Social theory books

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Are We Living in a Disaster Movie?: How Genre Conventions Predict the Plot of the Covid-19 Pandemic

Are We Living in a Disaster Movie?: How Genre Conventions...

Author: Brian A. Shaer
ISBN: 9781476687292
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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Dreamworld or Dystopia?: The Nordic Model and Its Influence in the 21st Century

Dreamworld or Dystopia?: The Nordic Model and Its Influence...

Author: Michael A. Livingston (Rutgers University, New Jersey)
ISBN: 9781108739788
Format: Paperback
$72.45

This book considers the persistence of the Nordic (Scandinavian) Model, especially on the Anglo-American left. The...  Read More >>

Teleological Explanations: An Etiological Analysis of Goals and Functions

Teleological Explanations: An Etiological Analysis of...

Author: Larry Wright
ISBN: 9780520371156
Format: Hardback
$157.95

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission...  Read More >>

The Celebration of Heroes: Prestige as a Social Control System

The Celebration of Heroes: Prestige as a Social Control...

Author: William J. Goode
ISBN: 9780520371255
Format: Hardback
$157.95

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission...  Read More >>

The Consciousness Reformation

The Consciousness Reformation

Author: Robert Wuthnow
ISBN: 9780520372108
Format: Hardback
$157.95

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission...  Read More >>

Labor in a Free Society

Labor in a Free Society

Author: Michael Harrington ,  Paul Jacobs
ISBN: 9780520372788
Format: Hardback
$157.95

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission...  Read More >>

The Ruby Rule: How More Listening and Less Labeling Brings More Healing and Less Hating

The Ruby Rule: How More Listening and Less Labeling...

Author: Arthur F Coombs ,  Art Coombs
ISBN: 9781949165340
Format: Paperback
$39.57

Have you ever been afraid to say what you think because of how others may react? Is it possible to have differing...  Read More >>

The Ruby Rule: How More Listening and Less Labeling Brings More Healing and Less Hating

The Ruby Rule: How More Listening and Less Labeling...

Author: Arthur F Coombs ,  Art Coombs
ISBN: 9781949165364
Format: Hardback
$79.17

Have you ever been afraid to say what you think because of how others may react? Is it possible to have differing...  Read More >>

The Time is Now: Creating Community Through Social Justice Artmaking

The Time is Now: Creating Community Through Social Justice...

Author: Christa Boske
ISBN: 9781648027017
Format: Paperback
$126.72

This book highlights how artmaking and justice-oriented work empower high school students, teachers, and community...  Read More >>

An Anthropological Toolkit: Sixty Useful Concepts

An Anthropological Toolkit: Sixty Useful Concepts

Author: David Zeitlyn
ISBN: 9781800735354
Format: Paperback
$25.85

Presenting 60 theoretical ideas, David Zeitlyn asks, ‘How to write about anthropological theory without making a...  Read More >>

The Time is Now: Creating Community Through Social Justice Artmaking

The Time is Now: Creating Community Through Social Justice...

Author: Christa Boske
ISBN: 9781648027024
Format: Hardback
$250.80

This book highlights how artmaking and justice-oriented work empower high school students, teachers, and community...  Read More >>

An Anthropological Toolkit: Sixty Useful Concepts

An Anthropological Toolkit: Sixty Useful Concepts

Author: David Zeitlyn
ISBN: 9781800734708
Format: Hardback
$238.05

Presenting 60 theoretical ideas, David Zeitlyn asks, ‘How to write about anthropological theory without making a...  Read More >>

Queer Criminology

Queer Criminology

Author: Carrie L. Buist (Grand Valley State University, USA) ,  Emily Lenning (Fayetteville State University, USA)
ISBN: 9780367760236
Format: Paperback
$79.99

This book introduces the growing field of Queer Criminology. This revised and updated edition includes new developments...  Read More >>

Making Sense of Diseases and Disasters: Reflections of Political Theory from Antiquity to the Age of COVID

Making Sense of Diseases and Disasters: Reflections...

Author: Lee Trepanier (Samford University, USA)
ISBN: 9781032053950
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book examines diseases and disasters from the perspective of social and political theory, exploring the ways...  Read More >>

Inventing Value: The Social Construction of Monetary Worth

Inventing Value: The Social Construction of Monetary...

Author: Dave Elder-Vass (Loughborough University)
ISBN: 9781009199339
Format: Hardback
$201.83

Dave Elder-Vass argues that economists have failed to understand the nature and function of value. This book shows...  Read More >>

Technologies of Trauma: Cultural Formations Over Time

Technologies of Trauma: Cultural Formations Over Time...

Author: Yasmin Ibrahim (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781802621365
Format: Hardback
$263.97

Technologies re-abstract trauma in complex ways. Approaching trauma in its cultural forms, this book considers how...  Read More >>

Doc-Humanity

Doc-Humanity

Author: Maurizio Ferraris ,  Sarah De Sanctis
ISBN: 9783161616662
Format: Hardback
$169.74

The time has come to stop thinking of the future as a projection of the past. The technological revolution has brought...  Read More >>

The Twittering Machine

The Twittering Machine

Author: Richard Seymour
ISBN: 9781788739290
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Through journalism, psychoanalytic reflection and insights from users, developers, security experts and others,...  Read More >>

Understanding Recognition: Conceptual and Empirical Studies

Understanding Recognition: Conceptual and Empirical...

Author: Piotr Kulas (University of Warsaw, Poland) ,  Andrzej Waśkiewicz (University of Warsaw, Poland)
ISBN: 9781032201917
Format: Hardback
$305.00

As the concept of recognition shifts from philosophical theory to other fields of the humanities and social sciences,...  Read More >>

Constructive Conflicts: From Emergence to Transformation

Constructive Conflicts: From Emergence to Transformation...

Author: Bruce W. Dayton ,  Louis Kriesberg
ISBN: 9781538160992
Format: Hardback
$332.64

Constructive Conflicts provides a powerful analytical and empirical framework for analyzing and intervening in large-scale...  Read More >>

Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires

Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech...

Author: Douglas Rushkoff (Queens/CUNY)
ISBN: 9780393881066
Format: Hardback
$71.15

The tech elite have a plan to survive the apocalypse: they want to leave us all behind  Read More >>

The Future of Sociology: Ideology or Objective Social Science?

The Future of Sociology: Ideology or Objective Social...

Author: Robert Leroux (University of Ottawa, Canada) ,  Thierry Martin (Institut d’histoire et de philosophie des scienceset des techniques, France)
ISBN: 9781032045054
Format: Paperback
$81.99

This book explores the shift in sociology away from the shared aspiration of the classical transition, of transcending...  Read More >>

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