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The Anthropology of Morality in Melanesia and Beyond

The Anthropology of Morality in Melanesia and Beyond...

Author: John Barker
ISBN: 9781138266216
Format: Paperback
$112.00

Examines how Melanesians experience and deal with moral issues. In a variety of ethnographic and theoretical locations,...  Read More >>

Karl Mannheim and the Legacy of Max Weber: Retrieving a Research Programme

Karl Mannheim and the Legacy of Max Weber: Retrieving...

Author: David Kettler ,  Colin Loader
ISBN: 9781138266230
Format: Paperback
$110.00

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Struggling for a Social Europe: Neoliberal Globalization and the Birth of a European Social Movement

Struggling for a Social Europe: Neoliberal Globalization...

Author: Andy Mathers
ISBN: 9781138266902
Format: Paperback
$110.00

Protests at summit meetings have inspired intense debate over the nature and significance of the 'anti-globalisation'...  Read More >>

Precarity and Loss: On Certain and Uncertain Properties of Life and Work

Precarity and Loss: On Certain and Uncertain Properties...

Author: Tadeusz Rachwał
ISBN: 9783658134143
Format: Paperback
$145.17

The book is devoted to social and political interdependencies of life and work, the interdependencies in which the...  Read More >>

Ecological Crisis, Sustainability and the Psychosocial Subject: Beyond Behaviour Change

Ecological Crisis, Sustainability and the Psychosocial...

Author: Matthew Adams
ISBN: 9781137351593
Format: Hardback
$181.10

This book draws on recent developments across a range of perspectives including psychoanalysis, narrative studies,...  Read More >>

Criminology of Corruption: Theoretical Approaches

Criminology of Corruption: Theoretical Approaches

Author: Graham Brooks
ISBN: 9781137517234
Format: Hardback
$258.72

This book uniquely applies theoretical approaches from criminology and sociology to the problem of corruption. Theoretical...  Read More >>

The Multiplicities of Internet Addiction: The Misrecognition of Leisure and Learning

The Multiplicities of Internet Addiction: The Misrecognition...

Author: Nicola F. Johnson
ISBN: 9781138255036
Format: Paperback
$110.00

Contests the claim that computers - specifically internet use - are addictive, arguing that use of the internet...  Read More >>

International Migration Research: Constructions, Omissions and the Promises of Interdisciplinarity

International Migration Research: Constructions, Omissions...

Author: Ewa Morawska ,  Michael Bommes
ISBN: 9781138259010
Format: Paperback
$110.00

International Migration Research invites researchers to address the challenges raised by the empowerment of migration...  Read More >>

Nonlinear Models for Archaeology and Anthropology: Continuing the Revolution

Nonlinear Models for Archaeology and Anthropology: Continuing...

Author: William W. Baden ,  Christopher S. Beekman
ISBN: 9781138266704
Format: Paperback
$118.00

The dominant social theory used by archaeologists has tended to focus on either small scale agency or large-scale...  Read More >>

Orders of Ordinary Action: Respecifying Sociological Knowledge

Orders of Ordinary Action: Respecifying Sociological...

Author: Stephen Hester ,  David Francis
ISBN: 9781138253964
Format: Paperback
$110.00

Talks about: how ethnomethodology provides for an 'alternate' sociology by respecifying sociological phenomena as...  Read More >>

There is No Such Thing as a Social Science: In Defence of Peter Winch

There is No Such Thing as a Social Science: In Defence...

Author: Phil Hutchinson ,  Rupert Read
ISBN: 9781138256033
Format: Paperback
$118.00

Contends that Peter Winch has been misrepresented in both literature and in contemporary critiques of his writing....  Read More >>

Crime, Drugs and Social Theory: A Phenomenological Approach

Crime, Drugs and Social Theory: A Phenomenological Approach...

Author: Chris Allen
ISBN: 9781138257214
Format: Paperback
$105.00

Do criminal cultures generate drug use? Crime, Drugs and Social Theory critiques conventional academic and policy...  Read More >>

Ethnicities and Values in a Changing World

Ethnicities and Values in a Changing World

Author: Gargi Bhattacharyya
ISBN: 9781138260146
Format: Paperback
$110.00

Offers an account of ethnicity and calls into question models of community cohesion that present ethnicity as the...  Read More >>

Intellectuals and their Publics: Perspectives from the Social Sciences

Intellectuals and their Publics: Perspectives from the...

Author: Christian Fleck ,  Andreas Hess
ISBN: 9781138260184
Format: Paperback
$110.00

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Collectivistic Religions: Religion, Choice, and Identity in Late Modernity

Collectivistic Religions: Religion, Choice, and Identity...

Author: Slavica Jakelic
ISBN: 9781138260399
Format: Paperback
$110.00

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Thinking Popular Culture: War, Terrorism and Writing

Thinking Popular Culture: War, Terrorism and Writing...

Author: Tara Brabazon
ISBN: 9781138260177
Format: Paperback
$110.00

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Actor-Network Theory: Trials, Trails and Translations

Actor-Network Theory: Trials, Trails and Translations...

Author: Mike Michael
ISBN: 9781446293966
Format: Paperback
$117.00

Michael explains how the theory of ANT can be applied across a range of fields to provide readers with an engaging...  Read More >>

Actor-Network Theory: Trials, Trails and Translations

Actor-Network Theory: Trials, Trails and Translations...

Author: Mike Michael
ISBN: 9781446293959
Format: Hardback
$339.00

Michael explains how the theory of ANT can be applied across a range of fields to provide readers with an engaging...  Read More >>

Structure, Culture and Agency: Selected Papers of Margaret Archer

Structure, Culture and Agency: Selected Papers of Margaret...

Author: Tom Brock ,  Mark Carrigan (University of Warwick, UK)
ISBN: 9781138932944
Format: Hardback
$326.00

Professor Margaret Archer is a leading critical realist and major contemporary social theorist. This edited collection...  Read More >>

Transforming Probation: Social Theories and the Criminal Justice System

Transforming Probation: Social Theories and the Criminal...

Author: Philip Whitehead (Retired from Teesside University.)
ISBN: 9781447327660
Format: Paperback
$61.95

This book explores the politics of modernisation and transformation of probation in the criminal justice system....  Read More >>

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