Social theory Books

Book SynopsisWhat is knowledge, and ignorance? How is it decided? Do power and power relations influence this process? Does the spread of knowledge lead to more ignorance? Is ignorance socially produced? Is knowledge always socially contextualized? This book deals with these important questions on the interplay of knowledge, ignorance and power located in varied contexts in India.As systematic knowledge grows, so does the possibility of ignorance. Ignorance is a state which people attribute to others and is loaded with moral judgment. Thus, being underdeveloped often implies a kind of stupidity or failure'. This volume seeks to be premised in a framework where ignorance is understood as being a socially produced and maintained phenomenon, where the ways of knowing and not knowing are interdependent. It is a novel attempt for an academic re-orientation of the KnowledgeIgnorance paradigm through a process of re-interpretation of the bounded purview attached with the existing epistemological

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Book SynopsisRecent debate about the ethical and regulatory dimensions of developments in genetics has sidelined societal and cultural aspects, which arguably are indispensable for a nuanced understanding of the complexities of the topic. Regulatory and ethical debates benefit from taking seriously this 'third dimension' of culture, which often determines the configurations and limits of the space within which scientific, ethical and legal debate can take place. To fill this gap, this volume brings together contributions exploring the mutual relationships between genetics, markets, societies and identities in genetics and genomics. It draws upon the recent transdisciplinary debate on how socio-cultural factors influence understandings of 'genetics2.0'' and shows how individual and collective identities are challenged or reinforced by cultural meanings and practices of genetics. This book will become a standard reference for everyone seeking to make sense of the controversies and shifts in the fieTrade Review’This is a timely and important publication that fills a gap in research and teaching. The editors have done a great job putting together a range of thoughtful analyses on the ethical, social and personal challenges that follow when genetics leaves the lab and the headlines and becomes an everyday issue for ordinary people. I will be happy to recommend this book to my students.’ Lene Koch, University of Copenhagen, Denmark ’As technology produces an unprecedented level of genetic information, this book successfully analyses the changing social and ethical implications and challenges for individuals and societies. This is a clear and essential reference for both academics and lay readers that explores the dramatic present and future impact of genetics from a social, political and scientific perspective.’ Tim Spector, King’s College London, UKTable of ContentsChapter 1 Geneticising Life: A Collective Endeavour and its Challenges, Barbara Prainsack, Silke Schicktanz, Gabriele Werner-Felmayer; Part I Creating Identities; Chapter 2 Will Personal Genomic Information Transform One’s Self?, Jennifer R. Fishman, Michelle L. McGowan; Chapter 3 The Changing Self: Philosophical Concepts of Self and Personal Identity in a Post-clinical Age of Genetics, Josef Quitterer; Chapter 4 1An earlier version of this chapter appeared in Race and the Genetic Revolution, edited by S. Krimsky and K.Sloan. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010., Troy Duster; Chapter 5 Other Stories: Artistic Explorations of Genealogy and Identity, Priska Gisler, Mo Diener, Luzia Hürzeler; Part II Sharing Knowledge; Chapter 6 1Portions of this essay were originally published in Czas Kultury (6, 2010)., Paul Vanouse; Chapter 7 Consequences of Sequences, Codes and Messages:, Gabriele Werner-Felmayer; Chapter 8 The Ethics of Patenting in Genetics: A Second Enclosure of the Commons?, Sigrid Sterckx, Julian Cockbain; Part III Part Icipating in the Social Laboratory; Chapter 9 Understanding Part Icipation: The ‘Citizen Science’ of Genetics, Barbara Prainsack; Chapter 10 LabouringMe, LabouringUs, Gisli Palsson; Chapter 11 Making Responsible Life Plans: Cultural Differences in Lay Attitudes toward Predictive Genetic Testing for Late-Onset Diseases, Aviad E. Raz, Nitzan Rimon-Zarfaty, Julia Inthorn, Silke Schicktanz; Chapter 12 Genetic Responsibility Revisited: Moral and Cultural Implications of Genetic Prediction of Alzheimer’s Disease, Silke Schicktanz, Friederike Kogel;

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Book SynopsisConcern and hostility towards populism has become a distinctive feature of contemporary political culture. In Europe such concerns are frequently directed at Eurosceptics, whose opposition to the European Union is often portrayed as a cultural crime. Ancient anti-democratic claims about the gullibility, ignorance and irrationality of the masses are frequently recycled through the anti-populist condemnation of people who vote the wrong way.This book argues that the current outburst of anti-populist anxiety is symptomatic of a loss of faith in democracy and in the ability of the demos to assume the role of responsible citizens. Distrust of the people and of parliamentary sovereignty is reinforced by the concern that, on its own, liberal democracy lacks the normative foundation to inspire the loyalty and affection of ordinary citizens. Through focusing on the conflict between the European Unionâs Commission and the Government of Hungary, this book explores contrasting attitudes towards national sovereignty, popular sovereignty and the question of tradition and the past as the main drivers of the culture war in Europe.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. Who Decides Europe’s Values? 2. Why Hide Our Shared Values? The Problem of Tradition 3. National Consciousness vs Denationalized Identity 4. Memory Wars or the Crusade Against the Past 5. Anti-Populism and the Crisis of Valuation Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe thoroughly revised and updated second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Cultural Sociology provides an unparalleled overview of sociological and related scholarship on the complex relations of culture to social structures and everyday life. With 70 essays written by scholars from around the world, the book brings diverse approaches into dialogue, charting new pathways for understanding culture in our global era.Short, accessible chapters by contributing authors address classic questions, emergent issues, and new scholarship on topics ranging from cultural and social theory to politics and the state, social stratification, identity, community, aesthetics, and social and cultural movements. In addition, contributors explore developments central to the constitution and reproduction of culture, such as power, technology, and the organization of work.This handbook is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in a wide range of suTable of ContentsIntroduction: culture, lifeworlds, and globalization (Laura Grindstaff, Ming-Cheng M. Lo, and John R. Hall)Part I: Sociological programs of cultural analysis1. The Strong Program in cultural sociology: meaning first (Jeffrey C. Alexander and Philip Smith)2. Culture studies and the culture complex (Tony Bennett)3. Sociologies of culture and cultural studies: reflections on inceptions and futures (Jon Cruz)4. Lost in translation: feminist cultural/media studies in the new millennium (Suzanna Danuta Walters)5. The cultural turn: language, globalization, and media (Mark Poster)6. Cultures of colonialism (Nicholas Wilson and Lucas Azambuja)7. Critique and possibility in cultural sociology (Nancy Weiss Hanrahan and Sarah S. Amsler)Part II: The place of culture in sociological analysis8. What is the relative autonomy of culture? (Jeffrey K. Olick)9. Formal models of culture (John W. Mohr and Craig M. Rawlings)10. Three propositions toward a cultural sociology of climate change (Zeke Baker)11. The sociological experience of cultural objects (Robin Wagner-Pacifici)12. It goes without saying: imagination, inarticulacy, and materiality in political culture (Chandra Mukerji)13. The mechanisms of cultural reproduction: explaining the puzzle of persistence (Orlando Patterson)Part III: Aesthetics, ethics, and cultural legitimacy14. Cultural traumas (Giuseppe Sciortino)15, Modern and postmodern (Peter Beilharz)16. Social aesthetics (Ben Highmore)17. From subtraction to multiplicity: new sociological narrative

