Social theory books

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Theory of Social Choice on Networks: Preference, Aggregation, and Coordination

Theory of Social Choice on Networks: Preference, Aggregation,...

Author: Wynn C. Stirling (Brigham Young University, Utah)
ISBN: 9781316616888
Format: Paperback
$82.80

Drawing on cybernetics and network theory, this highly original book presents an alternative to classical social...  Read More >>

Social Avalanche: Crowds, Cities and Financial Markets

Social Avalanche: Crowds, Cities and Financial Markets...

Author: Christian Borch (Copenhagen Business School)
ISBN: 9781108489218
Format: Hardback
$256.16

A compelling account of how crowd dynamics, or social avalanches, are central to cities and financial markets. Just...  Read More >>

Language and Process: Words, Whitehead and the World

Language and Process: Words, Whitehead and the World...

Author: Michael Halewood (Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Essex)
ISBN: 9781474449106
Format: Hardback
$253.00

Michael Halewood uses ideas from analytic philosophy, continental philosophyand social theory to look at how language...  Read More >>

After Shock: The World’s Foremost Futurists Reflect on 50 Years of Future Shock—and Look Ahead to the Next 50

After Shock: The World’s Foremost Futurists Reflect...

Author: John Schroeter ,  Ray Kurzweil
ISBN: 9780999736449
Format: Hardback
$75.01

After Shock marks the 50-year anniversary of Alvin Toffler’s, Future Shock. The compendium of essays comprising...  Read More >>

Bürger-Ethos, politisches Engagement und die Bewahrung des Status Quo: Plutarch, Politische Ratschläge

Bürger-Ethos, politisches Engagement und die Bewahrung...

Author: Tobias Thum ,  Frank Daubner
ISBN: 9783161591006
Format: Hardback
$225.11

Der vorliegende Band bietet eine neue Übersetzung mit Kommentar und Essays zu Plutarchs Politischen Ratschlägen....  Read More >>

A Framework of Intersectional Risk Theory in the Age of Ambivalence

A Framework of Intersectional Risk Theory in the Age...

Author: Katarina Giritli Nygren ,  Anna Olofsson
ISBN: 9783030335236
Format: Hardback
$194.04

This book brings feminist theories and concepts to the sociology of risk in an attempt to carve out a framework...  Read More >>

The Relational Gaze on a Changing Society

The Relational Gaze on a Changing Society

Author: Elzbieta Halas ,  Paolo Terenzi
ISBN: 9783631792964
Format: Hardback
$143.87

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Cuban Literature in the Age of Black Insurrection: Manzano, Plácido, and Afro-Latino Religion

Cuban Literature in the Age of Black Insurrection: Manzano,...

Author: Matthew Pettway
ISBN: 9781496825018
Format: Paperback
$71.50

Cuban debates about freedom and selfhood were never the exclusive domain of the white Creole elite. Pettway argues...  Read More >>

Social Knowledge: An Essay on the Nature and Limits of Social Science

Social Knowledge: An Essay on the Nature and Limits...

Author: Paul Mattick
ISBN: 9789004414808
Format: Hardback
$343.20

In Social Knowledge Paul Mattick examines the possibility of scientific knowledge of society, taking Marx’s critique...  Read More >>

SUMMARY Of Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know

SUMMARY Of Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know...

Author: Onehour Reads ,  Eavan Scholes
ISBN: 9781950284856
Format: Paperback
$20.67

A Comprehensive Summary Of Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell...  Read More >>

Entkoppelte Gesellschaft - Ostdeutschland seit 1989/90: Band 2: Umbau

Entkoppelte Gesellschaft - Ostdeutschland seit 1989/90:...

Author: Yana Milev
ISBN: 9783631798447
Format: Hardback
$190.83

Der Band «Umbau» belegt den Gesellschaftsumbau in Ostdeutschland ab 1990 als eine neoliberale Übernahme der DDR...  Read More >>

Constructing Social Work Practices

Constructing Social Work Practices

Author: Arja Jokinen ,  Kirsi Juhila
ISBN: 9781138611351
Format: Paperback
$77.99

Comprising theoretical and empirical studies and reflexive discussions, this book explores the practical implications...  Read More >>

Modernity and Cultural Decline: A Biobehavioral Perspective

Modernity and Cultural Decline: A Biobehavioral Perspective...

Author: Matthew Alexandar Sarraf ,  Michael Anthony Woodley of Menie
ISBN: 9783030329839
Format: Hardback
$232.85

This book argues that despite the many real advantages that industrial modernity has yielded—including large gains...  Read More >>

The Second Mountain

The Second Mountain

Author: David Brooks
ISBN: 9789864799145
Format: Paperback
$130.68

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Empiricism and the Metatheory of the Social Sciences

Empiricism and the Metatheory of the Social Sciences...

Author: Roy Bhaskar ,  Mervyn Hartwig
ISBN: 9780367884673
Format: Paperback
$92.99

Written as a DPhil thesis when Bhaskar was in his mid-twenties, Empiricism and the Metatheory of the Social Sciences...  Read More >>

Purity and Danger Now: New Perspectives

Purity and Danger Now: New Perspectives

Author: Robbie Duschinsky ,  Simone Schnall
ISBN: 9780367878382
Format: Paperback
$90.99

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Georges Bataille: The Sacred and Society

Georges Bataille: The Sacred and Society

Author: William Pawlett
ISBN: 9780367867553
Format: Paperback
$92.99

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Vision and Society: Towards a Sociology and Anthropology from Art

Vision and Society: Towards a Sociology and Anthropology...

Author: John Clammer
ISBN: 9780367868932
Format: Paperback
$88.99

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Toward a Hermeneutic Theory of Social Practices: Between Existential Analytic and Social Theory

Toward a Hermeneutic Theory of Social Practices: Between...

Author: Dimitri Ginev (University of Konstanz, Germany)
ISBN: 9780367889210
Format: Paperback
$88.99

Towards a Hermeneutic Theory of Social Practices advocates this thesis by approaching the interrelational dynamic...  Read More >>

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