Social theory Books
Cambridge University Press Trust
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£85.50
Cambridge University Press Social Mechanisms
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£86.00
Cambridge University Press Social Mechanisms
Book SynopsisThe mechanism approach calls attention to an intermediary level of analysis in between pure description and story-telling, on the one hand, and grand theorizing and universal social laws, on the other. These essays, written by prominent social scientists, advance criticisms of current trends in social theory and suggest alternative approaches.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; List of contributors; 1. Social mechanisms: an introductory essay Peter Hedström and Richard Swedberg; 2. Social mechanisms and social dynamics Thomas C. Schelling; 3. A plea for mechanisms Jon Elster; 4. Real virtuality Gudmund Hernes; 5. Concatenations of mechanisms Diego Gambetta; 6. Do economists use social mechanisms to explain? Tyler Cowen; 7. Social mechanisms of dissonance reduction Timur Kuran; 8. Social mechanisms without black boxes Raymond Boudon; 9. Is sociological theory too grand for social mechanisms? Axel van den Berg; 10. Theoretical mechanisms and the empirical study of social processes Aage B. Sørensen; 11. Monopolistic competition as a mechanism: corporations, universities, and nation-states in competitive fields Arthur L. Stinchcombe; 12. Rational imitation Peter Hedström; Indexes.
£25.64
Cambridge University Press An Anatomy of Power The Social Theory of Michael Mann
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£42.74
Cambridge University Press Computational and Mathematical Modeling in the Social Sciences
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£29.44
Cambridge University Press Fundamentalism Sectarianism and Revolution The Jacobin Dimension of Modernity Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£80.99
Cambridge University Press Fundamentalism Sectarianism and Revolution The Jacobin Dimension of Modernity Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£37.04
Cambridge University Press The Myth of Social Action
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£29.44
Cambridge University Press Cultures of Inquiry From Epistemology to Discourse in Sociohistorical Research
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£35.14
Cambridge University Press Auguste Comte and the Religion of Humanity
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£85.50
Cambridge University Press Philosophy and Public Affairs 45 Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements Series Number 45
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£27.54
Cambridge University Press Diverse Communities
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£29.44
Cambridge University Press The Work of Global Justice
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£29.44
Cambridge University Press Secularism Religion and Multicultural Citizenship
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£37.04
Cambridge University Press Democracy
Book SynopsisDemocracy identifies the general processes causing democratization and de-democratization at a national level across the world over the last few hundred years. Through analytic narratives and comparisons of multiple regimes, mostly since World War II, this book makes the case for recasting current theories of democracy, democratization and de-democratization.Trade Review'In this compelling work, Charles Tilly brings his unrivaled historical knowledge to bear on fundamental questions of democracy. His argument focuses on long-run social processes, not only those that further democratization but also those that often rapidly undermine it. In restoring the centrality of history to scholarship on democratization, he sets a research agenda that will occupy scholars for some time to come.' Elisabeth Jean Wood, Yale University and the Santa Fe Institute'Accessibly written, the volume will reward a broad readership.' Political Studies Review'Tilly presents the book as the 'culmination and synthesis' (p. xii) of his democratisation work and its final pages contain a provocative challenge to those in the democratisation business. … those interested in promoting democracy should focus on supporting the three process-based developments he identifies. Accessibly written, the volume will reward a broad readership.'' Political Studies ReviewTable of Contents1. What is democracy; 2. Democracy in history; 3. Democratization and de-democratization; 4. Trust and distrust; 5. Equality and inequality; 6. Power and public politics; 7. Alternative paths; 8. Democracy's past and futures.
