Norbert Elias
ISBN: 9780415104159 / Angielski / Twarda / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work is a guide which locates Elias' work within the development of sociology and also against the background of current debates. Between the 1930s and 1980s he developed an approach to social theory which is now beginning to take root in contemporary social research and theory. Since the translation of his work into English from the 1980s onwards, a growing number of articles on such topics as health, sexuality, crime, national and ethnic identity, and feminimity and globalization, in a variety of disciplines, refer to Elias as an authority in the history of emotions, identity,...
This work is a guide which locates Elias' work within the development of sociology and also against the background of current debates. Between the 193...
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Cyberspace Divide : Equality, Agency and Policy in the Information Society
ISBN: 9780415169684 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The global communications networks which make up cyberspace are claimed to be altering almost every facet of our lives. This work analyzes issues of agency, equality and autonomy as they are affected by global communications networks and evaluates national policies for the development of information superhighways. It also examines the changes in interaction, ethical behaviour, professional power relationships and academic discourse as a result of electronic communication.
The global communications networks which make up cyberspace are claimed to be altering almost every facet of our lives. This work analyzes issues of a...
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Herbert Spencer : Critical Assessments
ISBN: 9780415181839 / Angielski / Twarda / 1776 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) was a major figure in the early development of sociology, famous for work which likened society to an organism and analyzed it in evolutionary terms. In this context he was contributing to evolutionary theory before as well as after Darwin and argued consistently that society would be perfected through the operation of the principle that every man should be left free to do what he would as long as he did not interfere with another man's freedom. Spencer's work has been neglected in recent years, but its indirect influence lives on both in libertarian political...
Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) was a major figure in the early development of sociology, famous for work which likened society to an organism and analyze...
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Philosophy in Cultural Theory
ISBN: 9780415238014 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Philosophy in Cultural Theory boldly crosses disciplinary boundaries to offer a philosophical critique of cultural theory today. Drawing on the legacy of Walter Benjamin, Peter Osborne looks critically at central philosophical debates in cultural theory, such as:
* the relationship between sign and image * the technological basis of cultural form * the conceptuality of art * the place of fantasy in human affairs. It will appeal to those in philosophy, cultural studies and art theory. Philosophy in Cultural Theory boldly crosses disciplinary boundaries to offer a philosophical critique of cultural theory today. Drawing on t...
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Rational Choice Theory : Resisting Colonisation
ISBN: 9780415242721 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This critique focuses on assumptions which are the bedrock of rational choice. The theory's definition of rationality is incomplete, and cannot satisfactorily incorporate norms and emotions. Rational choice is based upon atomistic, individual decision makers and cannot account for decisions made by couples, groups or other forms of collective action process. The assumption of fixed, well-ordered preferences and perfect information makes the theory inadequate for situations of change and uncertainty aggregation. As methodological individualists, rational choice theorists can only view...
This critique focuses on assumptions which are the bedrock of rational choice. The theory's definition of rationality is incomplete, and cannot satisf...
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Darwinism and the Study of Society : A centenary symposium
ISBN: 9780415263917 / Angielski / Twarda / 191 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1961 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.
Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1961 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number...
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Sociology On Culture
ISBN: 9780415284844 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Culture has become a touchstone of interdisciplinary conversation. For readers interested in sociology, the social sciences and the humanities, this book maps major classical and contemporary analyses and controversies about culture in relation to social processes, everyday life and axes of ordering and difference such as race, class and gender. Hall, Neitz, and Battani discuss: self and identity; stratification; the Other; the cultural histories of modernity and postmodernity; culture and power; production of culture; the problem of the audience; and action, social movements, and change. The...
Culture has become a touchstone of interdisciplinary conversation. For readers interested in sociology, the social sciences and the humanities, this b...
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The Body : A Reader
ISBN: 9780415340076 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This broad consideration of the body presents an engagement with a range of social concerns, from the processes of racialisation to the vagaries of fashion and body piercing.
