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Kinship in Bali
ISBN: 9780226285160 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work constitutes the first book-length examination of Balinese kinship in English and an important theoretical analysis of the central ethnographic concept of "kinship system." Hildred and Clifford Geertz's findings challenge the prevailing anthropological notion of a kinship system as an autonomous set of institutionalized social relationships. Their research in Bali suggests that kinship cannot be studied in isolation but must be perceived as a symbolic subsystem governed by ideas and beliefs unique to each culture.
This work constitutes the first book-length examination of Balinese kinship in English and an important theoretical analysis of the central ethnograph...
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Regionalism and the Reading Class
ISBN: 9780226309224 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Globalization and the Internet are smothering cultural regionalism, that sense of place that flourished in simpler times. These two villains are also prime suspects in the death of reading. Or so alarming reports about our homogenous and dumbed-down culture would have it, but as "Regionalism and the Reading Class" shows, neither of these claims stands up under scrutiny-quite the contrary.
Wendy Griswold draws on cases from Italy, Norway, and the United States to show that fans of books form their own reading class, with a distinctive demographic profile separate from the general public.... Globalization and the Internet are smothering cultural regionalism, that sense of place that flourished in simpler times. These two villains are also ...
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Inside Culture: Art and Class in the American Home
ISBN: 9780226313689 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dubbed as "You Are What You Hang (or Don't)" by the "New York ""Times, ""Inside Culture" takes us on a tour of 160 homes in and around New York City, from affluent townhouses on Manhattan's Upper East Side and rowhouses in blue-collar Brooklyn to middle and upper-class suburbs of Long Island. The result is an unprecedented portrait of the use of cultural artifacts fine art, photographs, religious art in private lives.
"This is a first-class addition to what we know about culture in the specific rather than the abstract." Howard S. Becker, "Contemporary ""Sociology" "This book is... Dubbed as "You Are What You Hang (or Don't)" by the "New York ""Times, ""Inside Culture" takes us on a tour of 160 homes in and around New York City, ...
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Sociology and Its Publics: The Forms and Fates of Disciplinary Organization
ISBN: 9780226313801 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sociology faces troubling developments as it enters its second century in the United States. A loss of theoretical coherence and a sense of disciplinary fragmentation, a decline in the quality of its recruits, the cooptation of its clients, a muted public voice, and sinking prestige in governmental circles-these are only a few of the trends signalling a need for renewed debate about how sociology is organized. In this volume, some of the most authoritative voices in the field confront these conditions, offering a variety of perspectives as they challenge sociologists to self-examination.
Sociology faces troubling developments as it enters its second century in the United States. A loss of theoretical coherence and a sense of disciplina...
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Bereft of Reason: On the Decline of Social Thought and Prospects for Its Renewal
ISBN: 9780226314624 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this radical critique of contemporary social theory, Eugene Halton argues that both modernism and postmodernism are damaged philosophies whose acceptance of the myths of the mind/body dichotomy make them incapable of solving our social dilemmas.
Claiming that human beings should be understood as far more than simply a form of knowledge, social construction, or contingent difference, Halton argues that contemporary thought has lost touch with the spontaneous passions or enchantment of life. Exploring neglected works in twentieth century social thought and philosophy particularly the... In this radical critique of contemporary social theory, Eugene Halton argues that both modernism and postmodernism are damaged philosophies whose acce...
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The Great Brain Suck: And Other American Epiphanies
ISBN: 9780226314662 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. More and more information is pumped into our media-saturated world every day, yet Americans seem to know less and less. In a society where who you are is defined by what you buy, and where we prefer to experience reality by watching it on TV, Eugene Halton argues something has clearly gone wrong.
Luckily Halton, with scalpel-sharp wit in one hand and the balm of wisdom in the other, is here to operate on the declining body politic. His initial diagnosis is bleak: fast food and too much time spent sitting, whether in our cars or on our couches, are ruining our bodies, while our minds are... More and more information is pumped into our media-saturated world every day, yet Americans seem to know less and less. In a society where who you are...