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Book SynopsisIn The Global Left: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, Immanuel Wallerstein takes stock of the practices of the left, historically in the time of its great ideals and today in the midst of the global crisis of capitalism. He underlines the urgency of seeing the emergence of a global and united left that can pave the way out of the centuries-old domination of capital, considering antisystemic movements, dilemmas of the left in relation to the structural crisis of the modern world-system, and tactics and strategies for political action. The book includes new essays by Étienne Balibar, James K. Galbraith, Johan Galtung, Nilüfer Göle, Pablo González Casanova, and Michel Wieviorka in conversation with Wallerstein's core ideas.Table of ContentsForewordPart I: The Global Left: Past, Present, and Future1. Capitalism and Antisystemic Movements: 1789–19682. Structural Crisis of the Modern World-System: Dilemmas of the Left3. Bifurcation and Collective Choice: Tactics of the TransitionPart II: Appreciations/Critiques4. Bifurcation in the "End" of Capitalism5. The Left: Its Immediate Future6. The Global Left: A Comment7. Immanuel Wallerstein on the Global Left and Right8. The Global and the Left: Possible Encounters?9. The Hypothesis of Decline10. Response to Appreciations/Critiques

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Book SynopsisThis volume addresses the pluralistic identity of the legal order. It argues that the mutual reflexivity of the different ways society perceives law and law perceives society eclipses the unique formal identity of written law. It advances a distinctive approach to the plural ways in which legal cultures work in a modern society, through the metaphor of the mirror. As a mirror of society, it distinguishes between the structure and function of legal culture within the legal system, and the external representation of law in society. This duality is further problematized in relation to the increasing transnationalisation of law. Based on a multi-level interpretation of the concept of legal culture, the work is divided into three parts: the first addresses the mutual reflections of social and legal norms that support a pluralist representation of internal legal cultures, the second concentrates on the external legal cultures that constantly enable pragmatic adjustments of the legaTable of ContentsIntroduction; PART I TOWARDS A REFLEXIVE LEGAL CULTURE; 1. The Normative Anatomy of Society; 2. A Typology of Legal Cultures; 3. Pluripoiesis of Law and the Kaleidoscope of Legal Cultures; 4. Towards a Global Legal Culture? Spaces of Law in the Transnational Constellation; 5. Competing Mirrors. Law’s Blind Spots in Philosophical and Social-Scientific Review; PART II ON THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL FUNCTIONING OF LEGAL SYSTEMS; 6. Normative Force and Political Intelligence; 7. Balancing Legal Principles and Legal Topics; 8. Questionable Neutrality. Personal Values in Judicial Adjudication; 9. The Leaking Law; 10. The Postmodern Administrative Law; APPENDIX; 11. The Sociological Observation of the Theory and Practice of Law; 12. Some Problems with Reflexive Law;

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Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1994 The Politics of the Welfare State looks at how the privatization and marketization of education, health and welfare services in the past decade have produced a concept of welfare that is markedly different from that envisaged when the welfare state was initially created. Issues of class, gender and ethnicity are explored in chapters that are wide ranging but closely linked. The contributors are renowned academics and policy-makers, including feminist and welfare historians, highly regarded figures in social policy, influential critics of recent educational reforms and key analysts of current reform in the health sector. Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction 1. Interpretations of Welfare and Approaches to the State 1870-1920 2. Lessons from the Past: The Rise and Fall of the Classic Welfare State in Britain, 1945-76 3. Conservatives and Consensus: The Politics of the National Health Service, 1951-64 4. Local Voices in the National Health Service: Needs Effectiveness and Sufficiency 5. Priority Setting for Health Gain 6. Obstacles to Medical Audit: British Doctors Speak 7. Choice, Needs and Enabling: The New Community Care 8. Making Sense of the New Politics of Education 9. The Relationship Between Research and Policy: The Case of Unemployment and Health Index

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Book SynopsisNiklas Luhmann is recognised as a major social theorist, and his treatise on the sociology of law is a classic text. For Luhmann, law provides the framework of the state, lawyers are the main human resourced for the state, and legal theory provides the most suitable base from which to theorize on the nature of society. He explores the concept of law in the light of a general theory of social systems, showing the important part law plays in resolving fundamental problems a society may face. He then goes on to discuss in detail how modern ''positive'' as opposed to natural' law comes to fulfil this function. The work as a whole is not only a contribution to legal sociology, but a major work in social theory. With a revised translation, and a new introduction by Martin Albrow. Table of ContentsEditor's Introduction to this translation; Editor's Preface to the first translation; Author's Preface; Introduction; 1. Classical beginnings of the sociology of law; 2. The Development of Law: foundation of a sociological theory; 3. Law as structure of society; 4. Positive law; 5. Social change through positive law; Conclusion: Questions for legal theory (first edition); Conclusion: Legal system and legal theory (second edition)

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Book SynopsisA sense of participation and opportunities to share and participate in activities or groups that are important to them are crucial factors in human wellbeing. This book provides a robust empirical and theoretical analysis of reciprocity and its implications for social work and social policy practices by discussing how ideas of reciprocity can be understood and applied to welfare policy and social care practices, as well as how the act of reciprocity supports the wellbeing of citizens. Contributions from Finland, Germany, Russia, the UK, the USA and Canada illuminate the ways in which socio-political contexts influence the power relations between citizens, practitioners and the state, and the potential (or otherwise) for reciprocity to flourish.It will be essential reading for social care practitioners, researchers and educationalists as well as postgraduate students in social work and related social care and community-oriented professions and social policy makers.Table of ContentsLists of figures and tables; List of contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION; PART I. RECIPROCITY: THEORETICAL CONCEPTUALISATIONS; Chapter 1: Reciprocity and Wellbeing (Antti Karisto); Chapter 2: Creating Wellbeing through Reciprocal Relationships (Maritta Törrönen); Chapter 3: Reciprocity and Normativity in Social Work: A Complex Relationship based on the Capability Approach (Bernhard Babic); PART II. RECIPROCITY: PRACTICE AND COMMUNITY SETTINGS; Chapter 4: Reciprocity in Peer-Led Mutual Aid Groups in the Community: Implications for Social Policy and Social Work Practices (Carol Munn-Giddings and Thomasina Borkman); Chapter 5: Revisions to Client and Professional Self-Categorisations during Reciprocal Support Groups among the Long-Term Unemployed in Finland (Laura Tarkiainen); Chapter 6: Risk and Reciprocity in Residential Care: Some Problems with a Universal Norm (Claire Cameron); Chapter 7: Reciprocity and Relationship-Based Approach in Child Welfare (Riitta Vornanen and Pirjo Pölkki); PART III. RECIPROCITY: METHODOLOGICAL AND EDUCATIONAL ISSUES; Chapter 8: Reciprocity with Graduate Students Fostered through Creativity (Tuula Heinonen); Chapter 9: Narrative Reflection as a Reciprocal Method (Eveliina Heino and Minna Veistilä); Chapter 10: Negotiating the Research Space between Young People and Adults in a PAR Study Exploring School Bullying (Niamh O´Brien, Tina Moules and Carol Munn-Giddings); RECIPROCAL SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL POLICY: CONCLUSIONS

