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Our Children and Other Animals: The Cultural Construction of Human-Animal Relations in Childhood

Our Children and Other Animals: The Cultural Construction...

Author: Matthew Cole ,  Kate Stewart
ISBN: 9781138215719
Format: Paperback
$88.99

Focusing on the socialization of the human use of other animals as resources in contemporary Western society, this...  Read More >>

Sozialisation: Über die Vermittlung von Gesellschaft und Individuum und die Bedingungen von Identität

Sozialisation: Über die Vermittlung von Gesellschaft...

Author: Heinz Abels ,  Alexandra König
ISBN: 9783658132286
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Die drei Fragen, wie wir werden, was wir sind, wie wir durch unser Denken und Handeln gesellschaftliche Ordnung...  Read More >>

The role of Intellectuals in the state-society nexus

The role of Intellectuals in the state-society nexus...

Author: Nicholas Wolpe ,  Mcebisi Ndletyana
ISBN: 9781928341031
Format: Paperback
$106.74

What happened to the 'old' intellectual movement? What happened to the thinkers who inspired and led our struggle?...  Read More >>

Popular Music and Retro Culture in the Digital Era

Popular Music and Retro Culture in the Digital Era

Author: Jean Hogarty
ISBN: 9781138676701
Format: Hardback
$336.00

This book explores and explains why the trend of ""retro culture"" is so pervasive in the 21st century, particularly...  Read More >>

The Astructural Bias Charge: Myth or Reality?

The Astructural Bias Charge: Myth or Reality?

Author: Norman K. Denzin (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) ,  Gil Richard Musolf (Central Michigan University, USA)
ISBN: 9781786350367
Format: Hardback
$149.00

This collection of outstanding essays addresses the concern of an astructural bias. Contemporary interactionists...  Read More >>

Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault

Author: Barry Smart
ISBN: 9781138147461
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Focuses on the analysis of the relations of power and knowledge and modes of objectification through which human...  Read More >>

Meaning in Action: Outline of an Integral Theory of Culture

Meaning in Action: Outline of an Integral Theory of...

Author: Rein Raud
ISBN: 9781509511259
Format: Paperback
$36.95

In this important new book Rein Raud develops an original theory of culture understood as a loose and internally...  Read More >>

Meaning in Action: Outline of an Integral Theory of Culture

Meaning in Action: Outline of an Integral Theory of...

Author: Rein Raud
ISBN: 9781509511242
Format: Hardback
$113.95

In this important new book Rein Raud develops an original theory of culture understood as a loose and internally...  Read More >>

Social Policy and Planning for the 21st Century: In Search of the Next Great Social Transformation

Social Policy and Planning for the 21st Century: In...

Author: Donald G. Reid
ISBN: 9781138674059
Format: Hardback
$315.00

This book addresses the two most critical issues facing humanity today, climate change and poverty, arguing that...  Read More >>

Sociolinguistics and Social Theory

Sociolinguistics and Social Theory

Author: Nikolas Coupland ,  Srikant Sarangi
ISBN: 9781138144644
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Selves, Bodies and the Grammar of Social Worlds: Reimagining Social Change

Selves, Bodies and the Grammar of Social Worlds: Reimagining...

Author: Jodie Clark
ISBN: 9781137598424
Format: Hardback
$116.44

This book is an invitation to researchers who are committed to social change to look for ideas about transformation...  Read More >>

Modernity and Crisis in the Thought of Michel Foucault: The Totality of Reason

Modernity and Crisis in the Thought of Michel Foucault:...

Author: Matan Oram
ISBN: 9781138187757
Format: Hardback
$315.00

This book addresses Foucault’s characterizations of the Enlightenment, asking whether the developmental history...  Read More >>

Blamestorming, Blamemongers and Scapegoats: Allocating Blame in the Criminal Justice Process

Blamestorming, Blamemongers and Scapegoats: Allocating...

Author: Gavin Dingwall (De Montfort University) ,  Tim Hillier (De Montfort University)
ISBN: 9781447304999
Format: Paperback
$59.95

This is the first detailed criminological account of the role of blame in which the authors present a novel study...  Read More >>

Sex, Shame, and Violence: A Revolutionary Practice of Public Storytelling in Poor Communities

Sex, Shame, and Violence: A Revolutionary Practice of...

Author: Kathleen Cash
ISBN: 9780826520517
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Empowering vulnerable communities through storytelling about difficult issues  Read More >>

Power: Why We Want It and What to Do with It

Power: Why We Want It and What to Do with It

Author: Dennis Toombs
ISBN: 9781633881914
Format: Paperback
$36.99

This book explores human behavior in terms of power in all its manifestations across a wide spectrum. The author...  Read More >>

Crisis and Critique: On the Fragile Foundations of Social Life

Crisis and Critique: On the Fragile Foundations of Social...

Author: Rodrigo Cordero
ISBN: 9781138803121
Format: Hardback
$336.00

This book reconsiders the place of the notions of crisis and critique as fundamental means to grasp the fragile...  Read More >>

Sex, Shame, and Violence: A Revolutionary Practice of Public Storytelling in Poor Communities

Sex, Shame, and Violence: A Revolutionary Practice of...

Author: Kathleen Cash
ISBN: 9780826520500
Format: Hardback
$263.87

Empowering vulnerable communities through storytelling about difficult issues  Read More >>

Evolution and Social Life

Evolution and Social Life

Author: Tim Ingold (University of Aberdeen, UK)
ISBN: 9781138675858
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book examines how evolution has been handled in anthropology from the mid-nineteenth century onwards. Almost...  Read More >>

Social Theory and Christian Thought (RLE Social Theory): A study of some points of contact. Collected essays around a central theme

Social Theory and Christian Thought (RLE Social Theory):...

Author: Werner Stark
ISBN: 9781138982321
Format: Paperback
$96.99

Almost all the great religious thinkers of the past have developed a social as well as theological doctrine, but...  Read More >>

The New Liberalism: Liberal Social Theory in Great Britain, 1889-1914

The New Liberalism: Liberal Social Theory in Great Britain,...

Author: Peter Weiler
ISBN: 9781138696525
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This title, first published in 1982, explores the new Liberalism - the great change in Liberalism as an ideology...  Read More >>

Living Class in Urban India

Living Class in Urban India

Author: Sara Dickey
ISBN: 9780813583914
Format: Paperback
$108.11

Globalization is radically transforming how India's citizens perceive class. Living Class in Urban India examines...  Read More >>

Responsibility in Science and Technology: Elements of a Social Theory

Responsibility in Science and Technology: Elements of...

Author: Simone Arnaldi ,  Luca Bianchi
ISBN: 9783658110130
Format: Paperback
$171.57

The present volume elucidates the scope of responsibility in science and technology governance by way of assimilating...  Read More >>

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