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Book SynopsisIn this volume, Dialogical Self Theory is innovatively presented as a guide to help elucidate some of the most pressing problems of our time as they emerge at the interface of self and society. As a bridging framework at the interface of the social sciences and philosophy, Dialogical Self Theory provides a broad view of problem areas that place us in a field of tension between liberation and social imprisonment. With climate change and the coronavirus pandemic serving as wake-up calls, the book focuses on the experience of uncertainty, the disenchantment of the world, the pursuit of happiness, and the cultural limitations of the Western self-ideal. Now more than ever we need to rethink the relationship between self, other, and the natural environment, and this book uses Dialogical Self Theory to explore actual and potential responses of the self to these urgent challenges.Trade Review'This is a remarkable and engrossing book at the dynamic interface of psychology and philosophy, with broad theoretical range and rich existential and cultural implications. Its lucidity and measured sense of the complex dimensions of the dialogical self make it a model guide to self-maintenance in an uncertain world.' Robert E. Innis, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA'This is a much-needed text which offers a deep exploration of the process of liberation and its counterpart, confinement. Hermans presents a thorough investigation into not only self-liberation but also our collective liberation, with an awareness of the tensions that exist in between. This is a comprehensive book which informs the reader but also engages them in a deep process of reflection. A great accomplishment and an important book for our times.' Emma Kay, University of Roehampton, UK'Hermans is one of the world's most insightful psychologists. In this masterpiece, he sheds light on previous gaps of his Dialogical Self Theory with grace. With a refreshing integration of philosophical, embodied and sociocultural perspectives, he has unveiled a highly applicable understanding of our human condition.' Olga V. Lehmann, Institutt for Psykologisk Rådgivning (IPR), NorwayTable of ContentsPreface; Introduction; 1. Playing with Plato; 2. Centralization and decentralization of the self throughout the history of philosophy; 3. The other as heaven and hell: the positional basis of dialogue; 4. Re-enchantment of the world; 5. Imprisonment and liberation of the self; 6. Uncertainty in the self; 7. Multiple well-being and other-inclusive happiness.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides an accessible introduction to bisexuality studies, set within the context of contemporary social theory and research. Drawing on interviews conducted in the UK and Colombia, it maps out the territory, providing a means of understanding sexualities that are neither gay, nor lesbian, nor heterosexual.Trade Review“Bisexuality is an accessible social studies book that identifies and analyses key aspects of the lives of bisexual and other non-monosexual individuals. … book is supported throughout by reference to the scholarship of scholarship of other academics … it functions very well as an introduction to bisexual social studies. … book highlights several interesting gaps in existing scholarship, such as Indian bisexualities and bisexual parenting, but provides a solid theoretical framework upon which to start further research into these topics.” (Danni Glover, LSE Review of Books, blogs.lse.ac.uk, April, 2016)“Bisexuality: Identities, Politics, and Theories makes a substantial contribution to filling a gap in the current scholarship on sexuality. … Monro has written a magisterial book that will become a ‘must read’ text in the field of sexuality for experienced scholars, students, and social activists … . I thoroughly enjoyed reading Monro’s book and I definitely recommend it. The current scholarship needed a book like this and I hope it will open the way for further research.” (Dr. Bolzonar Fabio, British Sociological Association Network, Issue 123, Summer, 2016)Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Bisexuality and Social Theory3. Intersectionality4. Sex, Relationships, Kinship, and Community 5. Bisexuality, Organisations and Capitalism6. Bisexuality and Citizenship7. Bisexuality, Activism, Democracy and the State