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Salaula: The World of Secondhand Clothing and Zambia
ISBN: 9780226315812 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When we donate our unwanted clothes to charity, we rarely think about what will happen to them: who will sort and sell them, and finally, who will revive and wear them. In this fascinating look at the multibillion dollar secondhand clothing business, Karen Tranberg Hansen takes us around the world from the West, where clothing is donated, through the salvage houses in North America and Europe, where it is sorted and compressed, to Africa, in this case, Zambia. There it enters the dynamic world of "Salaula," a Bemba term that means "to rummage through a pile."
Essential for the African... When we donate our unwanted clothes to charity, we rarely think about what will happen to them: who will sort and sell them, and finally, who will rev...
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Men in Black
ISBN: 9780226318837 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mr. Pink:
"Why can't we pick out our own color?" Joe: "I tried that once, it don't work. You get four guys fighting over who's gonna be Mr. Black." Quentin Tarantino, "Reservoir Dogs" Men's clothes went black in the nineteenth century. Dickens, Ruskin and Baudelaire all asked why it was, in an age of supreme wealth and power, that men wanted to dress as if going to a funeral. The answer is in this history of the color black. Over the last 1000 years there have been successive expansions in the wearing of black from the Church to the Court, from the Court to the merchant... Mr. Pink:
"Why can't we pick out our own color?" Joe: "I tried that once, it don't work. You get four guys fighting over who's gonna be Mr... |
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Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia: The Regulation of Sexual and Gender Dissent
ISBN: 9780226322346 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first full-length study of same-sex love in any period of Russian or Soviet history, Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia investigates the private worlds of sexual dissidents during the pivotal decades before and after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. Using records and archives available to researchers only since the fall of Communism, Dan Healey revisits the rich homosexual subcultures of St. Petersburg and Moscow, illustrating the ambiguous attitude of the late Tsarist regime and revolutionary rulers toward gay men and lesbians. Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia reveals a...
The first full-length study of same-sex love in any period of Russian or Soviet history, Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia investigates the pr...
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Drunk Driving: An American Dilemma
ISBN: 9780226389790 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this ambitious interdisciplinary study, James B. Jacobs provides the first comprehensive review and analysis of America's drunk driving problem and of America's anti-drunk driving policies and jurisprudence. In a clear and accessible style, he considers what has been learned, what is being done, and what constitutional limits exist to the control and enforcement of drunk driving.
In this ambitious interdisciplinary study, James B. Jacobs provides the first comprehensive review and analysis of America's drunk driving problem and...
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The Art of Moral Protest: Culture, Biography, and Creativity in Social Movements
ISBN: 9780226394800 / Angielski / Twarda / 526 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In "The Art of Moral Protest," James Jasper integrates diverse examples of protest from nineteenth-century boycotts to recent movements into a distinctive new understanding of how social movements work. Jasper highlights their creativity, not only in forging new morals but in adopting courses of action and inventing organizational forms.
"A provocative perspective on the cultural implications of political and social protest." "Library Journal" " In "The Art of Moral Protest," James Jasper integrates diverse examples of protest from nineteenth-century boycotts to recent movements into a distinc...
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The Art of Moral Protest: Culture, Biography, and Creativity in Social Movements
ISBN: 9780226394817 / Angielski / Miękka / 530 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In "The Art of Moral Protest," James Jasper integrates diverse examples of protest from nineteenth-century boycotts to recent movements into a distinctive new understanding of how social movements work. Jasper highlights their creativity, not only in forging new morals but in adopting courses of action and inventing organizational forms.
"A provocative perspective on the cultural implications of political and social protest." "Library Journal" " In "The Art of Moral Protest," James Jasper integrates diverse examples of protest from nineteenth-century boycotts to recent movements into a distinc...
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Pragmatism and Social Theory
ISBN: 9780226400426 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rising concerns among scholars about the intellectual and cultural foundations of democracy have led to a revival of interest in the American philosophical tradition of pragmatism. In this book, Hans Joas shows how pragmatism can link divergent intellectual efforts to understand the social contexts of human knowledge, individual freedom, and democratic culture.
Along with pragmatism's impact on American sociology and social research from 1895 to the 1940s, Joas traces its reception by French and German traditions during this century. He explores the influences of pragmatism often... Rising concerns among scholars about the intellectual and cultural foundations of democracy have led to a revival of interest in the American philosop...