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Book SynopsisThe Nexus of Practices: connections, constellations, practitioners brings leading theorists of practice together to provide a fresh set of theoretical impulses for the surge of practice-focused studies currently sweeping across the social disciplines. The book addresses key issues facing practice theory, expands practice theory's conceptual repertoire, and explores new empirical terrain. With each intellectual move, it generates further opportunities for social research. More specifically, the book's chapters offer new approaches to analysing connections within the nexus of practices, to exploring the dynamics and implications of the constellations that practices form, and to understanding people as practitioners that carry on practices. Topics examined include social change, language, power, affect, reflection, large social phenomena, and connectivity over time and space. Contributors thereby counter claims that practice theory cannot handle large phenomena and that it ignTrade Review"This dazzling volume demonstrates the power of rich diversity among practice theories and theorists. It has started a conversation that will engender a new generation of practice-based studies and reshape the field, as researchers respond to the book’s empirical and theoretical challenges. Essential reading." Professor Emeritus Stephen Kemmis, Charles Sturt University, AustraliaTable of ContentsIntroduction, (Allison Hui, Theodore Schatzki and Elizabeth Shove)1. Learning in and Across Practices: Enablement as Subjectivation, (Thomas Alkemeyer and Nikolaus Buschmann)2. Qualities of Connective Tissue in Hospital Life: How Complexes of Practices Change, (Stanley Blue and Nicola Spurling)3. Sociomateriality in Posthuman Practice Theory, (Silvia Gherardi)4. Variation and the Intersection of Practices, (Allison Hui)5. Epigenetics, Theories of Social Practice and Lifestyle Disease, (Cecily Maller)6. Technologies Within and Beyond Practices, (Janine Morley)7. Is Small the Only Beautiful? Making Sense of ‘Large Phenomena’ From a Practice-Based Perspective, (Davide Nicolini)8. Practices and their Affects, (Andreas Reckwitz)9. Sayings, Texts and Discursive Formations, (Theodore Schatzki)10. Reflexive Knowledge in Practices, (Robert Schmidt)11. Matters of Practice, (Elizabeth Shove)12. Placing Power in Practice Theory, (Matt Watson)13. How Should We Understand ‘General Understandings’?, (Daniel Welch and Alan Warde)References

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Book SynopsisThis collection aims to bring together writings that trace and critically analyse Islamic aspects of many modern-day popular cultural practices and products. The concepts of ''Islam'' and ''popular culture'' are both contested and context-dependent, and as such, they are understood here on inclusive, rather than exclusive, terms. Islam and Popular Culture provides an authoritative reference work that makes sense of a vast and growing literature, and is an essential resource for advanced students, scholars and researchers interested in gaining a thorough understanding of this topic.   

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Book SynopsisThe Class Struggle in Latin America: Making History Today analyses the political and economic dynamics of development in Latin America through the lens of class struggle. Focusing in particular on Peru, Paraguay, Chile, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela, the book identifies how the shifts and changing dynamics of the class struggle have impacted on the rise, demise and resurgence of neo-liberal regimes in Latin America. This innovative book offers a unique perspective on the evolving dynamics of class struggle, engaging both the destructive forces of capitalist development and those seeking to consolidate the system and preserve the status quo, alongside the efforts of popular resistance concerned with the destructive ravages of capitalism on humankind, society and the global environment.Using theoretical observations based on empirical and historical case studies, this book argues that the class struggle remains intrinsically linked to the march of caTrade Review"This is a very important book. Without economic reductionism Petras and Veltmeyer expose the astonishing level of greed, exploitation and inequality, associated with the world capitalist system. They also provide a sharp and much-needed class analysis of the contradictions of both capitalism and imperialism, and the propensity towards crisis that has assumed global proportions and undermined the foundations of the system as well as generating powerful forces of resistance and class warfare." – John Saxe-Fernandez, Professor of Latin American Studies, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; author of inter alia, Crisis e imperialismo, La energía en México. Situación y alternativas, Economic Imperialism in Mexico: The Operations of the World Bank in our Country."The particular value of this timely book is that it provides a critical perspective on the destructive impacts of a world capitalist system in crisis. It not only addresses the worldwide dynamics of capitalist development, but also the forces of resistance generated by these dynamics as well as proposals for alternative futures advanced within both the popular sector and academe. It is an analytical tool of vital interest to both academic researchers and students within the broad field of international development studies, political economy and sociology." – Richard L Harris, Professor Emeritus of Global Studies at California State University, Monterey Bay. Managing Editor, Journal of Developing Societies and Director of the Transpacific Project."This timely book superbly analyzes in class terms US interventionism, the faltering of Latin America's progressive reforms, right-wing comebacks for neoliberalism in Brazil, Argentina, and elsewhere, and the combined anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist class struggle in Venezuela. Theoretically and politically acute, it is a must acquisition for libraries, journalists, academics, and activists." — James Cockcroft, Honorary Editor Latin American Perspectives, USA"This book is a lively, engaging and lucid analysis of the diverse practices of the class struggles taking place in multiple sites by indigenous peoples, unemployed workers, landless peasants, local communities and students. It powerfully illuminates the demise of the ‘pink tide’ as well as the rise of, and turn to, the right; always persuasively stressing the centrality of class struggle. Required reading for those wishing to gain an understanding of the class forces shaping contemporary Latin America." — Cristóbal Kay, Emeritus Professor of the International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam; and Professorial Research Associate of the Department of Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.‘In this stimulating book James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer analyse recent social transformations in Latin America. They highlight how despite continual elite opposition, the region’s poor attempt and succeed in generating progressive social change. The authors argue, moreover, that struggles from below have the capacity to generate further and more profound transformations in the future. This book will be of great value to anyone interested in contemporary Latin America.’ — Professor Benjamin Selwyn, University of Sussex, UKTable of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1 Class Struggle Back on the AgendaChapter 2 Extractivism and Resistance: A New EraChapter 3 Accumulation by Dispossession — and the ResistanceChapter 4 The Progressive Cycle in Latin American PoliticsChapter 5 Argentina: The Return of the Rightwith Mario HernándezChapter 6 Brazil: Class Struggle in the CountrysideJoão Márcio Mendes Pereira and Paulo AlentejanoChapter 7 Democracy Without the Workers: 25 years of the Labour Movement and Mature Neoliberalism in ChileSebastián Osorio and Franck GaudichaudChapter 8 Mexico: Dynamics of a Class WarChapter 9 Paraguay: Class Struggle on the Extractive Frontier Arturo Ezquerro-CañeteChapter 10 Peru: The Return of the Class Struggle from Below Jan LustChapter 11 Venezuela: In the Eye of the StormChapter 12 The Return of the Right Conclusion

