Social theory books

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The Deepest Sense: A Cultural History of Touch

The Deepest Sense: A Cultural History of Touch

Author: Constance Classen
ISBN: 9780252034930
Format: Hardback
$239.00

An extensive historical exploration of touch which lies at the heart of our experience of the world  Read More >>

GO: On the Geographies of Gunnar Olsson

GO: On the Geographies of Gunnar Olsson

Author: Martin Gren ,  Christian Abrahamsson
ISBN: 9781409412373
Format: Hardback
$336.00

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Criminalisation and Advanced Marginality: Critically Exploring the Work of Loïc Wacquant

Criminalisation and Advanced Marginality: Critically...

Author: Peter Squires ,  John Lea
ISBN: 9781447300014
Format: Hardback
$176.95

Written by criminologists and policy analysts, Criminalisation and advanced marginality offers a constructive but...  Read More >>

Blue Ribbon Papers: Behind the Professional Mask: The Autobiographies of Leading Symbolic Interactionists

Blue Ribbon Papers: Behind the Professional Mask: The...

Author: Norman K. Denzin ,  Lonnie Athens
ISBN: 9781780527468
Format: Hardback
$238.95

Part of ""Blue Ribbon Papers Series"", this title presents the autobiographies of scholars who have made significant...  Read More >>

Media, Society, World: Social Theory and Digital Media Practice

Media, Society, World: Social Theory and Digital Media...

Author: Nick Couldry
ISBN: 9780745639215
Format: Paperback
$47.95

Media are fundamental to our sense of living in a social world. Since the beginning of modernity, media have transformed...  Read More >>

Media, Society, World: Social Theory and Digital Media Practice

Media, Society, World: Social Theory and Digital Media...

Author: Nick Couldry
ISBN: 9780745639208
Format: Hardback
$124.95

Media are fundamental to our sense of living in a social world. Since the beginning of modernity, media have transformed...  Read More >>

Satisfaction not Guaranteed: Dilemmas of Progress in Modern Society

Satisfaction not Guaranteed: Dilemmas of Progress in...

Author: Peter N. Stearns ,  Anita Bernstein
ISBN: 9780814783627
Format: Hardback
$86.99

A historian of emotions re-examines our modern-day pursuit of happiness  Read More >>

Where Land Meets Sea: Coastal Explorations of Landscape, Representation and Spatial Experience

Where Land Meets Sea: Coastal Explorations of Landscape,...

Author: Anna Ryan
ISBN: 9781409429357
Format: Hardback
$315.00

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Wittgenstein among the Sciences: Wittgensteinian Investigations into the 'Scientific Method'

Wittgenstein among the Sciences: Wittgensteinian Investigations...

Author: Rupert Read ,  Edited by Simon Summers
ISBN: 9781409430544
Format: Hardback
$315.00

Discussing the work of Kuhn, Winch and Wittgenstein in relation to fundamental question of methodology, this title...  Read More >>

Secrecy and Science: A Historical Sociology of Biological and Chemical Warfare

Secrecy and Science: A Historical Sociology of Biological...

Author: Brian Balmer
ISBN: 9781409430568
Format: Hardback
$315.00

It is no secret that twentieth century Britain was governed through a culture of secrecy, and secrecy was particularly...  Read More >>

European Cosmopolitanism in Question

European Cosmopolitanism in Question

Author: R. Robertson ,  A. Krossa
ISBN: 9780230302631
Format: Paperback
$145.17

Including a stellar line-up of international scholars, this book is an ambitious analysis of cosmopolitanism that...  Read More >>

European Cosmopolitanism in Question

European Cosmopolitanism in Question

Author: R. Robertson ,  A. Krossa
ISBN: 9780230302624
Format: Hardback
$145.17

Including a stellar line-up of international scholars, this book is an ambitious analysis of cosmopolitanism that...  Read More >>

Forming a Culture of Peace: Reframing Narratives of Intergroup Relations, Equity, and Justice

Forming a Culture of Peace: Reframing Narratives of...

Author: K. Korostelina ,  Karina V V Korostelina
ISBN: 9780230340138
Format: Hardback
$116.41

This book challenges the discourses, narrative frames, and systems of beliefs that support and promote violence...  Read More >>

Migrating Music

Migrating Music

Author: Jason Toynbee (The Open University, UK) ,  Byron Dueck
ISBN: 9780415633598
Format: Paperback
$96.99

Migrants bring music from the homeland to the metropolis. But music also migrates via the media: ‘world’ music,...  Read More >>

Trust and Violence: An Essay on a Modern Relationship

Trust and Violence: An Essay on a Modern Relationship...

Author: Jan Philipp Reemtsma
ISBN: 9780691142968
Format: Hardback
$105.00

The limiting of violence through state powers is one of the central projects of the modern age. Why then have recent...  Read More >>

Social Theory as Science (Routledge Revivals)

Social Theory as Science (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Russell Keat ,  John Urry (Lancaster University, UK)
ISBN: 9780415608787
Format: Paperback
$118.00

This book, written by a philosopher interested in the problems of social science and scientific method, and a sociologist...  Read More >>

Cultural Analysis and Bourdieu's Legacy: Settling Accounts and Developing Alternatives

Cultural Analysis and Bourdieu's Legacy: Settling Accounts...

Author: Elizabeth Silva (The Open University, UK) ,  Alan Warde (University of Manchester, UK)
ISBN: 9780415534147
Format: Paperback
$118.00

This edited collection of essays exploring the achievements and limitations of a Bourdieusian approach to cultural...  Read More >>

Forming a Culture of Peace: Reframing Narratives of Intergroup Relations, Equity, and Justice

Forming a Culture of Peace: Reframing Narratives of...

Author: K. Korostelina
ISBN: 9781349342785
Format: Paperback
$116.41

This book challenges the discourses, narrative frames, and systems of beliefs that support and promote violence...  Read More >>

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