This broad consideration of the body presents an engagement with a range of social concerns, from the processes of racialisation to the vagaries of fa...
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Complexity and Social Movements : Multitudes at the Edge of Chaos
ISBN: 9780415344142 / Angielski / Twarda / 195 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book fuses two key concerns of contemporary sociology: globalization and its discontents and the "complexity turn" in social theory. This book fuses two key concerns of contemporary sociology: globalization and its discontents and the "complexity turn" in social theory. |
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The End of Stigma? : Changes in the Social Experience of Long-Term Illness
ISBN: 9780415376242 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gill Green presents a timely contribution to understanding experiences of stigma. Centred on an analysis of a range of inter-related studies of illness and stigma, she examines the cases of HIV, multiple sclerosis and mental illness, including substance misuse, to provide new insights into stigma in health.
Gill Green presents a timely contribution to understanding experiences of stigma. Centred on an analysis of a range of inter-related studies of illnes...
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Long Slow Burn: Sexuality and Social Science
ISBN: 9780415920438 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Kath Weston's powerful collection of essays, Long, Slow Burn, challenges the preconception that queer studies is the brainchild of the humanities and argues that social science has been talking about sex all along. To deny this one would have to overlook Kinsey's pioneering sex research in the 1950s, or the psychiatrist Evelyn Hooker's pathbreaking study of homosexuality, but also in the "sex talk" that lies at the heart of classic debates on kinship, inequality, cognition, and other foundational topics in the social sciences. What is different now, Weston claims, is the...
Kath Weston's powerful collection of essays, Long, Slow Burn, challenges the preconception that queer studies is the brainchild of ...
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The Politics of Regret : On Collective Memory and Historical Responsibility
ISBN: 9780415956826 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the past decade, Jeffrey Olick has established himself as one of the worlds pre-eminent sociologists of memory (and, related to this, both cultural sociology and social theory). His recent book on memory in postwar Germany, In the House of the Hangman (University of Chicago Press, 2005) has garnered a great deal of acclaim. This book collects his best essays on a range of memory related issues and adds a couple of new ones. It is more conceptually expansive than his other work and will serve as a great introduction to this important theorist. In the past quarter century, the issue of...
In the past decade, Jeffrey Olick has established himself as one of the worlds pre-eminent sociologists of memory (and, related to this, both cultural...
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Social Justice and Communication Scholarship
ISBN: 9780805854824 / Angielski / Twarda / 263 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Social Justice and Communication Scholarship" explores the role of communication in framing and contributing to issues of social justice. This collection, a first on the subject of communication and social justice, investigates the theoretical and practical ways in which communication scholarship can enable inclusive and equitable communities within American society. It analyzes ways in which to construct communities that protect individual freedom while ensuring equality and dignity to everyone.
In this unique anthology, Swartz brings together both senior scholars and junior... "Social Justice and Communication Scholarship" explores the role of communication in framing and contributing to issues of social justice. This collec...
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Early Modern Social Theory: Selected Interpretive Readings
ISBN: 9781551301174 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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On the Logic of the Social Sciences
ISBN: 9780745608624 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this work, Habermas presents his views on the nature of the social sciences and their distinctive methodology and concerns. He examines, among other things, the traditional division between the natural sciences and the social sciences; the characteristics of social action and the implications of theories of language for social enquiry, and the nature, tasks and limitations of hermeneutics.
In this work, Habermas presents his views on the nature of the social sciences and their distinctive methodology and concerns. He examines, among othe...
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The State Nobility : Elite Schools in the Field of Power
ISBN: 9780745620282 / Angielski / Miękka / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work examines the distinctive forms of power - political, intellectual, bureaucratic and economic - by means of which contemporary societies are governed. What kinds of competence are claimed by the bureaucrats and technocrats who administer our societies? And how do those who govern come to gain the recognition of those who are governed by them?
This work examines the distinctive forms of power - political, intellectual, bureaucratic and economic - by means of which contemporary societies are ...
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