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The politics of swidden farming
‘The Politics of Swidden farming’ is an ethnography of swidden farming practised – a characteristically remote, inaccessible and under-researched region of South Asia. The research ties on both archival-historical and contemporary ethnographic discourses on swidden farming and agrarian developmen...
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Art, politics and the environment in bangladesh
‘Art, Politics and the Environment in Bangladesh’ features original research of a new generation of scholars of Bangladesh. The chapters collectively engage with many enduring topics of academic interest, such as violence, poverty, environment, development, democracy, religion and human rights fr...
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Doing sociology through film and literature
This book is primarily a research-informed textbook aimed at any reader with an interest in using film and literature in sociological and social science research.
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In the name of security – secrecy, surveillance and journalism
‘In the Name of Security – Secrecy, Surveillance and Journalism’ investigates the effects of the increased number of anti-terror laws, new mass surveillance technologies and a global fear- driven security paradigm have had on in-depth public interest journalism since 11 September 2001 in a number...
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Quandaries of belonging
Quandaries of Belonging is both a personal meditation on the author’s relationship with Aotearoa New Zealand and a critical exploration of coexistence in a postcolonial society.
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Decolonial mourning and the caring commons
This book engages with decolonial mourning by bearing witness to the political grief work of contemporary struggles against migration-coloniality necropolitics in Europe, the United States and Latin America.
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Demilitarizing the future
Demilitarizing the Future draws from art, anthropology, and activism to investigate the entrenchment of militarism in everyday lives and consider novel imaginaries of its dissolution—of peacemaking, community, and shared equitable futures.
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Media sociology and journalism
While the alt right and post-truth attitudes render democracy fragile, so does professional journalism when it reports on the most vulnerable subjects in society but rarely addresses them as the imagined audience. A dialogical critique of divisions in news media, politics, and contemporary sociol...
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The anthem companion to david riesman
The purpose of this book is to revisit the legacy of David Riesman, author of The Lonely Crowd, the biggest selling sociology book to date, and a highly influential public intellectual during the second half of the twentieth century.
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Statistics and the quest for quality journalism
This book looks at how numbers and statistics have been used to underpin quality in news reporting. In doing so, the aim is to challenge some common assumptions about how journalists engage and use statistics in their quest for quality news. It seeks to improve our understanding about the usage o...
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The anthem companion to erving goffman
The purpose of the volume is to provide a comprehensive overview of Erving Goffman’s continued importance within the field of sociology and related social science disciplines.
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Islamic ethos and the specter of modernity
Drawing on the work of Hegel, this book proposes a framework for understanding modernity in the Muslim world and analyzes the discourse of prominent Muslim thinkers and political leaders with reference to some of the most significant markers of modernity.
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Managing coral reefs
‘Managing Coral Reefs’ compares reef management in Indonesia, which takes a decentralized approach, and in Malaysia, which takes a centralized approach.
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The technocene
Hermínio Martins was a distinguished Portuguese sociologist. ‘The Technocene’ is a selection of some of the most important philosophical essays – a few unpublished – that he wrote following retirement from the University of Oxford. The essays address the ethical and societal consequences of the c...
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Socialising the biomedical turn in hiv prevention
This book addresses the major challenge for HIV prevention: that is, to reach beyond the limitations of biomedical approaches to disease and to design prevention strategies informed by and connected with the social realities of people’s lives.
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The anthem companion to thorstein veblen
“The Anthem Companion to Thorstein Veblen” offers a collection of original essays by leading scholars in the field of Veblen studies. Contributions span a wide range of Veblen’s concerns, with a special emphasis on Veblen’s significance for contemporary debates about epistemology, social evolutio...
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The anthem companion to alfred schutz
This book examines various concepts in Schutz’s philosophical theory and considers issues in theory of knowledge, social science, and the theory of society.
