Sociology: A Brief but Critical Introduction offers a lively, discursive and jargon-free introduction to sociology, accessible to the lay reader as well as to the student. It incorporates discussion of recent developments in both social theory and empirical social research - developments to which Giddens has directly contributed.
Sociology: A Brief but Critical Introduction offers a lively, discursive and jargon-free introduction to sociology, accessible to the lay rea...
In this work, Giddens offers a new interpretation of the institutional transformations associated with modernity. His main argument is that we do not as yet live in a post-modern world. Rather, the distinctive characteristics of major social institutions in the closing period of the 20th century express the emergence of a period of high modernity, in which prior trends are radicalized rather than undermined.
In this work, Giddens offers a new interpretation of the institutional transformations associated with modernity. His main argument is that we do not ...
This book is not another warning about the end of the world. It is neither a penitential sermon on environmentalism, nor an appeal to frugality and self-restraint. Far from having exhausted the era of technological, social and democratic progress, we are on the brink of a new stage of industrial modernity: a shift from a fossil-based to a postfossil economy, from the ruthless exploitation of nature toward growth in tandem with it. Decoupling economic growth from environmental consumption is an ambitious goal, but also an achievable one.
Drawing on the German policy experience of...
This book is not another warning about the end of the world. It is neither a penitential sermon on environmentalism, nor an appeal to frugality and...
The studies which comprise this book are essentially organized around a critical encounter with European social theory in its 'classical period' - i.e. from the middle years of the nineteenth century until the First World War - and have the aim of working out some of the implications of that encounter for the position and prospects of the social sciences today. The issues involved relate to the following series of problems: method and epistemology; social development and transformation; the origins of 'sociology' in nineteenth-century social theory; and the status of social science as...
The studies which comprise this book are essentially organized around a critical encounter with European social theory in its 'classical period' - ...
The human world is an area of countless places and spaces. This book focuses on the variety of places, on their genuine features, and on their specific form of creating social relations. It discusses spaces inside or outside ourselves and the social relations we are able to find and create there. The authors of the book attempt to describe and analyze different spaces and social relations created within them. They look at the social relations and their types, observe the functioning of neighborly relations, relationships on social networks, at home or in museums. Each of these places is...
The human world is an area of countless places and spaces. This book focuses on the variety of places, on their genuine features, and on their specifi...
Kniha významného britského sociologa a ideového otce tzv. třetí cesty - mezi klasickou levicí a neoliberalismem, Anthonyho Giddense je již řadu let nejuznávanější učebnici ve svém oboru. Jedná se o elementární učební text, ve kterém autor definuje klíčová témata a termíny oboru sociologie, jež zpracovává s vysokou odbornou erudicí, přitom však a nanejvýš čtivě a srozumitelně. Vydání vychází z posledního, podstatně přepracovaného a rozšířeného anglického vydání z roku 2008.
Kniha významného britského sociologa a ideového otce tzv. třetí cesty - mezi klasickou levicí a neoliberalismem, Anthonyho Giddense je již řa...
