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Development Sociology : Actor Perspectives
ISBN: 9780415235358 / Angielski / Twarda / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume brings together years of work and thought in development studies to provide a textbook for guiding future development research and practice. Development Sociology focuses on theoretical and methodological foundations of an actor-oriented and social contructionist form of analysis as opposed to the traditional structuralist/institutional analysis often applied in development studies. With an accessible mix of general debate, critical literature reviews and original case study materials this work covers a variety of key development issues such as commoditization, small scale...
This volume brings together years of work and thought in development studies to provide a textbook for guiding future development research and practic...
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Lines of Narrative: Psychosocial Perspectives
ISBN: 9780415242332 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Narrative, the process of making or telling a story, is a prime concern of social science today. The essays and editorial commentary in this volume focus on the inter-relationship between experience, self and society and offer to advance understanding of the implications of the narrative turn in social sciences. International contributors assess the methodological implications, and present a fascinating range of case studies, from the Princess Diana interview to the memoirs of the wives of US nuclear scientists. Morality USA: Representations of Morality in Contemporary Culture Squire...
Narrative, the process of making or telling a story, is a prime concern of social science today. The essays and editorial commentary in this volume fo...
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Masquerade and Identities: Essays on Gender, Sexuality and Marginality
ISBN: 9780415251051 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Masquerade, both literal and metaphorical, is now a central concept on many disciplines. This timely volume explores and revisits the role of disguise in constructing, expressing and representing marginalised identities, and in undermining easy distinctions between 'true' identity and artifice.
The book is interdisciplinary in approach, spanning a diverse range of cultures and narrative voices. It provides provocative and nuanced ways of thinking about masquerade as a tool for construction, and a tool for critique. The essays interrogate such themes as: *mask and carnival *fetish... Masquerade, both literal and metaphorical, is now a central concept on many disciplines. This timely volume explores and revisits the role of disguise...
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The Genesis of Modernity
ISBN: 9780415253055 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Genesis of Modernity reconstructs the ideas of three of the most important social and political theorists of the Twentieth Century, Max Weber, Michel Foucault and Eric Voegelin, on the distant roots and sources of modernity.
Drawing upon the conceptual tools of social theory and political philosophy, complimented by approaches based in the fields of anthropology, comparative mythology and the history of ancient philosophy, this book will prove to be a timely and valuable contribution to this developing area, bringing together the ideas of a group of social and political... The Genesis of Modernity reconstructs the ideas of three of the most important social and political theorists of the Twentieth Century, Max W...
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Beyond Relativism: Raymond Boudon, Cognitive Rationality and Critical Realism
ISBN: 9780415258517 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book argues that critical realism offers the theory of cognitive rationality a real way of overcoming the limitations of methodological individualism by recognising both the agents' - and the social structure's - causal powers and liabilities. Cynthia Lins Hamlin persuasively argues that critical realism represents a better safeguard against the relativism which springs from the conflation of social reality and our ideas about it.
This is an important book for sociologists and anyone working in the social sciences, and for all those concerned with the methodology, and philosophy, of... This book argues that critical realism offers the theory of cognitive rationality a real way of overcoming the limitations of methodological individua...
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Hacktivism and Cyberwars: Rebels with a Cause?
ISBN: 9780415260039 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As global society becomes more and more dependent, politically and economically, on the flow of information, the power of those who can disrupt and manipulate that flow also increases. In Hacktivism and Cyberwars Tim Jordan and Paul Taylor provide a detailed history of hacktivism's evolution from early hacking culture to its present day status as the radical face of online politics. They describe the ways in which hacktivism has re-appropriated hacking techniques to create an innovative new form of political protest. A full explanation is given of the different strands of... As global society becomes more and more dependent, politically and economically, on the flow of information, the power of those who can disrupt and... |
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Adorno on Popular Culture
ISBN: 9780415268240 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the decades since his death, Adorno's thinking has lost none of its capacity to unsettle the settled, and has proved hugely influential in social and cultural thought. To most people, the entertainment provided by television, radio, film, newspapers, astrology charts and CD players seem harmless enough. For Adorno, however, the culture industry that produces them is ultimately toxic in its effect on the social process. He argues that it manufactures under conditions that reflect the interests of the producers and the market, both of which demanded the domination and manipulation of mass...
