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Niklas Luhmann's Modernity: The Paradoxes of Differentiation

Niklas Luhmann's Modernity: The Paradoxes of Differentiation...
Author: William W. Rasch ISBN: 9780804739917 Format: Hardback	$117.95
An introduction to the nature of modernity as envisioned by Germany's leading social theorist of the late twentieth... Read More >>

On Matters of Liberation: The Case Against Hierarchy

On Matters of Liberation: The Case Against Hierarchy...
Author: Amardo Rodriguez ISBN: 9781572733534 Format: Paperback	$36.30
This volume argues that discussing liberation limits our understanding by avoiding the origins of hierarchy. Examining... Read More >>

Certainty as a Social Metaphor: The Social and Historical Production of Certainty in China and the West

Certainty as a Social Metaphor: The Social and Historical...
Author: Min Lin ISBN: 9780313314179 Format: Hardback	$140.00
This volume combines philosophy, the social theory of knowledge, and historical analysis to present a comprehensive... Read More >>

Citizenship, Markets, and the State

Citizenship, Markets, and the State
Author: Colin Crouch (Professor, Professor, European University Institute in Florence) , Klau Eder (Professor of Sociology, Professor of Sociology, Humboldt-University, Berlin) ISBN: 9780199241217 Format: Hardback	$241.95
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Economic Barbarism and Managerialism

Economic Barbarism and Managerialism
Author: David S. Pena ISBN: 9780313314698 Format: Hardback	$110.00
Challenging the view that managerialism is a form of capitalism and that capitalism has eclipsed socialism, Pena... Read More >>

Social Relations and Social Exclusion: Rethinking Political Economy

Social Relations and Social Exclusion: Rethinking Political...
Author: Peter Somerville ISBN: 9780415240406 Format: Hardback	$305.00
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Marxism and Realism: A Materialistic Application of Realism in the Social Sciences

Marxism and Realism: A Materialistic Application of...
Author: Sean Creaven (University of the West of England, UK) ISBN: 9780415236225 Format: Hardback	$315.00
This book rethinks Marx's sociology as a form of realist social theory, extending Roy Bhaskar's philosophical realism... Read More >>

On Matters of Liberation: The Case Against Hierarchy

On Matters of Liberation: The Case Against Hierarchy...
Author: Amardo Rodriguez ISBN: 9781572733527 Format: Hardback	$80.30
This volume argues that discussing liberation limits our understanding by avoiding the origins of hierarchy. Examining... Read More >>

Market Society: Markets and Modern Social Theory

Market Society: Markets and Modern Social Theory
Author: Don Slater (Goldsmiths College, University of London) , Fran Tonkiss (London School of Economics) ISBN: 9780745620275 Format: Paperback	$36.95
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Applying Regression and Correlation: A Guide for Students and Researchers

Applying Regression and Correlation: A Guide for Students...
Author: Jeremy Miles , Mark Shevlin ISBN: 9780761962304 Format: Paperback	$153.00
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Politics and Post-Colonial Theory: African Inflections

Politics and Post-Colonial Theory: African Inflections...
Author: Pal Ahluwalia ISBN: 9780415247504 Format: Paperback	$83.99
Politics and Post-colonial Theory bravely breaks down disciplinary... Read More >>

Politics and Post-Colonial Theory: African Inflections

Politics and Post-Colonial Theory: African Inflections...
Author: Pal Ahluwalia ISBN: 9780415237468 Format: Hardback	$305.00
Politics and Post-colonial Theory bravely breaks down disciplinary... Read More >>

The Individualized Society

The Individualized Society
Author: Zygmunt Bauman (Universities of Leeds and Warsaw) ISBN: 9780745625072 Format: Paperback	$39.95
We are spurred into action by our troubles and fears; but all too often our action fails to address the true causes... Read More >>

Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Access to Higher Education

Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Access to Higher Education...
Author: Alasdair Forsyth , Andy Furlong ISBN: 9781861342966 Format: Paperback	$73.79
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The Expanded Social Scientist's Bestiary: A Guide to Fabled Threats to, and Defenses of, Naturalistic Social Science

The Expanded Social Scientist's Bestiary: A Guide to...
Author: D. C. Phillips ISBN: 9780847698912 Format: Paperback	$110.00
This expanded and revised edition contains chapters tackling such contemporary beasts as Popperian rules, narrative... Read More >>

The Function of Gift Exchange in Stendhal and Balzac

The Function of Gift Exchange in Stendhal and Balzac...
Author: Doreen Thesen ISBN: 9780820448824 Format: Hardback	$281.42
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Work-Lifestyle Choices in the 21st Century: Preference Theory

Work-Lifestyle Choices in the 21st Century: Preference...
Author: Catherine Hakim (Senior Research Fellow, Senior Research Fellow, London School of Economics) ISBN: 9780199242092 Format: Hardback	$209.95
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Re-Drawing Boundaries: Work, Households, and Gender in China

Re-Drawing Boundaries: Work, Households, and Gender...
Author: Barbara Entwisle , Gail E. Henderson ISBN: 9780520220911 Format: Paperback	$52.95
This text explores changes to the nature of work in relation to changes in households, migration patterns, and gender... Read More >>

Emotion and Social Theory: Corporeal Reflections on the (Ir) Rational

Emotion and Social Theory: Corporeal Reflections on...
Author: Simon Johnson Williams ISBN: 9780761956297 Format: Paperback	$139.79
Drawing on a wide variety of sources, this book treats the emotions as a universal feature of human life and reflects,... Read More >>

Emotion and Social Theory: Corporeal Reflections on the (Ir) Rational

Emotion and Social Theory: Corporeal Reflections on...
Author: Simon Johnson Williams ISBN: 9780761956280 Format: Hardback	$535.00
Drawing on a wide variety of sources, this book treats the emotions as a universal feature of human life and reflects,... Read More >>

Work-Lifestyle Choices in the 21st Century: Preference Theory

Work-Lifestyle Choices in the 21st Century: Preference...
Author: Catherine Hakim (Senior Research Fellow, Senior Research Fellow, London School of Economics) ISBN: 9780199242108 Format: Paperback	$115.95
One of the UK's sociologists presents a theory for explaining patterns of women's choices between employment and... Read More >>

The Emotional Man and the Problem of Collective Action

The Emotional Man and the Problem of Collective Action...
Author: Helena Flam ISBN: 9783631355343 Format: Paperback	$208.43
This book presents three social action models - rational, normative and emotional. It proposes the emotional model... Read More >>

The Commoner Syndrome: Twenty-First Century Roadblock

The Commoner Syndrome: Twenty-First Century Roadblock...
Author: Mark Meek ISBN: 9780595164431 Format: Paperback	$39.47
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Planning in Postmodern Times

Planning in Postmodern Times
Author: Philip Allmendinger (University of Cambridge, UK) ISBN: 9780415234221 Format: Hardback	$399.00
This title will appeal to anyone interested in how we think and act in relation to cities, urban planning and governance.... Read More >>

Social Theory after the Holocaust

Social Theory after the Holocaust
Author: Robert Fine (Department of Sociology, University of Warwick (United Kingdom)) , Charles Turner (Department of Sociology, University of Warwick (United Kingdom)) ISBN: 9780853239758 Format: Paperback	$79.20
This collection of essays explores the character and quality of the Holocaust’s impact and the abiding legacy it... Read More >>

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