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Book SynopsisPsychology and the Conduct of Everyday Life moves psychological theory and research practice out of the laboratory and into the everyday world. Drawing on recent developments across the social and human sciences, it examines how people live as active subjects within the contexts of their everyday lives, using this as an analytical basis for understanding the dilemmas and contradictions people face in contemporary society. Early chapters gather the latest empirical research to explore the significance of context as a cross-disciplinary critical tool; they include a study of homeless Maori men reaffirming their cultural identity via gardening, and a look at how the dilemmas faced by children in difficult situations can provide insights into social conflict at school. Later chapters examine the interplay between everyday life around the world and contemporary global phenomena such as the rise of the debt economy, the hegemony of the labor market, and the incTrade Review"This book addresses key and missing questions at the cutting edge of psychological research and social theory. It presents a generative theoretical and methodological approach to the study of everyday practice – relevant and inspiring not only for psychologists, but for scholars across the social sciences." – Jean Lave, Professor Emerita, University of California, Berkeley, USA"Schraube and Højholt have done psychologists a great service; we can now move out of the laboratory and into the actual contexts where people conduct their everyday lives together. This impressive book provides us with theoretical, methodological, and empirical ideas about what a psychology that is relevant to human life might look like. I recommend it to all students, researchers, and practitioners of the discipline."– Svend Brinkmann, Professor of Psychology, University of Aalborg, Denmark"This is a remarkable and fascinating collection, putting in place a radical new way for psychology to relate to people. For a sociologist committed to starting with and remaining with people's everyday lives, it is wonderful to discover a psychology that takes the same route. We can be friends, we can learn from one another, and here’s a book that gives us a place to start. It provides a conceptual framework, applications to psychological practice, approaches to and examples of research, and it all adds up to an important innovation." – Dorothy Smith, Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto, Canada"Each chapter is a thought-provoking, intellectual adventure that serves as a fresh perspective within psychological theorizing and research. Challenging mainstream conceptualizations and providing examples of alternative ways to conduct research, this book is a must read for academics interested in the conduct of everyday life." --I. I. Katzarska-Miller, Transylvania University, CHOICE"This book addresses key and missing questions at the cutting edge of psychological research and social theory. It presents a generative theoretical and methodological approach to the study of everyday practice – relevant and inspiring not only for psychologists, but for scholars across the social sciences." – Jean Lave, Professor Emerita, University of California, Berkeley, USA"Schraube and Højholt have done psychologists a great service; we can now move out of the laboratory and into the actual contexts where people conduct their everyday lives together. This impressive book provides us with theoretical, methodological, and empirical ideas about what a psychology that is relevant to human life might look like. I recommend it to all students, researchers, and practitioners of the discipline."– Svend Brinkmann, Professor of Psychology, University of Aalborg, Denmark"This is a remarkable and fascinating collection, putting in place a radical new way for psychology to relate to people. For a sociologist committed to starting with and remaining with people's everyday lives, it is wonderful to discover a psychology that takes the same route. We can be friends, we can learn from one another, and here’s a book that gives us a place to start. It provides a conceptual framework, applications to psychological practice, approaches to and examples of research, and it all adds up to an important innovation." – Dorothy Smith, Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto, CanadaTable of Contents1. Introduction - Towards a Psychology of Everyday Living Charlotte Højholt & Ernst Schraube 2. Conduct of Everyday Life: Implications for Critical Psychology Ole Dreier 3. Conduct of Everyday Life in Subject-Oriented Sociology: Concept and Empirical Research Karin Jurczyk, Günter G. Voß & Margit Weihrich 4. Conduct of Everyday Life as a Basic Concept of Critical Psychology Klaus Holzkamp 5. The Maze and the Labyrinth: Walking, Imagining and the Education of Attention Tim Ingold 6. Embodying the Conduct of Everyday Life: From Subjective Reasons to Privilege Thomas Teo 7. The Ordinary in the Extra-Ordinary: Everyday Living Textured by Homelessness Darrin Hodgetts, Mohi Rua, Pita King & Tiniwai Te Whetu 8. Situated Inequality and the Conflictuality of Children’s Conduct of Life Charlotte Højholt 9. "There is No Right Life in the Wrong One": Recognizing this Dilemma is the First Step Out of It Ute Osterkamp 10. Everyday Life in the Shadow of the Debt Economy C. George Caffentzis 11. From Crisis to Commons: Reproductive Work, Affective Labor, and Technology in the Transformation of Everyday Life Silvia Federici 12. Frozen Fluidity: Digital Technologies and the Transformation of Students Learning and Conduct of Everyday Life Ernst Schraube & Athanasios Marvakis 13. The Politics of Hope: Memory-Work as a Method to Study the Conduct of Everyday Life Frigga Haug 14. Collaborative Research with Children: Exploring Contradictory Conditions of the Conduct of Everyday Life Dorte Kousholt

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A comprehensive one-stop reference text, The Routledge Companion to Criminological Theory and Concepts (the Companion') will find a place on every bookshelf, whether it be that of a budding scholar or a seasoned academic. Comprising over a hundred concise and authoritative essays written by leading scholars in the field, this volume explains in a clear and inviting way the emergence, context, evolution and current status of key criminological theories and conceptual themes.The Companion is divided into six historical and thematic parts, each introduced by the editors and containing a selection of accessible and engaging short essays written specifically for this text: Foundations of criminological thought and contemporary revitalizations The emergence and growth of American criminology From appreciation to critique Late critical criminologies and new directions Punishment and security

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Book SynopsisEvolution, Order and Complexity reflects topical interest in the relationship between the social and natural worlds. It represents the cutting edge of current thinking which challenges the natural/social dichotomy thesis by showing how the application of ideas which derive from biology can be applied and offer insight into the social realm. This is done by introducing the general system theory to the methodological debate on the relation of human and natural sciences.

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Book SynopsisNon-manual workers are fast becoming the largest occupational category in Western capitalist countries. This is the first book to present a detailed socialist analysis of this much discussed change in the class structure of contemporary capitalism.Focusing on the class position of managerial and supervisory workers, Robert Carter takes as his starting-point the inadequacy of both orthodox Marxist and Weberian models of class relations. Rather, he concurs with recent structuralist theorists of class who maintain that there exists between capital and labour in the process of producing a new middle class. He parts company from the work of these theorists, however, in his insistence that the organisation and consciousness of the new middle class have also to be examined because of the practical consequences these have on class relations.The book therefore examines the historical rise of the middle class, both in the private and the state sector, together withTable of Contents1. Sociology, Marxism and the Class Structure of Capitalist Societies 2. Marx, Marxism and the New Middle Class 3. Monopoly Capitalism and the Rise of the New Middle Class 4. The State and the New Middle Class 5. The Theory of Middle-Class Trade Unionism 6. The Practice of Middle-Class Unionism 7. Conclusion: The Politics of the New Middle Class

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Book SynopsisIn an interview with GÃnther Gaus for German television in 1964, Hannah Arendt insisted that she was not a philosopher but a political theorist. Disillusioned by the cooperation of German intellectuals with the Nazis, she said farewell to philosophy when she fled the country. This book examines Arendt''s ideas about thinking, acting and political responsibility, investigating the relationship between the life of the mind and the life of action that preoccupied Arendt throughout her life. By joining in the conversation between Arendt and Gaus, each contributor probes her ideas about thinking and judging and their relation to responsibility, power and violence. An insightful and intelligent treatment of the work of Hannah Arendt, this volume will appeal to a wide number of fields beyond political theory and philosophy, including law, literary studies, social anthropology and cultural history.Trade Review'When German television viewers tuned in to Günter Gaus's interview with Hannah Arendt in 1964, they got a glimpse of the vibrant animation of her political thought. The eleven essays in this book, inspired by scenes from that interview, bring Arendt's thought to life for us. They give us a vivid feeling for the contexts, intellectual and political, that mattered to Arendt; and they show us how, even as she rejected the subordination of politics to philosophy, Arendt made thinking matter to politics. A valuable collection, rich in insights not only about Arendt but about the enterprise of political theory.' Patchen Markell, The University of Chicago, USATable of ContentsContents: Introduction: in conversation with Hannah Arendt, Danielle Celermajer, Andrew Schaap and Vrasidas Karalis; Part I Thinking, Judging and Responsibility: Hannah Arendt's philosophy of plurality: thinking and understanding and Eichmann in Jerusalem, Michael Mack; Thinking from underground, Max Deutscher; Arendt on responsibility, sensibility and democratic pluralism, Rosalyn Diprose; The ethics of friendship, Danielle Celermajer; The judgment of the statesperson, Marguerite La Caze; Thinking, conscience and acting in times of crises, Paul Formosa. Part II Conversation and Context: The pathos and promise of counter-history: Hannah Arendt and Ernst Cassirer's German-Jewish historical consciousness, Ned Curthoys; Truth, politics and democracy: Arendt, Orwell and Camus, Jeff Malpas; Power and paradox: Hannah Arendt's America, Peter Murphy; The politics of need, Andrew Schaap; Confronting violence and power: notes on Hannah Arendt's humanism (an investigation into discursive sources), Vrasidas Karalis; Index.

