Social theory books

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Sociology and the Unintended: Robert Merton Revisited

Sociology and the Unintended: Robert Merton Revisited...

Author: Joanna Kurczewska ,  Adriana Mica
ISBN: 9783631621202
Format: Hardback
$159.91

A collection of essays that aims to revive the sociological debate on the unintended, unanticipated and unexpected...  Read More >>

Säkularisierung - ein moderner Mythos?: Studien zum religiösen Wandel in Deutschland

Säkularisierung - ein moderner Mythos?: Studien zum...

Author: Detlef Pollack
ISBN: 9783161520068
Format: Paperback
$179.52

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

Criminalisation and Advanced Marginality: Critically...

Author: Peter Squires ,  John Lea
ISBN: 9781447300021
Format: Electronic book text
$330.00

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Heroes and Revolution in Vietnam, 1948-1964

Heroes and Revolution in Vietnam, 1948-1964

Author: Benoit de Treglode
ISBN: 9789971695545
Format: Paperback
$60.50

On the eve of the war against the South Vietnamese regime in 1964, the communist party strove to carve out a new...  Read More >>

Violent Protest, Contentious Politics, and the Neoliberal State

Violent Protest, Contentious Politics, and the Neoliberal...

Author: Seraphim Seferiades ,  Hank Johnston
ISBN: 9781409418764
Format: Hardback
$315.00

Analyzes violent protest and rioting, furthering our understanding of this increasingly prevalent form of claim...  Read More >>

Democracy and Capitalism: Property, Community, and the Contradictions of Modern Social Thought

Democracy and Capitalism: Property, Community, and the...

Author: Samuel Bowles (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA) ,  Herbert Gintis (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
ISBN: 9780415608831
Format: Paperback
$96.99

Originally published in 1986, Bowles and Gintis present a critique of contemporary Marxian and liberal political...  Read More >>

Semantics and Social Science

Semantics and Social Science

Author: Graham MacDonald ,  Philip Pettit
ISBN: 9780415608992
Format: Paperback
$118.00

Originally published in 1980, this book examines the major issues in the philosophy of social science, paying specific...  Read More >>

Travel Connections: Tourism, Technology and Togetherness in a Mobile World

Travel Connections: Tourism, Technology and Togetherness...

Author: Jennie Germann Molz
ISBN: 9780415682855
Format: Hardback
$326.00

This book offers a detailed and unified account of travelers’ lived experiences of travel and technology use, and...  Read More >>

Giddens' Theory of Structuration: A Critical Appreciation

Giddens' Theory of Structuration: A Critical Appreciation...

Author: Christopher Bryant ,  David Jary
ISBN: 9780415616560
Format: Paperback
$118.00

Anthony Giddens is one of the most respected and influential social theorists at work today. This wide-ranging and...  Read More >>

On Society

On Society

Author: Anthony Elliott (Flinders University) ,  Bryan S. Turner (University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9780745648422
Format: Paperback
$32.95

Society' is one of the most frequently used words in public life; it is also a foundational term in the social sciences....  Read More >>

On Society

On Society

Author: Anthony Elliott (Flinders University) ,  Bryan S. Turner (University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9780745648415
Format: Hardback
$103.95

Society' is one of the most frequently used words in public life; it is also a foundational term in the social sciences....  Read More >>

Security, Law and Borders: At the Limits of Liberties

Security, Law and Borders: At the Limits of Liberties...

Author: Tugba Basaran (University of Kent, Belgium)
ISBN: 9780415532433
Format: Paperback
$110.00

This book focuses on security practices, civil liberties and the politics of borders in liberal democracies.  Read More >>

Suffering and Evil: The Durkheimian Legacy

Suffering and Evil: The Durkheimian Legacy

Author: W. S. F. Pickering ,  Massimo Rosati
ISBN: 9780857456458
Format: Paperback
$61.97

Until recently the subject of suffering and evil was neglected in the sociological world and is almost absent in...  Read More >>

Europe and Asia beyond East and West

Europe and Asia beyond East and West

Author: Gerard Delanty (University of Liverpool, UK)
ISBN: 9780415511650
Format: Paperback
$96.99

This is a major new book on the question of Europe in the context of shifting parameters of East and West. The contributors...  Read More >>

Methods, Theories, and Empirical Applications in the Social Sciences: Festschrift for Peter Schmidt

Methods, Theories, and Empirical Applications in the...

Author: Samuel Salzborn ,  Eldad Davidov
ISBN: 9783531171302
Format: Paperback
$145.17

The volume addresses major features in empirical social research from methodological and theoretical perspectives....  Read More >>

Social Learning Theories of Crime

Social Learning Theories of Crime

Author: L. Thomas Winfree ,  Christine S. Sellers
ISBN: 9780754629672
Format: Hardback
$368.00

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Fitting into Place?: Class and Gender Geographies and Temporalities

Fitting into Place?: Class and Gender Geographies and...

Author: Yvette Taylor
ISBN: 9780754679226
Format: Hardback
$315.00

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Global Finance

Global Finance

Author: Robert Holton (Trinity College, Dublin)
ISBN: 9780415619172
Format: Paperback
$79.99

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Nature and Experience in the Culture of Delusion: How Industrial Society Lost Touch with Reality

Nature and Experience in the Culture of Delusion: How...

Author: D. Kidner
ISBN: 9780230308480
Format: Hardback
$290.37

While the historical development of symbolic power has benefitted humanity enormously, there is an insidious and...  Read More >>

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