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On Suicide by Emile Durkheim
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Emile Durkheim's On Suicide (1897) was a groundbreaking book in the field of sociology. Traditionally, suicide was thought to be a matter of purely individual despair but Durkheim recognized that the... -
The Division of Labor in Society by Emile Durkheim 9781476749730
RRP: $28.13Booksplease Price: $17.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476749730Author Emile DurkheimFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint -
Las Reglas del Metodo Sociologico by Emile Durkheim 9788476002490
Booksplease Price: $16.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788476002490Author Emile DurkheimFormat PaperbackImprint -
The Rules of Sociological Method: And Selected Texts on Sociology and Its Method by Emile Durkheim 9781476749723
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476749723Author Emile DurkheimFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint -
What Kinship Is-And Is Not Marshall Sahlins 9780226214290
Booksplease Price: $22.45What Kinship Is-And Is Not offers, on its surface, a simple theoretical argument, laid out in the titles of its mere two chapters: kinship is culture, not biology. But along the way to proving his... -
The Little Book of Sociology: A Pocket Guide to the Study of Society Rasha Barrage 9781800077188
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $7.08If you've always wanted to know how societies function - and why sometimes they don't - this beginner's guide to sociology has got the essential theories and thinkers covered Sociology has almost... -
Interaction Ritual Chains by Randall Collins
RRP: $53.60Booksplease Price: $44.38Sex, smoking, and social stratification are three very different social phenomena. And yet, argues sociologist Randall Collins, they and much else in our social lives are driven by a common force:... -
The Art of Social Theory by Richard Swedberg
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $31.74In the social sciences today, students are taught theory by reading and analyzing the works of Karl Marx, Max Weber, and other foundational figures of the discipline. What they rarely learn, however,... -
Durkheim's Ghosts: Cultural Logics and Social Things by Charles C. Lemert 9780521603638
Booksplease Price: $47.53Durkheim's Ghosts is a fascinating presentation of the tradition of social theory influenced by Emile Durkheim's thinking on the social foundations of knowledge. From Saussure and Levi-Strauss to... -
Durkheim's Ghosts: Cultural Logics and Social Things by Charles C. Lemert 9780521603638 [USED COPY]
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $4.27Durkheim's Ghosts is a fascinating presentation of the tradition of social theory influenced by Emile Durkheim's thinking on the social foundations of knowledge. From Saussure and Levi-Strauss to... -
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe by Jeremy Adler 9781789141986
Booksplease Price: $21.41This new critical biography provides a complete picture of German novelist, playwright and poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The book offers fresh, thought-provoking interpretations of all the major... -
The Art of Losing Control: A Philosopher's Search for Ecstatic Experience by Jules Evans
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Since the Enlightenment, western culture has written off ecstatic experience as a form of mental illness. But why should rationality be considered the highest part of human nature when we are capable... -
Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age by Robert N. Bellah
RRP: $33.43Booksplease Price: $30.18A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice An ABC Australia Best Book on Religion and Ethics of the Year Distinguished Book Award, Sociology of Religion Section of the American Sociological... -
Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life by Barbara J Fields
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.56Praised by a wide variety of people from Ta-Nehisi Coates to Zadie Smith, Racecraft "ought to be positioned," as Bookforum put it, "at the center of any discussion of race in American life." Most... -
Great Minds: Encounters with Social Theory by Gianfranco Poggi 9780804772143 [USED COPY]
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $2.68Modern social thought is largely the intellectual product of a number of "great minds." Revisiting the central theories of Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Simmel, Mead, Parsons, Goffman, Garfinkel, and... -
Liquid Modernity by Zygmunt Bauman 9780745624105
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.35In this new book, Bauman examines how we have moved away from a 'heavy' and 'solid', hardware-focused modernity to a 'light' and 'liquid', software-based modernity. This passage, he argues, has... -
The Mark of the Sacred by Jean-Pierre Dupuy
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.35Jean-Pierre Dupuy, prophet of what he calls "enlightened doomsaying," has long warned that modern society is on a path to self-destruction. In this book, he pleads for a subversion of this crisis... -
Keepers of the Flame: Understanding Amnesty International by Stephen Hopgood
Booksplease Price: $31.10"If one organization is synonymous with keeping hope alive, even as a faint glimmer in the darkness of a prison, it is Amnesty International. Amnesty has been the light, and that light was... -
Developments in French Politics 6 by Helen Drake 9781352007756
Booksplease Price: $55.42This new version of a leading textbook on French politics offers expert analysis of recent national and international events, discussing their significance for France itself as well as for Europe and... -
Why People Die by Suicide by Thomas E. Joiner 9780674025493
RRP: $29.41Booksplease Price: $22.71In the wake of a suicide, the most troubling questions are invariably the most difficult to answer: How could we have known? What could we have done? And always, unremittingly: Why? Written by a...