Social theory Books

Costumen Vande Twee Steden Ende Lande Van Aelst (1625) is een boek geschreven door een anonieme auteur. Het boek beschrijft de gebruiken en gewoonten van de twee steden en het land van Aelst in de 17e eeuw. Het boek is geschreven in het Nederlands en...

Multidimensional Inequalities is a deep dive into the historical contexts and contemporary realities that negatively influence society and its structures. It is often overlooked that inequality is not just about income and wealth but rather a broad...

In the practice of constructing the idea of home and the emotions surrounding it, sensory experiences and materiality intertwine to form layers of memory and affective atmospheres. People in different life stages and situations create continuity and a...

In the last century, technocracy has assumed many forms in our daily lives. A century ago, one college dean, Arland Deyett Weeks, described many of the mechanisms that would come to define concepts like "nudge theory" and "libertarian paternalism" in the...

The Malone Cook Book is a collection of recipes compiled by the Women's Aid Society and was first published in 1917. This book contains a wide range of recipes, including appetizers, soups, main courses, desserts, and beverages. The recipes are simple...

This book outlines key developments in understanding social harm by setting out its historical foundations and the discussions which have proliferated since. It examines various attempts to conceptualise social harm and highlights key sites of...

During the last two decades, economic sociology has experienced a remarkable revival and has become one of the most innovative fields of sociological research. Shifts in economic policy worldwide have led to the increasing interest in the sociological...

"La opinioj pri tio, kio envere estis la socio, plej ofte nomatareala socialismo, larĝe disas: ĉu tute ne socialismo aŭ la malode socialismo, ŝtatsocialismo aŭ partisocialismo, ŝtatkapitalismoaŭ deformita socialismo, transira socio aŭ simple...

The current crisis of capitalism has led to the renewed interest in Marxism and its core categories of analysis such as class and exploitation. In our own discipline - Library and Information Science - voices and ideas that have long been confined to the...

An understanding of the three realities (physical, perceived, represented) enables us to make sense of concepts encountered in everyday life, in a negotiation, observing a physical phenomenon, a sports competition, biology, psychology or architecture.Why...

Freedom In New South Wales Versus Oppression In Victoria: A Reply To The Age Articles (1887) is a book written by Edward Pulsford. The book is a response to a series of articles published in The Age newspaper, which criticized the government of New South...

Contemporary Asian societies present a variety of contrasting experiences and afterlives of colonialism, revolutionary socialism, religion and secular nationalism. Asian Lives in Anthropological Perspective draws together essays that demonstrate how...

Television, movies, news, and social media; we're living in a world where we're inundated with stories and information. Yet somehow, instead of learning about each other and coming together, our nation is more divided than ever. Despite our access to...

Cover songs are a familiar feature of contemporary popular music. Musicians describe their own performances as covers, and audiences use the category to organize their listening and appreciation. However, until now philosophers have not had much to say...

Pathways to Ruin? presents an in-depth examination of individuals deemed as high-risk by the Canadian criminal justice system, elucidating their pathways to crime.

Are you a woman and would you like to learn how to become elegant and behave on every occasion? If yes, this is the right book for you! There's a lot to learn about being a lady, and not all of it is about fashion. Every lady needs to learn how to...

Bringing together contributions from anthropology, sociology, religious studies, and philosophy, along with ethnographic case studies from diverse settings, this volume explores how different disciplinary perspectives on the good might engage with and...

The story of the transition of Viola, a real oral narrative as the human subject research—Oral History of the author’s project/dissertation for fall 2003, took place in a form of a book. The author collected the oral testimony of Viola...

En este libro se renen trabajos que fueron presentados como resultado de las investigaciones realizadas en las reas de educacin y medio ambiente, a sabiendas de la importancia que ha adquirido hoy en da los fenmenos climticos que se han estado...

Explores the slow but inevitable implosion of our civilization by considering the correlation between capital, work, and ideology.

Education From The Cradle is a book written by Mary Ouroussov and published in 1890. The book is an exploration of the importance of early childhood education, and the ways in which parents and caregivers can provide a nurturing and stimulating...

