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Degenerations of Democracy by Craig Calhoun
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £20.76Three 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... -
Habermas and Religion by Craig Calhoun 9780745653266
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £53.60To 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... -
Rethinking Secularism by Craig Calhoun 9780199796687
RRP: £36.49Booksplease Price: £24.14This collection of essays presents groundbreaking work from an interdisciplinary group of leading theorists and scholars representing the fields of history, philosophy, political science, sociology,... -
Practicing Culture Craig Calhoun 9780415412506
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37Practicing Culture seeks to revitalize the field of cultural sociology with an emphasis not on abstract theoretical debates but on showing how to put theoretical sources to work in empirical research... -
Dictionary of the Social Sciences by Craig Calhoun 9780195123715
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £71.45The Dictionary of the Social Sciences is a comprehensive reference work with over 1700 entries ranging from fifty to five hundred words covering topics such as anthropology, sociology, economics,... -
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... -
Habermas and the Public Sphere by Craig Calhoun 9780262531146
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £45.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262531146Author Craig CalhounFormat PaperbackPage Count 510Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press... -
Hannah Arendt and the Meaning of Politics by Craig Calhoun 9780816629176
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Eminent 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: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.60Catastrophic 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: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.04To 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... -
Aftermath: A New Global Economic Order? by Craig Calhoun 9780814772836
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £55.52The global financial crisis showed deep problems with mainstream economic predictions, as well as the vulnerability of the world's richest countries and the enormous potential of some poorer ones... -
Aftermath: A New Global Economic Order? by Craig Calhoun 9780814772843
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48With the specter of prosecution after his term is over and the possibility of disbarment in Arkansas hanging over President Clinton, the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal and the events that have followed it... -
Democratizing Inequalities: Dilemmas of the New Public Participation by Craig Calhoun
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.12Opportunities to "have your say," "get involved," and "join the conversation" are everywhere in public life. From crowdsourcing and town hall meetings to government experiments with social media,... -
The Green New Deal and the Future of Work by Craig Calhoun 9780231205566
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £97.75Catastrophic 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... -
The Deepening Crisis: Governance Challenges after Neoliberalism by Craig Calhoun 9780814772805
Booksplease Price: £90.57Response to financial meltdown is entangled with basic challenges to global governance. Environment, global security and ethnicity and nationalism are all global issues today. Focusing on the... -
The Deepening Crisis: Governance Challenges after Neoliberalism by Craig Calhoun 9780814772812
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Response to financial meltdown is entangled with basic challenges to global governance. Environment, global security and ethnicity and nationalism are all global issues today. Focusing on the... -
Classical Sociological Theory Craig Calhoun (New York University) 9781119527367
RRP: £36.95Booksplease Price: £34.51A 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... -
Democratizing Inequalities: Dilemmas of the New Public Participation by Craig Calhoun 9781479847273
RRP: £63.00Booksplease Price: £51.91Opportunities to "have your say," "get involved," and "join the conversation" are everywhere in public life. From crowdsourcing and town hall meetings to government experiments with social media,... -
Business as Usual: The Roots of the Global Financial Meltdown by Craig Calhoun 9780814772782
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Situates the current crisis in the historical trajectory of the capitalist world-system, showing how the crisis was made possible not only by neoliberal financial reforms but by a massive turn away... -
Business as Usual: The Roots of the Global Financial Meltdown by Craig Calhoun 9780814772775
Booksplease Price: £90.57Situates the current crisis in the historical trajectory of the capitalist world-system, showing how the crisis was made possible not only by neoliberal financial reforms but by a massive turn away... -
Contemporary Sociological Theory Craig Calhoun (New York University) 9781119527244
RRP: £36.95Booksplease Price: £34.51The 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... -
Social Theory and the Politics of Identity Craig Calhoun (New York University) 9781557864734
RRP: £46.95Booksplease Price: £42.21New social movements of the post-war era have brought to prominence the idea that identity can be a crucial focus for political struggle. Linked to an increasing recognition that social theory itself... -
Robert K. Merton: Sociology of Science and Sociology as Science by Craig Calhoun 9780231151139
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.08Robert 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... -
Neither Gods nor Emperors: Students and the Struggle for Democracy in China by Craig Calhoun
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £22.77"We want neither gods nor emperors", went the words from the Chinese version of The Internationale. Students sang the old socialist song as they gathered in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in the Spring... -
Structures of Power and Constraint: Papers in Honor of Peter M. Blau by Craig Calhoun 9780521113168
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £46.59Are social structures products of human action, expressions of individual or group power? Or are they essentially external constraints on human action, necessarily analyzed at a different level? How... -
The Roots of Radicalism: Tradition, the Public Sphere, and Early Nineteenth-Century Social Movements by Craig Calhoun
Booksplease Price: £28.85The 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,... -
Critical Social Theory: Culture, History, and the Challenge of Difference Craig Calhoun (New York University) 9781557862884
RRP: £41.95Booksplease Price: £37.96In this outstanding reinterpretation - and extension - of the Critical Theory tradition, Craig Calhoun surveys the origins, fortunes and prospects of this most influential of theoretical approaches... -
The Idea of Nationalism: A Study in Its Origins and Background Hans Kohn 9781412804769
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £50.31In this sixtieth anniversary edition of The Idea of Nationalism, Craig Calhoun probes the work of Hans Kohn and the world that first brought prominence to this unparalleled defense of the national... -
Religion and the Public Sphere: New Conversations James Walters (SE911266 NFA Statment bounced, we have no bank details on SAP and the payment method is set to Cheque. Requested updated mailing address and bank detail.) 9781138091238
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37Religion and the Public Sphere: New Conversations explores the changing contribution of religion to public life today. Bringing together a diverse group of preeminent scholars on religion, each... -
Globalization and the State: Sociological Perspectives on the State of the State by W. Schinkel 9780230574052
Booksplease Price: £46.28Internationally-renowned scholars, including Zygmunt Bauman, Saskia Sassen, Loic Wacquant and Craig Calhoun come together in this exciting new collection to debate the role of the nation state in an... -
Locked in Place: State-Building and Late Industrialization in India by Vivek Chibber
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.55Why were some countries able to build "developmental states" in the decades after World War II while others were not? Through a richly detailed examination of India's experience, Locked in Place... -
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... -
Postmodernism is Not What You Think Charles C. Lemert 9781594511530
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.66'Charles Lemert is one of the most thoughtful and interesting of sociology's postmodernists. He recurrently finds new angles of vision and is especially helpful for overcoming the pernicious... -
The Post-Secular in Question: Religion in Contemporary Society by Philip S. Gorski
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £48.01The Post-Secular in Question considers whether there has in fact been a religious resurgence of global dimensions in recent decades. This collection of original essays by leading academics represents... -
A New Science: The Breakdown of Connections and the Birth of Sociology by Bruce Mazlish 9780271025872
Booksplease Price: £37.39"What makes this book stand out is the way in which Mazlish situates sociology in the broader context of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century social thought. This is the most interesting... -
Violence: A New Approach by Michel Wieviorka 9781847875464
Booksplease Price: £57.41"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
Booksplease Price: £23.39The 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... -
Think Tanks in America by Thomas Medvetz 9780226517292
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.60Over 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: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.32This is your nation's history on drugsAmericans are stumbling through a world-historic drug binge. Opiates, amphetamines, benzodiazepines, marijuana, antidepressants, antipsychotics-across the board,...