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Book SynopsisSocial Theory provides a sophisticated yet highly accessible introduction to classical and contemporary social theories. The author's concise presentation allows students and instructors to focus on central themes. The text lets theorists speak for themselves, presenting key passages from each theorist's corpus, bringing theory to life. The approach allows instructors the opportunity to help students learn to unpack sometimes complex prose, just as it offers inroads to class discussion. Chapters on Addams and early feminism, on Habermas and the Frankfurt School, on Foucault, and on globalization and contemporary movements round out contemporary coverage. The book presents and explains key theories, just as it provides an introduction to central debates about them.Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionPart I: Classical Social Theory1. Hegel on Dialectics, the State, and Society2. Marx and Engels on Social Class and Class Struggle 3. Durkheim on Society and Social Order 4. Weber on Bureaucracy, Power, and Social Status 5. Pareto, Mosca, and Michels on Elites and Masses6. Simmel on Social Relations and Group Affiliations7. Cooley and Mead on Human Nature and Society8. Freud on the Development of Society and Civilization9. Addams and Early Women Social Theorists10. Veblen on the Leisure Class and Conspicuous Consumption11. Mannheim on Ideology and Utopia12. Gramsci and Lenin on Ideology, the State, and Revolution 13. Kollontai on Class, Gender, and Patriarchy 14. Du Bois and Frazier on Race, Class, and Social Emancipation Part II: Contemporary Social Theory15. Parsons, Merton, and Functionalist Theory 16. Mills on the Power Elite 17. Domhoff on the Power Structure and the Governing Class 18. Althusser, Poulantzas, and Miliband on Politics and the State 19. Trimberger, Block, and Skocpol and Neo-Weberian Theorizing 20. Homans on Social Exchange21. The Frankfurt School of Critical Theory22. Goffman and Garfinkel on Dramaturgy, Ethnomethodology, and Everyday Life 23. Wilson and Willie on Race, Class, and Poverty 24. Feminist Theory: Yesterday and Today25. Wallerstein and World-Systems Theory26. Theories of Globalization27. Therborn and Szymanski on Contemporary Marxist Theory28. Foucault on the Diffusion of Power29. Harvey and Callinicos on Postmodernism and Its Critique30. Social Movements and TransformationConclusion BibliographyIndexAbout the Author

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Book SynopsisAn innovative collaborative research project conducted jointly at Durham University and the Istitut fÃr deutsche Sprache in Mannheim, Germany. It focuses on the study of public debates on economic and political integration of Europe, in both Britain and Germany and how these debates have developed in the post war period up to the 1990s. The following topics are investigated: Euro-discourse and the new media, British national identity in the European context, representations of Germany in the context of European integration in Margaret Thatcher's autobiographies, European debates in post-World War II Germany, the European debate in and between Germany and Great Britain, the career of the neologism Euro in German Press Texts and the metaphorization of European politics. The study links to Internet implications, providing the basis for further contrastive and comparative research on public discourse in the field of European politics.Trade Review�...an insightful study...� Journal of European Area StudiesTable of ContentsContents: British Discourse on Europe: British national identity in the European context, Gerlinde Mautner; Representations of Germany in the context of European integration in Margaret Thatcher’s autobiographies, Ruth Wittlinger; A province of a federal super state, ruled by an unelected bureaucracy - keywords of the Euro-sceptic discourse in Britain, Wolfgang Teubert; German Discourse on Europe: Words, phases and argumentational structures in the German debate on Europe in the early post-war period, Heidrun Kämper; Euro: the career of a European neologism in German press texts (1995-1999), Dieter Herberg. Comparative Studies: The European debate in and between Germany and Great Britain, Colin Good; The metaphorization of European politics: movement on the road to Europe, Andreas Musolff; Attitudes to Europe - mediated by translation, Christina Schäffner; Der Ton wird schärfer. Stereotypes in media translation, Arachne van der Eijk-Spaan.

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Book SynopsisThe Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization explores the nature of contemporary malaises, diseases, illnesses and psychosomatic syndromes, examining the manner in which they are related to cultural pathologies of the social body. Multi-disciplinary in approach, the book is concerned with questions of how these conditions are not only manifest at the level of individual patients'' bodies, but also how the social ''bodies politic'' are related to the hegemony of reductive biomedical and individual-psychologistic perspectives. Rejecting a reductive, biomedical and individualistic diagnosis of contemporary problems of health and well-being, The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization contends that many such problems are to be understood in the light of radical changes in social structures and institutions, extending to deep crises in our civilization as a whole. Rather than considering such conditions in isolation - both from one another and from broader contexts - this bTrade Review’Drawing on the humanities and social sciences, this rich and interesting collection challenges the hegemony of reductive psychological and biomedical accounts of illness and emotional disorder under today’s globalized neoliberal capitalism.’ Dick Houtman, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands ’Few academics would feel comfortable with using the term civilization to define contemporary social and cultural complexes, and many would be suspicious, with good reason, of any attempt to use medical language in the investigation of their ills. However, this collection of papers courageously grasps the nettle in giving close interrogations to aspects of contemporary human experience and its unease in health and well-being, experience of selfhood and moral fluidity. Individual chapters in the book re-examine our vocabulary of social pathology and malaise with reference to cutting edge multi-disciplinary themes and bring us up to date with current anti-reductionist discourses in topics as diverse as psychiatry and the household economy. The painstaking level of conceptual analysis on display here should make any reader confident that the pathologies of civilization can be re-examined in very contemporary and innovative ways.’ Jeff Vass, University of Southampton, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction, Kieran Keohane and Anders Petersen; Part I Social Pathologies: Addressing the Question: The notion of social pathology: a case study of Narcissus in American society, Alain Ehrenberg; The social pathologies of contemporary civilization: meaning-giving experiences and pathological expectations concerning health and suffering, Arpad Szakolczai; Modernity as spiritual disorder: searching for a vocabulary of social pathologies in the work of Eric Voegelin, Bjørn Thomassen. Part II Social Pathologies: Contemporary Malaises: The value of houses in the libidinal economy: financialization as social pathogenesis, Kieran Keohane; Depression: resisting ultra-liberalism?, Bert van den Bergh; The pathologization of morality, Svend Brinkmann; The multiple self: a social pathology?, Annalisa Porfilio; Possible explanations for increasing antidepressant treatment in modern society, Margrethe Nielsen and Gunnar Scott Reinbacher. Part III Social Pathologies: Biopower, Subjectification and Civilization: Does society still matter? Mental health and illness and the social sciences in the 21st century, Pia Ringø; Evaluations as a process of disenfranchisement, Anders Petersen and Rasmus Willig; Schismogenesis, liminality and public health, Agnes Horvath; Index.

