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Taylor & Francis Consumption Challenged
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ethnicities and Values in a Changing World
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Transatlantic Voyages and Sociology The Migration and Development of Ideas Rethinking Classical Sociology
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Taylor & Francis Transgressive Bodies
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Taylor & Francis Ritual and the Sacred A NeoDurkheimian Analysis of Politics Religion and the Self Rethinking Classical Sociology
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Geographies of Rhythm
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Taylor & Francis Family Configurations A Structural Approach to Family Diversity
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Cosmetic Surgery A Feminist Primer
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Advertising and Cultural Politics in Global Times
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Taylor & Francis Queer Methods and Methodologies
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Taylor & Francis The Genome Incorporated
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Taylor & Francis The Sociology of Wilhelm Baldamus Paradox and Inference
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Taylor & Francis Derrida and the Writing of the Body
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Paradoxes of Individualization Social Control and Social Conflict in Contemporary Modernity
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Paradoxes of Individualization Social Control and Social Conflict in Contemporary Modernity
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Viable Utopian Ideas Shaping a Better World Shaping a Better World Shaping a Better World
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Taylor & Francis An Anthropological Economy of Debt
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Taylor & Francis Reflections on Imagination
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Taylor & Francis The Making of Global and Local Modernities in Melanesia
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Taylor & Francis Simulating Societies The Computer Simulation of Social Phenomena Routledge Library Editions Artificial Intelligence
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Taylor & Francis Simulating Societies The Computer Simulation of Social Phenomena Routledge Library Editions Artificial Intelligence
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Taylor & Francis Pragmatic Humanism
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Taylor & Francis Social Change Theories in Motion Explaining the Past Understanding the Present Envisioning the Future
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Taylor & Francis Social Change Theories in Motion Explaining the Past Understanding the Present Envisioning the Future
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Taylor & Francis Gifts of Cooperation Mauss and Pragmatism
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Taylor & Francis Divinization and Technology
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Taylor & Francis Global Capital and Social Difference
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Taylor & Francis The Sociology of Zygmunt Bauman
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Taylor & Francis Dialogical Social Theory
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Taylor & Francis PostHuman Institutions and Organizations Confronting The Matrix The Future of the Human
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Taylor & Francis Ignorance and Change Anticipatory Knowledge and the European Refugee Crisis Routledge Research in Ignorance Studies
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Taylor & Francis Mass Panic and Social Attachment
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Taylor & Francis PostHuman Futures Human Enhancement Artificial Intelligence and Social Theory The Future of the Human
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Globalization The Key Concepts
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Reintroducing Gabriel Tarde
Book SynopsisThis book offers a new introduction to the thought of Gabriel Tarde, highlighting the continuing relevance, and even the novelty, of both his general theoretical approach and many of his specific analyses. Showing that Tarde elaborates a comprehension of the social that was received with difficulty in his time but is increasingly akin to ours, it demonstrates that the infinitesimal sociology offered to us by Tarde provides a framework through which we can understand a whole range of social phenomena. With attention to social networks, public opinion, innovation, diffusion, virality and virtualityall of which were topics addressed by Tarde himselfthe author clarifies and elaborates upon Tarde's central theses on the multiple, differential, infinitesimal and infinite nature of both the social and the subjective. An examination of the importance of a figure whose work looked ahead to our own age, Reintroducing Gabriel Tarde will appeal to scholars and students of social sciencesTable of ContentsContentsINTRODUCTION | Hypothesis about an oblivion and remembrance planWhere to locate Tarde’s work?Three classical readings and a (neo) baroque oneMultitudes in heaven and EarthThe problem of the social and its pure sociologyCHAPTER 1 | Infinite and social theoryInfinitesimals or differentialsThe labyrinth of the continuumLeibniz’s universeThe composition of the infiniteTowards an infinitist social theoryMicro-megaCHAPTER 2 | Individual, Society and Social Field From the society to individualsFrom points to linesThe social as skein, the individual as wool ballBeliefs and desires as