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'Original, intriguing and accessible. Sociologists often criticise the world. Immersed in a range of perspectives and themes, Dawson tells us what they think the alternative is' -Luke Martell, University of Sussex, UK. 'If the study of society does not start from a repudiation of the obscenity of today's world and a search for alternatives, it is worse than pointless, it is complicit. Placing the search for alternatives in the centre of a broad survey of the discipline, this book is original and welcome.' -John Holloway, Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico.

'Original, intriguing and accessible. Sociologists often criticise the world. Immersed in a range of perspectives and themes, Dawson tells us what they think the alternative is' -Luke Martell, University of Sussex, UK. 'If the study of society does not start from a repudiation of the obscenity of today's world and a search for alternatives, it is worse than pointless, it is complicit. Placing the search for alternatives in the centre of a broad survey of the discipline, this book is original and welcome.' -John Holloway, Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico. 'Beyond being a sensitive reader and effective communicator of social theory, Dawson demonstrates well the effective history of these ideas... This is an engaging work which will have wide appeal, and is a timely rejoinder to accusations of abstraction, resignation and irrelevance aimed at social theory.' - Jack Palmer, University of Leeds.

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Matt Dawson is a lecturer in Sociology at the University of Glasgow, UK. He is the author of Late Modernity, Individualization and Socialism: An Associational Critique of Neoliberalism (2013, Palgrave Macmillan) and co-editor of Stretching the Sociological Imagination: Essays in Honour of John Eldridge (2015, Palgrave Macmillan).

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