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Book SynopsisIn this comprehensive and clear introduction to contemporary social theory, Anthony Elliott and Charles Lemert explore the major theoretical traditions from the Frankfurt School to the digital revolution and beyond. Fully revised and updated, this second edition has been expanded to consider the most recent developments in social theory, including a new chapter on the digital revolution and the increasingly significant impact of technological developments (such as artificial intelligence, machine learning and robotics) on society, culture and politics.Introduction to Contemporary Social Theory provides the reader with a superb overview of key developments in social theory, including the Frankfurt School, American pragmatism, structuralism, post-structuralism, feminism, globalization and world-systems theory. In doing so, the textbook explores the ideas of a wide range of social theorists, including Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Talcott Parsons, Erving Goffman, HarTable of Contents1. The textures of society 2. The contemporary relevance of the classics 3. The Frankfurt School 4. American pragmatisms 5. Structuralism 6. Structures, functions and culture 7. Post-structuralism 8. The interaction order 9. Theories of structuration 10. Variations on the theory of power and knowledge 11. Contemporary critical theory 12. Feminism and post-feminist theory 13. Postmodernity 14. Social movements, states and the modern world-system 15. Networks, risks, liquids 16. Globalization 17. The digital revolution: Posthumanism and beyond 18. Afterword

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Book SynopsisMeaning and Melancholia: Life in the Age of Bewilderment sees Christopher Bollas apply his creative and innovative psychoanalytic thinking to various contemporary social, cultural and political themes.This book offers an incisive exploration of powerful trends within, and between, nations in the West over the past two hundred years. The author traces shifts in psychological forces and frames of mind', that have resulted in a crucial intellectual climate change'. He contends that recent decades have seen rapid and significant transformations in how we define our selves', as a new emphasis on instant connectedness has come to replace reflectiveness and introspection.Bollas argues that this trend has culminated in the current rise of psychophobia; a fear of the mind and a rejection of depth psychologies that has paved the way for what he sees as hate based solutions to world problems, such as the victory of Trump in America and Brexit in the United Kingdom. He maTrade ReviewPraise for Christopher Bollas:"One of the two most important living theoreticians in the world of psychoanalysis."-Al Haaretz "The most influential psychoanalyst writing in English today."-The Townsend Center, University of California, Berkeley "The most evocative psychoanalytic writer we have."-Adam PhillipsTable of ContentsPreface; Prologue; 1. The search for meaning 2. The Great War and the manic moment 3. The crash 4. Human character changes 5. Fractured selves 6. Normopathy and the compound syndrome 7. Transmissive selves 8. New forms of thinking 9. Resuscitation 10. Anti globalization 11. The democratic mind 12. "I hear that…" 13. Paranoia 14. Ideology 15. The pieces of the puzzle

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Book SynopsisDo things such as performance indicators, valuation formulas, consumer tests, stock prices or financial contracts represent an external reality? Or do they rather constitute, in a performative fashion, what they refer to? The Provoked Economy tackles this question from a pragmatist angle, considering economic reality as a ceaselessly provoked reality. It takes the reader through a series of diverse empirical sites from public administrations to stock exchanges, from investment banks to marketing facilities and business schools in order to explore what can be seen from such a demanding standpoint. It demonstrates that descriptions of economic objects do actually produce economic objects and that the simulacrum of an economic act is indeed a form of realization. It also shows that provoking economic reality means facing practical tests in which what ought to be economic or not is subject to elaboration and controversy. This book opens paths for empTable of ContentsIntroduction. Part I: The Problem of Performativity 1. A Few Theoretical Rudiments 2. The Consideration of Economic Reality Part II: Elementary Case Studies 3. Recounting Financial Objects 4. Discovering Stock Prices 5. Testing Consumer Preferences 6. Realizing Business Value 7. Indicating Economic Action. Tentative Conclusion. Bibliography

