Social theory books

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Getting Ahead: Social Mobility, Public Housing, and Immigrant Networks

Getting Ahead: Social Mobility, Public Housing, and...

Author: Silvia Dominguez
ISBN: 9780814720776
Format: Hardback
$193.00

Features stories of Latin-American immigrant women living in public housing in two Boston-area neighborhoods. In...  Read More >>

Music, Disability, and Society

Music, Disability, and Society

Author: Alex Lubet
ISBN: 9781439900260
Format: Paperback
$71.15

How musicians can be disabled and how musicality itself can be disabling  Read More >>

Music, Disability, and Society

Music, Disability, and Society

Author: Alex Lubet
ISBN: 9781439900253
Format: Hardback
$201.96

How musicians can be disabled and how musicality itself can be disabling  Read More >>

Key Concepts in Classical Social Theory

Key Concepts in Classical Social Theory

Author: Alex Law
ISBN: 9781847876027
Format: Paperback
$111.00

A concise and student-friendly companion to a subject that′s central to sociology degrees, and yet can often seem...  Read More >>

Key Problems of Sociological Theory

Key Problems of Sociological Theory

Author: John Rex
ISBN: 9780415604987
Format: Paperback
$96.99

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The Logic of Social Enquiry

The Logic of Social Enquiry

Author: Quentin Gibson
ISBN: 9780415604994
Format: Paperback
$96.99

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Civic Talk: Peers, Politics, and the Future of Democracy

Civic Talk: Peers, Politics, and the Future of Democracy...

Author: Casey Klofstad
ISBN: 9781439902721
Format: Hardback
$157.08

Exploring how the simple act of talking about politics and current events with friends, colleagues, and relatives...  Read More >>

The Domestic Economy of the Soul: Freud′s Five Case Studies

The Domestic Economy of the Soul: Freud′s Five Case...

Author: John O′Neill†
ISBN: 9781849205856
Format: Hardback
$263.87

An indepth, unique anaylsis of five of Freud′s most interesting case studies from a leading academic in the field....  Read More >>

Grounded Theory: A Practical Guide

Grounded Theory: A Practical Guide

Author: Melanie Birks ,  Jane Mills
ISBN: 9781848609921
Format: Hardback
$263.87

Directed by a wealth of case examples, this practical book provides readers with a comprehensive introduction to...  Read More >>

Networks and Groups: Models of Strategic Formation

Networks and Groups: Models of Strategic Formation

Author: Bhaskar Dutta ,  Matthew O. Jackson
ISBN: 9783642077197
Format: Paperback
$498.96

When Murat Sertel asked us whether we would be interested in organizing a special issue of the Review of Economic...  Read More >>

Gender, Politics and Institutions: Towards a Feminist Institutionalism

Gender, Politics and Institutions: Towards a Feminist...

Author: M. Krook ,  F. Mackay
ISBN: 9781137545299
Format: Paperback
$116.41

Political institutions profoundly shape political life and are also gendered. This groundbreaking collection synthesises...  Read More >>

The Society of Individuals

The Society of Individuals

Author: Norbert Elias (Late of Universities of Leicester, Ghana, Frankfurt and Bielefeld) ,  Edmund Jephcott
ISBN: 9781906359072
Format: Hardback
$107.95

Demonstrates that individualisation is an inherent component of the personal socialisation process and of inter-generational...  Read More >>

A Social and Economic Theory of Consumption

A Social and Economic Theory of Consumption

Author: David Kivinen ,  K. Ilmonen
ISBN: 9780230244108
Format: Hardback
$224.40

Kaj Ilmonen was a pioneer in the third wave of the sociology of consumption. This book provides a balanced overview...  Read More >>

To Break Our Chains: Social Cohesiveness and Modern Democracy

To Break Our Chains: Social Cohesiveness and Modern...

Author: Jerome Braun
ISBN: 9789004190276
Format: Hardback
$372.24

These essays are a distillation of Jerome Braun’s work in interdisciplinary social science, and especially sociology....  Read More >>

Generational Accounting: Theory and Application

Generational Accounting: Theory and Application

Author: Holger Bonin
ISBN: 9783642076015
Format: Paperback
$308.88

Among the concepts used to assess the sustainability of fiscal policy in a changing demographic environment, generational...  Read More >>

Social Choice Mechanisms

Social Choice Mechanisms

Author: Vladimir I. Danilov ,  Alexander I. Sotskov
ISBN: 9783642077159
Format: Paperback
$356.40

The theory of social choice deals with both the processes and results of col­ lective decision making. The basic...  Read More >>

Political Power and Social Theory

Political Power and Social Theory

Author: Julian Go ,  Julian Go
ISBN: 9780857243256
Format: Hardback
$291.95

Helps in advancing our interdisciplinary, critical understanding of the linkages between social relations, political...  Read More >>

Key Concepts in Classical Social Theory

Key Concepts in Classical Social Theory

Author: Alex Law
ISBN: 9781847876010
Format: Hardback
$377.00

A concise and student-friendly companion to a subject that′s central to sociology degrees, and yet can often seem...  Read More >>

Rebel Girls: Youth Activism and Social Change Across the Americas

Rebel Girls: Youth Activism and Social Change Across...

Author: Jessica K. Taft
ISBN: 9780814783252
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Explores how teenage girls construct activist identities, rejecting and re-defining girlhood and claiming political...  Read More >>

Social Science Microsimulation

Social Science Microsimulation

Author: Klaus G. Troitzsch ,  Ulrich Mueller
ISBN: 9783642082672
Format: Paperback
$710.16

This book gives an overview of the state of the art in five different approaches to social science simulation on...  Read More >>

Rebel Girls: Youth Activism and Social Change Across the Americas

Rebel Girls: Youth Activism and Social Change Across...

Author: Jessica K. Taft
ISBN: 9780814783245
Format: Hardback
$184.00

Explores how teenage girls construct activist identities, rejecting and re-defining girlhood and claiming political...  Read More >>

Over There: Living with the U.S. Military Empire from World War Two to the Present

Over There: Living with the U.S. Military Empire from...

Author: Maria Hohn ,  Seungsook Moon
ISBN: 9780822348276
Format: Paperback
$50.95

Essays explore the social impact of America s global network of military bases by examining interactions between...  Read More >>

In the Name of Humanity: The Government of Threat and Care

In the Name of Humanity: The Government of Threat and...

Author: Ilana Feldman ,  Miriam Ticktin
ISBN: 9780822348214
Format: Paperback
$45.95

Anthropological and cultural critics ask what it means to govern, fight, and care in the name of humanity, examining...  Read More >>

The Passionate Society: The Social, Political and Moral Thought of Adam Ferguson

The Passionate Society: The Social, Political and Moral...

Author: Lisa Hill
ISBN: 9789048169917
Format: Paperback
$290.37

In addition to exploring whether or not he merits this title, this study examines the whole of Ferguson’s thought...  Read More >>

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