Sometimes social theory can seem dry and intimidating - as if it is something completely apart from everyday life. But in this incisive new text, Brian Heaphy show exactly how the arguments of the great contemporary theorists play out against extended examples from real life.
Introducing the ideas of founding social thinkers including Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Simmel and Freud, and the work of key contemporary theorists, among them Lacan, Foucault, Lyotrad, Baudrillard, Bauman, Giddens and Beck, the book begins by examining the merits of the 'late modernity' thesis against...
Sometimes social theory can seem dry and intimidating - as if it is something completely apart from everyday life. But in this incisive new...
Based on extensive couple and individual interviews with young same sex couples who have legally formalized their relationships, this book argues that same sex marriages as they are lived need to be understood in terms of interlinked developments in lesbian and gay life, heterosexual relationships and in personal life.
Based on extensive couple and individual interviews with young same sex couples who have legally formalized their relationships, this book argues that...
Heaphy examines the merits of the 'late modernity' thesis against those of the proponents of 'post-modernity'. He shows the wide scoop of influence of 'postmodern' thought and puts these theories in context by looking at how they play out against key features of contemporary society and culture.
Heaphy examines the merits of the 'late modernity' thesis against those of the proponents of 'post-modernity'. He shows the wide scoop of influence of...
Based on extensive couple and individual interviews with young same sex couples who have legally formalized their relationships, this book argues that same sex marriages as they are lived need to be understood in terms of interlinked developments in lesbian and gay life, heterosexual relationships and in personal life.
Based on extensive couple and individual interviews with young same sex couples who have legally formalized their relationships, this book argues that...
