play in the development of American universities and their prospects for the future. The book begins with a... -
Problem-Solving Sociology: A Guide for Students by Professor of Sociology Monica Prasad 9780197558485
Booksplease Price: $187.01A broad resource that offers tools for how to conduct problem-solving sociology in order to deepen and reformulate our understanding of society. Most students arrive in graduate sociology programs... -
Problem-Solving Sociology: A Guide for Students by Professor of Sociology Monica Prasad
Booksplease Price: $49.98A broad resource that offers tools for how to conduct problem-solving sociology in order to deepen and reformulate our understanding of society. Most students arrive in graduate sociology programs... -
The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences: Positivism and Its Epistemological Others by George Steinmetz 9780822335184
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $54.02The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences provides a remarkable comparative assessment of the variations of positivism and alternative epistemologies in the contemporary human sciences. Often... -
The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences: Positivism and Its Epistemological Others by George Steinmetz 9780822335061
RRP: $226.20Booksplease Price: $182.95The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences provides a remarkable comparative assessment of the variations of positivism and alternative epistemologies in the contemporary human sciences. Often... -
Social Data Science Xennials: Between Analogue and Digital Social Research by Gian Marco Campagnolo 9783030603571
Booksplease Price: $107.93This book explores the tension between analogue and digital as part of an evolving research programme and focuses on the sequencing of methods within it. The book will be an invaluable reference for... -
Competing Devotions: Career and Family among Women Executives Mary Blair-Loy 9780674018167
RRP: $60.35Booksplease Price: $51.44The wrenching decision facing successful women choosing between demanding careers and intensive family lives has been the subject of many articles and books, most of which propose strategies for... -
Veblen: The Making of an Economist Who Unmade Economics by Charles Camic 9780674659728
RRP: $70.10Booksplease Price: $59.59A bold new biography of the thinker who demolished accepted economic theories in order to expose how people of economic and social privilege plunder their wealth from society's productive men and... -
Time for Things: Labor, Leisure, and the Rise of Mass Consumption by Dr Stephen D. Rosenberg
RRP: $87.65Booksplease Price: $72.62Modern life is full of stuff yet bereft of time. An economic sociologist offers an ingenious explanation for why, over the past seventy-five years, Americans have come to prefer consumption to... -
Crafting Scholarship in the Behavioral and Social Sciences: Writing, Reviewing, and Editing by Robert M. Milardo
Booksplease Price: $109.75Crafting Scholarship helps readers improve their writing and publishing success in academia. Framed within the context of the editorial and peer review process, the book explores writing, editing,... -
A Joyfully Serious Man: The Life of Robert Bellah by Matteo Bortolini
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $53.43The brilliant but turbulent life of a public intellectual who transformed the social sciencesRobert Bellah (1927-2013) was one of the most influential social scientists of the twentieth century... -
A Joyfully Serious Man: The Life of Robert Bellah by Matteo Bortolini 9780691278315
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $36.21The brilliant but turbulent life of a public intellectual who transformed the social sciencesRobert Bellah (1927-2013) was one of the most influential social scientists of the twentieth century... -
Boom, Bust, Exodus: The Rust Belt, the Maquilas, and a Tale of Two Cities by Chad Broughton 9780199765614
Booksplease Price: $64.02In 2002, the town of Galesburg, a slowly declining Rustbelt city of 34,000 in western Illinois, learned that it would soon lose its largest factory, a Maytag refrigerator plant that had anchored... -
Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity by Loic Wacquant
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $39.55The punitive turn of penal policy in the United States after the acme of the Civil Rights movement responds not to rising criminal insecurity but to the social insecurity spawned by the fragmentation... -
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Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity by Loic Wacquant 9780822344049 [USED COPY]
RRP: $179.40Booksplease Price: $28.02The punitive turn of penal policy in the United States after the acme of the Civil Rights movement responds not to rising criminal insecurity but to the social insecurity spawned by the fragmentation... -
Boom, Bust, Exodus: The Rust Belt, the Maquilas, and a Tale of Two Cities by Chad Broughton 9780190608866
Booksplease Price: $43.84In 2002, the town of Galesburg, a slowly declining Rustbelt city of 33,000 in western Illinois, learned that it would soon lose its largest factory, a Maytag refrigerator plant that had anchored...