infinitesimal social forcesInfinitesimal sociologyCHAPTER 3 | The social as contagion, creation and fightSocial hypnosis (not everything is wakefulness with eyes wide open)Contagion lines and social epidemicsOpposition, conflict, struggleThe social as a field of strugglesFrom doubt to warInvention as social relation (and as engine of History)Adaptation: difference and integrationContingency and necessity / virtuality and actualityGreat and small / chance and reasonCHAPTER 4 | Sociology of flows and ensemblesThe logic of social contagionSocial logic and persuasive syllogismsNon-logic laws of imitationThe world within the home and vice versaSocial ensembles or systemsSocial intelligence and general willA science of intensive communicationCHAPTER 5 | The Continuity of the multitudesThe CrowdThe multitude as paradigm and laboratoryThe individual, the crowd and its leadersThe corporationThe public, the mass-mediaEvolution and metamorphosisAPPENDIX | Cartographical noteTarde in ParisTarde in North-AmericaBack to FranceACKNOWLEDGMENTS BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Volume 7 Tome I
Book SynopsisThe period of Kierkegaard''s life corresponds to Denmark''s Golden Age, which is conventionally used to refer to the period covering roughly the first half of the nineteenth century, when Denmark''s most important writers, philosophers, theologians, poets, actors and artists flourished. Kierkegaard was often in dialogue with his fellow Danes on key issues of the day. His authorship would be unthinkable without reference to the Danish State Church, the Royal Theater, the University of Copenhagen or the various Danish newspapers and journals, such as The Corsair, FÃdrelandet, and KjÃbenhavns flyvende Post, which played an undeniable role in shaping his development. The present volume features articles that employ source-work research in order to explore the individual Danish sources of Kierkegaard''s thought. The volume is divided into three tomes in order to cover the different fields of influence. Tome I is dedicated to exploring the sources that fall under the rubrics, Philosophy, PTable of ContentsContents: Preface; Andreas Frederick Beck: a good dialectician and a bad reader, K. Brian Söderquist; Jens Finsteen Giødwad: an amiable friend and a despicable journalist, Andrea Scaramuccia; Johan Ludwig Heiberg: Kierkegaard's criticism of Hegel's Danish apologist, Jon Stewart; J.L.A. Kolderup-Rosenvinge: Kierkegaard on walking away from politics, J. Michael Tilley; Orla Lehmann: Kierkegaard's political alter-ego?, Julie K. Allen; Poul Martin Møller: Kierkegaard and the confidant of Socrates, Finn Gredal Jensen; Ditlev Gothard Monrad: Kierkegaard on politics, the liberal movement, and the Danish constitution, J. Michael Tilley; Rasmus Nielsen: from the object of 'prodigious concern' to a 'windbag', Jon Stewart; Hans Christian Ørsted: Søren Kierkegaard and The Spirit in Nature, Bjarne Troelsen; Frederick Christian Sibbern: 'the lovable, remarkable thinker, Councilor Sibbern' and 'the political Simple-Peter Sibbern', Carl Henrik Koch; Henrich Steffens: combining Danish romanticism with Christian orthodoxy, Andrew J. Burgess; Peter Michael Stilling: as successor? 'Undeniably a possibility', Carl Henrik Koch; Frederik Ludvig Zeuthen: 'I struck a light, lit a fire - now it is burning. And this "fire" Dr Zeuthen wants to extinguish - with an "enema syringe".', Carl Henrik Koch; Indexes.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Cultural Evolution
Book SynopsisSince the dawn of social science, theorists have debated how and why societies appear to change, develop and evolve. Today, this question is pursued by scholars across many different disciplines and our understanding of these dynamics has grown markedly. Yet, there remain important areas of disagreement and debate: what is the difference between societal change, development and evolution? What specific aspects of cultures change, develop or evolve and why? Do societies change, develop or evolve in particular ways, perhaps according to cycles, or stages or in response to survival necessities? How do different disciplinesfrom sociology to anthropology to psychology and economicsapproach these questions? This book provides complex and nuanced answers to these, and many other, questions. First, the book invites readers to consider the broad landscape of societal dynamics across human history, beginning with humanity's origins in small nomadic bands of hunter gatherers through to Table of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1. The Social Environment of Evolutionary AdaptednessChapter 2. "Cultural Evolution," DescriptivelyChapter 3. Evolutionary SociologyChapter 4. Cyclic TheoriesChapter 5. Cumulative Cultural EvolutionChapter 6. MemeticsChapter 7. The Evolution of Norms, Values and IdentitiesChapter 8. Toward an Integration and Theoretical Extension
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Class Boundaries in Europe
Book SynopsisDrawing inspiration from Pierre Bourdieu's social space theory, this book provides an unprecedent overview of class relations, covering topics such as class polarisation, cultural reproduction, political orientations, and globalisation.The book applies Bourdieusian social space approach to show how class boundaries have been maintained or transformed in different European countries. Based on quantiative data, it proposes a renewal of the analysis of distances, divides, and relations of domination between social classes, documenting objective and symbolic boundaries that form the basis of individuals' living and working conditions in 11 European countries. Focusing on transformations of wealth inequalities, education strategies, and European labour markets, the book examines the role of cultural, economic and social capital. It will be of interest to students and scholars across the social sciences, in particular to