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Cohen alternates between telling the deep history of successful social psychological interventions and focusing on modern interventions that are being used to astounding effect...If we want more people to have the chance to maximize their abilities and th" -- Mattthew Lieberman - Science Magazine"This book is a beacon of hope for our fractured times. A leading expert on belonging offers an engaging analysis of the science and practice of breaking down the barriers between people and building bridges to a more respectful world." -- Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again"Belonging is a masterpiece of social psychology—well-researched, highly engaging, and fundamentally useful to anyone who wants to bring out the best in themselves and in others, whether at school, at home, or in the workplace. At a time of so much social disruption and disconnection, Geoffrey L. Cohen has provided a very helpful and profoundly hopeful guide, rooted in well-tested psychological principles, that we urgently need. Everyone should read this book!" -- Beverly Daniel Tatum, author of Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? and Other Conversations About Race"Belonging combines rich science, compelling stories, and beautiful prose to illuminate the social psychological principles behind the need to belong and how to foster belonging and connection in a fractured world. Reading this book will yield insig" -- Sonja Lyubomirsky, author of The How of Happiness"This book shines piercing illumination on one of today’s most timely topics—the causes and consequences of belonging to modern social groups. Importantly, it maps scientifically grounded routes to minimizing the harmful consequences while optimizing the p" -- Robert B. Cialdini, PhD, author of Influence and Pre-Suasion

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Book SynopsisIn an age of rapid advances in behavioural genetics, this book applies a unique genetic-social framework to the study of crime and criminal behaviour. Drawing upon evidence from evolutionary psychology and behavioural genetics, it offers an up-to-date and balanced account of the mutuality between genes and environment.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Transitions in Criminological and Social Theory 3. Constructing a Genetic-Social Framework 4. An Application of the Meta Theoretical Framework to the Study of Crime and Criminal Behaviour Concluding Observations

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Book SynopsisThis book on Stephen Willats pulls together key strands of his practice and threads them through histories of British cybernetics, experimental art, and urban design. For Willats, a cluster of concepts about control and feedback within living and machine systems (cybernetics) offered a new means to make art relevant. For decades, Willats has built relationships through art with people in tower blocks, underground clubs, middle-class enclaves, and warehouses on the Isle of Dogs, to investigate their current conditions and future possibilities. Sharon Irish's study demonstrates the power of Willats's multi-media art to catalyze communication among participants and to upend ideas about audience and art. Here, Irish argues that it is artists like Willats who are now the instigators of social transformation.Trade ReviewChange and exchange—Sharon Irish has given us an insightful, nuanced and sympathetic account of Stephen Willats’s cybernetic art and social practice, growing from the maelstrom of the 1960s to the present, unsettling the balance of present and future, artist and participants, galleries and worlds along the way. * Andrew Pickering, Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Philosophy, Exeter University, UK *Table of ContentsList of figures Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: new functions for art practice in society A cybernetics primer Cybernetics goes social A social practice primer Chapter overview 1. The Omni-Directional Artist Heuristic tools on the move < Control Magazine Homeostat diagrams Cooperative decision-making: Visual Meta Language Simulation Pedagogical processes Man from the Twenty-First Century 2. Modelling the Social Cognition Control Centre for Behavioural Art Constructing social resources and social models West London Social Resource Project Social modelling in Edinburgh Meta Filter Art and social function 3. Mutually Bound Of concept frames From a Coded World A ‘new reality’? Willats in east London Sorting Out Other People’s Lives Inside an Ocean Art for Whom? 4. The Art of Sociotechnical Systems Toward a ‘depleted, disillusioned new reality’ The Ideological Tower Vertical Living Brentford Towers Art creating society: curating the Oxford Symposium and the Mosaic Series Personal Islands 5. Creativity in Self-Organization Participatory reception Working within a defined context Defined context, social practice, and the multi-homeostat problem Living with practical realities Do-It-Yourself (DIY) aesthetics ‘Objects of Creative Release’ Back to the Wasteland 6. Open-Ended Urban Systems Middlesbrough and The Transformer Marble Arch to Oxford Circus, London: Freezone Simulation in Sheffield South London: changing everything A pivot in scale: data streams Oxford community data stream Data stream portrait of London Conclusion: On Giving Up and Compromise Feedback and multiple futures Open systems and participation Thinking with cybernetics Compromise not compliance Notes Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn this fifth edition of the best-selling core introductory textbook, Pete Alcock and Lee Gregory provide a comprehensive and engaging introduction to social policy. Continuing with the unbeaten narrative style and accessible approach of the previous editions, the authors explore the major topics of social policy in a clear and digestible way. By breaking down the complexities behind policy developments and their outcomes, the book demonstrates the relationship between core areas of policy and the society we live in. This new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to cover the impact of Brexit and contains reflections on the implications of the Covid-19 pandemic for social policy. Each chapter contains comprehension activities to aid understanding, as well as helpful summary points and suggestions for further reading.Trade ReviewThis updated edition of Social Policy in Britain introduces contemporary and relevant issues in the field and skilfully locates them in historical, structural, and theoretical contexts. This reinvigorated textbook remains essential reading for social policy students at all levels of study. -- Professor Anya Ahmed, Professor of Wellbeing and Communities * Manchester Metropolitan University, UK *This newly-revised edition combines examination of core issues and contemporary developments with a deep appreciation of the foundations of the subject. Alcock and Gregory provide a comprehensive introduction to social policy in Britain. -- Dr. Rod Hick, Reader at the School of Public Policy * University of Cardiff, UK *The fifth edition of Social Policy in Britain is a timely and essential update on the radically shifting social policy landscape. Both undergraduate and postgraduate students will benefit from the clear approach outlining the structures, context, mechanisms and ‘mixed economy’ of welfare provision in Britain. -- Dr. Vikki McCall, Senior Lecturer in Social Policy and Housing * University of Stirling, UK *The expansive nature of social policy presents a serious challenge for those seeking to do justice to foundational debates within the discipline as well as the latest conceptual and substantive developments. Social Policy Britain provides an accessible orientation to key questions, themes and issues underpinning welfare policy and politics in the UK today. It will be a valuable resource for educators and students at all levels. -- Dr. Daniel Edmiston, Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy * University of Leeds, UK *Table of Contents1.Introduction: The Development of Social Policy Part I: Structures and Contexts 2. The State 3. The Market 4. The Third Sector 5. Informal Welfare 6. Devolution and Local Control 7. International and European Influences Part II: Key Policy Areas 8. Social Security 9. Employment 10. Housing 11. Health 12. Social Care Services 13. Education Part III: Theories and Debates 14. Ideologies of Welfare 15. Economic Development 16. Paying for Welfare 17. Social Divisions 18. Delivering Welfare 19. The Future of Social Policy References Index