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Book SynopsisSocial Constructionist Theory has become a transcendent perspective appearing in a variety of disciplines from sociology, psychology and psychotherapy, to geography, political science and post-modernism. It integrates the symbolic interactionist tradition of social psychology with the labeling theory from the sociology of deviance, and with sociological phenomenology, to provide insight into the ways social interaction becomes objective social reality, constitutive of social institutions and culminating in social structure. When applied to crime and justice, as in this volume, the theoretical penetration of mundane activities allow us to see how crime, justice and penalty emerge as anchoring concepts, while also showing the arbitrary nature of these social formations that have such an important impact on everyday people's lives. The volume is organized to examine: the classical roots of constructionist theory in the work of Alfred Schutz and popularized by Berger and Luckmann; its applTable of ContentsContents: Introduction. Theoretical Overview: Social construction of crime, Stuart Henry. Part I Social Constructionism, Criminology and Criminal Justice: Theoretical Roots: Alfred Schutz: Phenomenology and contemporary sociological theory: the contribution of Alfred Schutz, Helmut R. Wagner; Alfred Schutz's influence on American sociologists and sociology, George Psathas; Constructing Social Problems: Social problems: a re-formulation, Malcolm Spector and John I. Kitsuse; Social problems theory: the constructionist view, Joseph W. Schneider; Constructing Crime: The Media’s Role in Defining Crime: Media constructions of crime, Vincent F. Sacco; The media’s role in the definition of crime, Ray Surette and Charles Otto; Constructing Crime: Moral Panics: ’The Ice Age’: the social construction of a drug panic, Philip Jenkins; Another look at moral panics: the case of satanic day care centers, Mary DeYoung; Beyond folk devil resistance: linking moral panic and moral regulation, Sean P. Hier, Dan Lett, Kevin Walby and André Smith; Constructing Criminal Justice: The social construction of crime and crime control, Nicole Hahn Rafter; Inventing criminal justice: myth and social construction, Victor E. Kappeler; The Columbine effect and school antiviolence policy, Glenn W. Muschert and Anthony A. Peguero. Part II Social Constructionist Related Theories: Symbolic Interactionism and Labeling Theory: Notes on the sociology of deviance, Kai T. Erikson; Crime as social interaction, Leroy C. Gould, Gary Kleck and Marc Gertz; The labelling perspective forty years on, Ken Plummer; Ethnomethodology: Conditions of successful degradation ceremonies, Harold Garfinkel; Ethnomethodology and criminology: the social production of crime and the criminal, Stephen J. Pfohl; Ethnomethodological perspective (on crime and deviance), Robert O. Keel; Phenomenology, Postmodernism and Constitutive Criminology: Phenomenology, postmodernism, and philosophical criminology: a conversational criti

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Book SynopsisThe Orient was central to the work of Marx and Weber, both figures building their theories around the question of why modernity appeared to emerge only in the West. While Marx's account focused on the accumulation of capital in the West, Weber's explanation for this phenomenon centred on Western rationalization. Extending recent work comparing the social theories of Marx and Weber, this book examines their approaches to Oriental societies, showing how, in spite of the differences in their respective theorizations of the historical and political development of the West, their work on the form of modern society in the Orient converges, each complementing the other. Fully conversant with recent scholarly work on Marx and Weber, this comprehensive re-examination of the points of convergence and departure in their work requires us to re-evaluate both their positions in the history of sociology and their relevance to contemporary social questions. As such, it will appeal to scholars of soTrade Review’Sociology remains Orientalistic in that the knowing subjects continue to be the authors of the canonical works of Western social science such as Marx and Weber. Re-examining their writings and locating them in their proper place in the history of sociology, this is an important contribution to rescuing social theory from potential irrelevance by separating out what is sound and valuable from what is Orientalistic.’ Syed Farid Alatas, National University of Singapore, Singapore ’Lutfi Sunar reminds us of the extent to which contemporary ideas of modernity, and therefore current ideas of alternative modernities as well, are derived from the writings of Marx and Weber. Sunar’s book suggests that we urgently need to rethink the idea of modernity itself, wherever it may have occurred. Essential reading for Marx and Weber studies, as well as for anyone concerned with the history and theory of modernity.’ Robert J. Young, New York University, USA '... the book provides a thorough examination of Orientalism within the writings of Marx and Weber. ... the book also contributes to the decolonization of the discipline by forcing sociologists to re-examine widely used concepts and theories in light of their Orientalist influences.' Canadian Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsSeries Editor’s Preface; Chapter 1 Introduction; Part 1 Karl Marx and Imagining the Orient; Chapter 2 The Development of Marx’s Vision of the Orient; Chapter 3 Discussions on the Asiatic Mode of Production; Chapter 4 Marx’s Sources for Oriental Societies; Chapter 5 Marx’s Study of Oriental Societies; Chapter 6 Marx’s Oriental Mirror; Part 2 Oriental Societies in the Theory of Max Weber; Chapter 7 The Formation of Weber’s Sociology of the Orient and its Reception; Chapter 8 Weber’s Sources on Oriental Societies; Chapter 9 Same Old Differences; Chapter 10 Divergences; Chapter 11 Disengagements; Chapter 12 Weber’s Occidental Geist; Part 3 Converging Poles of Sociology; Chapter 13 A Comparison of Marx and Weber’s Analyses of Oriental Societies; Chapter 14 Epilogue;

