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Sociology of Postmodernism by Scott Lash
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £46.08This authoritative and revealing book provides the first sociological examination of postmodernism. Lash examines the differences between modernism and postmodernism, providing a clear explanation of... -
The End of Organized Capitalism by Scott Lash 9780745600697
Booksplease Price: £21.00In this thought-provoking new book, Anthony Smith analyses key debates between historians and social scientists on the role of nations and nationalism in history. In a wide-ranging analysis of the... -
Experience: New Foundations for the Human Sciences by Scott Lash 9780745695143
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05This book is a radical plea for the centrality of experience in the social and human sciences. Lash argues that a large part of the output of the social sciences today is still shaped by assumptions... -
Experience: New Foundations for the Human Sciences Scott Lash (Goldsmiths College, University of London) 9780745695150
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.03This book is a radical plea for the centrality of experience in the social and human sciences. Lash argues that a large part of the output of the social sciences today is still shaped by assumptions... -
Another Modernity: A Different Rationality by Scott Lash 9780631159391
RRP: £110.95Booksplease Price: £101.17This book is Lash's most comprehensive statement in social and cultural theory. It is a book addressed to sociologists and philosophers, to students of urban life, modern languages, cultural studies... -
Global Culture Industry: The Mediation of Things by Scott Lash 9780745624839
Booksplease Price: £19.96In the first half of the twentieth century, Theodor Adorno wrote about the 'culture industry'. For Adorno, culture too along with the products of factory labour was increasingly becoming a commodity... -
Modernity and Identity Scott Lash (Goldsmiths College, University of London) 9780631175865
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £39.11Modernity and Identity is a groundbreaking collective work which announces a radical new departure within contemporary debates on modernism and postmodernism. While dominant conceptions of both... -
Time and Value Scott Lash (Goldsmiths College, University of London) 9780631210030
RRP: £22.75Booksplease Price: £21.64This ground-breaking book addresses transformations in the understanding of time and the generation and degeneration of value at the cutting edge of modernity and postmodernity.About the AuthorScott... -
Another Modernity: A Different Rationality Scott Lash (Goldsmiths College, University of London) 9780631164999
RRP: £51.95Booksplease Price: £49.02This book is Lash's most comprehensive statement in social and cultural theory. It is a book addressed to sociologists and philosophers, to students of urban life, modern languages, cultural studies... -
Global Culture Industry: The Mediation of Things Scott Lash (Goldsmiths College, University of London) 9780745624822
Booksplease Price: £61.05In the first half of the twentieth century, Theodor Adorno wrote about the 'culture industry'. For Adorno, culture too along with the products of factory labour was increasingly becoming a commodity... -
China Constructing Capitalism: Economic Life and Urban Change Michael Keith 9780415497060
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £53.80China has been growing at over ten per cent annually since 1978, but this has only come to very widespread notice in the past decade. This received wisdom about China has been largely of two types,... -
Sociological Theory in Transition by Mark L. Wardell
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £29.49Current sociological theories appear to have lost their general persuasiveness in part because, unlike the theories of the 'classical era', they fail to maintain an integrated stance toward society,... -
Detraditionalization by Paul Heelas 9781557865540
RRP: £115.95Booksplease Price: £108.09The modernity and postmodernity debates of recent years have tended to direct attention towards frameworks of periodization, and away from the social and cultural processes currently at work in the... -
Sociological Theory in Transition by Mark L. Wardell 9781138782563
Booksplease Price: £87.06Current sociological theories appear to have lost their general persuasiveness in part because, unlike the theories of the 'classical era', they fail to maintain an integrated stance toward society,... -
Detraditionalization Paul Heelas (University of Lancaster) 9781557865557
RRP: £46.95Booksplease Price: £43.92The modernity and postmodernity debates of recent years have tended to direct attention towards frameworks of periodization, and away from the social and cultural processes currently at work in the... -
Ethnography through Thick and Thin by George E. Marcus
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £42.09In the 1980s, George Marcus spearheaded a major critique of cultural anthropology, expressed most clearly in the landmark book Writing Culture, which he coedited with James Clifford. Ethnography... -
The Future of Social Theory by Nicholas Gane 9780826470669
Booksplease Price: £76.50The basic concept of society has come under attack - political acts, critical theory, new media and even history itself have undermined what we think of as the social. The Future of Social Theory... -
Risk and Technological Culture: Towards a Sociology of Virulence Joost Van Loon 9780415229012
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.80The question as to whether we are now entering a risk society has become a key debate in contemporary social theory. Risk and Technological Culture presents a critical discussion of the main theories... -
Max Weber, Rationality and Modernity Sam Whimster (London Metropolitan University, UK) 9780415489546
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37This book brings together leading figures in history, sociology, political science, feminism and critical theory to interpret, evaluate, criticize and update Weber's legacy. In a collection of... -
Individualization: Institutionalized Individualism and its Social and Political Consequences by Ulrich Beck 9780761961123
Booksplease Price: £108.93Individualization argues that we are in the midst of a fundamental change in the nature of society and politics. This change hinges around two processes: globalization and individualization. The book... -