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Australian media and the politics of belonging
Containing contributions by leading scholars, ‘Australian Media and the Politics of Belonging’ addresses key topical themes and concerns in contemporary Australia.
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Girls, youth justice and the regulation of sexualities
Girls, Youth Justice, and the Regulation of Sexualities shows historically and contemporarily the complexities in responding to girls’ sexualities (bodies, behavior, and identities) in the juvenile justice system.
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Ethnographies of grey zones in eastern europe
Over the last two decades, Eastern European countries have experienced extensive changes in geo-political relocations and relations leading to everyday uncertainty. Based on ethnographic cases, this anthology explores how grey zones of governance, borders, relations and invisibilities affect ever...
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Conflict and sustainability in a changing environment
‘Conflict and Sustainability in a Changing Environment’ presents the idea that local communities can develop sustainably under changing environmental conditions when the discrepancy are sufficiently addressed between community views and the views of organizations responsible for implementing deve...
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The violence of everyday struggles
This book approaches the daily struggles of migrantized divorced motherhood through theories, discourses, and (in)visibilities of everyday violence. Analyzing the individual narratives of divorced mothers living in Germany with immigration biographies from Turkey, it tackles their struggles with ...
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W. e. b. du bois’ africa
W. E. B. Du Bois was one of the leading figures of Pan-African thought and activism in the twentieth century. This book delivers for the first time a comprehensive Afrocentric investigation and critique of Du Bois’s writings on Africa and Pan-Africanism.
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Toward a new art of border crossing
The new art of border-crossing is inspired by a new politics, art, and a spirituality of shared sovereignties and non-sovereignties. This border-crossing challenges us to do creative, aesthetic, ethical, political and spiritual work in the fields of not only physical borders and bounded territori...
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Key concepts and contemporary approaches to structured inequality
This book provides a basic but comprehensive text on the topic of social stratification.
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Procreation and population in historical social science
The book sees procreation, the forgotten basis of population dynamics, and its macrohistorical results through the lenses of world-system analysis. This interdisciplinary book sheds light on the historical paths leading to the current unprecedented numbers of humans on the globe, fuelled by the c...
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The anthem companion to gabriel tarde
‘The Anthem Companion to Gabriel Tarde’ offers the best contemporary work on Gabriel Tarde, written by the best scholars currently working in this field. Original, authoritative and wide-ranging, the critical assessments of this volume will make it ideal for Tarde students and scholars alike. ‘A...
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The anthem companion to talcott parsons
The Anthem Companion to Talcott Parsons offers the best contemporary work on Talcott Parsons, written by the best scholars currently working in this field. Original, authoritative and wide-ranging, the critical assessments of this volume will make it ideal for Parsons’s students and scholars alike.
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Fat china
'Fat China' provides an in-depth analysis of the growing problem of obesity in China and its relationship to the nation's changing diet, lifestyle trends and healthcare system.
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The atlas of conflict reduction
This book takes readers on a journey through western Montana to showcase ranchers and partner groups who are pioneering strategies for reducing conflicts with wildlife and why. Conservation heroes, using psychological theory interwoven with personal stories from the twenty-first century, provide ...
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The new power elite
‘Greedy Elites’ explains why today’s revolt against the ‘rich and powerful’ is led by billionaires and political insiders, sidelining elites’ traditional enemies. It links social, economic and political theory and evidence to show how rivalries within an elite always eclipse (and co-opt) popular ...
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Land and agrarian transformation in zimbabwe
This book explores the outcomes of Zimbabwe’s fast track land reform implemented in 2000. The book pays particular attention to changing livelihoods in Zimbabwe’s countryside occasioned by the land reform.
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The anthem companion to max weber
‘The Anthem Companion to Max Weber’ offers the best contemporary work on Max Weber, written by the best scholars currently working in this field. Original, authoritative and wide-ranging, the critical assessments of this volume will make it ideal for Weber students and scholars alike.