£21.99
Cambridge University Press Social Constructionism Sources and Stirrings in Theory and Practice
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£39.89
Cambridge University Press Causation in International Relations Reclaiming Causal Analysis 108 Cambridge Studies in International Relations Series Number 108
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£35.14
Cambridge University Press How Modernity Forgets
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£19.99
Cambridge University Press Political Islam Iran and the Enlightenment
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£24.99
Cambridge University Press How Modernity Forgets
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£74.09
Cambridge University Press Political Islam Iran and the Enlightenment
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£81.00
Cambridge University Press Dignity at Work
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£85.50
Cambridge University Press Dignity at Work
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£37.04
Cambridge University Press Religion Theology and the Human Sciences
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£48.45
Cambridge University Press A Biblical Text and its Afterlives The Survival of Jonah in Western Culture
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£87.00
Cambridge University Press Dissecting the Social
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£85.50
Cambridge University Press State in Society
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£74.09
Cambridge University Press Religion Theology and the Human Sciences
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£42.74
Cambridge University Press A Biblical Text and its Afterlives
Book SynopsisThis book is concerned with how interpretation re-shapes texts and will appeal to readers in Cultural Studies, Jewish Studies and Biblical Studies. It pursues the book of Jonah and looks at how popular understandings of the book are on a collision course with academic/Christian understanding of the text.Trade Review'Learned, clever and playful book from one of the most gifted of younger biblical scholars in Britain … a real feast.' Expository Times'… this publication is an important source of the history of biblical hermeneutics and the most comprehensive reception history of the text of Jonah at present. It gives me great pleasure to recommend this book to all students and scholars intrigued and puzzled by the varied and creative interpretations of biblical texts and the textual power to reinvent still unforeseen ones. It is an excellent book with horizon-broadening promises for the attentive reader.' Old Testament Essays'… one of the most stimulating works on any biblical text that I have read in years. it sets a new standard for the study of reception history … Sherwood writes so well. Every page provides entertainment as well as academically rigorous argument … A very exciting work from an outstanding specialist in Biblical Studies.' Journal of Jewish StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The Mainstream; (i) Jonah and the Fathers: Jonah and Jesus as typological twins; (ii) Jonah the Jew: the evolution of a biblical character; (iii) Divine Disciplinary Devices: or the book of Jonah and a tractate on producing docile disciple-bodies; (iv) Cataloguing the Monstrous: Jonah and the Cani Cacharis (or a concluding scientific postscript); (v) Taking Stock: survivals, hauntings, Jonah and (Stanley) fish, and the Christian colonisation of the book of Jonah; 2. Backwaters and Underbellies; (i) Jewish Interpretation; (ii) Popular Interpretation; (iii) On the Strained Relations Between the Backwaters and the Mainstream: or how Jewish and popular readings are prone to bring on a bout of scholarly dyspepsia; (iv) Of Survival, Memes and Life-After-Death: on Jonah's infinite regurgitation and endless survival; (v) Jonah on the Oncology Ward and the Beached-up Whale Carcass; or the strange secular afterlives of Biblical texts; 3. Regurgitating Jonah; (i) Of 'Hot Chestnuts', 'Fluid Puddings' and 'Plots That Do Not Shelter Us': some ruminations on the salvific properties of 'the Bible' and 'literature'; (ii) Regurgitating Jonah; (iii) In conclusion … Recuperating Jonah: the book of Jonah as the quintessential story and the most typical of Bible texts; Bibliography.
£42.74
Cambridge University Press Being Human The Problem of Agency
Book SynopsisHumanity and the very notion of the human subject are under threat from postmodernist thinking which has declared not only the 'Death of God' but also the 'Death of Man'. This book is a revindication of the concept of humanity, rejecting contemporary social theory that seeks to diminish human properties and powers. Archer argues that being human depends on an interaction with the real world in which practice takes primacy over language in the emergence of human self-consciousness, thought, emotionality and personal identity - all of which are prior to, and more basic than, our acquisition of a social identity. This original and provocative new book from leading social theorist Margaret S. Archer builds on the themes explored in her previous books Culture and Agency (CUP 1988) and Realist Social Theory (CUP 1995). It will be required reading for academics and students of social theory, cultural theory, political theory, philosophy and theology.Trade Review'The ultimate value of Archer's work lies exactly in assisting us in our discovery journey.' Language and Intercultural CommunicationTable of ContentsPart I. The Impoverishment of Humanity: 1. Resisting the dissolution of humanity; 2. Modernity's man; 3. Society's Being: humanity as the gift of society; Part II. The Emergence of Self Consciousness: 4. The primacy of practice; 5. The practical order as pivotal; Part III. The Emergence of Personal Identity: 6. Humanity and reality: emotions as commentaries on human concerns; 7. Personal identity: the inner conversation and emotional elaboration; Part IV. The Emergence of Social Identity: 8. Agents: active and passive; 9. Actors and commitment; Conclusion.
