Social theory books

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A. N. Whitehead and Social Theory: Tracing a Culture of Thought

A. N. Whitehead and Social Theory: Tracing a Culture...

Author: Michael Halewood
ISBN: 9780857287960
Format: Hardback
$115.00

This book outlines A.N. Whitehead's philosophy of process and uses it to re-orient a range of topics within social...  Read More >>

Researching Families and Relationships: Reflections on Process

Researching Families and Relationships: Reflections...

Author: L. Jamieson ,  R. Simpson
ISBN: 9781137396426
Format: Paperback
$116.41

This collection focuses on the real life experiences of conducting emprical research about families and relationships,...  Read More >>

After The Open Society: Selected Social and Political Writings

After The Open Society: Selected Social and Political...

Author: Karl Popper ,  Jeremy Shearmur (Australian National University, Australia)
ISBN: 9780415610230
Format: Paperback
$39.99

In this long-awaited volume, Jeremy Shearmur collects the most important writings Popper made in the years after...  Read More >>

Researching Families and Relationships: Reflections on Process

Researching Families and Relationships: Reflections...

Author: L. Jamieson ,  R. Simpson
ISBN: 9780230252448
Format: Hardback
$224.40

This collection focuses on the real life experiences of conducting emprical research about families and relationships,...  Read More >>

The Explanation of Social Action

The Explanation of Social Action

Author: John Levi Martin (Professor of Sociology, Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago)
ISBN: 9780199773312
Format: Hardback
$93.95

The Explanation of Social Action is a critique of the conventional understanding of methods of explanation in the...  Read More >>

Risk, Power and the State: After Foucault

Risk, Power and the State: After Foucault

Author: Magnus Hörnqvist (Stockholm University, Sweden)
ISBN: 9780415697712
Format: Paperback
$96.99

Risk, Power and the State: After Foucault addresses how power is exercised in and by contemporary state organisations,...  Read More >>

The Production of Living Knowledge: The Crisis of the University and the Transformation of Labor in Europe and North America

The Production of Living Knowledge: The Crisis of the...

Author: Gigi Roggero ,  Enda Brophy
ISBN: 9781439905739
Format: Hardback
$183.48

How universities in Europe and North America are run like factories and how this affects academic workers  Read More >>

The Spatial, the Legal and the Pragmatics of World-Making: Nomospheric Investigations

The Spatial, the Legal and the Pragmatics of World-Making:...

Author: David Delaney
ISBN: 9780415697774
Format: Paperback
$118.00

Critical legal geography is practised by an increasing number of scholars in various disciplines, but it has not...  Read More >>

Jurgen Habermas, Volumes I and II

Jurgen Habermas, Volumes I and II

Author: Camil Ungureanu ,  Klaus Gunther
ISBN: 9780754628323
Format: Mixed media product
$294.00

JA1/4rgen Habermas is widely regarded as one of the outstanding intellectuals of our time. This two-volume collection...  Read More >>

Closure: The Rush to End Grief and What It Costs Us

Closure: The Rush to End Grief and What It Costs Us...

Author: Nancy Berns
ISBN: 9781439905777
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Do we really need closure after bad things happen?  Read More >>

Closure: The Rush to End Grief and What It Costs Us

Closure: The Rush to End Grief and What It Costs Us...

Author: Nancy Berns
ISBN: 9781439905760
Format: Hardback
$199.32

Do we really need closure after bad things happen?  Read More >>

Hannah Arendt: A Critical Introduction

Hannah Arendt: A Critical Introduction

Author: Finn Bowring
ISBN: 9780745331416
Format: Paperback
$54.95

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Hannah Arendt: A Critical Introduction

Hannah Arendt: A Critical Introduction

Author: Finn Bowring
ISBN: 9780745331423
Format: Hardback
$264.00

A comprehensive study introducing the ideas of Hannah Arendt  Read More >>

Viability and Resilience of Complex Systems: Concepts, Methods and Case Studies from Ecology and Society

Viability and Resilience of Complex Systems: Concepts,...

Author: Guillaume Deffuant ,  Nigel Gilbert
ISBN: 9783642204227
Format: Hardback
$340.56

This book covers new methods of identifying ways to help complex systems recover from perturbations. Examples discussed...  Read More >>

Getting Wasted: Why College Students Drink Too Much and Party So Hard

Getting Wasted: Why College Students Drink Too Much...

Author: Thomas Vander Ven
ISBN: 9780814788325
Format: Paperback
$64.99

A sociological exploration of factors contributing to student drink culture in the US  Read More >>

Getting Wasted: Why College Students Drink Too Much and Party So Hard

Getting Wasted: Why College Students Drink Too Much...

Author: Thomas Vander Ven
ISBN: 9780814788318
Format: Hardback
$184.00

A sociological exploration of factors contributing to student drink culture in the US  Read More >>

Beyond Critique: Exploring Critical Social Theories and Education

Beyond Critique: Exploring Critical Social Theories...

Author: Bradley A. Levinson ,  Jacob P. K. Gross
ISBN: 9781594518584
Format: Paperback
$94.99

This book introduces educational practitioners, students, and scholars to the people, concepts, questions, and concerns...  Read More >>

New Welfare States in East Asia: Global Challenges and Restructuring

New Welfare States in East Asia: Global Challenges and...

Author: Gyu-Jin Hwang
ISBN: 9781849807524
Format: Hardback
$231.80

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Niklas Luhmann: Law, Justice, Society

Niklas Luhmann: Law, Justice, Society

Author: Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos (University of Westminster, London, UK)
ISBN: 9780415685283
Format: Paperback
$118.00

Presents a critical description and a performative inversion of the theory of legal autopoiesis as developed by...  Read More >>

Value and the Media: Cultural Production and Consumption in Digital Markets

Value and the Media: Cultural Production and Consumption...

Author: Göran Bolin
ISBN: 9781409410485
Format: Hardback
$315.00

Value is seldom discussed in its own right, though it is of utmost importance to our relations with media texts...  Read More >>

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