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The demographic dividend and the power of youth
The book is a compendium of essays from around the world on how governments and institutions can effectively manage and take advantage of the demographic dividend. It highlights the role young people can play as actors of change.
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The asia-pacific in the age of transnational mobility
Asia Pacific in the Age of Transnational Mobility addresses and discusses the challenges of community and identity in the evolving transnational migrant and ethnographic landscapes of the region in the era of social media.
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Emerging dynamics in audiences' consumption of trans-media products
The book investigates the new forms of agency possessed by national audiences with reference to two television texts: Mad Men (AMC, 2007–2015) and Game of Thrones (HBO, 2011–2019). Structured as a comparative study between two countries, Italy and New Zealand, the research aims to provide insight...
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The anthem companion to karl jaspers
This collection of articles by an international group of leading experts has its special focus on the relevance of Karl Jaspers’s philosophy for the social sciences. It also includes classical evaluations of Jaspers’s thinking by renowned authors Talcott Parsons and Jürgen Habermas.
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Principles and forms of sociocultural organization
The volume explores the development of systems of social institutions in a variety of historical and regional contexts and traces the influence of certain key principles and common factors on social and political developments throughout human history.
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The inner world of research
A book about the misery and joy of life as a researcher, and on the role of emotions and social relations in research based on the author’s reflections from a life as a researcher and on interviews with leading scientists about their work and careers.
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The development of a theory of social structure and personality
Melvin Kohn, a pioneer in the cross-national, comparative and collaborative study of social structure and personality, examines his sociological research spanning a six-decade career to articulate a theory of social structure and personality.
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Transnational return and social change
Return has long been considered the end of a migration cycle. Today, returnees’ continued transnational ties, practices and resources have become increasingly visible. ‘Transnational Return and Social Change’ pays tribute to the meso-level impacts that follow the practices and resources migrant r...
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Structure, agency and biotechnology
“Structure, Agency, Biotechnology” argues for the significance of sociological theory and highlights the insights that it can offer into the study of agricultural biotechnology.
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Indian and chinese immigrant communities
This interdisciplinary collection of essays offers a window onto the overseas Indian and Chinese communities in Asia. Contributions give insight on the interactive role of the cultural and religious ‘other’, the diasporic absorption of local beliefs and customs, and the practical business network...
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Explorations of a mind-traveling sociologist
“Explorations of a Mind-Traveling Sociologist” is a book of thematically interconnected ethnographic essays by the internationally esteemed sociologist Renée C. Fox, who employs a participant observer outlook to provide insight on enduring––and pressing––issues of geopolitics, epidemics, aging, f...
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An immigrant nation seeks cohesion
An Immigrant Nation Seeks Cohesion' is based on years of studying and teaching Australian politics and an active interest and involvement in immigration and settlement policies since the 1950s. This was a period of mass immigration from Britain and Europe, organised and mainly subsidised by the B...
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China and sustainable development in latin america
China and Sustainable Development in Latin America documents the social and environmental impacts of the China-led commodity boom in Latin America. It also highlights important areas of innovation where governments, communities and investors have worked together to harness the commodity boom for ...
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The anthem companion to robert k. merton
Robert K. Merton (RKM) was an important figure in the mid-nineteenth development of sociology in terms of social theory, methodology and several substantive areas key to understanding modern societies – the sociologies of science, media, professions and bureaucracy. This book reveals the differen...
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The anthem companion to ferdinand tönnies
This book is a collection of ten articles covering various aspects of the thought of Ferdinand Tönnies. Leading authorities on Tönnies have written these articles in a way that will appeal to both the general reader and the sociological specialist.
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Bauman's legacy
What remains of the idea of liquid modernity? Is Bauman’s thought still relevant? This volume aims to answer these questions, without forgetting the vastness and complexity of his work, where the idea of liquidity remains fundamental, before and after the central turning point of the year 2000.
