Social Theory
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Rethinking Class and Social Difference
Emerald Publishing LimitedCurrent price €86.39Original price €95.99Rethinking Class and Social Difference brings together contributions from scholars developing new social scientific and theoretical approaches to a...
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What Are Prisons For?
Hindpal Singh BhuiCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99What does a good prison look like? More than eleven million people are currently locked up in prisons across the world, but does that mean that pri...
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Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left
Ernesto LaclauCurrent price €16.55Original price €17.99What is the contemporary legacy of Gramsci's notion of Hegemony? How can universality be reformulated now that its spurious versions have been so t...
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Interpreting Contentious Memory: Countermemories and Social Conflicts over the Past
Bristol University PressCurrent price €86.48Original price €92.99The first book to approach the study of memory and the past with an explicit focus on expounding and bridging modes of interpretation in the social...
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Judging Complicity: How to Respond to Injustice and Violence
Gisli VoglerCurrent price €91.07Original price €98.99Current price €91.07Original price €98.99Save 8% -
Sociology Researcher Biographical Sketches & Research Summaries
Nova Science Publishers IncCurrent price €193.43Original price €207.99This book compiles biographical sketches of top professionals in the field of sociology, as well as research summaries from a number of different f...
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Contemporary Social Theory: Key Themes & Analysis
John W. MurphyCurrent price €106.94Original price €114.99The aim of this book is to provide a coherent picture of contemporary social theory. The hope is that an uncluttered and more unified discussion of...
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Social Support: Gender Differences, Psychological Importance & Impacts on Well-Being
Nova Science Publishers IncCurrent price €179.09Original price €198.99The link among health, well-being and social support is well-known. Social support represents an important protective factor against stress both di...
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Short Introduction to Social Theory
Nova Science Publishers IncCurrent price €69.74Original price €74.99This brief textbook provides a broad critical introduction to social theory in terms of its engagement with modernity and to a lesser extent, with ...
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Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber
Wendy BrownCurrent price €23.91Original price €25.99One of Americas leading political theorists analyzes the nihilism degradingand confoundingpolitical and academic life today. Through readings of Ma...
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Islam in Russia: Religion, Politics & Society
Lynne Rienner PublishersCurrent price €85.49Original price €94.99Current price €85.49Original price €94.99Save 10% -
The Discourse of Scholarly Communication
Patrick GamsbyCurrent price €68.24Original price €90.99The Discourse of Scholarly Communication recontextualizes the place and purpose of scholarship within the context of the Enlightenment. Patrick Gam...
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Theories of Creativity
Hampton PressCurrent price €66.42Original price €72.99Containing essays by researchers from a variety of perspectives on the study of creativity, this text has been expanded to include recent research ...
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White Ignorance and Complicit Responsibility: Transforming Collective Harm beyond the Punishment Paradigm
Eva BoodmanCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99White ignorance is a form of collective denial that aggressively resists acknowledging the role of race and racism. It dominates our political land...
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Myth, Magic, and Power in Tolkiens Middle-earth: Developing a Model for Understanding Power and Leadership
James E. SiburtCurrent price €71.09Original price €78.99Myth, Magic, and Power in Tolkiens Middle-earth: Developing a Model for Understanding Power and Leadership explores the need for, and the developme...
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Pandemics as Matter of a System Crisis: Precarity of Society
Peter HerrmannCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Pandemics it seems that it had been the beginning of a new era, after a first shock wave a new normality commenced trying to, repress the complex ...
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Multidimensional Aspects of Occupational Segregation: Time Series and Cross-National Comparisons
Springer Verlag SingaporeCurrent price €114.38Original price €122.99One of the strengths of this book is that it expresses occupational segregation from multidimensional viewpoints using correspondence analysis. Thr...
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Magic and the Will to Science: A Political Anthropology of Liminal Technicality
Agnes HorvathCurrent price €129.59Original price €143.99This book offers a political anthropological perspective on the problematic character of science, combining insights from historical sociology, pol...
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Being and Nothingness: An Essay in Phenomenological Ontology
Jean-Paul SartreCurrent price €60.44Original price €64.99First published in French in 1943, Jean-Paul Sartres LÊtre et le Néant is one of the greatest philosophical works of the twentieth century. In it, ...
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Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters
Dr Brian KlaasCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50'Consistently gripping - dazzling in its sweep and thrillingly brain-twisting in its arguments' Tom HollandA provocative new vision of how our wo...
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Technik sozialisieren? / Technology Socialisation?: Soziale Angemessenheit für technische Systeme / Social Appropriateness and Artificial Systems
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KGCurrent price €61.19Original price €67.99Anwendungen Künstlicher Intelligenz, Maschinellen Lernens sowie Robotik und weitere informatische Systeme spielen in immer mehr Bereichen der mensc...
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The New Despotism: The Revival of an Old Monster
Bülent DikenCurrent price €78.29Original price €86.99Ours is a post-political society that cannot imagine radical change; a one dimensional society in which politics is reduced to economic concerns. P...
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Bad Taste: Or the Politics of Ugliness
Nathalie OlahCurrent price €16.39Original price €19.99This book is not a taste, nor an anti-taste, manual.This is an interrogation of the importance we place on seemingly objective ideas of taste in a ...
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Revolt from the Middle: Emotional Stratification and Change in Post-Industrial Societies
Jonathan H. TurnerCurrent price €129.59Original price €143.99Those who address conflict resulting from differing socio-economic groups (stratification systems) focus on the arousal of negative emotions. Less ...
