This collection aims to provide a comprehensive survey of a highly significant part of the Christian Year: Ash Wednesday and Lent, Passiontide, Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter. Its contents span all musical periods of what is a marvellously rich area of church music and it contains much that is not widely available elsewhere under one cover. Ash Wednesday to Easter for Choirs includes a number of less familiar works together with new or recent arrangements of well-known tunes, such as Philip Ledger's 'This joyful Eastertide', Simon Lindley's 'Now the green blade...
This collection aims to provide a comprehensive survey of a highly significant part of the Christian Year: Ash Wednesday and Lent, Passiontide, Palm S...
Our lives are shaped to an enormous extent, and often in unperceived ways, by large multinational corporations. How are the growth, power, and significance of these big businesses to be explained and understood? Focusing on issues of ownership, control, and class formation, Corporate Business and Capitalist Classes explores the implications of these changes in the nature of big business
Our lives are shaped to an enormous extent, and often in unperceived ways, by large multinational corporations. How are the growth, power, and signifi...
"Students reading Scott have come away with a real appreciation of the hardships under which these workers built Magnitogorsk and of the nearly incredible enthusiasm with which many of them worked." Ronald Grigor Suny
"A genuine grassroots account of Soviet life a type of book of which there have been far too few." William Henry Chamberlin, New York Times, 1943
..". a rich portrait of daily life under Stalin." New York Times Book Review
General readers, students, and specialists alike will find much of relevance for understanding today s Soviet Union in this new edition...
"Students reading Scott have come away with a real appreciation of the hardships under which these workers built Magnitogorsk and of the nearly inc...
The concept of power is at the center of social science. However it is surrounded with controversy and disputes about what it really means. This collection, edited by one of the leading commentators in the field, brings together the indispensable secondary literature. Included is a major introduction which guides the reader through the various perspectives of understanding power.
The concept of power is at the center of social science. However it is surrounded with controversy and disputes about what it really means. This colle...
Class and status are both foundational themes in the study of sociology. John Scott brings together the central theoretical contributions to the debate on class and status as aspects of stratification. Using a selection of seminal pieces and commentaries on the classics, it raises central issues, for example the distinction between class and status, which are then examined by leading authorities.
Class and status are both foundational themes in the study of sociology. John Scott brings together the central theoretical contributions to the debat...
The idea of the social network originated in attempts to examine social relationships in terms of their structural patterns and their change over time. Social networks as a concept was developed through social psychological work on the communication and leadership structures of small groups and in sociological and anthropological work on kinship and community relations.
The idea of the social network originated in attempts to examine social relationships in terms of their structural patterns and their change over time...
This collection advances contemporary debates in class analysis by offering a range of new empirical research on emergent forms of social stratification and by re-thinking the intersection between economic change, social polarisation and the remaking of class relations.
This collection advances contemporary debates in class analysis by offering a range of new empirical research on emergent forms of social stratificati...
This far-reaching study gives a concise and coherent overview of the debates surrounding the analysis of social power. The concept of power is outlined, and its main dimensions are explored through consideration of various facets - command, pressure, constraint, discipline, protest, and interpersonal power. The book examines both the theoretical debates that have arisen and the kinds of empirical materials relevant to them.
Topics covered include the nature of the contemporary state, global economic power, world systems, business governance, professional power, social movements, and...
This far-reaching study gives a concise and coherent overview of the debates surrounding the analysis of social power. The concept of power is outline...
This textbook aims to give an introduction to the use of documentary sources in social research. It is designed to be a companion to courses in research methods in the social sciences and history and a reference text for those beginning research on documentary sources. The book begins with an overview of the nature of social research and the variety of methods which can be used. Scott identifies three types of evidence useful in such research - physical evidence, personal evidence and documentary evidence. He argues that the logic of research is common to each type of evidence, but that each...
This textbook aims to give an introduction to the use of documentary sources in social research. It is designed to be a companion to courses in resear...
The lifestyle, economic basis and political affiliations of the British upper class are the focus of this exciting new textbook. Combining a review of existing sociological theory on class and capitalism with material drawn from a great variety of sources it is likely to become a standard course text.
Examining the question of whether there is still a ruling class in Britain, John Scott presents an account of the historical development of the British upper class, the development of industrial and financial dynasties, town and country society as well as of London and the political world....
The lifestyle, economic basis and political affiliations of the British upper class are the focus of this exciting new textbook. Combining a review of...