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The metahistory of western knowledge in the modern era
The book is a study of the evolving history of knowledge in the arts and sciences in the modern era –from 1648 through the present. Modernism is treated as an epoch with evolving disciplines whose articulated problems of a time and the inquiry methods to address them develop in a coordinated mann...
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The anthem companion to peter berger
Peter L. Berger (1929–2017) was among the most prominent sociologists of the past half century. He co-authored with Thomas Luckmann, The Social Construction of Reality, considered to be a modern classic of social science. His work on social theory, the sociology of religion, third world developme...
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Australian newspapers in the television age, 1956-2006
This extensive, quantitative study illuminates how newspaper practices and priorities developed, and how the nature of news changed in the half century after the introduction of television.
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Caste, entrepreneurship and the illusions of tradition
This ethnographic study is an empirical exploration of caste through the story of Indian potters who have transformed caste into a marketable brand in the business of selling sculptures. To these contemporary potters, caste is in their blood, caste is about being a creative and independent artist...
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Reclaiming development studies
As the mission, relevance and intellectual orientation of development studies is increasingly being challenged, this collection of essays argues for the continued necessity to ground the field in a critical political economy approach informed by the contributions of Ashwani Saith.
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International broadcasting and its contested role in australian statecraft
An insightful and timely reappraisal of international broadcasting as an instrument of discursive rather than ‘soft’ power and its contested role in Australia’s Indo-Pacific regional statecraft.
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The rise and fall of the national atlas in the twentieth century
Many countries produced an official national atlas in the twentieth century. This book examines these national atlases as an intriguing window into the connections between science, state, territory and power.
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Human rights, security politics and embodiment
How have human rights been entangled with state control of the body? And how have they failed to intervene effectively on tipping points such as the US’s endorsement of torture that removes the victim’s control over their own body? This book explores the way institutional human rights have glosse...
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The anthem companion to philip rieff
Philip Rieff (1922–2006) was a preeminent American social and cultural theorist. The original essays in The Anthem Companion to Philip Rieff offer an important new assessment of the major works of Philip Rieff by leading writers in the fields of social and cultural theory. These essays are the fi...
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Living across connectivity
This volume looks at the role of digital media platforms in shaping migrants’ practices of connectivity and mobility. Focusing on migration within and beyond East Asia, it explores the pervasive use of smartphones as an everyday reality for intimacy, entrepreneurship, and care for East Asian migr...
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The gig public
The book introduces the concept of the “gig public” to reimagine the public’s role in societies increasingly shaped by the dynamics of surveillance capitalism and algorithmic governance, reaffirming foundational critical sociological approaches—particularly its habitual and contractual roots—that...
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Brexit
Brexit traces the implications of the UK’s projected withdrawal from the EU, placing short-term political fluctuations in a broader historical and social context of the transformation of European and global society.
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The anthem companion to everett hughes
The Anthem Companion to Everett Hughes is a comprehensive and updated critical discussion of Hughes’s contribution to sociology and his current legacy in the social sciences. A global team of scholars discusses issues such as the international circulation of Hughes’s work, his intellectual biogra...
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The transformation of capacity in international development
"The Transformation of Capacity in International Development” exposes the transformation of capacity building as a concept of practice within development through an examination of USAID’s work in Afghanistan and Pakistan from 1977 to 2017. It has implications for the future of rights-based approa...
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The invention of indigenous america
This book explores the decolonization of ethnographic collections by analyzing the historical and cultural narratives surrounding artifacts from two Brazilian Indigenous groups and preserved in European museums.
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Sub-saharan african immigrants’ stories of resilience and courage
The purpose of this book to give a voice to nameless and countless stories that represent the personal lived experiences of Sub-Saharan African immigrants in the US. The authors believe that telling our own stories from our own perspectives is important and empowering because when others tell our...
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Chinese television and soft power communication in australia
‘Chinese Television and Soft Power Communication in Australia’ provides a systemic test of how successful/unsuccessful China’s soft power message projection is in terms of congruence between projected and received frames in Australia.