In the decades since his death, Adorno's thinking has lost none of its capacity to unsettle the settled, and has proved hugely influential in social a...
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Hegemony: A Realist Analysis
ISBN: 9780415268363 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why is hegemony an essential feature of society? This book brings an original approach to this important concept. It presents a theoretical history of the use of hegemony in a range of work starting with a discussion of Gramsci and Russian Marxism and going on to look at more recent applications. It examines the current debates and discusses the new direction to Marx made by Jacques Derrida, before outlining a critical realist/Marxist alternative. This book presents a new understanding of hegemony based on a distinction between actual hegemonic project and a deeper, underlying, structural...
Why is hegemony an essential feature of society? This book brings an original approach to this important concept. It presents a theoretical history of...
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Haunted Nations: The Colonial Dimensions of Multiculturalisms
ISBN: 9780415284820 / Angielski / Twarda / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Postcolonialism has attracted a large amount of interest in cultural theory, but the adjacent area of multiculturalism has not been scrutinized to quite the same extent. In this study, Sneja Gunew sets out to interrogate the ways in which the transnational discourse of multiculturalism may be related to the politics of race and indigineity, grounding her discussion in a variety of national settings and a variety of literary, autobiographical and theoretical texts. Using examples from marginal sites - the settler societies of Australia and Canada - to cast light on the globally dominant...
Postcolonialism has attracted a large amount of interest in cultural theory, but the adjacent area of multiculturalism has not been scrutinized to qui...
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Pierre Bourdieu
ISBN: 9780415285261 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This short critical introduction to Pierre Bourdieu's thought is a model of clarity and insight. Where Bourdieu's own writings are often complex, even ambiguous, Richard Jenkins is direct, concise and to the point. He emphasizes Bourdieu's contributions to theory and methodology while also dealing in detail with his substantive studies of education, social stratification and culture. His book provides the best short English-language introduction to Bourdieu's work.
'As Jenkins points out in the final pages of his book, criticism can be the sincerest form of flattery. I particularly... This short critical introduction to Pierre Bourdieu's thought is a model of clarity and insight. Where Bourdieu's own writings are often complex, even...
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Max Weber
ISBN: 9780415285285 / Angielski / Twarda / 123 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Max Weber (1864-1920) remains a key figure in the rise of sociology as an international discipline in its own right. This study of Weber's sociology provides a discussion of the most important elements of Weber's thinking.
Max Weber (1864-1920) remains a key figure in the rise of sociology as an international discipline in its own right. This study of Weber's sociology p...
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Georg Simmel
ISBN: 9780415285346 / Angielski / Twarda / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Until recently little of Simmel's work was available in translation and certain key texts were unknown outside Germany. David Frisby provides not only an introduction to the major sociological writings of this important figure, but also an argument for a reconsideration of his work. Frisby outlines the cultural and historical context in which Simmel worked, reviews Simmel's most important writings, and examines his legacy to sociology by illuminating his links with Weber's theories and his influential relationship with Marxism.
Until recently little of Simmel's work was available in translation and certain key texts were unknown outside Germany. David Frisby provides not only...
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Marx and Marxism
ISBN: 9780415285360 / Angielski / Twarda / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Karl Marx probably had more influence on the political course of the last century than any other social thinker. There are many different kinds of Marxism, and the 20th century saw two huge Marxist states in total opposition to one another. In the West, Marxism has never presented a revolutionary threat to the established order, though it has taken root as the major theoretical critique of capitalist society in intellectual circles, and new interpretations of Marx's thought appear each year. Peter Worsley discusses all these major varieties of Marxism, distinguishing between those ideas which...
