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Democracy and Social Change: A History of South Korean Student Movements, 1980-2000

Democracy and Social Change: A History of South Korean...
Author: Mi Park ISBN: 9783039110667 Format: Paperback	$195.23
South Korea experienced a transition from authoritarianism to democracy in the late 1980s. Throughout the 1980s,... Read More >>

Situating Social Theory

Situating Social Theory
Author: Tim May , Jason Powell ISBN: 9780335210770 Format: Paperback	$150.48
This book examines social theory in the context of its traditions and historical development, and explores its contemporary... Read More >>

Le « Canada inuit » / ""Inuit Canada"": Pour une approche réflexive de la recherche anthropologique autochtone / Reflexive Approaches to Native Anthropological Research

Le « Canada inuit » / ""Inuit Canada"": Pour une approche...
Author: Serge Jaumain , Pascale Visart de Bocarmé ISBN: 9789052014272 Format: Paperback	$116.03
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Rule Systems Theory: Applications and Explorations

Rule Systems Theory: Applications and Explorations
Author: Helena Flam , Marcus Carson ISBN: 9783631575963 Format: Paperback	$271.00
Explaining the complexity of social life remains the central challenge of the social sciences. This book offers... Read More >>

Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge

Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge
Author: Cass R. Sunstein (Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor of Jurisprudence, Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor of Jurisprudence, Chicago Law School) ISBN: 9780195340679 Format: Paperback	$28.95
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The Power of Looks: Social Stratification of Physical Appearance

The Power of Looks: Social Stratification of Physical...
Author: Bonnie Berry ISBN: 9780754647584 Format: Hardback	$336.00
Is it true that 'better looking' people have more social power? This book provides a fascinating insight into the... Read More >>

Native American Women’s Studies: A Primer

Native American Women’s Studies: A Primer
Author: Stephanie A. Sellers ISBN: 9780820497105 Format: Paperback	$116.16
This introduction to the fundamentals of Native American women’s studies first looks at several definitive topics... Read More >>

The Myth of Culture: Why We Need a Genuine Natural Science of Societies

The Myth of Culture: Why We Need a Genuine Natural Science...
Author: Nigel Barber ISBN: 9781847186195 Format: Hardback	$158.37
Before oxygen's discovery, scientists invoked a mysterious inner principle of fire to account for burning. Today,... Read More >>

Social Theory for Old and New Modernities: Essays on Society and Culture, 1976-2005

Social Theory for Old and New Modernities: Essays on...
Author: Franco Ferrarotti , Doyle E. McCarthy ISBN: 9780739115107 Format: Paperback	$69.95
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Lewis Henry Morgan and the Invention of Kinship

Lewis Henry Morgan and the Invention of Kinship
Author: Thomas R. Trautmann , Thomas R. Trautmann ISBN: 9780803260061 Format: Paperback	$48.50
Offers a different interpretation of the genesis of ""kinship"" and of the role it played in late nineteenth-century... Read More >>

Self, War, and Society: George Herbert Mead's Macrosociology

Self, War, and Society: George Herbert Mead's Macrosociology...
Author: Mary Jo Deegan ISBN: 9780765803924 Format: Hardback	$375.19
George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) is a founding figure in the field of sociology Read More >>

Critical Sociology

Critical Sociology
Author: Steven M. Buechler ISBN: 9781594514302 Format: Hardback	$441.00
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A Season of Night: New Orleans Life After Katrina

A Season of Night: New Orleans Life After Katrina
Author: Ian McNulty ISBN: 9781934110911 Format: Hardback	$101.20
An account of life post-Katrina and a paean to shaken, but ever-alluring, New Orleans Read More >>

Fairness, Responsibility, and Welfare

Fairness, Responsibility, and Welfare
Author: Marc Fleurbaey (CNRS, University Paris-Descartes and LSE) ISBN: 9780199215911 Format: Hardback	$128.95
Many philosophers now define social justice in terms of equal opportunities and economists have incorporated such... Read More >>

Law as a Social System

Law as a Social System
Author: Niklas Luhmann (, Prior to his death in 1998, Niklas Luhmann was Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Bielefeld University) , Klaus Ziegert (Associate Professor of Jurisprudence, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney) ISBN: 9780199546121 Format: Paperback	$119.95
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Changing Bodies: Habit, Crisis and Creativity

Changing Bodies: Habit, Crisis and Creativity
Author: Chris Shilling ISBN: 9781412908320 Format: Paperback	$156.00
Cutting edge text on the sociology of the body from one of the most popular and respected authors in the field today.... Read More >>

Changing Bodies: Habit, Crisis and Creativity

Changing Bodies: Habit, Crisis and Creativity
Author: Chris Shilling ISBN: 9781412908313 Format: Hardback	$485.00
Cutting edge text on the sociology of the body from one of the most popular and respected authors in the field today.... Read More >>

Identifying Consumption: Subjects and Objects in Consumer Society

Identifying Consumption: Subjects and Objects in Consumer...
Author: Robert G. Dunn ISBN: 9781592138708 Format: Paperback	$68.51
Illustrates how an individual's buying habits are shaped by the dynamics of the consumer marketplace - and thus... Read More >>

No Social Science without Critical Theory

No Social Science without Critical Theory
Author: Harry F. Dahms ISBN: 9780762314836 Format: Hardback	$243.95
Highlights the problematic nature of mainstream perspectives, and the growing need to reaffirm how the specific... Read More >>

The Creation-Evolution Debate: Historical Perspectives

The Creation-Evolution Debate: Historical Perspectives...
Author: Edward J. Larson ISBN: 9780820331065 Format: Paperback	$50.03
By looking at the changing motivations and backgrounds of the stakeholders in the creation-evolution debate—clergy,... Read More >>

Identifying Consumption: Subjects and Objects in Consumer Society

Identifying Consumption: Subjects and Objects in Consumer...
Author: Robert G. Dunn ISBN: 9781592138692 Format: Hardback	$207.24
Illustrates how an individual's buying habits are shaped by the dynamics of the consumer marketplace - and thus... Read More >>

An Essay on the Principle of Population

An Essay on the Principle of Population
Author: Thomas Malthus , Geoffrey Gilbert (Professor of Economics, Professor of Economics, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York) ISBN: 9780199540457 Format: Paperback	$20.95
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of... Read More >>

Globalization on the Ground: New Media and the Transformation of Culture, Class, and Gender in India

Globalization on the Ground: New Media and the Transformation...
Author: Steve D Derne ISBN: 9788178298269 Format: Hardback	$86.99
A fascinating exploration of how globalization has transformed culture, class, and gender for the middles classes... Read More >>

The Power of the Stranger: Structures and Dynamics in Social Intervention - A Theoretical Framework

The Power of the Stranger: Structures and Dynamics in...
Author: Gert J.F. Leene , Theo N.M. Schuyt ISBN: 9780754670629 Format: Hardback	$200.00
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In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in the Post-Civil Rights Era

In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular...
Author: Richard Iton (Associate Professor of African American Studies and Political Science, Associate Professor of African American Studies and Political Science, Northwestern University) ISBN: 9780195178463 Format: Hardback	$123.95
Prior to the 1960s, when African Americans had little access to formal political power, black popular culture was... Read More >>

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