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Processual Sociology by Andrew Abbott
Booksplease Price: £26.68For 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: £28.55In 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... -
Processual Sociology by Andrew Abbott 9780226336596
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.60For 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,... -
Time Matters: On Theory and Method by Andrew Abbott
Booksplease Price: £36.35What 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: £25.36Abbott 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: £30.73In 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: £30.43In 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: £20.12Today'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: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.30Today'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: £46.99Booksplease Price: £42.66Professions 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: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.52This 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: £26.68In 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: £92.06In 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: £40.00Booksplease Price: £32.73An 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
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £26.80An 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: £27.62"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: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.08In 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: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.08"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... -
Sociology in America: A History Craig Calhoun 9780226090955
Booksplease Price: £36.85Though 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 Sequence Analysis: Methods and Applications by Benjamin Cornwell 9781107500549
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £25.43Social 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,... -
Social Change and Politics: 1920-1976 by Morris Janowitz 9781412810920
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £48.10This 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: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89Vigorous 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 9780804745314
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.04Based 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
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £96.45Based 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
Booksplease Price: £24.02A 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 9780197558485
Booksplease Price: £91.03A 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: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.70The 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: £116.00Booksplease Price: £93.82The 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
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £54.72This 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: £30.95Booksplease Price: £26.24The 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: £35.95Booksplease Price: £30.44A 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... -
Accountants' Truth: Knowledge and Ethics in the Financial World by Matthew D. Gill 9780199547142
RRP: £137.50Booksplease Price: £99.43Accounting is the language of business, increasingly standardized across the world through powerful global corporations: a technical skill used to reach the correct, unquestionable answer. Yet, as... -
Time for Things: Labor, Leisure, and the Rise of Mass Consumption by Dr Stephen D. Rosenberg
RRP: £44.95Booksplease Price: £37.15Modern 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: £53.80Crafting 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: £40.00Booksplease Price: £27.40The 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: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.40The 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: £30.70In 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
Booksplease Price: £31.54The 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: £92.00Booksplease Price: £14.37The 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: £21.82In 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...