£31.99
Cambridge University Press Dissecting the Social
Book SynopsisBuilding on his earlier, influential contributions to contemporary debates on social theory, Professor Hedström argues for a systematic development of sociological theory so that it has the explanatory power and precision to inform sociological research and understanding, qualities lacking in much of the grand social theorizing currently fashionable.Trade Review'… an enjoyabole and important addition to the meagre library of serious philosophy of social science. It gives pleaseure to read because it is clearly conceived and elegantly written, and because - contrary to the philosophical tradition - it is chock full of examples of current research. And Hedström's book is important because it emphasizes the thesis that to explain facts of a type is to exhibit or hypothesize the mechanisms that bring them about … Dissecting the Social is an exceptionally good work in a field characterized by fuzziness, ideological bias or remoteness from live sociology. For these resons, I hope that [the book] will become compulsory reading in advanced undergraduate and graduate courses on social theory, sociological method, and the philosophy of social science.' Mario Bunge, McGill UniversityTable of Contents1. The analytical tradition in sociology; 2. Social mechanisms and explanatory theory; 3. Action and interaction; 4. Social interaction and social change; 5. On causal modelling; 6. Quantitative research, agent-based modelling, and theories of the social (with Yvonne Åberg); 7. Coda; References.
£29.99
Cambridge University Press Building Capitalism
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£46.54
Cambridge University Press The Body as Material Culture A Theoretical Osteoarchaeology 4 Topics in Contemporary Archaeology Series Number 4
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£71.65
Cambridge University Press Max Webers Politics of Civil Society
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£85.50
Cambridge University Press The Stag Hunt and the Evolution of Social Structure
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£92.14
Cambridge University Press The Sociology of Norbert Elias
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£85.50
Cambridge University Press Recognition Struggles and Social Movements
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£87.00
Cambridge University Press Making English Morals Voluntary Association and Moral Reform in England 17871886 02 Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories Series Number 2
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£95.95
Cambridge University Press Rethinking Durkheim and his Tradition
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£81.89
Cambridge University Press An Anatomy of Power
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£82.65
Cambridge University Press Computational and Mathematical Modeling in the Social Sciences
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£51.30
Cambridge University Press Diverse Communities
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£85.50
Cambridge University Press The Work of Global Justice
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£91.19
Cambridge University Press Theology Political Theory and Pluralism Beyond Tolerance and Difference 15 Cambridge Studies in Christian Doctrine Series Number 15
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£82.00
Cambridge University Press Secularism Religion and Multicultural Citizenship
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£57.95
Cambridge University Press Aversive Democracy
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£81.00
Cambridge University Press Social Constructionism
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£67.45
Cambridge University Press Causation in International Relations Reclaiming Causal Analysis 108 Cambridge Studies in International Relations Series Number 108
Book SynopsisMilja Kurki examines the meaning of the concept of cause in international relations. Proposing an approach to causal analysis that emphasizes the importance of multi-causality and accepts the validity of many social science methods, she suggests that reinterpreting the notion of 'causation' opens up avenues for future IR scholarship.Trade Review'Cause is the central concept of any science, including human sciences. Yet, most IR scholars seem to assume that this is not the case, which explains in part the appalling state of the discipline. To paraphrase Kant, it is time to awaken IR scholars from their 'dogmatic slumber' by shifting the field of background discourse, as Kurki attempts to do here. Her brilliant book will no doubt make a huge contribution to the revival of cumulative research in world politics, peace and conflict studies and related fields.' Heikki Patomäki, University of HelsinkiTable of ContentsIntroduction: the problem of causation and the divided discipline of international relations; Part I. The Humean Philosophy of Causation and its Legacies: 1. The Humean philosophy of causation and its legacies in philosophy of science; 2. Controversy over causes in the social sciences; 3. Humeanism and rationalist causal analysis in international relations; 4. Reflectivist and constructivist approaches in international relations: more cases of Humeanism; Part II. Rethinking the Concept of Cause: 5. Attempts to move beyond Humeanism: strengths and weaknesses; 6. Rethinking causation: towards a deeper and broader concept of cause; Part III. Reconfiguring Causal Analysis of World Politics: 7. Expanding horizons in world political causal inquiry; 8. Reconceptualising causes, reframing the divided discipline.
£98.15