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Translating Organizational Theory: A Concise Guide to Prominent Domains
Suzanne BeaumasterCurrent price €66.02Original price €70.99Translating Organizational Theory: A Concise Guide to Prominent Domains is grounded in the notion that most of the organizational theories used in ...
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Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters
Dr Brian KlaasCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99A provocative new vision of how our world really works - and why chance determines everything.In Fluke, myth-shattering social scientist Brian Klaa...
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Writing the Body Politic: A John ONeill Reader
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €129.59Original price €143.99This book brings together key essays from the career of social theorist John ONeill, including his uncollected later writings, focusing on embodime...
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Conviviality in Burgaz: Living, Loving and Fighting on a Diverse Island of Istanbul
Deniz N. DuruCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This open access book tells stories of conviviality, solidarity, and everyday management of conflicts and tensions, by building on original, long-t...
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A Politics of Disgust: Selfhood, World-Making, and Ethics
Eleonora JoensuuCurrent price €129.59Original price €143.99This book explores the intersubjective nature of disgust, the fascination that often accompanies italong with repulsionand the ethical implications...
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The Oxford Handbook of Evidence-Based Crime and Justice Policy
Daniel P. MearsCurrent price €118.67Original price €128.99The need for and the threats to improved public policy are equally acute. Crime policy agenda continues to be driven by anecdotal evidence and poli...
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Religion and the Science of Human Nature in the Scottish Enlightenment
R.J.W. MillsCurrent price €101.69Original price €112.99This book examines how enlightened Scottish social theorists c.1740 to c.1800 understood the origin and development of religion. Challenging schola...
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Karl Marx
Kevin B. AndersonCurrent price €327.59Original price €363.99Marx's approach to analyzing society and especially his critique of capitalist society, continues to influence the work of a large number of schola...
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Difference and Orientation: An Alexander Kluge Reader
Alexander KlugeCurrent price €31.76Original price €36.50Alexander Kluge is one of contemporary Germany's leading intellectuals and artists. A key architect of the New German Cinema and a pioneer of auteu...
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Anti-Abortion Activism in the UK: Ultra-sacrificial Motherhood, Religion and Reproductive Rights in the Public Sphere
Pam LoweCurrent price €78.29Original price €86.99Drawing from extensive ethnographic research on abortion debates in public spaces, this book explores the beliefs, motivations and practices of UK ...
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Jurisprudence and Socio-Legal Studies: Intersecting Fields
Roger CotterrellCurrent price €41.39Original price €45.99This book presents a set of related studies aimed at showing key points of intersection and common interest between jurisprudence and socio-legal s...
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States and Citizens: Accommodation, Facilitation and Resistance to Globalization
Emerald Publishing LimitedCurrent price €108.89Original price €120.99Globalization has been subjected to a variety of analyses over the past thirty years, ranging from examinations of homogenizing cultural trends to ...
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Globalization, Critique and Social Theory: Diagnoses and Challenges
Emerald Publishing LimitedCurrent price €108.89Original price €120.99In recent years, under the impression and the burden of globalization and neoliberalism, debates about the relationship between the theory and prac...
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Social Theories of History and Histories of Social Theory
Emerald Publishing LimitedCurrent price €120.59Original price €133.99In different ways, social theory and social history represent discourses that implicitly or explicitly highlight the need to apply perspectives on ...
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Mediations of Social Life in the 21st Century
Emerald Publishing LimitedCurrent price €120.59Original price €133.99Since the beginning of the modern age, studies of ongoing transformations of social life, human sociality, and social relations and institutions ha...
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Revisiting Symbolic Interaction in Music Studies and New Interpretive Works
Emerald Publishing LimitedCurrent price €99.89Original price €110.99This volume addresses the perceived gap between symbolic interaction and ethnomusicological approaches to the study of music. It seeks to bring the...
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Reconstructing Social Theory, History and Practice
Emerald Publishing LimitedCurrent price €106.94Original price €114.99With regard to developments in social theory, the past 30 years can be characterized as an Age of Deconstruction. Inspired by post-structuralism, p...
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Interpreting Religion: Making Sense of Religious Lives
Bristol University PressCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99This edited collection harnesses a diversity of interpretivist perspectives to provide a panoramic view of the production, experiences, contexts, a...
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The Silk Road: Connecting Histories and Futures
Tim WinterCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50From the Great Game to the present, an international cultural and political biography of one of our most evocative, compelling, and poorly understo...
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Aging Angry: Making Peace with Rage
Amanda Smith BaruschCurrent price €67.88Original price €72.99Fear of anger can ultimately be as destructive as expressed rage, fomenting social isolation, injustice, and misunderstanding. In Aging Angry: Maki...
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Rally ''round the Flag: The Search for National Honor and Respect in Times of Crisis
Yuval FeinsteinCurrent price €62.99Original price €69.99An extensive investigation of the rally-round-the-flag phenomenon of public opinion in the United States during wars and security crises. The r...
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Whistleblowing: Toward a New Theory
Kate KennyCurrent price €40.47Original price €45.99Society needs whistleblowers, yet to speak up and expose wrongdoing often results in professional and personal ruin. Kate Kenny draws on the storie...
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Introducing Criminological Thinking: Maps, Theories, and Understanding
Johannes P. WheeldonCurrent price €108.80Original price €116.99Visual techniques for applying criminological theory to social science research Introducing Criminological Thinking: Maps, Theories, and Underst...
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