those studying social and wealth inequalities in a comTable of ContentsIntroduction: Thinking about class boundaries in Europe PART I: Social space and class polarisation 1 Stability, transformation, and escalation: Norwegian classes and class boundaries 2008–20202 Polarisation: Trends in class boundaries in Hungary 3 Social classes and their boundaries during Poland’s "Golden Age" PART II: Questioning the cultural reproduction of class boundaries 4 The cultivation of the synthetic gentleman: Exploring horizontal boundaries within the British elite 5 Exploring class differences within occupational categories: The case of professionals in Athens, 1991–2011 6 Class formation and social reproduction strategies in the Portuguese construction industry: Elements for a relational sociological analysis PART III: Homology between class boundaries and political orientations 7 Class, confidence, and political conflicts in Denmark: Exploring social cleavages and political boundaries in a Nordic welfare society 8 The politicised class structure of German society (2009–2017) PART IV: Blind spots in the Bourdieusian approach 9 France: The dynamics of internal changes within a persistent class structure 10 Class boundaries in Spain: Intergenerational and regional changes in the wake of the 2008 economic crisis 11 Inequality in the hidden abode of production: Class and working conditions in Sweden, 1995–2015 12 On the borders of class analysis: Questioning the demarcation of economic activity PART V: Beyond nations? Social class and globalisation 13 Is happiness at work a class privilege? Subjective relationships to work and class boundaries in Europe 14 Elaborating class analysis on the European scale: The importance of British "non-domiciled" individuals
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Political Legitimacy
Book SynopsisPolitical Legitimacy: Realism in Political Theory and Sociology explores the concept of political legitimacy, the nature of the normative foundation of politics and the state. With particular attention to the broad theoretical approach of political realism within political theory and political sociology, it examines the work of figures including Bernard Williams, Raymond Geuss, John Grey, Max Weber, and Niklas Luhmann, among others.Contending that in the face of the waning influence of political idealism, the insights of political realism constitute a promising way forward, the author also advances the view that realist political theory would benefit from sociological insights, particularly on the nature of the state.As such, Political Legitimacy will appeal to scholars and students of social and political theory, political sociology, and political philosophy.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Diversions of political idealism 3. Political and sociological realism 4. Max Weber: Legitimacy by leadership 5. Weberian ideas of structural legitimacy 6. Legitimation demand, value pluralism and modus vivendi 7. Niklas Luhmann: Legitimacy as political self-production 8. Postscript
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Class
Book SynopsisThis accessible introductory text offers an engaging and thought-provoking discussion of class in relation to several cultural, sociological and political schools of thought and draws upon the works of a broad range of key theorists as well as contemporary thinkers to restate the ongoing importance of class as a sociological concept.Class has long been a key focus of sociological and political studies. This book explores what it might mean today in a twenty-first century context. Is class really disappearing? Is class morally justifiable? What impact has globalisation and neoliberalism had on the restructuring of class-based social relationships? These questions and others are explored in this short but lively book. Stevenson reviews a number of normative traditions including anarchist, Marxist, social democratic and citizenship-based forms of understanding of class in order to shed light on the themes of class-based experiences, health and inequality, work, class struTable of Contents1. Class as a Key Sociological Concept 2. Class Struggles 3. Class, Human Needs and Morality 4. Class Politics 5. Class and the Commons 6. Class, Work and the Labour Movement 7. Concluding Thoughts
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Invisible Religion
Book SynopsisA modern classic of social science, this book addresses the question of whether Western societies are becoming secular as they modernize, arguing that rather than a decline of religion, we are witnessing a shift from an older, Church-centered form to another, invisible and still largely unexplored form of religion. Table of ContentsEditors' Introduction Foreword Introduction I. Religion, Church and SociologyII. Church-Oriented Religion on the Periphery of Modern SocietyIII. The Anthropological Condition of ReligionIV. The Social Forms of ReligionV. Individual ReligiosityVI. Religion and Personal Identity in Modern SocietyVII. Modern Religious ThemesPostscript
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Class and Conflict in an Industrial Society