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Book SynopsisThis book presents an overview of new approaches to the study of social movements emerging out of Latin America, based on original and innovative analyses of the recent changes in collective action across the region. Over the past decade, new repertoires of contention have emerged in parallel to changes in the configuration of actors, in previously established patterns of relationship between social movements and political institutions, and in the shapes of collaborative networks, both domestic and transnational. The authors analyze a broad set of countries and social movements, while focusing on three key theoretical debates: the interactions between routine and contentious politics, the relationship between protest and context, and the organizational configurations of social movements. The research agenda put forward by this book is neither defined nor restricted by geographical boundaries, even though the chapters are based on field research undertaken in Latin America. In doing Trade Review’This new collection blends traditions of research on social movements and contentious politics from various regions with Latin American perspectives in the Latin American context. Drawing heavily on the political process, resource mobilization, and transnational politics traditions, the authors advance our knowledge of Latin American contention in three areas: transcending the boundaries between contentious and routine politics; embedding social movements in the context of economic, political, and environmental change; and examining the new organizational repertoires that have emerged in Latin America since democratization.’ Sidney Tarrow, author of War, States and Contention ’Latin America has seen innumerable instances of political contention over centuries. However, mainstream social movement analysts from the political process school have paid fairly scant attention to that continent. This book fills this gap admirably. Far from imposing Western analytic categories over a different setting, the authors develop a fruitful dialogue between different theoretical currents. This book will appeal to both social movement analysts who do not specialize in Latin America and area experts from other intellectual perspectives. Highly recommended.’ Mario Diani, University of Trento, Italy and ICREA-UPF, Barcelona, SpainTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Theory-Building Beyond Borders, Federico M. Rossi; Part I Beyond Contentious Versus Routine Politics; Chapter 2 Conceptualizing Strategy Making in a Historical and Collective Perspective, Federico M. Rossi; Chapter 3 Part isan Performance, Ann Mische; Chapter 4 Institutional Activism, Rebecca Neaera Abers, Luciana Tatagiba; Part II The Politics and Economics of Protests; Chapter 5 The Role of Threats in Popular Mobilization in Central America, Paul D. Almeida; Chapter 6 Eventful Temporality and the Unintended Outcomes of Mexico’s Earthquake Victims Movement, Ligia Tavera Fenollosa; Part III Brokerage and Coalition Formation; Chapter 7 Institutionalized Brokers and Collective Actors, Adrian Gurza Lavalle, Marisa von Bülow; Chapter 8 Domestic Loops and Deleveraging Hooks: Transnational Social Movements and the Politics of Scale Shift, Rose J. Spalding; Part 4 CONCLUSION; Chapter 9 Weaving Social Movements Back In, Margaret E. Keck;

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Book SynopsisThe current discourse of globalization is overwhelmingly centred upon the interconnectedness, or connectivity, of the contemporary world; to the great neglect of the issues of global culture and global consciousness. With contemporary worldwide culture increasingly characterized by such themes as astronomy, cosmology, space travel and exploration, there is an increasing disjuncture between academic concern with connectivity, on the one hand, and culture and consciousness of the place of planet earth in the cosmos as a whole, on the other. This book addresses this deficiency from a variety of closely related perspectives, presenting studies of religion, science, sport, international organizations, global resistance movements and migrations and developments in East Asia. It brings together the latest theoretical empirical work from scholars in the US, UK, Australia, Japan, China and Israel on the significance of culture and global consciousness. As such, Global Culture: Consciousness andTrade Review’Robertson and Buhari-Gulmez have put together impressive analyses of the cultural dimensions of contemporary globalization, which has usually been seen in economic terms. The chapters creatively treat global homogenization as intertwined with local adaptation, often employing Robertson’s well-known concept glocalization. The book will be very useful for anyone concerned with worldwide cultural developments.’ John W. Meyer, Stanford University, USATable of ContentsIntroduction, Roland Robertson; Global culture and consciousness, Roland Robertson; Globalization and global consciousness: levels of connectivity, Paul James and Manfred B. Steger; Connectivity and consciousness: how globalities are constituted through communication flows, Barrie Axford; Globalization’s cultural consequences revisited, Robert J. Holton; Dynamics of world culture: global rationalism and problematizing norms, again, George M. Thomas; Rationalizing global consciousness: scientized education as the foundation of organization, citizenship, and personhood, Gili S. Drori; Jesuits, connectivity, and the uneven development of global consciousness since the sixteenth century, José Casanova; Glocalization and global sport, Richard Giulianotti; Global culture in motion, Peggy Levitt; China in the process of globalization: a primarily cultural perspective, Wang Ning; ‘America’ in global culture, Frank J. Lechner; Taking Japan seriously again: the cultural economy of glocalization and self-orientalization, Koji Kobayashi; Conclusion, Roland Robertson and Didem Buhari-Gulmez

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Book SynopsisThe Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315582931, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.This book is about Erving Goffman's frame analysis as it, on the one hand, was presented in his 1974 book Frame Analysis and, on the other, was actually conducted in a number of preceding substantial analyses of different aspects of social interaction such as face-work, impression management, fun in games, behavior in public places and stigmatization. There was, in other words, a frame analytic continuity in Goffman's work. In an article published after his death in 1982, Goffman also maintained that he throughout his career had been studying the same object: the interaction order. In this book, the author states that Goffman also applied an overarching perspective on social interaction: the dynamic relation between ritualization, vulnerability and working consensus. Trade Review"The way Persson takes his reader through the book is progressive and intuitive. He starts with a thorough presentation of Goffman’s sociological work, embedded in historical and social contexts. He proposes a way to understand and read Goffman’s Frame Analysis. Building on a gradual explanation, giving the reader a solid background, he demonstrates how to draw on Goffman’s analytical framework to analyze social interaction taking account of a metaperspective." - Maud Mazaniello-Chézol, Language, Discourse & SocietyTable of ContentsPreface 1. IntroductionI: Goffman and the Interaction Order2. Goffman Style – Outsider on the Inside3. The Interaction Order is in the Balance – The Dynamic Relation between Ritualisation, Vulnerability, and Working ConsensusII: Frame and Framing4. Frame Analysis and Frame Analysis5. The Development of Goffman’s Interactional and Situational Frame Concept6. Continuities and Cracks in Goffman’s Frame AnalysisIII: Framing Social Media, Online Chess, and Power7. A New Interaction Order? – Framing Interaction in Social Media8. Frame Disputes in Online Chess and Chat Interaction9. Interactional Power – Influencing Others by Framing Social InteractionIV: Conclusions10. Concluding RemarksEpilogue: Framed Boundlessness – Action and Everyday Life in Las VegasComplete Bibliography: Erving Goffman’s WritingsReferences

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Book SynopsisDefiance in the Family follows the treatment of childhood and adolescent defiance through therapy, from intake to termination. The authors take a unique view of defiance as an expression of a child's worry for a family that is not working properly and as the child's means of protecting the inner self in the face of family turmoil.Trade Review"The authors provide a refreshing perspective . . . This book can serve not only as a manual for this type of therapy, but, because it is easily readable, it can also be recommended to families undergoing this treatment." -- Psychiatry"Cutting edge, thought-provoking, yet highly practical...this volume is a must-read for clinicians working with families and adolescents snared in a web of alienation, anger and defiance." -- William Bumberry, MDTable of ContentsIntroduction; Chapter 1 Defiance in Families; Chapter 2 Parenting; Chapter 3 The Dilemma of Childhood; Chapter 4 Therapists and the Therapeutic Process; Chapter 5 Beginning the Therapeutic Project; Chapter 6 Therapeutic Jambalaya; Chapter 7 The Heart of Therapy; Chapter 8 Three-Generation Family Consultation; Chapter 9 Termination;