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Making Local News
ISBN: 9780226423487 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why do crimes and accidents earn more news coverage than development and policy issues affecting thousands of people? Filled with revealing interviews with both journalists and city officials, Making Local News is the first comprehensive look at how the economic motives of media owners, professional motives of journalists, and the strategies of media-wise politicians shape the news we see and hear, thereby influencing urban policy.
"Making Local News by Phyllis Kaniss . . . is significant. . . . If we can continue to get smarter about that which journalism leaves out or... Why do crimes and accidents earn more news coverage than development and policy issues affecting thousands of people? Filled with revealing interviews...
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Class and Conformity: A Study in Values
ISBN: 9780226450261 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1969 and augmented by the author with a new essay in 1977, "Class and Conformity" remains a model of sociological craftsmanship. Kohn's work marshals evidence from three studies to show a decided connection between social class and values. He emphasizes that occupation fosters either self-direction or conformity in people, depending upon the amount of freedom from supervision, thecomplexity of the task, and the variety of work that the job entails. The extent of parents' self-direction on the job further determines the value placed on self-direction for their children;...
First published in 1969 and augmented by the author with a new essay in 1977, "Class and Conformity" remains a model of sociological craftsmanship. Ko...
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The Existential Self in Society
ISBN: 9780226451411 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Existential Self in Society" explores the ways in which we experience and shape our individuality in a rapidly changing social world. Kotarba and Fontana have gathered eleven original essays that form an exciting contribution and an ideal introduction to the emerging field of existential sociology.
"The Existential Self in Society" explores the ways in which we experience and shape our individuality in a rapidly changing social world. Kotarba and...
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Cultivating Differences: Symbolic Boundaries and the Making of Inequality
ISBN: 9780226468143 / Angielski / Miękka / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How are boundaries created between groups in society? And what do these boundaries have to do with social inequality? In this pioneering collection of original essays, a group of leading scholars helps set the agenda for the sociology of culture by exploring the factors that push us to segregate and integrate and the institutional arrangements that shape classification systems. Each examines the power of culture to shape our everyday lives as clearly as does economics, and studies the dimensions along which boundaries are frequently drawn. The essays cover four topic areas: the...
How are boundaries created between groups in society? And what do these boundaries have to do with social inequality? In this pioneering collectio...
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Visions of the Sociological Tradition
ISBN: 9780226475479 / Angielski / Miękka / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Don Levine moves from the origins of systematic knowledge in ancient Greece to the present day to present an account that is at once a history of the social science enterprise and an introduction to the cornerstone works of Western social thought.
"Visions" has three meanings, each of which corresponds to a part of the book. In Part 1, Levine presents the ways previous sociologists have rendered accounts of their discipline, as a series of narratives or "life stories" that build upon each other, generation to generation, a succession of efforts to envisage a coherent past for the sake of... Don Levine moves from the origins of systematic knowledge in ancient Greece to the present day to present an account that is at once a history of the ...
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Tahitians: Mind and Experience in the Society Islands
ISBN: 9780226476070 / Angielski / Miękka / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This seminal work in several fields-person-centered anthropology, comparative psychology, and social history-documents the inner life of the Tahitians with sensitivity and insight. At the same time Levy reveals the ways in which private and public worlds interact. "Tahitians" is an ethnography focused on private but culturally organized behavior resulting in a wealth of material for the understanding of the interaction among historical, cultural, and personal spheres.
"This is a unique addition to anthropological literature. . . . No review could substitute for reading it."-Margaret... This seminal work in several fields-person-centered anthropology, comparative psychology, and social history-documents the inner life of the Tahitians...
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Selfishness, Altruism, and Rationality
ISBN: 9780226505244 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why do we volunteer time? Why do we contribute money? Why, even, do we vote, if the effect of a single vote is negligible? Rationality-based microeconomic models are hard-pressed to explain such social behavior, but Howard Margolis proposes a solution. He suggests that within each person there are two selves, one selfish and the other group-oriented, and that the individual follows a Darwinian rule for allocating resources between those two selves.
"Howard Margolis's intriguing ideas . . . provide an alternative to the crude models of rational choice that have dominated economics and... Why do we volunteer time? Why do we contribute money? Why, even, do we vote, if the effect of a single vote is negligible? Rationality-based microecon...
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