Polity imprint: 1443 books
Social Research
Paradigms in Action
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
This unique book explains the central role that research paradigms play in the design and conduct of social research. The authors argue that social research should not just describe or confirm a social problem but should seek to find an explanation for it – and to do so requires research with 'eyes...
by Jakob Arnoldi
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
This book gives a comprehensive yet easily accessible introduction to risk and uncertainty as they have been analysed in sociology and related social sciences. The book draws extensively on the wide array of contemporary social theories of risk and relates these to the many and diverse areas in contemporary...
Sociology and the Environment
A Critical Introduction to Society, Nature and Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
Can sociology help us to tackle environmental problems? What can sociology tell us about the nature of the environment and about the origins and consequences of environmental risks, hazards and change? In this important new book Alan Irwin maps out this emerging field of knowledge, teaching and research....
Syria
A Modern History
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2019
Today Syria is a country known for all the wrong reasons: civil war, vicious sectarianism, and major humanitarian crisis. But how did this once rich, multi-cultural society end up as the site of one of the twenty-first century’s most devastating and brutal conflicts?
In this incisive book,...
by Beverley Milton-Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
The fourth edition of this dynamic and popular text provides a comprehensive introduction to contemporary politics in the Middle East. Fully revised and updated throughout, it features a new chapter on the Arab Spring and its aftermath, plus a wide range of vibrant case studies, data, questions for...
Crime and Global Justice
The Dynamics of International Punishment
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Over the last quarter of a century a new system of global criminal justice has emerged. But how successful has it been? Are we witnessing a new era of cosmopolitan justice or are the old principles of victors’ justice still in play? In this book, Daniele Archibugi and Alice Pease offer a vibrant...
by Daniel Speak
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
The most forceful philosophical objections to belief in God arise from the existence of evil. Bad things happen in the world and it is not clear how this is compatible with the existence of an all-powerful and perfectly loving being. Unsurprisingly then, philosophers have formulated powerful arguments...
by Thomas G. Weiss
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Do we need the United Nations? Where would the contemporary world be without its largest intergovernmental organization? And where could it be had the UN’s member states and staff performed better?
These fundamental questions are explored by the leading analyst of UN history and politics,...
The Electronic Eye
The Rise of Surveillance Society - Computers and Social Control in Context
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
In this book David Lyon analyses the various contexts of surveillance activity and offers a balanced account of the influence electronic information systems have on the social order today.
The Human Rights Enterprise
Political Sociology, State Power, and Social Movements
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Why do powerful states like the U.S., U.K., China, and Russia repeatedly fail to meet their international legal obligations as defined by human rights instruments? How does global capitalism affect states’ ability to implement human rights, particularly in the context of global recession, state...
Violence and Islam
Conversations with Houria Abdelouahed
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Adonis' influence on Arabic literature has been likened to that of T. S. Eliot in the English-speaking world. Yet alongside this spearheading of a modernist literary revolution, the secular Syrian-born poet is also renowned for his persistent and staunch attacks on despotism across the Arab world.
In...
by Tamara Sonn
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
New York, Washington, Madrid, London and now Paris Ð the list of Western cities targeted by radical Islamic terrorists waging global jihad continues to grow. Does this extreme violence committed in the name of Islam point to a fundamental enmity between the Muslim faith and the West?
In this...
by Michael Schudson
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2018
Can we talk about the news media without proclaiming journalism either our savior or the source of all evil? It is not easy to do so, but it gets easier if we put the problems and prospects of journalism in historical and comparative perspective, view them with a sociological knowledge of how newsmaking...
When Conflict Resolution Fails
An Alternative to Negotiation and Dialogue: Engaging Radical Disagreement in Intractable Conflicts
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Bringing warring parties to the negotiating table is the aim of any peace process. But what happens when those negotiations falter and conflict resolution fails? Is everything lost or are there prospects for meaningful change in even the most intractable of conflicts?
In this insightful book,...