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Race and Ethnicity: The Basics by Peter Kivisto 9780415773737
RRP: $204.75Booksplease Price: $180.12Race and ethnicity have shaped the social, cultural and political character of much of the world, and remain an important influence on contemporary life in the 21st Century. Race and Ethnicity: The... -
Key Ideas in Sociology by Peter Kivisto 9781412978118
Booksplease Price: $218.87The only compact and portable book for undergraduate readers that links issues regarding post-modern society to the ideas and individuals that gave rise to sociological thinking in the late 19th... -
Multiculturalism in a Global Society by Peter Kivisto 9780631221937
RRP: $224.15Booksplease Price: $195.02Multiculturalism in Global Society explores the concepts and debates surrounding the complex modern phenomenon of multiculturalism, and its varied effects on the advanced industrial nations of the... -
Race and Ethnicity: The Basics Peter Kivisto 9780415773744
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $44.75Race and ethnicity have shaped the social, cultural and political character of much of the world, and remain an important influence on contemporary life in the 21st Century. Race and Ethnicity: The... -
The Civil Sphere: A Concise Introduction Peter Kivisto 9781509560578
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $28.24This book provides a comprehensive introduction to Jeffrey C. Alexander's Civil Sphere Theory (CST). It reconstructs the development and key features of this theory and explains why it offers an... -
The Anthem Companion on David Riesman Peter Kivisto 9781839992568
Booksplease Price: $226.86The purpose of this proposed addition to the Anthem Companions series is to add another title to a growing list of well-received publications (including the author's prior contribution on Robert E... -
The Civil Sphere: A Concise Introduction Peter Kivisto 9781509560561
RRP: $97.50Booksplease Price: $87.36This book provides a comprehensive introduction to Jeffrey C. Alexander's Civil Sphere Theory (CST). It reconstructs the development and key features of this theory and explains why it offers an... -
The Anthem Companion to Robert Park by Peter Kivisto 9780857281845
Booksplease Price: $132.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857281845Author Peter KivistoFormat HardbackPage Count 258Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem... -
Max Weber: A Bio-Bibliography by Peter Kivisto 9780313257940
Booksplease Price: $111.09Max Weber is surpassed only by Karl Marx in the breadth of his influence as a social scientist. This bio-bibliography presents a complete listing of printed translations of Weber's works into English... -
Debating Multiculturalism in the Nordic Welfare States by Peter Kivisto 9780230360198
Booksplease Price: $90.83This collection addresses the ways that Nordic countries have approached the issue of bringing ethnic minorities into the societal mainstream. With multicultural incorporation as an option, the... -
Incorporating Diversity: Rethinking Assimilation in a Multicultural Age by Peter Kivisto
RRP: $115.03Booksplease Price: $102.26As the best single-source collection of classic and contemporary readings on the subject, this anthology will be a valuable reference to scholars of immigration, race and ethnicity, national... -
Multiculturalism in a Global Society Peter Kivisto (Augustana College) 9780631221944
RRP: $81.80Booksplease Price: $74.02Multiculturalism in Global Society explores the concepts and debates surrounding the complex modern phenomenon of multiculturalism, and its varied effects on the advanced industrial nations of the... -
National Identity in an Age of Migration: The US experience by Peter Kivisto 9780367025342
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $86.52This collection explores, from a variety of angles, the beliefs of citizens and noncitizens about the impact that contemporary migration to the USA is having on American culture and on national... -
Citizenship: Discourse, Theory, and Transnational Prospects Peter Kivisto (Augustana College) 9781405105521
RRP: $58.40Booksplease Price: $54.15A significant addition to the growing body of literature on citizenship, this wide-ranging overview focuses on the importance, and changing nature, of citizenship. It introduces the varied discourses... -
Religion and Immigration: Migrant Faiths in North America and Western Europe by Peter Kivisto 9780745641706
Booksplease Price: $35.45This concise book provides readers with a comprehensive overview and critical assessment of the key issues and varied strands of research relating to immigration and religion that have been produced... -
Solidarity, Justice, and Incorporation: Thinking through The Civil Sphere by Peter Kivisto 9780199811908
Booksplease Price: $137.77Although many contemporary scholars have deepened our understanding of civil society, a concept that made its entry into modern social thought in the 17th century, by offering insightful exegetical... -
Religion and Immigration: Migrant Faiths in North America and Western Europe by Peter Kivisto 9780745641690
RRP: $97.50Booksplease Price: $87.36This concise book provides readers with a comprehensive overview and critical assessment of the key issues and varied strands of research relating to immigration and religion that have been produced... -
Americans All: Race and Ethnic Relations in Historical, Structural, and Comparative Perspectives by Peter Kivisto 9780195330533
Booksplease Price: $140.50The second edition of Peter Kivisto and Wendy Ng's Americans All introduces foundational ideas and concepts about race and ethnic groups and applies them to issues and events relevant to today's... -
The Trump Phenomenon: How the Politics of Populism Won in 2016 Peter Kivisto (Augustana College, USA) 9781787143685
Booksplease Price: $43.27On November 8, 2016, American voters surprised the world by electing a rank outsider with no previous political experience, businessman and celebrity Donald J. Trump, to become the 45th President of... -
Celebrating 40 Years of Ethnic and Racial Studies: Classic Papers in Context by Martin Bulmer
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $80.42This volume celebrates the 40th Anniversary of Ethnic and Racial Studies. It reproduces eleven classic papers published in the journal, accompanied by discussions of each paper by invited... -
Beyond a Border: The Causes and Consequences of Contemporary Immigration by Peter J. Kivisto 9781412924955