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The anthem companion to hannah arendt
The Anthem Companion to Hannah Arendt describes and appraises Hannah Arendt’s principal works and their bearing on sociology, social thought and the predicaments of modern society.
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Marx in the field
Marx in the Field is a unique edited collection illustrating the relevance of Marxian methods to study contemporary capitalism and the global development process. Essays in the collection bring Marx ‘to the field’ in three ways. They illustrate how Marxian categories can be concretely deployed fo...
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Youth movements and generational politics, 19th–21st centuries
Youth Movements and Generational Politics, 19th–21st Centuries by Richard and Margaret Braungart is a collection of 19 of their previously published research articles on youthful political activism, generational conflict and social change—from the first student movement in Germany in 1815 to the ...
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Learning from franz l. neumann
"Learning from Franz Neumann" examines the political and legal thought of Franz Neumann in relation to the contemporary decline of the social welfare state and the rise of populism.
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Mexico-us, serbia-eu border lives and works
Mexico–US, Serbia–EU Border Lives and Works is an interdisciplinary, accessible study of Mexico–US and Serbia-EU border practices and policies. Our interdisciplinary, collaborative team of scholars, artists, and migration practitioners tackle crucial questions about how these borders impact peopl...
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Knowledge evolution and societal transformations
Knowledge Evolution and Societal Transformation proposes a new paradigm based on the evolution of knowledge that synthesizes existing social science theories at three analytical levels. A central theme is how knowledge causes new problems and explains growing inequality. To solve these problems, ...
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Sociology global
The book examines the world of sociology and its global features and trends. It covers themes such as: sociologies in the world, major research areas in sociology, collaboration and interdisciplinarity, and contemporary challenges, pertinent issues and debates.
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The anthem companion to auguste comte
A collection of new essays on Auguste Comte by leading Comte scholars, social theorists, philosophers and intellectual historians. The collection aims to further the critical re-examination of Auguste Comte, an important but long neglected figure, while also providing a multi-faceted introduction...
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Digital immersive art in china
This book explores the role of virtual reality and augmented reality in China’s rejuvenation, especially in relation to cultural displays, performances and art exhibitions. It examines how audiences, both in China and globally, respond to Digital China through digital immersive art.
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The anthem companion to georg simmel
'The Anthem Companion to Georg Simmel' brings together new interpretations of the work of this sociologist and philosopher.
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Climate change and the future of seattle
This book explores Seattle’s current climate policy agenda and future climate challenges within the context of its historical, bio-regional, and metropolitan settings.
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The anthem companion to émile durkheim
The Anthem Companion to Émile Durkheim intends to offer different practical attempts to build on Durkheim’s legacy and investigate the issues and controversies that characterise contemporary societies and thus contribute to develop further this path of critical enquiry into ‘classical sociology’.
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The anthem companion to david ricardo
This edited volume provides a comprehensive survey of the life and work of David Ricardo (1772–1823), a major contributor to the British classical school of political economy.
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The anthem companion to henri lefebvre
This edited volume explores the sociology of Lefebvre and its continuing relevance for the discipline today. Contributors explore the sociological Lefebvre across a number of topics, including the influence of Marxism, rural sociology, everyday life, the urban, utopia and violence, to name a few.
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The art and science of sociology
A festschrift honoring the work of Edward A. Tiryakian, consisting of a large number of essays.
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Reproductive racism
The book analyses how demographic knowledge production and states’ grip to the variable of population intertwine. It introduces the concept of the Malthusian matrix in order to understand how class-selective and racist hierarchies within population narratives are combined with gendered policies o...
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The poverty of television
Based on an ethnographic study of television and audiences in class-divided Philippines, this is the first book to take a bottom-up approach in considering how people respond to images and narratives of suffering and poverty on television.
