This book analyzes the main post-war features of consumption. It traces the historical development of consumption and discusses the major contributions made by sociologists in discussing the subject. Robert Bocock is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the Open University.
This book analyzes the main post-war features of consumption. It traces the historical development of consumption and discusses the major contribution...
This succinct introductory text argues that class remains a key concept in sociology. The author examines the classic contributions of Marx and Weber and the recent works of Wright and Goldthorpe. The book provides students with an accessible review of class structures, social mobility, inequality, politics and the potential classlessnes of Britain and America.
This succinct introductory text argues that class remains a key concept in sociology. The author examines the classic contributions of Marx and Weber ...
As we move through our modern world, the phenomenon we call knowledge is always involved. Whether we talk of know-how, technology, innovation, politics or education, it is the concept of knowledge that ties them all together. But despite its ubiquity as a modern trope we seldom encounter knowledge in itself. How is it produced, where does it reside, and who owns it? Is knowledge always beneficial, will we know all there is to know at some point in the future, and does knowledge really equal power? This book pursues an original approach to this concept that seems to define so many aspects...
As we move through our modern world, the phenomenon we call knowledge is always involved. Whether we talk of know-how, technology, innovation, poli...
As we move through our modern world, the phenomenon we call knowledge is always involved. Whether we talk of know-how, technology, innovation, politics or education, it is the concept of knowledge that ties them all together. But despite its ubiquity as a modern trope we seldom encounter knowledge in itself. How is it produced, where does it reside, and who owns it? Is knowledge always beneficial, will we know all there is to know at some point in the future, and does knowledge really equal power? This book pursues an original approach to this concept that seems to define so many aspects...
As we move through our modern world, the phenomenon we call knowledge is always involved. Whether we talk of know-how, technology, innovation, poli...
Over the past 20 years, welfare conditionality - or the arrangements that require people to behave in particular ways in order to access welfare benefits, supports or services - has become an idea of considerable international interest, in the Global North and South.
This new book in Routledge's Key Ideas series provides a comprehensive survey of this controversial but prevailing technique for welfare reform, informed by the latest research. It explains the history of the idea and its conceptual grounding in frameworks of power and social control. It considers its appeal...
Over the past 20 years, welfare conditionality - or the arrangements that require people to behave in particular ways in order to access welfare be...
Over the past 20 years, welfare conditionality - or the arrangements that require people to behave in particular ways in order to access welfare benefits, supports or services - has become an idea of considerable international interest, in the Global North and South.
This new book in Routledge's Key Ideas series provides a comprehensive survey of this controversial but prevailing technique for welfare reform, informed by the latest research. It explains the history of the idea and its conceptual grounding in frameworks of power and social control. It considers its appeal...
Over the past 20 years, welfare conditionality - or the arrangements that require people to behave in particular ways in order to access welfare be...
Patriarchy, particularly as embedded in the Old and New Testaments and Roman legal precepts, has been a powerful organising concept with which social order has been understood, maintained, enforced, contested, adjudicated and dreamt about for over two millennia of western history. This brief book surveys three influential episodes in this history: seventeenth-century debates about absolutism and democracy, nineteenth-century reconstructions of human prehistory, and the broad mobilisations linked to twentieth-century women's movements. It then considers how feminist scholars today tackle...
Patriarchy, particularly as embedded in the Old and New Testaments and Roman legal precepts, has been a powerful organising concept with which soci...
Patriarchy, particularly as embedded in the Old and New Testaments and Roman legal precepts, has been a powerful organising concept with which social order has been understood, maintained, enforced, contested, adjudicated and dreamt about for over two millennia of western history. This brief book surveys three influential episodes in this history: seventeenth-century debates about absolutism and democracy, nineteenth-century reconstructions of human prehistory, and the broad mobilisations linked to twentieth-century women's movements. It then considers how feminist scholars today tackle...
Patriarchy, particularly as embedded in the Old and New Testaments and Roman legal precepts, has been a powerful organising concept with which soci...
