Kategoria BISAC: Social Science >> Sociology - General

This four volume work, originally published in the 1980s and out of print for some years, represents a major attempt to redirect the course of contemporary sociological thought. Jeffrey Alexander analyses the most general and fundamental elements of sociological thinking about action and order and their ramifications for empirical study. He insists that sociological thought need not choose between voluntary action and social constraint.

The four volumes can be read independently of one another as each presents a distinctive theoretical argument in its own right. The first volume is...

First published in 1990, "The Encyclopedia of Homosexuality" brings together a collection of outstanding articles that were, at the time of this book s original publication, classic, pioneering, and recent. Together, the two volumes provide scholarship on male and female homosexuality and bisexuality, and, reaching beyond questions of physical sexuality, they examine the effects of homophilia and homophobia on literature, art, religion, science, law, philosophy, society, and history. Many of the writings were considered to be controversial, and often contradictory, at that time, and refer...

First published in 1952, the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology) is well established as a major bibliographic reference for students, researchers and librarians in the social sciences worldwide.
Key features:

• authority: rigorous standards are applied to make the IBSS the most authoritative selective bibliography ever produced. Articles and books are selected on merit by some of the world's most expert librarians and academics
• breadth: today the IBSS covers over 2000 journals - more...

Signed entries (with cross-references and recommended readings) cover the full range of issues in contemporary women's studies, with volumes...

• This authoritative reference work contains more than 300 entries covering all aspects of the multi-disciplinary field of adult development and aging
• Brings together concise, accurate summaries of classic topics as well as the most recent thinking and research in new areas
• Covers a broad range of issues, from biological and physiological changes in the body to changes in cognition, personality, and social roles to applied areas such as psychotherapy, long-term care, and end-of-life issues
• Includes contributions from major researchers in the academic...

The volumes provide an unparalleled guide to the work of Castells. They demonstrate the roots of his thinking in Marxism and the shifts in his perspective. The selection if...