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Book SynopsisIn this book, Daniela Aidley and Kriss Fearon provide a practical introduction to making it easier for everyone to take part in research. It will be invaluable to researchers from a variety of backgrounds looking to increase participation in their research, whether postgraduate students, experienced academic researchers, or practitioners.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Research that includes disabled people Chapter 3: Research questions and research design Chapter 4: Sampling Chapter 5: Recruitment and the research setting Chapter 6: Face to face research Chapter 7: Online and remote research methods Chapter 8: Mixed media, triangulation and mixed methods Chapter 9: Writing up, publication and impact

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Book SynopsisThrough theories of metagovernance and case studies of mobilisations against economic and social problems, Bob Jessop explores the idea of civil society as a mode of governance. Reviewing concepts of self-emancipation and self-responsibilisation, he challenges conventional thinking and identifies lessons for future social innovation.Table of Contents1 Introduction Part I: Complexity, contingency and governance 2 The governance of complexity and the complexity of governance 3 Governance failure, metagovernance and its failure 4 Semantic, institutional and spatio-temporal fixes Part II: Locating civil society as a mode of governance 5 Locating the WISERD Project: Public policy governance towards common good 6 Locating civil society in Marx and Gramsci 7 Locating civil society in Foucault Part III: Governance failure and metagovernance 8 The multispatial governance of social and economic policy 9 The dynamics of economic and social partnerships and governance failure 10 Competitiveness vs civil society as modes of governance 11 Conclusions

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Book SynopsisThe field of digital technology in education has long been under-theorised. This book will enable the reader to reflect on the use of theory when explaining technology use and set out ways in which we can theorise better.Table of Contents1. What is theory? 2. What is theorising? 3. Theorising learning with technology 4. Teachers and technology: why does take-up seem so difficult? 5. A theory of technology 6. Optimism and pessimism when it comes to theorising technology 7. How can we theorise better?

