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In Praise of Bureaucracy: Weber - Organization - Ethics

In Praise of Bureaucracy: Weber - Organization - Ethics...

Author: Paul du Gay
ISBN: 9780761955047
Format: Paperback
$156.00

A study of institutions, management, ethics and contemporary society.  Read More >>

Impure Acts: The Practical Politics of Cultural Studies

Impure Acts: The Practical Politics of Cultural Studies...

Author: Henry A. Giroux
ISBN: 9780415926560
Format: Paperback
$81.99

Impure Acts points to a new kind of culture that put knowledge and practice in the service of a more realised democracy....  Read More >>

Tourism and Sex

Tourism and Sex

Author: Stephen Clift (Canterbury Christchurch University College) ,  Simon Carter
ISBN: 9781855676367
Format: Paperback
$196.62

With the appearance of AIDS/HIV, a new impetus has been given to research in the field of travel and tourism. Considerable...  Read More >>

Pedagogy and the Shaping of Consciousness: Linguistic and Social Processes

Pedagogy and the Shaping of Consciousness: Linguistic...

Author: Frances Christie ,  Frances Christie
ISBN: 9780826447470
Format: Paperback
$120.00

This volume seeks to renew the dialogue between Bernstein's sociology and systemic functional linguistic theory....  Read More >>

On the Origins of Human Emotions: A Sociological Inquiry Into the Evolution of Human Affect

On the Origins of Human Emotions: A Sociological Inquiry...

Author: Jonathan H. Turner
ISBN: 9780804737203
Format: Paperback
$39.95

Language and culture are often seen as unique characteristics of human beings. This work examines the neurological...  Read More >>

Crime and Markets: Essays in Anti-Criminology

Crime and Markets: Essays in Anti-Criminology

Author: Vincenzo Ruggiero (Professor of Sociology at the School of Social Science, Professor of Sociology at the School of Social Science, Middlesex University)
ISBN: 9780198268383
Format: Hardback
$142.95

This book discusses a range of crimes of the powerless as well as crimes of the powerful. Against conventional analysis...  Read More >>

Breakthroughs in Practice: Theorising Critical Moments in Social Work

Breakthroughs in Practice: Theorising Critical Moments...

Author: Lindsey Napier ,  Jan Fook
ISBN: 9781861770325
Format: Hardback
$211.20

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Cultures of Peace: The Hidden Side of History

Cultures of Peace: The Hidden Side of History

Author: Elise Boulding ,  Federico Mayor
ISBN: 9780815628323
Format: Paperback
$50.60

Sociologist Elise Boulding offers a collection of essays that emphasize her study of civil society during the second...  Read More >>

Modernization As Ideology: American Social Science and ""Nation Building"" in the Kennedy Era

Modernization As Ideology: American Social Science and...

Author: Michael E. Latham ,  John Lewis Gaddis
ISBN: 9780807848449
Format: Paperback
$73.79

How social science shaped American foreign policy during JFK's administration. Michael Latham reveals how social...  Read More >>

On the Origins of Human Emotions: A Sociological Inquiry Into the Evolution of Human Affect

On the Origins of Human Emotions: A Sociological Inquiry...

Author: Jonathan H. Turner
ISBN: 9780804737197
Format: Hardback
$80.95

Language and culture are often seen as unique characteristics of human beings. This work examines the neurological...  Read More >>

Gender and Agency: Reconfiguring the Subject in Feminist and Social Theory

Gender and Agency: Reconfiguring the Subject in Feminist...

Author: Lois McNay (Somerville College, Oxford)
ISBN: 9780745613499
Format: Paperback
$34.95

aeo An important re--assessment of the idea of agency in the context of changing relations between men and women....  Read More >>

Gender and Agency: Reconfiguring the Subject in Feminist and Social Theory

Gender and Agency: Reconfiguring the Subject in Feminist...

Author: Lois McNay (Somerville College, Oxford)
ISBN: 9780745613482
Format: Hardback
$113.95

This volume reassesses theories of agency and gender identity against the backdrop of changing relations between...  Read More >>

Modernization As Ideology: American Social Science and ""Nation Building"" in the Kennedy Era

Modernization As Ideology: American Social Science and...

Author: Michael E. Latham ,  John Lewis Gaddis
ISBN: 9780807825334
Format: Hardback
$195.23

How social science shaped American foreign policy during JFK's administration. Michael Latham reveals how social...  Read More >>

The Secularization Debate

The Secularization Debate

Author: William H. Swatos,, Jr. ,  Daniel V. A. Olson
ISBN: 9780742507616
Format: Paperback
$43.95

This is a collection of essays by American and European scholars that deliniates the critical issues pivitol to...  Read More >>

The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order

The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution...

Author: Francis Fukuyama
ISBN: 9780684865775
Format: Paperback
$63.23

In this provocative bestseller, Fukuyama examines the profound societal transformations of the last few decades...  Read More >>

Talk of Love: How Culture Matters

Talk of Love: How Culture Matters

Author: Ann Swidler
ISBN: 9780226786902
Format: Hardback
$105.60

This text seeks to understand how the American culture of love shapes what people expect from love and what they...  Read More >>

Jesus in Disneyland: Religion in Postmodern Times

Jesus in Disneyland: Religion in Postmodern Times

Author: David Lyon (Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario)
ISBN: 9780745614892
Format: Paperback
$36.95

aeo An engaging and accessible study of the relation between religion and postmodernity. aeo Examines key issues...  Read More >>

The Risk Society and Beyond: Critical Issues for Social Theory

The Risk Society and Beyond: Critical Issues for Social...

Author: Barbara Adam ,  Ulrich Beck
ISBN: 9780761964698
Format: Paperback
$156.00

Offers an introduction to the main arguments in Risk Society and develops a range of critical discussions of Ulrich...  Read More >>

Interviews/Entrevistas

Interviews/Entrevistas

Author: Gloria E. Anzaldua ,  AnaLouise Keating
ISBN: 9780415925037
Format: Hardback
$305.00

In this memoir-like collection, the author recounts her life, explains aspects of her thought and the intersections...  Read More >>

Interviews/Entrevistas

Interviews/Entrevistas

Author: Gloria E. Anzaldua ,  AnaLouise Keating
ISBN: 9780415925044
Format: Paperback
$79.99

A feminist thinker and activist of our time, and an openly lesbian Chicana writers, Gloria E. Anzaldua here recounts...  Read More >>

The Risk Society and Beyond: Critical Issues for Social Theory

The Risk Society and Beyond: Critical Issues for Social...

Author: Barbara Adam ,  Ulrich Beck
ISBN: 9780761964681
Format: Hardback
$535.00

Offers an introduction to the main arguments in Risk Society and develops a range of critical discussions of Ulrich...  Read More >>

The Fashioned Body: Fashion, Dress and Modern Social Theory

The Fashioned Body: Fashion, Dress and Modern Social...

Author: Joanne Entwistle
ISBN: 9780745620077
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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Keynesianism, Social Conflict and Political Economy

Keynesianism, Social Conflict and Political Economy...

Author: Massimo de Angelis
ISBN: 9780333751374
Format: Hardback
$232.85

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A Class Act: Changing Teachers Work, the State, and Globalisation

A Class Act: Changing Teachers Work, the State, and...

Author: Susan Robertson
ISBN: 9780815335788
Format: Paperback
$67.99

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