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Degenerations of Democracy by Craig Calhoun
RRP: ÂŁ24.95Booksplease Price: ÂŁ20.90Three leading thinkers analyze the erosion of democracy's social foundations and call for a movement to reduce inequality, strengthen inclusive solidarity, empower citizens, and reclaim pursuit of... -
Sociology in America: A History Craig Calhoun 9780226090955
Booksplease Price: ÂŁ36.85Though 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... -
Hannah Arendt and the Meaning of Politics by Craig Calhoun 9780816629176
RRP: ÂŁ20.99Booksplease Price: ÂŁ18.24Eminent contributors consider what Hannah Arendt means in today's public debates.Is politics really nothing more than power relations, competing interests and claims for recognition, conflicting... -
The Green New Deal and the Future of Work by Craig Calhoun
RRP: ÂŁ32.00Booksplease Price: ÂŁ26.73Catastrophic climate change overshadows the present and the future. Wrenching economic transformations have devastated workers and hollowed out communities. However, those fighting for jobs and those... -
Habermas and Religion Craig Calhoun (New York University) 9780745653273
RRP: ÂŁ19.99Booksplease Price: ÂŁ19.04To the surprise of many readers, Jurgen Habermas has recently made religion a major theme of his work. Emphasizing both religion's prominence in the contemporary public sphere and its potential... -
The Green New Deal and the Future of Work by Craig Calhoun 9780231205566
RRP: ÂŁ125.00Booksplease Price: ÂŁ97.55Catastrophic climate change overshadows the present and the future. Wrenching economic transformations have devastated workers and hollowed out communities. However, those fighting for jobs and those... -
Contemporary Sociological Theory Craig Calhoun (New York University) 9781119527244
RRP: ÂŁ36.95Booksplease Price: ÂŁ36.21The new edition of the definitive undergraduate guide to contemporary sociological theory, with updated reading selections throughout The fourth edition of Contemporary Sociological Theory offers a... -
Business as Usual: The Roots of the Global Financial Meltdown by Craig Calhoun 9780814772775
Booksplease Price: ÂŁ90.57Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Classical Sociological Theory Craig Calhoun (New York University) 9781119527367
RRP: ÂŁ36.95Booksplease Price: ÂŁ36.21A world-class introduction to the historical and continuing impact of classical theory on sociological debate The latest edition of Classical Sociological Theory offers students a definitive guide... -
Robert K. Merton: Sociology of Science and Sociology as Science by Craig Calhoun 9780231151139
RRP: ÂŁ30.00Booksplease Price: ÂŁ25.21Robert K. Merton (1910-2003) was one of the most influential sociologists of the twentieth century, producing clear theories and innovative research that continue to shape multiple disciplines... -
The Roots of Radicalism: Tradition, the Public Sphere, and Early Nineteenth-Century Social Movements by Craig Calhoun
Booksplease Price: ÂŁ32.60The story of the rise of radicalism in the early nineteenth century has often been simplified into a fable about progressive social change. The diverse social movements of the era - religious,... -
Seeing the World: How US Universities Make Knowledge in a Global Era by Mitchell L. Stevens 9780691158693
RRP: ÂŁ40.00Booksplease Price: ÂŁ34.35An 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: ÂŁ28.55An 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... -
The Resilience of Multiculturalism: Ideas, Politics, Practice Thomas Sealy 9781399537261
RRP: ÂŁ20.99Booksplease Price: ÂŁ19.03Bringing together world-leading scholars from the Global North and Global South, this book interrogates ideas of multiculturalism and their resilience in politics, policy and culture. To do so, each... -
Violence: A New Approach by Michel Wieviorka 9781847875464
Booksplease Price: ÂŁ54.15"Violence is sadly central to social life and yet oddly marginal to social theory. It's there in the background, not least as Weber defines the state by its monopoly of legitimate violence. But as... -
The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere by Judith Butler
RRP: ÂŁ20.00Booksplease Price: ÂŁ17.05The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere represents a rare opportunity to experience a diverse group of preeminent philosophers confronting one pervasive contemporary concern: what role does--or... -
Classical Sociological Theory 4e and Contemporary Sociological Theory 4e Set by C Calhoun
RRP: ÂŁ65.95Booksplease Price: ÂŁ64.16Get Classical Sociological Theory, Fourth Edition and Contemporary Sociological Theory, Fourth Edition in a combined set This combined set includes the newly revised fourth edition of two world-class... -
Think Tanks in America by Thomas Medvetz 9780226517292
RRP: ÂŁ80.00Booksplease Price: ÂŁ77.60Over the past half-century, think tanks have become fixtures of American politics, supplying advice to presidents and policymakers, expert testimony on Capitol Hill, and convenient facts and figures... -
Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge by Benjamin Yen-Yi Fong 9781804290170
RRP: ÂŁ16.99Booksplease Price: ÂŁ12.32This is your nation's history on drugsAmericans are stumbling through a world-historic drug binge. Opiates, amphetamines, benzodiazepines, marijuana, antidepressants, antipsychotics-across the board,... -
The Politics of Belonging: Intersectional Contestations by Nira Yuval-Davis 9781412921305
Booksplease Price: ÂŁ62.02"This is an in-depth examination of a slippery and contradictory subject. Knowledge alone is not enough for this type of project. It takes breaking out of narrow conceptual cages and unsettling what... -
Flip-Flop: A Journey Through Globalisation's Backroads by Caroline Knowles 9780745334127
RRP: ÂŁ85.00Booksplease Price: ÂŁ66.05*Shortlisted for the BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography 2015* This book follows the global trail of one of the world's most unremarkable and ubiquitous objects - flip-flops... -