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Book SynopsisThe value of the book lies in its reassessment of the distinctive features of the Chicago School, of its contributions in the theoretical and methodological fields and of its influence on the growth of sociology throughout the world and in America in particular. The book pays particularly close attention to the eclectic nature of the research methods used by the Chicago sociologists as they sought to integrate subjective and objective aspects of human life. It demonstrates that this eclecticism formed an integral part of their theories but also emphasises that empirical observation, too, was important, although not as an end in itself. While, for example, they were working on the concepts of organization, marginality and interaction, they did not consider these as ends in themselves but as additions to the development of a more general theoretical approach. Often in the past, and wrongly, Chicago’s theoretical contribution has been restricted to the urban sector. The book clearly and unequivocally reveals how the tendency to see the Chicago School as a 'theoretical' is the result of misinterpretation and of a failure to realize that, for the sociologists of the period, understanding the social dynamics of the city of Chicago was tantamount to interpreting the central tendencies of modern society itself. The book analyzes how empirical observation was important but not an end in itself. The Chicago School developed a profusion of sociological theories in many areas of inquiry and never opted for any one particular approach. The various essays in the book also make it clear that the School decisively contributed to the development of qualitative and quantitative techniques.Table of ContentsContents: Theoretical Problematic: The Gothic foundation of Robert E. Park’s conception of race and culture; The contribution of Georg Simmel to the foundation of theory at the Chicago School of Sociology; The neighbourhood and deviance in the Chicago School, a relationistic interpretation; The place of the Chicago School of Sociology in the study of nationality and ethnicity. Methodological Approach: Chicago sociology and the empirical impulse: its implications for sociological theorizing; Chicago methods: reputations and realities; Seventy years of fieldwork in sociology, from Nels Anderson’s The Hobo to Elijah Anderson’s Streetwise; One hundred years of methodological research, the example of Chicago. Important Sociologists From Chicago And The Actuality Of The Chicago Approach: George Herbert Mead’s transformation of his intellectual context; Erving Goffman: a symbolic interactionist?; Persistence and change: fundamental elements in Herbert Blumer’s metatheoretical perspective; The sociology of ’going concerns’, Everett Hughes’ interpretive institutional ecology; The Chicago School of Sociology’s heritage in Polish sociology; Index; Contributors.

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Book SynopsisThe preference for male children transcends many societies and cultures, making it an issue of local and global dimensions. While son preference is not a new phenomenon and has existed historically in many parts of Asia, its contemporary expressions illustrate the gendered outcomes of social power relations as they interact and intersect with culture, economy and technologies. Son Preference brings together key debates on the subject of son preference by assessing existing work in the field and providing new insights through primary research. The book covers a broad range of social science discussions and draws upon textual and ethnographic material from India. Son Preference will be useful to students, scholars, activists and anyone interested in the issues surrounding gender inequity, sex selection and skewed sex ratios.Trade ReviewAn accessible and stimulating book for students, academics, and anyone interested in this highly sensitive and contentious issue, Son Preference provides a valuable addition to anthropological and sociological analyses and proposes new directions for ethnographic research. Dr Sunil Khanna, Oregon State UniversityTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroductionMapping Knowledges of Son PreferenceSon Preference in the Colonial and Postcolonial'Figuring out' Son PreferenceAnti-Female Foeticide: Between Activism and OrthodoxyNarratives of Reproductive Choice and Culture in the DiasporaGirl Talk: Cultural Change and Challenge through the Eyes of Young Women in Contemporary PunjabConclusion by way of EpilogueBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisIn a world of finite resources, expanding populations and widening structural inequalities, the ownership of things is increasingly contested. Not only are the commons being rapidly enclosed and privatized, but the very idea of what can be owned is expanding, generating conflicts over the ownership of resources, ideas, culture, people, and even parts of people. Understanding processes of ownership and appropriation is not only central to anthropological theorizing but also has major practical applications, for policy, legislative development and conflict resolution.Ownership and Appropriation significantly extends anthropology's long-term concern with property by focusing on everyday notions and acts of owning and appropriating. The chapters document the relationship between ownership, subjectivities and personhood; they demonstrate the critical consequences of materiality and immateriality on what is owned; and they examine the social relations of property. By approaching ownership as social communication and negotiation, the text points to a more dynamic and processual understanding of property, ownership and appropriation.Table of ContentsForewordChris Hann (Max Planck Institute, Germany)IntroductionMark Busse (University of Auckland, New Zealand) and Veronica Strang (University of Auckland, New Zealand)PART ONE - SUBJECTS, PERSONHOOD AND PEOPLEHOODChapter 1. Sharing, Stealing and Borrowing SimultaneouslyMarilyn Strathern (University of Cambridge, UK)Chapter 2. On Having Achieved Appropriation: the Anak Berprestasi of Kepulauan RiauNicholas Long (University of Cambridge, UK)Chapter 3. Appropriating Authentic Practice: Competing Discourses of 'Being There', 'Having Been There' and 'Virtually Being There'Tamara Kohn (University of Melbourne, Australia) Chapter 4. Dreaming in Thread: from Ritual to Art and Property(s) Between Katie Glaskin (University of Western Australia)Chapter 5. The Legal Geographies of Cultural Rights: Community Subjects and their TraditionsRosemary Coombe (York University, UK)PART TWO - MATERIALITY AND IMMATERIALITYChapter 6. Cultural AppropriationTaihakurei (Eddie) Durie (Ngati Kauwhata, Aotearoa, New Zealand)Chapter 7. The Double Movement of Property Rights and Rental Regimes in Papua New GuineaColin Filer (Australian National University) and Michael Lowe (Australian National University)Chapter 8. Fluid Forms: Owning Water in AustraliaVeronica Strang (University of Auckland, New Zealand)Chapter 9. Appropriating Fish, Appropriating Fishermen: Tradable Permits, Natural Resources and Existential UncertaintyMonica Minnegal (University of Melbourne, Australia), Peter Dwyer (University of Melbourne, Australia)Chapter 10. Can't Find Nothing on the Radio: Access to the Radio Frequency Spectrum in NepalMichael Wilmore (University of Adelaide, Australia), Pawan Prakash Upreti (Equal Access Nepal)PART THREE - OWNERSHIP AS SOCIAL COMMUNICATIONChapter 11. The Village That Wasn't There: the Narrative Appropriation of a Tourist DestinationAdam Kaul (Augustana College, USA)Chapter 12. Formed and Forming: the Articulations of Yolngu Art in its ContextsHoward Morphy (Australian National University)Index

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Book Synopsis Study of race has become an established part of the curriculum - this book synthisizes leading research in the field Interest in Anglophone countries and across Europe - also across disciplines Big-name author with good track record Trade Review‘John Solomos is the too-often unacknowledged uncle of UK race and ethnic studies. This work brings together insights from his field-making career, reflecting his often stated belief that a commitment to teaching is central to the responsibilities of a serious scholar. It is destined to become a core work in the field, encouraging new generations of antiracist scholars to learn to think with the seriousness and generosity of the author’.Gargi Bhattacharyya, Professor of Sociology, University of East London, UK‘Race, Ethnicity and Social Theory is a politically astute, empirically grounded, conceptually sophisticated and open-ended contribution to our understanding of race and ethnicity at a moment when it is most needed. As popular movements and a new generation of activists embrace black lives matter, as statues of slavers and colonists are toppled, as universities grapple with what decolonising the curriculum might mean, and the racial inequalities of everyday life are as entrenched as ever, there couldn’t be a better moment than now to take stock of how we got to where we are today and how we might move forward into a more racially just future. This is simply a superb book. It provides a rigorous, intelligent and accessible pathway through the last half a century of race thinking, debate, politics and the racialisation of social relationships, in the UK and beyond. Most importantly, it provides an invaluable resource with which to develop intelligent public conversations about race’.Caroline Knowles, Professor of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK‘Nobody in the world but John Solomos could write such a great book, based on empirical research, theoretical clarity, a solid experience of teaching and an unbelievable knowledge of both academic production and controversies, and the public debates on racism and antisemitism. In a time when huge transformations affect these key issues, which are so central in the political and social life, John Solomos brings to bear a more accurate, precise, and up-to-date analysis. This book will be a classic point of reference for years to come’.Michel Wieviorka, Professor of Sociology, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, FranceTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Theoretical frameworks and perspectives 2. Race and social relations 3. Constructing identities and the racial other 4. Reframing feminism, rethinking race 5. Nations, cultures, identities 6. Antisemitism, racism, and modernity 7. New racisms or beyond race? 8. Race, representation, and difference 9. Racism and ethnicity in a changing world

