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Rational Choice Sociology: Essays on Theory, Collective Action and Social Order
ISBN: 9781789903249 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. Whereas rational choice theory has enjoyed considerable success in economics and political science, due to its emphasis on individual behavior sociologists have long doubted its capacity to account for non-market social outcomes. Whereas they have conceded that rational choice theory may be an appropriate tool to understand strictly economic phenomena - that is, the kinds of social interactions that occur in the gesellschaft - many sociologists have contended that the theory is wholly unsuitable for the analysis of the kinds of social interactions in the gemeinschaft - such as those occurring...
Whereas rational choice theory has enjoyed considerable success in economics and political science, due to its emphasis on individual behavior sociolo...
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620,80 zł |
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Understanding the Knowledge Society: A New Paradigm in the Sociology of Knowledge
ISBN: 9781786439253 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. Complex knowledge, in many different forms, is generated, shared and accessed globally. Andrea Cerroni turns to this knowledge society to offer a comprehensive social theory of its processes and specificities, outlining controversies of knowledge and bridging the gap between knowledge and democracy. Proposing a systematic and interdisciplinary typology to deal with multitudes of knowledge types, the author builds a theoretically grounded framework around the sociology of knowledge. This book offers a panorama of the extant literature on knowledge types and takes advantage of suggestions...
Complex knowledge, in many different forms, is generated, shared and accessed globally. Andrea Cerroni turns to this knowledge society to offer a comp...
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403,89 zł |
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The GoPs in the 22nd Century
ISBN: 9781528951104 / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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32,10 zł |
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Social Partnership and Governance Under Crises
ISBN: 9781522591931 / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. |
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676,20 zł |
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DIGITAL MEDIA AMP THE DYNAMICS OCB
ISBN: 9781786616395 / Twarda / 16-05-2021 / 288 str. Książka dostępna od: 16-05-2021 |
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539,40 zł |
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A Research Agenda for Social Wellbeing
ISBN: 9781788976459 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. This Research Agenda for Social Wellbeing introduces scholars and planners to the importance of a 'wellbeing lens' for the study and promotion of social flourishing. It demonstrates the importance of wellbeing as a public good, not just a property of individuals. Synthesising wellbeing research from multiple disciplines, including sociology, public...
Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative wa...
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496,85 zł |
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Karen Barad's Feminist Materialism: Intra-action and Diffraction
ISBN: 9781527562929 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. This book discusses the prodigious output of one of the most influential proponents of social theory, Professor Karen Barad. Her work attracts a wide readership in feminist theory and politics, philosophy and science studies, and she pursues a particular interdisciplinary approach- "diffraction"-to pursue links and connections between these disciplines. Her new terminology, including terms like "intra-action", has been widely explored and applied. She shows how these terms have been developed from her interest in quantum theory, especially the work of Niels Boehr.This book is an "immanent...
This book discusses the prodigious output of one of the most influential proponents of social theory, Professor Karen Barad. Her work attracts a wide ...
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333,77 zł |
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Shame and Social Work: Theory, Reflexivity and Practice
ISBN: 9781447344063 / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. For many service users and professionals in the field of social work, shame is an ongoing part of their daily experience. Providing an in-depth examination of the complex phenomena of shame and humiliation, this book sets out key contextual issues and theoretical approaches to comprehend shame and its relevance within social work. It provides a broad understanding of shame, its underlying social and political contexts and its effects on service users and professionals. The book uses innovative international scholarship and includes theoretical considerations, as well as empirical...
For many service users and professionals in the field of social work, shame is an ongoing part of their daily experience. Providing an in-depth ex...
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416,06 zł |
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Kant: Anthropology, Imagination, Freedom
ISBN: 9780367620295 / Twarda / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. |
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631,87 zł |
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Team Human
ISBN: 9780393541533 / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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63,35 zł |
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Neolithic Britain: The Transformation of Social Worlds
ISBN: 9780198854463 / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Neolithic in Britain was a period of fundamental change: human communities were transformed, collectively owning domesticated plants and animals, and inhabiting a richer world of material things: timber houses and halls, pottery vessels, polished flint and stone axes, and massive monuments of earth and stone. Equally important was the development of a suite of new social practices, with an emphasis on descent, continuity and inheritance. These innovations set in train social processes that culminated with the construction of Stonehenge, the most remarkable surviving structure from...
The Neolithic in Britain was a period of fundamental change: human communities were transformed, collectively owning domesticated plants and animals, ...
