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Dumped by Stephen Turner 9780993142604
Booksplease Price: £11.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993142604Author Stephen TurnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Turtle Pop... -
The Cambridge Companion to Weber by Stephen Turner
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £25.43Max Weber is indubitably one of the very greatest figures in the history of the social sciences, the source of seminal concepts like 'the Protestant Ethic', 'charisma' and the idea of historical... -
Emile Durkheim: Sociologist and Moralist Stephen Turner 9780415756259
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37International scholarship over the last twenty years has produced a new understanding of Emile Durkheim as a thinker. It has contributed to reassembling what, for Durkheim, was always a whole: a... -
Mad Hazard: A Life in Social Theory by Stephen Turner 9781803826707
Booksplease Price: £95.84Mad Hazard is a memoir of the career and life of Stephen Turner, chronicling a life in social theory. Showcasing how Turner's later work on expertise, tacit knowledge, cognitive science, leadership,... -
Brains/Practices/Relativism: Social Theory after Cognitive Science Stephen Turner 9780226817408
Booksplease Price: £30.43Brains/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: £80.00Booksplease Price: £78.00Brains/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... -
Making Democratic Theory Democratic: Democracy, Law, and Administration after Weber and Kelsen by Stephen Turner
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £35.44--A timely analysis of how to make democracies more administratively effective--and true to the intentions of democracy --The lead author is a distinguished political philosopher --Valuable assigned... -
Routledge International Handbook of Contemporary Social and Political Theory Gerard Delanty (University of Sussex, UK) 9780367629106
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £43.46The 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... -
Knowledge and Democracy: A 21st Century Perspective by Nico Stehr 9781138511439
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £43.94The relationship of knowledge and liberties in modern societies presents a multitude of fascinating issues that deserve to be explored more systematically. The production of knowledge is dynamic, and... -
The Governance of Knowledge by Nico Stehr 9781412864091
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £31.19Social surveillance and regulation of knowledge will be one of the most important issues in the near future, one that will give rise to unending controversy. In The Governance of Knowledge, Nico... -
The Art of Social Theory by Richard Swedberg
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.25In 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,... -
The Art of Social Theory by Richard Swedberg 9780691155227
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.90In 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,... -
Normativity and Naturalism in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences by Mark W. Risjord
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.51Normativity and Naturalism in the Social Sciences engages with a central debate within the philosophy of social science: whether social scientific explanation necessitates an appeal to norms, and if... -
The Social Structures of Global Academia by Fabian Cannizzo
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £42.66Higher education and research are now at the centre of economic and social policy in advanced information societies. Global networks of researchers, finance, students and policymakers invoke... -
Sociology Responds to Fascism by Dirk Kasler
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £43.94We know a lot about the sociology of fascism, but how have sociologists responded to fascism when confronted with it in their own lives? How courageous or compromising have they been? And why has... -
Cognitive Science and the Social: A Primer Stephen P. Turner (University of South Florida) 9780815385691
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37The 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... -
Explanation and Social Theory by Mr John Holmwood 9780333545454
Booksplease Price: £90.56The book ranges widely over modern social theory, giving detailed treatments of major sources to identify common themes and deficiencies in apparently disparate schools of thought. The object is to... -
The Social Sciences and Democracy by Jeroen van Bouwel 9780230224391
Booksplease Price: £46.28Prominent researchers from philosophy and the social studies of science present a collection of articles that together constitute a systematic and comprehensive investigation of how to understand the... -
The Search for a Methodology of Social Science: Durkheim, Weber, and the Nineteenth-Century Problem of Cause, Probability, and Action by S. Turner 9789048184170
Booksplease Price: £90.56Stephen Turner has explored the ongms of social science in this pioneering study of two nineteenth century themes: the search for laws of human social behavior, and the accumulation and analysis of... -
Social Theory and Sociology: The Classics and Beyond by Stephen P. Turner 9780631191933
RRP: £47.95Booksplease Price: £44.76This 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... -
The Calling of Social Thought: Rediscovering the Work of Edward Shils by Christopher Adair-Toteff
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £65.11Edward Shils was a central figure in twentieth century social thought. He held appointments both at Chicago and Cambridge and was a crucial link between British and American intellectual life. This... -