RRP: $245.70Booksplease Price: $219.73The most up-to-date analysis of today's immigration issues As the authors state in Chapter 1, "the movement of people across national borders represents one of the most vivid dramas of social... -
Citizenship: Discourse, Theory, and Transnational Prospects by Thomas Faist 9781405105514
RRP: $185.15Booksplease Price: $161.87A significant addition to the growing body of literature on citizenship, this wide-ranging overview focuses on the importance, and changing nature, of citizenship. It introduces the varied discourses... -
The Migration-Development Nexus: A Transnational Perspective by Thomas Faist 9780230228573
Booksplease Price: $90.25This book examines current policy discussions around the migration-development nexus and subjects them to rigorous conceptual and empirical criticism through a transnational lens, placing the current... -
The Protestant Ethic Turns 100: Essays on the Centenary of the Weber Thesis by William H. Swatos 9781594510991
RRP: $120.88Booksplease Price: $107.21Marking the centennial anniversary of the first publication of Max Weber's "Protestant Ethic" essays, a group of internationally recognized Weber scholars review the significance of Weber's essays by... -
The Challenge of Minority Integration: Politics and Policies in the Nordic Nations by Peter A. Kraus 9783110441109
RRP: $123.83Booksplease Price: $111.13How is solidarity achieved in highly diverse societies - particularly those that have been until recently characterized by rather homogeneous populations? What are the implications of growing levels... -
The Migration-Development Nexus: A Transnational Perspective Thomas Faist 9781349310142
Booksplease Price: $91.14This book examines current policy discussions around the migration-development nexus and subjects them to rigorous conceptual and empirical criticism through a transnational lens, placing the current... -
Religion, Spirituality and Everyday Practice by Giuseppe Giordan 9789400718180
RRP: $214.48Booksplease Price: $180.90The current generation of young adults, at least in the Western world, has shown a marked tendency toward a preference for describing themselves as "spiritual" as contrasted to "religious." This book... -
Theories of the Stranger: Debates on Cosmopolitanism, Identity and Cross-Cultural Encounters by Vince Marotta
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $79.83In our global, multicultural world, how we understand and relate to those who are different from us has become central to the politics of immigration in western societies. Who we are and how we... -
For Democracy: The Noble Character and Tragic Flaws of the Middle Class by Ronald M. Glassman 9780313279355
Booksplease Price: $149.19These sociologists and theorists, long concerned with the critical role in society of the middle class, trace its historical, structural, and cultural links with democracy since ancient times. They... -
Boundaries within: Nation, Kinship and Identity among Migrants and Minorities by Francesca Decimo 9783319533292
Booksplease Price: $176.59This volume investigates the relationship between migration, identity, kinship and population. It uncovers the institutional practices of categorization as well as the conducts and the ethics adopted... -
Thinking the Unthinkable: The Riddles of Classical Social Theories by Charles C. Lemert
RRP: $76.03Booksplease Price: $69.11In the eloquent style for which he has become famous, Charles Lemert writes of social theory as no one else. Thinking the Unthinkable is offered as text for instruction, yet it defies the prevailing... -
Nordic Whiteness and Migration to the USA: A Historical Exploration of Identity by 9780367535469
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $79.83This volume explores the complex and contradictory ways in which the cultural, scientific and political myth of whiteness has influenced identities, self-perceptions and the process of integration of... -
Surviving the Holocaust: A Life Course Perspective by Ronald Berger
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $86.52Surviving the Holocaust is a compelling sociological account of two brothers who survived the Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Poland. One brother, the author's father, endured several concentration camps,... -
Horrible Workers: Max Stirner, Arthur Rimbaud, Robert Johnson, and the Charles Manson Circle by Donald A. Nielsen 9780739112007
Booksplease Price: $79.54The poet makes himself a seer by a long, boundless, and systematic derangement of all the senses_. What if he is destroyed in his flight through things unheard of and unnamed: other horrible workers... -
The New Americans: A Guide to Immigration Since 1965 by Mary C. Waters
Booksplease Price: $66.61Listen to a short interview with Mary WatersHost: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & CraneSalsa has replaced ketchup as the most popular condiment. A mosque has been erected around the corner. The... -
Struggles Before Brown: Early Civil Rights Protests and Their Significance Today by Jean Van Delinder
RRP: $116.98Booksplease Price: $103.92There were many little-known challenges to racial segregation before the landmark Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954). The author's oral history interviews highlight civil... -
The Bosnian Diaspora: Integration in Transnational Communities by Marko Valenta 9781138277106
RRP: $107.23Booksplease Price: $96.21The Bosnian Diaspora: Integration in Transnational Communities provides a comprehensive insight into the situation of the Bosnian Diaspora, including not only experiences in 'western' countries, but... -
Social Character, Tribalism and Society: The Angry Crowd Chris Shilling 9781666972863
Booksplease Price: $158.87Chris Shilling and Philip A. Mellor argue that recent developments in social character are key to explaining the sectarian tribalism that has afflicted American and European societies in recent... -
Migrant Citizenship from Below: Family, Domestic Work, and Social Activism in Irregular Migration by K. Shinozaki 9781349488971
Booksplease Price: $91.14Migrant Citizenship from Below explores the dynamic local and transnational lives of Filipina and Filipino migrant domestic workers living in Schoenberg, Germany. Shinozaki examines their irregular... -
The Walls Within: The Politics of Immigration in Modern America Professor Sarah R. Coleman 9780691203331
Booksplease Price: $36.21A history of the battles over US immigrants' rights since 1965-and how these conflicts reshaped access to education, employment, civil liberties, and moreThe 1965 Hart-Celler Act transformed the...