Law, Modernity, Postmodernity: Legal Change in the Contracting State by Brendan Edgeworth 9781138741997
RRP: £130.00Booksplease Price: £114.99This title was first published in 2003. This book examines the interrelationship between the unravelling of the post-war welfare state and legal change. By reference to theorists of postmodernity... -
Risk and Everyday Life by John Tulloch
Booksplease Price: £109.70Risk and Everyday Life examines how people respond to, experience and think about risk as part of their everyday lives. Bringing together original empirical research and sociocultural theory, the... -
Democracy without Enemies by Ulrich Beck 9780745618234
Booksplease Price: £19.71Up to now, modernization has always been conceived of, in contrast to the worlds of tradition and religion, as a liberation from the constraints of nature. What happens, however, if industrial... -
The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo Saskia Sassen 9780691264721
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.02In her classic book The Global City, Saskia Sassen tells how New York, London, and Tokyo became command centers of the emerging global economy and, in the process, underwent massive and parallel... -
Law, Modernity, Postmodernity: Legal Change in the Contracting State by Brendan Edgeworth
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £33.73This title was first published in 2003. This book examines the interrelationship between the unravelling of the post-war welfare state and legal change. By reference to theorists of postmodernity... -
Risk by Jakob Arnoldi 9780745640983
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £45.24This book gives a comprehensive yet easily accessible introduction to risk and uncertainty as they have been analysed in sociology and related social sciences. The book draws extensively on the wide... -
The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo by Saskia Sassen 9780691070636
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £33.03This classic work chronicles how New York, London, and Tokyo became command centers for the global economy and in the process underwent a series of massive and parallel changes. What distinguishes... -
Risk Jakob Arnoldi 9780745640990
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.19This book gives a comprehensive yet easily accessible introduction to risk and uncertainty as they have been analysed in sociology and related social sciences. The book draws extensively on the wide... -
Network Culture: Politics For the Information Age Tiziana Terranova 9780745317489
Booksplease Price: £31.86In an age of email lists and discussion groups, e-zines and weblogs, bringing together users, consumers, workers and activists from around the globe, what kinds of political subjectivity are... -
The Invention of Creativity: Modern Society and the Culture of the New by Andreas Reckwitz 9780745697031
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.35Contemporary society has seen an unprecedented rise in both the demand and the desire to be creative, to bring something new into the world. Once the reserve of artistic subcultures, creativity has... -
For a New Critique of Political Economy by Bernard Stiegler 9780745648040
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.62The catastrophic economic, social and political crisis of our time calls for a new and original critique of political economy - a rethinking of Marx's project in the very different conditions of... -
The Invention of Creativity: Modern Society and the Culture of the New Andreas Reckwitz 9780745697048
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.83Contemporary society has seen an unprecedented rise in both the demand and the desire to be creative, to bring something new into the world. Once the reserve of artistic subcultures, creativity has... -
Decadence of Industrial Democracies by Bernard Stiegler 9780745648101
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.19Translated by DANIEL ROSS Bernard Stiegler is one of the most original philosophers writing today about new technologies and their implications for social, political and personal life. Drawing on... -
Patterns: Theory of the Digital Society by Armin Nassehi 9781509558223
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.89We are inclined to assume that digital technologies have suddenly revolutionized everything - including our relationships, our forms of work and leisure, and even our democracies - in just a few... -
For a New Critique of Political Economy by Bernard Stiegler 9780745648033
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £40.55The catastrophic economic, social and political crisis of our time calls for a new and original critique of political economy - a rethinking of Marx's project in the very different conditions of... -
Cultural Representation and Cultural Studies by Zhou Xian 9781032525372
Booksplease Price: £35.10From the perspective of critical cultural sociology, this book delves into the intertwining relations of cultural transformation and social evolution, illuminating contemporary Chinese culture's... -
Religion, Theology and the Human Sciences by Richard H. Roberts 9780521795081
RRP: £47.00Booksplease Price: £43.00Religion, Theology and the Human Sciences explores the religious consequences of the so-called 'end of history' and 'triumph of capitalism' as they have impinged upon key institutions of social... -
Max Weber: Collected Methodological Writings Hans Henrik Bruun 9781138019676
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £59.19Weber's methodological writings form the bedrock of key ideas across the social sciences. His discussion of value freedom and value commitment, causality, understanding and explanation, theory... -
Religion, Theology and the Human Sciences by Richard H. Roberts 9780521791519
RRP: £51.00Booksplease Price: £47.48Religion, Theology and the Human Sciences explores the religious consequences of the so-called 'end of history' and 'triumph of capitalism' as they have impinged upon key institutions of social... -
Cosmopolitanism and Culture Nikos Papastergiadis (University of Manchester) 9780745653839
Booksplease Price: £19.96Today, more than at any other point in history, we are aware of the cultural impact of global processes. This has created new possibilities for the development of a cosmopolitan culture but, at the...