The Search for a Methodology of Social Science: Durkheim, Weber, and the Nineteenth-Century Problem of Cause, Probability, and Action by S. Turner 9789027720672
Booksplease Price: £90.56Stephen Turner has explored the ongms of social science in this pioneering study of two nineteenth century themes: the search for laws of human social behavior, and the accumulation and analysis of... -
The Disobedient Generation: Social Theorists in the Sixties by Alan Sica 9780226756240
Booksplease Price: £92.22The late 1960s are remembered today as the last time wholesale social upheaval shook Europe and the United States. College students during that tumultuous period - epitomized by the events of May... -
The Disobedient Generation: Social Theorists in the Sixties by Professor Alan Sica 9780226756257
Booksplease Price: £30.43The late 1960s are remembered today as the last time wholesale social upheaval shook Europe and the United States. College students during that tumultuous period - epitomized by the events of May... -
Rights Resources and Rural Development: Community-based Natural Resource Management in Southern Africa by 9781844070091
Booksplease Price: £37.99Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) is an approach that offers multiple related benefits: securing rural livelihoods; ensuring careful conservation and management of biodiversity and... -
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... -
Democracy in the Post-Truth Era: Restoring Faith in Expertise by Janusz Grygienc 9781474497312
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £19.03The world of post-truth is a world of intense disinformation, an offensive of pseudoscience and widespread scepticism about expert knowledge. It is a world in which the terms of the political game... -
Settler and Creole Reenactment by Vanessa Agnew 9780230576063
Booksplease Price: £90.56Explores the uncalculated and incalculable elements in historical re-enactment - unexpected emotions, unplanned developments - and locates them in countries where settlers were trying to establish... -
Questions of Practice in Philosophy and Social Theory by Anders Buch
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80Humanistic theory for more than the past 100 years is marked by extensive attention to practice and practices. Two prominent streams of thought sharing this focus are pragmatism and theories of... -
Teaching Political Sociology William Outhwaite 9781035344499
RRP: £30.95Booksplease Price: £29.70Drawing on the diverse experience of a team of internationally recognised specialists, Teaching Political Sociology provides educators with a concise and accessible guide to the main topic areas... -
Science Bought and Sold: Essays in the Economics of Science by Philip Mirowski 9780226538563
RRP: £108.00Booksplease Price: £106.57"A serious reconsideration of the 'economics of science' is long overdue," say Philip Mirowski and Esther-Mirjam Sent in the introduction to Science Bought and Sold. Indeed, it is only recently that... -
Science Bought and Sold: Essays in the Economics of Science by Philip Mirowski 9780226538570
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £44.79"A serious reconsideration of the 'economics of science' is long overdue," say Philip Mirowski and Esther-Mirjam Sent in the introduction to Science Bought and Sold. Indeed, it is only recently that... -
Teaching Political Sociology William Outhwaite 9781802205145
Booksplease Price: £100.17Drawing on the diverse experience of a team of internationally recognised specialists, Teaching Political Sociology provides educators with a concise and accessible guide to the main topic areas... -
Sociology in Post-Normal Times by Charles Thorpe 9781793625977
Booksplease Price: £103.41The Covid-19 pandemic and the disruptions of climate change are features of post-normal times. In Sociology in Post-Normal Times, Charles Thorpe contends that the modern project of creating normalcy... -
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... -
The Future of Sociology: Ideology or Objective Social Science? Robert Leroux (University of Ottawa, Canada) 9781032045054
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.52This book explores the shift in sociology away from the shared aspiration of the classical transition, of transcending partiality through the construction of a "science of society", in the face of... -
Political Disagreement, Violence and Nonviolence: An Analysis of Political Ideologies and their Distinctions between Kinds of Violence by Greg McCreery 9781793617217
Booksplease Price: £76.51Violence and Nonviolence descriptively analyzes numerous examples of theorists' definitions and characterizations of varying types of violence, arguing that a commonsense view of violence and... -
The Cognitive Foundations of Classical Sociological Theory Ryan McVeigh 9781032386256
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.39The Cognitive Foundations of Classical Sociological Theory explores the role that understandings of mind and brain played in the development of sociological theory. It isolates five key authors in... -
Science, Values and Politics in Max Weber's Methodology: New Expanded Edition Hans Henrik Bruun 9781138266872
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £49.04First published in 1972, this book on Weber's methodological writings is today regarded as a modern classic in its field. In this new expanded edition, the author has revised and updated the original... -
Explaining the Normative by Stephen P. Turner 9780745642567
Booksplease Price: £20.70Normativity 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...