Karl Marx probably had more influence on the political course of the last century than any other social thinker. There are many different kinds of Mar...
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Constructing Risk and Safety in Technological Practice
ISBN: 9780415285711 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Modern technological systems entail risks and uncertainties of hitherto unknown dimensions. This book discusses the construction of risk and safety within a variety of empirical contexts where technologies and their risk are debated and handled by individuals, groups or organizations.
Modern technological systems entail risks and uncertainties of hitherto unknown dimensions. This book discusses the construction of risk and safety wi...
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Creation and Returns of Social Capital
ISBN: 9780415300599 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An important new contribution to the social sciences is the idea of social capital. Social capital consists of the resources that are embedded within people's social networks. Validated by empirical research, this book presents social capital research as an integrated theoretical research programme. The programme consists of two hypotheses. The social capital hypothesis holds that those with better social capital are better able to realise their ends. And according to the investment hypothesis people invest in ties to the degree that these are instrumental in achieving their ends. The volume...
An important new contribution to the social sciences is the idea of social capital. Social capital consists of the resources that are embedded within ...
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The Meanings of Violence
ISBN: 9780415301299 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The media often makes sense of violence in terms of 'randomness' and 'evil'. But the reality, as the contributors to The Meanings of Violence demonstrate, is far more complex. Drawing on the diverse subject matter of the ESRC's Violence Research Programme - from interviews with killers to discussions with children in residential facilities - this volume locates the meaning of violence within social contexts, identities and social divisions. It aims to break open our way of speaking about violence and demonstrate the value in exploring the multiple, contradictory and complex meanings...
The media often makes sense of violence in terms of 'randomness' and 'evil'. But the reality, as the contributors to The Meanings of Violence...
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Immigrant Life in the Us: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives
ISBN: 9780415306003 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume brings together scholars from across the disciplines to examine diverse examples of immigration to the paradigmatic nation of immigrants. The volume covers a wide range of time periods, ethnic and national groups, and places of immigration. Contemporary Chinese children brought to the US through adoption, Mexican laborers hired to work in the mid-west in the 1930s, Indian computer programmers hired to work in California, and more, are examined in a series of chapters that show the great diversity of issues facing immigrants in the past and in the present. Divided into three...
This volume brings together scholars from across the disciplines to examine diverse examples of immigration to the paradigmatic nation of immigrants. ...
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Picturing the Social Landscape : Visual Methods and the Sociological Imagination
ISBN: 9780415306393 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this collection international experts explain how they have used visual methods in their own research, examine their advantages and limitations, and show how they have been used alongside other research techniques.
In this collection international experts explain how they have used visual methods in their own research, examine their advantages and limitations, an...
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Isolation : Places and Practices of Exclusion
ISBN: 9780415309806 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The techniques, rationales, targets and sites of exclusionary practices proliferated over the 19th and 20th centuries, from the transportation of convicts to the moral therapy of the insane. Over this period state agencies and expert authorities refined their efforts to classify and coercively segregate people deemed to be undesirable or dangerous. Populations and individuals categorised as the mad, the infectious, the deviant or the unfit were confined to specific isolated places and were subjected to treatments that spanned correction, care and control. This book examines the coercive and...
The techniques, rationales, targets and sites of exclusionary practices proliferated over the 19th and 20th centuries, from the transportation of conv...
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Suburban Form: An International Perspective
ISBN: 9780415314756 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines and documents the remarkable development and transformation of suburban form throughout the globe during the twentieth century. The premise that suburban areas are monotonous, inert environments is put to a test through investigation of the complexity of those suburban settings and the dynamic physical changes that have taken place since their inception. Suburban Form: An International Perspective investigates select case studies of suburban environments from around the globe, demonstrating that the process of suburbanization is an international phenomenon with interesting...
This book examines and documents the remarkable development and transformation of suburban form throughout the globe during the twentieth century. The...
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