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Understanding the Tacit by Stephen P. Turner 9781138929647
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $86.52This book outlines a new account of the tacit, meaning tacit knowledge, presuppositions, practices, traditions, and so forth. It includes essays on topics such as underdetermination and mutual... -
Explaining the Normative by Stephen P. Turner 9780745642550
RRP: $107.25Booksplease Price: $95.65Normativity is what gives reasons their force, makes words meaningful, and makes rules and laws binding. It is present whenever we use such terms as 'correct,' 'ought,' 'must,' and the language of... -
The Politics of Expertise Stephen P. Turner 9781138929630
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $86.52This book collects case studies and theoretical papers on expertise, focusing on four major themes: legitimation, the aggregation of knowledge, the distribution of knowledge and the distribution of... -
Explaining the Normative by Stephen P. Turner 9780745642567
Booksplease Price: $40.37Normativity is what gives reasons their force, makes words meaningful, and makes rules and laws binding. It is present whenever we use such terms as 'correct,' 'ought,' 'must,' and the language of... -
Sociological Explanation As Translation by Stephen P. Turner 9780521297738
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $59.18First published in 1980, this book examines the nature of sociological explanation. The tactics of interpretive sociology have often remained obscure because of confusion over the nature of the... -
Max Weber: The Lawyer as Social Thinker Stephen P. Turner 9780415114523
RRP: $103.33Booksplease Price: $93.21This book is the first account of the way in which Weber appropriated and modified sources in the legal tradition, in which he was trained, to construct his sociology. It leads directly to a new... -
Social Theory and Sociology: The Classics and Beyond by Stephen P. Turner 9780631191933
RRP: $93.50Booksplease Price: $83.97This Timely volume represents an attempt by leading practitioners in the field to think reflexively about the present state of social theory and its historical analogues, and to consider new... -
Max Weber and the Dispute over Reason and Value Stephen P. Turner 9780415489553
Booksplease Price: $100.97The problem of the nature of values and the relation between values and rationality is one of the defining issues of twentieth-century thought and Max Weber was one of the defining figures in the... -
The Social Theory of Practices: Tradition, Tacit Knowledge and Presuppositions by Stephen P. Turner 9780745613727
Booksplease Price: $33.52This book presents the first analysis and critique of the idea of practice as it has developed in the various theoretical traditions of the social sciences and the humanities. The concept of a... -
Liberal Democracy 3.0: Civil Society in an Age of Experts by Stephen P. Turner 9780761954699
Booksplease Price: $102.98`This is a very fine text, a powerful piece of work that deserves to be read widely. The analysis is truly panoramic. It ranges across central concerns in the fields of social theory, political... -
Cognitive Science and the Social: A Primer Stephen P. Turner (University of South Florida) 9780815385691
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.82The rise of cognitive neuroscience is the most important scientific and intellectual development of the last thirty years. Findings pour forth, and major initiatives for brain research continue. The... -
The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences Stephen P. Turner (University of South Florida) 9780631215387
RRP: $74.00Booksplease Price: $68.00The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences collects newly commissioned essays that examine fundamental issues in the social sciences.About the AuthorStephen P. Turner is Graduate... -
How to Win in China: Chinese Business and Negotiation Strategies Revealed by Professor Stephen P Turner 9780615619156
RRP: $38.90Booksplease Price: $33.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615619156Author Professor Stephen P TurnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint L & T... -
Brains/Practices/Relativism: Social Theory after Cognitive Science Stephen Turner 9780226817408
Booksplease Price: $59.34Brains/Practices/Relativism presents the first major rethinking of social theory in light of cognitive science. Stephen P. Turner focuses especially on connectionism, which views learning as a... -
Brains/Practices/Relativism: Social Theory after Cognitive Science by Stephen Turner 9780226817392
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $152.10Brains/Practices/Relativism presents the first major rethinking of social theory in light of cognitive science. Stephen P. Turner focuses especially on connectionism, which views learning as a... -
Sociological Theory in Transition by Mark L. Wardell
RRP: $62.38Booksplease Price: $58.13Current 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,... -
Sociological Theory in Transition by Mark L. Wardell 9781138782563
Booksplease Price: $169.77Current 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,... -
Routledge International Handbook of Contemporary Social and Political Theory Gerard Delanty (University of Sussex, UK) 9780367629106
RRP: $91.63Booksplease Price: $84.75The triangular relationship between the social, the political, and the cultural has opened up social and political theory to new challenges. The social can no longer be reduced to the category of... -
Causality In Crisis?: Statistical Methods & Search for Causal Knowledge in Social Sciences by Vaughn McKim 9780268008246
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $33.11In the past fifty years statisticians and methodologists in the social sciences have developed and refined a family of closely related statistical methods for the study of social phenomena. While the... -
Pandemics, Politics, and Society: Critical Perspectives on the Covid-19 Crisis Gerard Delanty 9783110720204
RRP: $75.08Booksplease Price: $34.38This volume is an important contribution to our understanding of global pandemics in general and Covid-19 in particular. It brings together the reflections of leading social and political scientists... -
Pandemics, Politics, and Society: Critical Perspectives on the Covid-19 Crisis Gerard Delanty 9783110713237
RRP: $71.18Booksplease Price: $32.78This volume is an important contribution to our understanding of global pandemics in general and Covid-19 in particular. It brings together the reflections of leading social and political scientists... -
How Well Do Facts Travel?: The Dissemination of Reliable Knowledge by Peter Howlett
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $56.71This book discusses how facts travel, and when and why they sometimes travel well enough to acquire a life of their own. Whether or not facts travel in this manner depends not only on their character...