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Divided Spaces
Discourse on Social Exclusion and Women in India
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
About the Book Social exclusion has become one of the important themes in contemporary social policy debates in both the developed and developing countries. It has become central to policy and academic discourse in Western Europe, and increasingly in other parts of the globe. In India, the exclusion...
by Bulent Diken, Carsten Bagge Laustsen
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Sociology through the Projector takes issue with the question of how contemporary film can help answering the general, abstract but still urgent question: what is the social today? This book explains the performative relation to contemporary social theory in which cinema functions as a tool for social...
Explaining Social Life
A Guide to Using Social Theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
This distinctive text makes social theory accessible to and usable by students. Whereas social theory is often seen as abstract, esoteric and separate from our understanding of the social world, here it is shown to be a flexible and practical resource for anyone wanting to explain social phenomena.
This...
by Besnik Fetahu
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject Sociology - Social System, Social Structure, Class, Social Stratification, grade: Master of Sociology, University of Prishtina (University of Prishtina), course: Sociology - Social System, Social Structure, Class, Social Stratification, language: English,...
Educating About Social Issues in the 20th and 21st Centuries Vol. 2
A Critical Annotated Bibliography
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Over the course of the past decade and a half, we, Samuel Totten and Jon E. Pedersen, have coedited a series of books on teaching and learning about social issues. Our goal has been to build a series that would broadly represent the work that has been undertaken over the past 110 plus years related...
The Desire for Mutual Recognition
Social Movements and the Dissolution of the False Self
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
The Desire for Mutual Recognition is a work of accessible social theory that seeks to make visible the desire for authentic social connection, emanating from our social nature, that animates all human relationships.
Using a social-phenomenological method that illuminates rather than explains...
Routledge Companion to Contemporary Japanese Social Theory
From Individualization to Globalization in Japan Today
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Japanese Social Theory breaks new ground in providing a detailed, systematic appraisal of the major traditions of social theory prominent in Japan today – from theories of identity and individualization to globalization studies. The volume introduces readers...
Sociology and Catholic Social Teaching
Contemporary Theory and Research
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Sociology and Catholic Social Teaching: Contemporary Theory and Research contains essays by key scholars in the territory where Catholic social thought and secular sociology meet, and offers a much needed alternative to the relativism and individualism that so often characterize social scientific...
by Tom Grimwood
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
In order to practice effectively in today’s complex and changing environment, social workers need to have an understanding of how contemporary cultural and philosophical concepts relate to the people they work with and the fields they practice in. Exploring the ideas of philosophers, including Nietzsche,...
Affectivity and the Social Bond
Transcendence, Economy and Violence in French Social Theory
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Affectivity and the Social Bond offers a fresh and original perspective on the relationship between affectivity and transcendence in nineteenth and twentieth century French social theory. Engaging in a conceptual analysis of the works of Comte, Durkheim, Bataille and Girard, this book exposes a major...
by Shaun Best
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2005
The study of social divisions has dominated research within the social sciences since the nineteenth century. Early stratification categories of class, race, and gender, have in more recent years been joined by issues such as sexuality and disability. Understanding Social Divisions addresses the full...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
In different ways, social theory and social history represent discourses that implicitly or explicitly highlight the need to apply perspectives on modern social realities that are conducive to discerning and scrutinizing the centrality of large-scale processes that have been influencing and shaping...
by Xueyi Lu
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
This book is the third study done by the Research Group on Social Structure Change in Contemporary China, a group affiliated with the Institute of Sociology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. The group has focused on the process of development and change in contemporary Chinese social structure...
Social Problems and Inequality
Social Responsibility through Progressive Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Social Problems and Inequality explores integrated and root-cause-based explanations of complex social problems. Written in clear and understandable language, allowing it to be used for classroom purposes, it addresses the most fundamental principles of how humans, acting through social units, create,...