Book SynopsisOriginally published in England in 1959, this book evolves a new theory of conflict in industrial society. By way of illustrating and testing this theory, the book provides detailed analyses of various social phenomena. Trade Review‘Mr. Dahrendorf is concerned with large and truly important questions, and he has an impressive command of the literature of his subject.’ Political Quarterly‘Professor Dahrendorf has, with dazzling erudition, examined the principal attitudes to questions of class from Marx to Shelsky, Weber to Riesman and, mostly found them wanting.’ W. John Morgan, New Statesman‘One of the most provocative contributions to social theory that has appeared in recent years. No sociologist concerned with ongoing social theory can afford to ignore this book.’ American Journal of Sociology. Table of ContentsPart 1: The Marxian Doctrine in the Light of Historical Changes and Sociological Insights 1. Karl Marx’s Model of the Class Society 2. Changes in the Structure of Industrial Societies Since Marx 3. Some Recent Theories of Class Conflict in Modern Societies 4. A Sociological Critique of Marx Part 2: Towards A Sociological Theory of Conflict in Industrial Society 5. Social Structure, Group Interests and Conflict Groups 6. Conflict Groups, Group Conflicts, and Social Change 7. Classes in Post-Capitalist Society (I): Industrial Conflict 8. Classes in Post-Capitalist Society (II): Political Conflict.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Recontextualising and Recontesting Bourdieu in
Book SynopsisFor more than 40 years, researchers have explored the utility of Bourdieu's sociology for settings beyond the French and Algerian contexts of its origin. This edited collection has a focus on China, applying Bourdieu's analysis of practice as Chinese education gains relevance and attention around the globe. Grounded in empirical research, Recontextualising and Recontesting Bourdieu in Chinese Education advances Bourdieu's analysis of practice beyond national scales while producing new knowledge about the generation of habitus, mobilities, and languages in relation to Chinese education. Locating Chinese education within national and transnational contexts, this collection grapples with the structural invariances and inequivalences between Chinese education and society on the one hand, and social spaces in other parts of the world on the other hand. Through chapters that examine social mobility in the context of cross-border movement and delve into questions of laTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Bourdieu and Chinese education: Recontextualising and recontesting sociological traditions Part 1: On class and habitus 2. Social reproduction or social experiment? Understanding the idiosyncrasy and hybridity of habitus in Chinese education 3. Parental engagement in children’s transition to school: A Bourdieusian analysis of a Chinese sample in Beijing 4. The relevance and dissonances of ‘class’ in China: An imaginative dialogue with Bourdieu and Bourdieusian studies Part 2: On mobility and migration 5. Raising children for future mobilities: A Bourdieusian case study of Shanghai-Chinese middle-class parental strategies 6. A comparative analysis of Teach for China and the Special Post Teacher Plan: Cross-field capital, orchestrated habitus, and transverse movements 7. ‘Localised’ field strategies and diversities in educational policy enactment: Towards multi-level/directional cross-field analysis Part 3: On language and postmonolingual theorising 8. Family language policies in China: A Bourdieusian re-framing and review of research 9. Postmonolingual curriculum theorising, crisis communications and language(s) education: Learning from Bourdieu’s method of thinking Conclusion 10. Researching Chinese education from within and afar: Enacting Bourdieu’s ‘practical reflexivity’
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Taylor & Francis Jurisprudence and SocioLegal Studies
Book SynopsisThis book presents a set of related studies aimed at showing key points of intersection and common interest between jurisprudence and socio-legal studies, which are otherwise typically considered distinct fields. It reflects and draws on the author's work in these areas over more than four decades.The first half of the book explores theoretical issues surrounding the enterprise of socio-legal research, its current scope, and its historical traditions. Some chapters directly compare juristic theory and socio-legal inquiry. Chapters in Part II profile a selection of European jurists whose work offers important insights for socio-legal inquiry. Other chapters frame these studies, explore the history of interactions between jurisprudence and socio-legal research, and show points of convergence between these fields that are increasingly important today. A main aim of the book is to show the current urgency of linking and broadening juristic and social scientific interests in law.<
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Taylor & Francis Marxs Theory of Value at the Frontiers
Book SynopsisWhy do humans produce the things they do, in the way they do it? As this book shows, the classical political economics approach to value and prices has fundamental implications for analyzing the historical trajectory of capitalism.It demonstrates that the classical political economistsâ approach to value and prices, which finds its most advanced formulation in Marx, sheds light on the source of profits, exploitation, whether equivalents are exchanged in trade, dynamics of asymmetric and uneven accumulation, and the relationship of production to non-human natures at large. Understanding these phenomena is key to understanding the economic regularities underlying the key issues facing the world in the 21st century: imperialism and ecological breakdown. It argues powerfully that deviations between market prices, production prices, and labor values are central to understanding international value transfers due to differential capital compositions and rates of exploitation, as well as the central role of rent and accumulation in capitalism-induced ecological crisis.The book is structured to provide an understandable introduction to the classical approach to value and prices, and its modern expression in empirical applications making it of great interest to readers in Economics, Political Economy, Politics and Sociology.
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Taylor & Francis Deviance and Control
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Labour and Politics in Nigeria
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