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98,70 zł |
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Classical and Modern Social Theory
ISBN: 9780631212874 / Angielski / Twarda / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Classical and Modern Social Theory is comprehensive introduction to the field, covering a wide historical range of thinkers, from the classical to the postmodernist, as well as key themes in social theory and a guide to the major debates. Designed for students with little or no background in social theory, this single volume covering both classic and contemporary theory introduces the basic concepts at the center of social theory in accessible language and provides readers with a useful reference source to the field.
Classical and Modern Social Theory is comprehensive introduction to the field, covering a wide historical range of thinkers, from the classical...
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571,27 zł |
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Classical and Modern Social Theory
ISBN: 9780631212881 / Angielski / Miękka / 540 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Classical and Modern Social Theory is comprehensive introduction to the field, covering a wide historical range of thinkers, from the classical to the postmodernist, as well as key themes in social theory and a guide to the major debates. Designed for students with little or no background in social theory, this single volume covering both classic and contemporary theory introduces the basic concepts at the center of social theory in accessible language and provides readers with a useful reference source to the field.
Classical and Modern Social Theory is comprehensive introduction to the field, covering a wide historical range of thinkers, from the classical...
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156,68 zł |
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Social Theory and Modernity
ISBN: 9780745613130 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. This major new textbook in social theory takes the concept of modernity as its guiding theme.
This major new textbook in social theory takes the concept of modernity as its guiding theme.
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299,86 zł |
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Searching for Safety
ISBN: 9780912051185 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Nuclear power plants, new vaccines and drugs, pesticides designed to improve agricultural production, and a plethora of other technological advances hold great promise of improving the quality of human life, but also pose great risks to human well-being. Protecting ourselves against the risks associated with these modern technologies has emerged as a major public concern throughout the industrialized world. Searching for Safety is unique in its exposition of a theory that explains how and why risk taking makes life safer. It also exposes the high risk in backwardness, whether it is a result...
Nuclear power plants, new vaccines and drugs, pesticides designed to improve agricultural production, and a plethora of other technological advances h...
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195,50 zł |
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Engineering Perspectives of Human Society : Application of Control Theory, Game Theory, & Information Theory to Social Phenomena
ISBN: 9781594540066 / Angielski / Twarda / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. Special interest categories: sociology; social economics; political science; globalisation. What determines individuals' rational behaviors in various social systems? How can we predict the long-term effects of a social policy? What governs the evolution path of human society? How will human society evolve in the future? This book addresses these perplexing questions about human society from a fresh angle. By applying engineering principles of control theory, game theory and information theory to fundamental social phenomena, Zhibo Zhang constructs a coherent scientific theory of human...
Special interest categories: sociology; social economics; political science; globalisation. What determines individuals' rational behaviors in various...
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665,02 zł |
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Handbook on Social Change
ISBN: 9781607412229 / Angielski / Twarda / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. Social change in the broadest sense is any change in social relations. While the term is usually applied to changes that are beneficial to society, it may result in negative side-effects or consequences that undermine or eliminate existing ways of life tha
Social change in the broadest sense is any change in social relations. While the term is usually applied to changes that are beneficial to society, it...
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1096,63 zł |
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Classical Sociological Theory
ISBN: 9780470655672 / Angielski / Miękka / 574 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. This comprehensive collection of classical sociological theory is a definitive guide to the roots of sociology from its undisciplined beginnings to its current influence on contemporary sociological debate.
This comprehensive collection of classical sociological theory is a definitive guide to the roots of sociology from its undisciplined beginnings to it...
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140,49 zł |
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The Concept of the New: Framing Production and Value in Contemporary Performing Arts
ISBN: 9783863887377 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. Which concepts of the new can be identified within contemporary performing arts? Livia Andrea Piazza addresses art production in neoliberal capitalism as well as its discourse. She builds a reconceptualization of the new outside the framework of innovation, in order to rethink the relationship between performance and politics at large. Combining theoretical research based on sociology, economics, art theory, and philosophy with a field study in the scene of European contemporary theater and dance, she offers a working definition of the new as a ground to envision the poetics and politics of...
Which concepts of the new can be identified within contemporary performing arts? Livia Andrea Piazza addresses art production in neoliberal capitalism...
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150,18 zł |
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God, Guns, Gold and Glory: American Character and Its Discontents
ISBN: 9781608468362 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. |
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111,67 zł |