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Book SynopsisA uniquely hybrid approach to welfare state policy, ecological sustainability and social transformation, this book explores transformative models of welfare change. Using Ireland as a case study, it addresses the institutional adaptations needed to move towards a sustainable welfare state.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The case for a welfare imagination Part 1: From problems to solutions: a post-growth ecosocial political economy 1. Commodification and decommodification 2. From unsustainable environmental outcomes to a post-growth world 3. From an unequal society to ecosocial welfare Part 2: Building an ecosocial imaginary 4. Reciprocity and interdependence: enabling institutions 5. Universal basic services 6. Participation income Part 3: An ecosocial political imaginary 7. Power and mobilisation 8. Imaginaries and ideas 9. Achieving change through high-energy democracy and coalition-building Conclusion

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Book SynopsisWith attention to the ways in which new reproductive technologies facilitate the gradual disembodiment of reproduction, this book reveals the paradox of women''s reproductive experience in patriarchal cultures as being both, and often simultaneously, empowering and disempowering. A rich exploration of birth appropriation in the West, New Reproductive Technologies and Disembodiment investigates the assimilation of women''s embodied power into patriarchal systems of symbolism, culture and politics through the inversion of women''s and men''s reproductive roles. Contending that new reproductive technologies represent another world historical moment, both in their forging of novel social relations and material processes of reproduction, and their manner of disembodying women in unprecedented ways - a disembodiment evident in recent visual and literary, popular and academic texts - this volume locates the roots of this disembodiment in western political discourse. A call to feminist politTrade Review’In a time that is oddly quiet in terms of critical feminist voices, this work on materialist feminist implications of new reproductive technologies is welcome and overdue. Treading carefully between the dominant theoretical posts of recent social and political thought, and engaging with shifting forms of capitalism, Lam brings useful critical insight into how and why new reproductive socio-technical systems form and how they erode a pluralism of being that sustained, collective feminism began.’ Annette Burfoot, Queen’s University, CanadaTable of ContentsNew Reproductive Technologies and Disembodiment

