Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Late Modernity and Social Change
Reconstructing Social and Personal Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2007
Sometimes social theory can seem dry and intimidating – as if it is something completely apart from everyday life. But in this incisive new text, Brian Heaphy show exactly how the arguments of the great contemporary theorists play out against extended examples from real life.
Introducing...
The Judgment of Culture
Cultural Assumptions in American Law
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
Legal systems do not operate in isolation but in complex cultural contexts.
This original and thought-provoking volume considers how cultural assumptions are built into American legal decision-making, drawing on a series of case studies to demonstrate the range of ways courts express their...
by Kay Schaffer, Xianlin Song
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
What does it mean to read from elsewhere? Women Writers in Postsocialist China introduces readers to a range and variety of contemporary Chinese women’s writing, which has seen phenomenal growth in recent years. The book addresses the different ways women’s issues are understood in China and the...
Creative Justice
Cultural Industries, Work and Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
Creative Justice examines issues of inequality and injustice in the cultural industries and cultural workplace. It first aims to ‘do justice’ to the kinds of objects and texts produced by artists, musicians, designersand other kinds of symbol-makers – by appreciating them as meaningful goods...
medi@sia
Global Media/tion In and Out of Context
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
This new inter-disciplinary book is the first comparative, case-based analysis of media panoply in (and out of) Asia today. Examining what the authors call the "media/tion equation", the contributors demonstrate the multiple links between media, society and culture, and advance the claim...
Ethnicity and Nationalism
Anthropological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2010
Is ethnicity a result of cultural differences? Is ethnicity dependent on the practical use and belief in cultural differences? Drawing on a wide-range of classic and recent studies in anthropology and sociology, Thomas Hylland Eriksen examines the relationship between ethnicity, class, gender and...
Subject to Ourselves
An Introduction to Freud, Psychoanalysis, and Social Theory
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
The revised edition of Subject to Ourselves, a lively and provocative book that was a leader on its topic in England, uses psychoanalytic theory as the basis for a fresh reassessment of the nature of modernity and postmodernism. Analyzing changing experiences of selfhood, desire, interpersonal relations,...
Russian Studies and Comparative Politics
Views from Metatheory and Middle-Range Theory
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
This book brings together several of the author’s empirical studies that demonstrate the strength and utility of sociologist Robert Merton’s classic middle-range theory for understanding aspects of both Soviet and post-Soviet Russian politics. Some of those studies demonstrate that testing middle-range...
Dreams and Modernity
A Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Dreams and Modernity: A Cultural History explores the dream as a distinctively modern object of inquiry and as a fundamental aspect of identity and culture in the nineteenth and early twentieth century.
While dreams have been a sustained object of fascination from the ancient world to the present,...
Mapping Media in China
Region, Province, Locality
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Mapping Media in China is the first book-length study that goes below the ‘national’ scale to focus on the rich diversity of media in China from local, provincial and regional angles. China’s media has played a crucial role in shaping and directing the country’s social and cultural changes,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
Conventional political science depicts legitimate elections as rational affairs in which informed voters select candidates for office according to how their coherently presented aims, ideologies and policies appeal to the self-interest of the electorate. In reality elections, whether in first world...
Rethinking Japanese Studies
Eurocentrism and the Asia-Pacific Region
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
Japanese Studies has provided a fertile space for non-Eurocentric analysis for a number of reasons. It has been embroiled in the long-running internal debate over the so-called Nihonjinron, revolving around the extent to which the effective interpretation of Japanese society and culture requires non-Western,...
by Florian Coulmas
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2007
This book presents a comprehensive analysis of one of the most pressing challenges facing Japan today: population decline and ageing.
It argues that social ageing is a phenomenon that follows in the wake of industrialization, urbanization and social modernization, bringing about changes in...
Knowledge Matters
The Structures of Knowledge and Crisis of the Modern World-System
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Economic changes and political changes which emerged with the modern capitalist world-economy were accompanied in the sociocultural domain by changes in the structures of knowledge. These included the hierarchical separation of the realm of facts from that of values, institutionalized as a division...