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The authors argue in this book that social theory can usefully be conceived in terms of four broad paradigms, based upon different sets of meta-theoretical assumptions with regard to the nature of social science and the nature of society. The four paradigms - Functionalist, Interpretive, Radical Humanist and Radical Structuralist - derive from quite distinct intellectual traditions, and present four mutually exclusive views of the social work. Each stands in its own right, and generates its own distinctive approach to the analysis of social life. The authors provide extensive reviews of the four paradigms, tracing the evolution and inter-relationships between the various sociological schools of thought within each. They then proceed to relate theories of organisation to this wider background. This book covers a great range of intellectual territory. It makes a number of important contributions to our understanding of sociology and organisational analysis, and will prove an invaluable guide to theorists, researchers and students in a variety of social science disciplines. It stands as a discourse in social theory, drawing upon the general area of organisation studies - industrial sociology, organisation theory, organisational psychology, and industrial relations - as a means of illustrating more general sociological themes. In addition to reviewing and evaluating existing work, it provides a framework for appraising future developments in the area of organisational analysis, and suggests the form which some of these developments are likely to take.

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Book SynopsisThis set of essays is concerned with the explanation of large scale social change. Concentration is on the social stagnation characteristic of agrarian circumstances, the conditions for exit from that world and the varied social orders that inhabit, sometimes precariously, the modern world community. The distinguished contributors, from archaeology, anthropology, sociology, economic history and philosophy, have all been stimulated by the work of Ernest Gellner, and the essays are in dialogue with his view of our social condition.Table of ContentsList of illustrations; List of contributors; Introduction; Part I. The Pre-Modern World: 1. World languages and human dispersals: a minimalist view Colin Renfrew; 2. Nomads and oases in Central Asia A. M. Khazanov; 3. Why poverty was inevitable in traditional societies E. A. Wrigley; Part II. Transitions to the Modern World: 4. On a little known chapter of Mediterranean history Karl R. Popper; 5. Ernest Gellner and the escape to modernity Alan MacFarlane; 6. The emergence of modern European nationalism Michael Mann; 7. Sovereign individuals Ronald Dore; Part III. Modernity and its Discontents: 8. Science, politics, enchantment Perry Anderson; 9. Deconstructing post-modernism: Gellner and Crocodile Dundee Joseph Agassi; 10. A methodology without presuppositions? John Watkins; 11. Gellner's positivism I. C. Jarvie; 12. Left versus Right in French political ideology Louis Dumont; 13. Property, justice and common good after socialism John Dunn; 14. Social contract, democracy and freedom Gerard Radnitzky; 15. Thoughts on liberalisation Jose Merquior; 16. Peace, peace at last? John A. Hall; Indexes.

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Book SynopsisThis 2001 book provides the first in-depth critique of Comte's concept of religion and its place in his thinking on politics, sociology and philosophy of science. Wernick relates Comte to Marx and Nietzsche and examines key features of modern and postmodern French social theory, tracing the inherent flaws of Comte's system.Trade Review'Mr Wernick's book on August Comte is brilliant. ... (He) succeeds admirably in placing Comte's religion in the context of his time and in the history of social theory in France. … This book will give any reader pause to reflect on the distinctiveness of French social theory, the problem of defining a community, and the relationship between politics and religion in both its theistic and post-theistic forms.' Mary Pickering, San Jose State University, CaliforniaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments; 1. Introduction: rethinking Comte; 2. The system and its logic (1): from positive philosophy to social science; 3. The system and its logic (2): from sociology to the subjective synthesis; 4. Religion and the crisis of industrialism; 5. Love and the social body; 6. The path to perfection; 7. Humanity as 'le vrai grand-être'; 8. Socio-theology after Comte; References; Index.

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Book SynopsisKim's interpretation effectively highlights the relevance of Weber's political thought for our time, in which civil society has once again become the dominant issue for a robust liberal democratic regime.Trade Review"Kim's book is an erudite, thoroughly researched, and insightful rereading of Weber. It is also highly relevant to contemporary democratic theory." Perspectives on Political Theory"Sung Ho Kim has produced an outstanding revision of Max Weber's political thought within the context of Weber's work on the sociology of religion." Leonard Seabrooke, The Review of PoliticsTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Part I. Of 'Sect Man': The Modern Self and Civil Society in Max Weber: 1. Agency, citizenship and civil society; 2. Reading Weber: between politics and science; 3. In search of the Protestant ethic thesis; 4. Outline of the argument; Part II. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Individualism: 5. Introduction: 'the last of our heroisms'; 6. 'A rationalization toward an irrational conduct of life'; 7. Calling: sanctification and regimentation of everyday life; 8. Predestination: objectification of the world and disempowerment of the self; 9. Empowering the individual agency: self-mastery and discipline; 10. Conclusion: value, rationality and freedom; Part III. The Protestant Sects and the Spirit of Civil Society: 11. Introduction: sociability of the Puritan Berufsmensch; 12. Gemeinschaft, Gesellschaft and Amerikanismus; 13. Modes of sociability: America versus Europe; 14. Sect contra church: particularism and voluntarism; 15. Secularization of charisma: from sect to status group and bureaucracy; 16. Conclusion: The public and the private; Part IV. Politics, Science, Ethics: 17. Introduction: Götterdämmerung; 18. Disenchantment and reenchantment; 19. Conviction, responsibility and decision; 20. Practice of the self I: realpolitik; 21. Practice of the self II: ideal type; 22. Conclusion: modernity, conscience and duty; Part V. Liberalism, Nationalism and Civil Society: 23. Introduction: liberalism and nationalism; 24. National identities, nation-states and the political; 25. Nationalism, citizenship and personality; 26. Politics of the classes: refeudalization and embourgeoisement; 27. Politics of checks and balances: corporatism and parliamentarianism; 28. Conclusion: 'the school of men'; Part VI. Max Weber's Politics of Civil Society: 29. Statecraft and soulcraft in Max Weber; 30. Purpose, contestation and the political; 31. Bowling alone; References; Index.

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This 1972 book is a collection of Durkheim's writings drawing upon the whole body of his work. Dr Giddens takes his selections from a wide variety of sources and includes a number of items from untranslated writings in the Revue Philosophique, Annee Sociologique and from L'evolution pedagogue en France. Selections from previously translated writings have been checked against the originals and amended or re-translated where necessary. Dr Giddens arranges his selections thematically rather than chronologically. However, extracts from all phases of Durkheim's intellectual career are represented, giving the date of their first publication, which makes the evolution of his thought easily traceable. In his introduction Dr Giddens discusses phases in the interpretation of Durkheim's thought, as well as the main themes in his work, with an analysis of the effects of his thinking on modern sociology. The book is for students at any level taking courses in sociology, social anthropology and soci

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