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Book SynopsisThe SAGE Handbook of the 21st Century Cityfocuses on the dynamics and disruptions of the contemporary city in relation to capricious processes of global urbanisation, mutation and resistance. An international range of scholars engage with emerging urban conditions and inequalities in experimental ways, speaking to new ideas of what constitutes the urban, highlighting empirical explorations and expanding on contributions to policy and design. The handbook is organised around nine key themes, through which familiar analytic categories of race, gender and class, as well as binaries such as the urban/rural, are readdressed. These thematic sections together capture the volatile processes and intricacies of urbanisation that reveal the turbulent nature of our early twenty-first century: Hierarchy: Elites and Evictions Productivity: Over-investment and Abandonment Authority: Governance and Mobilisations VolatilitTrade ReviewLook no further. Whether interested in the latest conceptual turn in defining the urban, or in the importance of transcending disciplinary boundaries in the study of cities, this handbook has it all. It is a superb collection that contains a remarkable set of essays from the world’s leading urbanists whose combined wisdom is essential to anyone seeking to understand the 21st century city. As noted in the editors’ introduction, this is not your standard urban sociology monograph. It is a call to consider new methods of action and imagination, built on a scholarly embrace of ethnographic and analytical thinking and brought to life through the careful reexamination of what the city is and might become in times of rapid and disruptive change. Adroitly organized around a range of thematic topics and scales of inquiry that shed light on timely issues such as immigration, risk, eviction, and conflict as well as more enduring concerns like governance, globalization, and investment, the main challenge for the reader will be to absorb it all. Yet, the editors’ abiding concern with the socio-spatial and experiential contours of the urban, and their clear appreciation for the impact of design on the production and consumption of the city, provide an opportunity to tie together the various sections and chapters in unique and provocative ways. Although there are many worthy urban collections available on the market today, hands-down this is the one I’d want my students to read and my colleagues to discuss. -- Diane E. DavisThis outstanding collection of essays, reflections, provocations and "excavations of the future" is both timely and appropriate. Appropriate, since it asks the reader to re-assess the way in which contemporary urbanity is both familiar and not, depending on one′s location and perspective, and timely since the editors′ bold assertion of a new taxonomy of issues from ′authority′ to ′civility′ dissolves the decades-old hierarchies between First- and Third World, developed and developing, the West and the Rest. Individual essays aside, its most important contribution to the exploding field(s) of scholarship concerned with how we understand, shape, influence and inhabit our increasingly urban world is to draw threads across ′profoundly asymmetrical′ lines of power, race, class and culture that acknowledge difference without flattening it, or without aspiring to ′models for the whole world′, yet, at the same time, asserts the oft-buried capacity in all of us to connect, share, dialogue and learn from each other. ′Design′ here is less concerned with a conventional reading of form/performance and aesthetics and more preoccupied with our ability to imagine new ways of reading and engaging the world around us. In their own words, a ′churningly′ fine collection that manages to be poetic, provocative and pedagogically compelling all at once. -- Lesley LokkoAstute and comprehensive, this expertly assembled volume moves through and well beyond the categories that have shaped our current understandings of cities – global and ordinary, northern and southern, formal and informal, civil and conflictual – to reveal the struggles over meaning and access that cut across class, culture, politics, and space. Read together, the pieces vividly capture the brutalities and possibilities of capitalist urban development, honing in on the mobilities and mobilizations – characterized here as the "urban churn" – that give cities their dynamic character. -- Liza WeinsteinIn the respected tradition of the SAGE Handbook, this collection brings together the most important urban scholars of out time. Their insightful analyses of the processes, experiences and consequences of urbanization draw upon a diverse array of cities and remind us that the effects of urbanization reach beyond any geographical city limit. This carefully curated collection redefines the interdisciplinary field of urban studies and sets its moral course to meet the challenges of the 21st century. -- Jane M JACOBS"Written for practitioners and upper-level undergraduates, this title is recommended for public libraries located in cities and urban centers and for academic libraries supporting urban studies in sociology." -- Ladyjane Hickey * ARBA *Table of Contents1) Introduction: The Urban Churn - Suzanne Hall, Ricky Burdett Part 1: Questions of Definition: An Urban Compendium 2) The Global Urban: Difference and Complexity in Urban Studies and the Science of Cities - Jenny Robinson, Sue Parnell 3) Urban Studies and the Postcolonial Encounter - Ananya Roy 4) Elements for a New Epistemology of the Urban - Neil Brenner, Christian Schmid Part 2: Hierarchy: Elites and Evictions 5) The Elite Habitus in Cities of Accumulation - Mike Savage 6) Reimagining Chinese London - Caroline Knowles, Roger Burrows 7) Eviction and the Reproduction of Urban Poverty - Matt Desmond Part 3: Productivity: Over-investment and Abandonment 8) Global Cities: Places for Researching the Translocal - Saskia Sassen 9) Origins of an Urban Crisis: The Restructuring of the San Francisco Bay Area and the Geography of Foreclosure - Alex Schafran 10) Urban Economy and Social Inequality in Productivity: Investment and Abandonment - Fran Tonkiss 11) Ruination and Post-industrial Urban Decline - Alice Mah Part 4: Authority: Governance and Mobilisations 12) The Political Sociology of Cities and Urbanisation Processes: Social Movements, Inequalities and Governance - Patrick Le Galès 13) Limits to South Africa’s ‘Right to the City’: Prospects For and Beyond Urban Commoning - Patrick Bond 14) Aesthetic Governmentality : Administering the ‘World-Class’ City in Delhi’s Slums - Asher Ghertner Part 5: Volatility: Disruption and Adaptation 15) Post-Disaster, Recovery and Rebuilding - Kevin Fox Gotham, Wesley Cheek 16) What the Eye Does Not See: The Yamuna in the Imagination of Delhi - Amita Baviskar 17) Endangered City: Security and Citizenship in Bogota - Austin Zeiderman Part 6: Conflict: Vulnerability and Insurgency 18) The European Refugee Crisis in “Our” Cities: Conflict, Vulnerability and Ethics of Surface - Christine Hentschel 19) Temporal (Un)Civility of the City: MENA Urban Insurgencies and Revolutions - Anna M. Agathangelou 20) Violent Infrastructures, Places of Conflict: Urban Order in Divided Cities - Wendy Pullan Part 7: Provisionality: Infrastructure and Incrementalism 21) The Majority-World and the Politics of Everyday Living in Southeast Asia - AbdouMaliq Simone 22) Incremental Urbanism and Tactical Learning: Reflections from Mumbai and Kampala - Colin McFarlane 23) Infrastructure Deficits and Potential in African Cities - Edgar Pieterse, Katherine Hyman Part 8: Mobility: Re-bordering and De-bordering 24) City of Migrants - Ash Amin 25) The Migrant Street - Suzanne Hall, Robin Finlay, Julia King 26) Rethinking Border Cities: In-Between Spaces, Unequal Actors and Stretched Mobility Across the China-Southeast Asia Borderland - Xiangming Chen, Curtis Stone 27) Re-bordering Camp and City: ‘Race’, Space and Citizenship in Dhaka - Victoria Redclift 28) The Essences of Multiculture: A Sensory Exploration of an Inner-city Street Market - Alex Rhys Taylor Part 9: Civility: Contestation and Encounter 29) The Contradictions of Urban Public Space: The View From London and New York - David Madden 30) The Public Life of Social Capital - Talja Blokland 31) From the Speculative to the Littoral City - Sarah Nuttall Part 10: Design: Speculation and Imagination 32) The Public Realm - Richard Sennett 33) Urban Design: Beyond Architecture at Scale - Rahul Mehrotra 34) Towards a Minor Global Architecture at Lamu, Kenya - Lindsay Bremner 35) Forensic Architecture: Political Practice, Activism, Aesthetics - Eyal Weizman 36) Designing Infrastructure - Keller Easterling 37) A Latecomer Imagines the City - William Mann