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A genealogy of method
This volume considers the meaning of culture and anthropology’s role in defining it. Taking up the history of the discipline and the method of ethnography in turn, the book asks if the concept of culture might be productively reclaimed within a context that acknowledges history, change, and diver...
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Crowds in american culture, society and politics
This book builds on Le Bon’s classic, The Crowd, to evaluate the role of crowds in American culture, society and politics.
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The plight of potential
Drawing on an international body of case studies from leading millennial networks, "The Plight of Potential" shows how millennials can live deeper and more enriching lives by reflecting on the self, placing value on solitude and resisting the feeling that they must constantly connect and share.
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The cultural construction of monstrous children
This innovative and interdisciplinary collection of essays considers examples of monstrous children since the 16th century to the present, spanning real-life and popular culture, to exhibit the manifestation of the Western cultural anxiety around the problematic, anomalous child as naughty, dange...
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Habermas and giddens on praxis and modernity
This major new contribution forms a constructive comparison of the social theories of Jürgen Habermas and Anthony Giddens that focuses on their approaches to modernity, their endeavours to develop new perspectives, and their critical rethinking of the modernist vision of an autonomous society.
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Navigating the inequitable u.s. healthcare system
This book explores the existing inequities within the U.S. healthcare system and their impacts on individuals and in particular Black women, who seek life-saving healthcare. It deals with the social and economic costs of a healthcare system that fails to provide equitable care to everyone in need.
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Radio vox populi
Radio Vox Populi provides an account of ubiquitous talk radio, from its inception to its current overwhelming societal power via a comparison of the Italian manifestation of the medium with that of the United States. The story is told through ten chapters written by radio scholars and practitione...
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Ethnographic reflections on marriage in dhofar, oman
Studying Marriage in Dhofar, Oman explains the choices middle-class, Muslim, tribal Dhofari men and women make when creating a life together.
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Social thought and rival claims to the moral ideal of dignity
‘Social Thought and Rival Claims to the Moral Ideal of Dignity’ deals with the legacy from the classical literature of philosophy and sociology of the theorization of the idea and ideal of dignity, which is explored in the wider context of morality, ethics and the basis of the normative order.
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The anthem companion to karl mannheim
“The Anthem Companion to Karl Mannheim” is an international collection of original articles on the classical sociologist Karl Mannheim and documents the current revitalization of the reception of this social thinker. Using “learning from Mannheim” as its motif, the chapters in this volume favor f...
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Cultural processes of inequality
Cultural Processes of Inequality: A Sociological Perspective show how systemic inequality is produced and reproduced through mundane, routine actions based on taken-for-granted assumptions. The book ties such cultural assumptions to personal and institutional behavior, drawing connections between...
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The anthem companion to zygmunt bauman
Bauman’s ideas – his research topic, his hundreds of concepts and his imaginative approach to doing research – remain a source of inspiration for many scholars and researchers working within a variety of different fields and sub-fields, appealing equally to empirical work and theoretical elaborat...
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Love in india
This book focuses on the multiple sites and articulations through which “love” is constructed, articulated and experienced in contemporary India.
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The anthem companion to raymond boudon
This book seeks to identify the main threads of a resolutely complex course of thought which has contributed greatly to sociology.
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Doing gender in heavy metal
This book offers a sociological study of gender regarding women in the heavy metal subculture. Relying on interviews with fans, women have made progress in the metal world, although gendered conditions also continue to exist. Heavy metal feminism is a process in becoming, but not yet an accomplis...
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Challenging misrepresentations of black womanhood
"Challenging Misrepresentations of Black Womanhood" investigates the stereotyping of Black womanhood and the larger sociological impact on Black women. The text details the historical and contemporary use of stereotypes against Black women and how Black women work to challenge and dispel false pe...
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Kid power, inequalities and intergenerational relations
This book combines theories of power with empirical material on children’s lives across the world to propose a novel framework for understanding kid power. It explores the nature of power relations between children and adults and provides a critical analysis of kid power, considering inequalities...
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