Sociology category: 22581 books
Social Science and Policy-Making
A Search for Relevance in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
This collection of essays examines how the social sciences in America were developed as a means of social reform and later, especially after World War II, as a tool in federal policymaking and policy analysis. It also uses arenas of policymaking, such as early childhood education and welfare and its...
The Declining Significance of Race
Blacks and Changing American Institutions, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
When first published in 1980, The Declining Significance of Race immediately sparked controversy with its contentious thesis that race was becoming less of a deciding factor in the life chances of black Americans than class. This new edition of the seminal book includes a new afterword in which William...
Beautiful Rising
Creative Resistance from the Global South
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
**"Beautiful Rising offers insights and lessons for creative resistance from across the Global South, making it a crucial resource for change-makers."—Archbishop Desmond Tutu
"Beyond a brilliantly innovative toolkit for making social change, you will find here a 'deep structure'...
Rural America in a Globalizing World
Problems and Prospects for the 2010's
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
This fourth Rural Sociological Society decennial volume provides advanced policy scholarship on rural North America during the 2010’s, closely reflecting upon the increasingly global nature of social, cultural, and economic forces and the impact of neoliberal ideology upon policy, politics, and...
Critical Theory of Legal Revolutions
Evolutionary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
This unique work analyzes the crisis in modern society, building on the ideas of the Frankfurt School thinkers. Emphasizing social evolution and learning processes, it argues that crisis is mediated by social class conflicts and collective learning, the results of which are embodied in constitutional...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
The whole landscape of research in urban studies was revolutionized by the publication of Richard Florida’s The Rise of the Creative Class in 2002, and his subsequent book entitled The Flight of the Creative Class has helped to maintain a decade-long explosion of interest in the field. While these...
by Anthony Giddens
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
In this major theoretical statement, the author offers a new and provocative interpretation of the institutional transformations associated with modernity. We do not as yet, he argues, live in a post-modern world. Rather the distinctive characteristics of our major social institutions in the closing...
Non-Representational Theory
Space, Politics, Affect
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
This astonishing book presents a distinctive approach to the politics of everyday life. Ranging across a variety of spaces in which politics and the political unfold, it questions what is meant by perception, representation and practice, with the aim of valuing the fugitive practices that exist on...
by Marinus Ossewaarde
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Explores key sociological concepts and theory in relation to European crises, identity, inequality and social order. It offers a firm understanding of the modernization of Europe and everyday European life, while not neglecting the historical context. Essential reading for students of sociology in European contexts.
The New Political Economy of Urban Education
Neoliberalism, Race, and the Right to the City
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Urban education and its contexts have changed in powerful ways. Old paradigms are being eclipsed by global forces of privatization and markets and new articulations of race, class, and urban space. These factors and more set the stage for Pauline Lipman's insightful analysis of the relationship between...
Beyond Kolkata
Rajarhat and the Dystopia of Urban Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
This bookexamines the politics behind, and the socio-economic and ecological repercussions of, the making of a new township, variously called New Town, Megacity or Jyoti Basu Nagar, in Rajarhat near Kolkata. Conceived by the West Bengal state government in the mid-1990s, in pandering to the vision...
Ordering Lives
Family, Work and Welfare
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Taking as its focus three familiar and profoundly influential social institutions, the family, work and welfare, this accessible and exciting text looks at their role in maintaining social order and promoting social change in Britain from the 1950's to the beginning of the twenty first century. It...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
World-systems analysis has developed rapidly over the past thirty years. Today's students and junior scholars come to world-systems analysis as a well-established approach spanning all of the social sciences. The best world-systems scholarship, however, is spread across multiple methodologies and...
Society and the Environment
Pragmatic Solutions to Ecological Issues
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Society and the Environment examines today's environmental controversies within a socio-organizational context. After outlining the contours of 'pragmatic environmentalism', Carolan considers the pressures that exist where ecology and society collide, such as population growth and its associated increased...