This book describes relevant theories, such as task-centered and strength-perspective interventions for the practice of social group work, within contemporary India. These two theories are complemented by additional theories including Gestalt Therapy,...

In Last Chance to Save Our Republic, Hannah delivers a powerful wake-up call to Americans of all ages and backgrounds, urging them to fight for the Republic that so many have sacrificed their lives to protect. She confronts the moral decay...

In Western societies, a long-standing philosophical tradition prioritizes deeper meanings over surface appearances, thus reducing clothes to mere false impressions, favoring an unvarnished truth instead. Then, to write on clothes implies the reversal of...

Oui, il existe des techniques, des méthodes et des moyens pour devenir riche et vivre dans l’abondance. Il n’y a rien de mal à vouloir cela et à rechercher cela. Au contraire, plus il y a de riches dans une nation, plus...

For over a decade, I've been captivated by the idea of this book, which goes beyond profiling well-known locals in Orange County. It focuses on individuals who contribute significantly to the region's culture and beyond, showcasing a diverse range of...

What is Critical Race Theory, and how should Christians engage it? Ed Uszynski carefully unpacks what critical race theorists seek to accomplish and what Christians can learn from them. In this guide, he carefully explores CRT's roots, context, and...

Employing Gramscian conceptions of hegemony, this book demonstrates the inextricable links between politics, education, culture, and power.

First Published in 1972, Youth in a Changing Society examines the 'youth problem', dealing with questions of alienation, drugs, juvenile crime, protest, the social cultural position of young people in Britain, and suggests a new way of thinking.

This book, the first comprehensive biography of Goffman, shows how key turns in Goffman's career reflected dramatic events in his family and personal history.The approach adopted in this investigation sheds new light on Goffman's scholarship which has...

How Popular Culture Destroys our Political Imagination: Capitalism and its Alternatives in Film and Television explores the representations of capitalism, the state, and their alternatives in popular screen media texts.

Offering significant contributions to sociology and social theory, this book promotes an understanding that societal change is rooted in social power and cultural shifts. Inclusive in its presentation, students, professors, NGO professionals, volunteers,...

This book offers "eco-words" and "eco-thoughts" as itsheds light on the traps that our minds construct for ourselves, that we so often fall into whether we mean to or not. It examines the erroneous paths that we sometimes meander down while we are...

Shifting from the idea that our current 'environmental question' arises from the history of metaphysics and its focus on 'Being' over 'Life' - and the attendant explorations of the thought of Heidegger and Heraclitus - this book unfolds a philosophical...

L'evoluzione della società umana è stata accompagnata da conflitti violenti nel suo corso storico e preistorico. Come animali, le Nazioni si sono combattute per prevalere, spesso portando innovazione, tanto da quasi giustificare la guerra come strumento...

This book engages the field of practice theory in order to consider law as a social practice.

While women have influenced the fields of program evaluation and mixed methods research, their contributions are rarely acknowledged. In this edited volume, we recognize the contributions Jennifer C. Greene made to evaluation and mixed methods, focusing...

Embark on a journey that will change your perspective on community and individual well-being. In The Great Good Place, Ray Oldenburg gave the term "third places," where people gather for the pleasure of good company and conversation, and explained just...

A definitive analysis of the impacts of the Iraq antiwar movementAs the Bush administration prepared to wage war against Iraq, millions of people in the United States and around the world took to the streets to warn against the impending disaster. It was...

Al comenzar a escribir mi libro anterior (Buchonas de Culiacán) se desató una pandemia, un pandemónium mundial, pánico entre la gente por causa de un virus que se propagó en China, ya que nos pusieron en cuarentena mundial. Me di la tarea en cambiar...

This book, Beyond Buffoonery, reflects on postwar politics and social situations and conditions in Liberia, West Africa. It extends a conversation on the critical and perennial question of productive governance in the country. In its prequel, titled The...

Relying on many years of fieldwork and on his involvement with several national level policy making bodies, this book presents a cultural interpretation of how public life and state interventions in India should be viewed. While commending statistical...