The New Medical Sociology: Social Forms of Health and Illness by Bryan S. Turner 9780393975055
Booksplease Price: ÂŁ27.56The author, Bryan Turner, examines how macro processes like globalization, risk, economic deregulation, and technological change shape personal experiences of health and illness. Addressing key... -
Democracy Needs Religion by Hartmut Rosa 9781509561230
RRP: ÂŁ9.99Booksplease Price: ÂŁ7.89What role does religion play in modern societies? Is it merely an anachronism that hinders our economic growth? Is it a kind of superstition that people should be left to enjoy in private but... -
Alienation and Acceleration: Towards a Critical Theory of Late-Modern Temporality Hartmut Rosa 9781509572076
RRP: ÂŁ14.99Booksplease Price: ÂŁ14.48Modern life is speeding-up, constantly. While the art of saving time reaches unprecedented heights through the introduction of ever-new technologies of communication and production, it nevertheless... -
Investigating Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Theory and Practice across Disciplines by Scott Frickel 9780813585895
RRP: ÂŁ120.00Booksplease Price: ÂŁ96.15Interdisciplinarity has become a buzzword in academia, as research universities funnel their financial resources toward collaborations between faculty in different disciplines. In theory,... -
Flip-Flop: A Journey Through Globalisation's Backroads Caroline Knowles (Goldsmiths, University of London) 9780745334110
RRP: ÂŁ26.99Booksplease Price: ÂŁ23.29*Shortlisted for the BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography 2015* This book follows the global trail of one of the world's most unremarkable and ubiquitous objects - flip-flops... -
Passionate Politics: Emotions and Social Movements by Jeff Goodwin
Booksplease Price: ÂŁ33.24Emotions are back. Once at the center of the study of politics, emotions have receded into the shadows during the past three decades, with no place in the rationalistic, structural, and... -
Passionate Politics – Emotions and Social Movements by Jeff Goodwin
RRP: ÂŁ81.00Booksplease Price: ÂŁ78.54Emotions are back. Once at the center of the study of politics, emotions have receded into the shadows during the past three decades, with no place in the rationalistic, structural, and... -
Loving Your Neighbour in an Age of Religious Conflict: A New Agenda for Interfaith Relations by James Walters
Booksplease Price: ÂŁ25.71This book offers a fresh perspective on religious difference by setting local challenges within the global picture, and exploring the meaning of religious resurgence for Western secularist ideas... -
Hannah Arendt: An Introduction by John McGowan 9780816630707
RRP: ÂŁ20.99Booksplease Price: ÂŁ18.24An informative and lively book about one of the foremost political thinkers of our time.Hannah Arendt was one of this century's leading political theorists and most controversial public intellectuals... -
Repertoires and Cycles of Collective Action by Mark Traugott 9780822315278
RRP: ÂŁ112.00Booksplease Price: ÂŁ89.90The modern era has generated a bewildering profusion of popular protest including widespread social movements and sporadic revolutionary upheaval. Despite the seemingly chaotic character of such... -
Wronged and Dangerous: Viral Masculinity and the Populist Pandemic by Karen Lee Ashcraft 9781529221398
RRP: ÂŁ85.00Booksplease Price: ÂŁ69.79Recent years have seen the rapid spread of far-right movements across the globe. Far beyond Donald Trump, these movements are reshaping the physical world in ways that pose danger to everyone,... -
Civic War and the Corruption of the Citizen by Peter Alexander Meyers
Booksplease Price: ÂŁ33.54In this unique book, Peter Alexander Meyers leads us through the social processes by which shock incites terror, terror invites war, war invokes emergency, and emergency supports unchecked power. He... -
Repertoires and Cycles of Collective Action by Mark Traugott 9780822315469
RRP: ÂŁ26.99Booksplease Price: ÂŁ23.48The modern era has generated a bewildering profusion of popular protest including widespread social movements and sporadic revolutionary upheaval. Despite the seemingly chaotic character of such... -
<i>Group Experiment</i> and Other Writings: The Frankfurt School on Public Opinion in Postwar Germany by Friedrich Pollock
RRP: ÂŁ55.95Booksplease Price: ÂŁ45.78During the occupation of West Germany after the Second World War, the American authorities commissioned polls to assess the values and opinions of ordinary Germans. They concluded that the fascist... -
Global Governance at Risk by David Held 9780745665252
RRP: ÂŁ17.99Booksplease Price: ÂŁ17.03Since 2007 the world has lurched from one crisis to the next. The rise of new powers, the collapse of our global financial system, the proliferation of nuclear weapons and crisis in the Eurozone have... -
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Democratic Theorizing From The Margins by Marla Brettschneider 9781566399210 [USED COPY]
RRP: ÂŁ45.00Booksplease Price: ÂŁ1.93Democratic Theorizing from the Margins lays out the basic parameters of diversity-based politics as a still emerging form of democratic theory. Students, activists, and scholars engage in diversity... -
Democratic Theorizing From The Margins by Marla Brettschneider 9781566399210
Booksplease Price: ÂŁ45.09Democratic Theorizing from the Margins lays out the basic parameters of diversity-based politics as a still emerging form of democratic theory. Students, activists, and scholars engage in diversity... -
Time and World Hartmut Rosa 9781509566266
RRP: ÂŁ50.00Booksplease Price: ÂŁ44.80Hartmut Rosa is a leading social theorist whose books on social acceleration and resonance have become milestones in discussions about the problems and promises of late modern societies. Rosa not... -
Jeffrey Alexander and Cultural Sociology by Jean–Francois Côté
RRP: ÂŁ17.99Booksplease Price: ÂŁ17.03This book presents the first comprehensive and critical account of Jeffrey Alexander's cultural sociology. Alexander has proposed a "strong program" in cultural sociology that analyses the cultural...