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Book SynopsisRenowned author Ulrike Schuerkenspresents an in-depth exploration of social transformations and developments. Combining an international approach with up-to-date research, the book: Has dedicated chapters on contemporary topics including technology, new media, war and terror, political culture and inequality Includes an analysis of societal structures inequality, globalization, transnationalism Contains learning features including: discussion questions, annotated further reading, chapter summaries and pointers to online resources to assist with study A must buy for studentstaking modules in social change, social inequality, socialtheory and globalization. Trade ReviewSchuerkens draws from a truly global array of systems writers writing in a variety of languages....there are emphases on complexity, on multiplicity of outcomes, on consequential interactions between local cultures and international structures, and on persistent and enduring global pathologies that do not disappear. All of this is refreshing. -- Samuel CohnThe audience for this book may include academics, higher education practitioners, individuals concerned with global civil society, and political activists. I recommend this book as a resource, maybe a starting point for those interested in global studies, globalization, and social movements. -- Ligia E ToutantTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Social Transformations and Development(s) in a Globalized World Chapter 2: The Sociological and Anthropological Study of Globalization and Localization Chapter 3: Transformations of Local Socio-economic Practices in a Global World Chapter 4: Globalization and the Transformation of Social Inequality Chapter 5: Transnational Migrations and Social Transformations Chapter 6: Socio-economic Impacts of the Global Financial crisis Chapter 7: Communication, Media, Technology, and Global Social Change Chapter 8: Global Social Change and the Environment Chapter 9: Conflict, Competition, Cooperation, and Global Change Chapter 10: Globalization and Social Movements: Human Agency and Mobilizations for Change Chapter 11: Final Remarks: Social Change in a Global World References

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Book SynopsisDrawing in part on the lived experiences of contributors who have overcome a street life, Thug Criminology seeks to challenge the traditional scholarship on gangs and their behaviours.Table of ContentsIntroduction Adam Ellis, Olga Marques, and Anthony Gunter Part I: They Don’t Give a F**k about Us! Defanging and Decolonizing the Criminological Enterprise 1. Problematizing Traditional Criminological Perspectives on Thugs and Gangs Olga Marques 2. The White Male Criminological Gaze as Pornography: The Quasi-Sexual Academic Obsession with Black “Gang Bangers” Anthony Gunter 3. Writing Themselves Out of Research: “Whitemaleness” and the Study of “Gang” Active Young Women Clare Choak 4. Somethin’ Doesn’t Seem Right: A Commentary on the “Scientific Method” and “Gang”Research Adam Ellis and Anthony Gunter Part II: “Getting Over” and Inside the Ivory Tower 5. I Am (Not) What You Say I Am: The Colonizers’ “Gang” Gregory (Chris) Brown 6. A Black Scholar’s Intellectual Journey and Subsequent Perspective on the White Colonial “Gang” Project Ian Joseph 7. Good Trouble: Creating Spaces for Criminalized Populations in the Ivory Tower Lily Gonzalez, Javier Rodriguez, and Robert Weide Part III: Word on the Street 8. Shook Ones: An Insider’s Perspective on Trauma, PTSD, and the Reenactment of Street-Related Violence Adam Elis, Stephanie Belanger, and Luca Berardi 9. (De)Criminalizing the “Code of Silence" – Reflections of a Former “Gangbanger” Turned Academic Anthony Hutchinson and Jared Millican 10. The Raid: State Violence and Traumatic Responses in the Lives of Black Women Melissa McLetchie 11a. Letter from the Streetz: Growing Up in the Gutter Chad Briand aka Turk 11b. Letter from the Streetz: Don’t Interrupt Me TG 11c. Letter from the Penetentiary: The Change in Me Alejandro Vivar 11d. Letter from the Streetz: Dear Hip Hop Marcus Singleton aka Iomos Marad Part IV: Decolonizing the Gang Industry 12. Crime as Disease Contagion and Control: The Public Health Perspective and Implications for Black and Other Ethnic Minority Communities Anthony Gunter 13. A Violent Cure? Problematizing the “Cure Violence” Initiative Malte Riemann 14. When the System Harms: An Insider’s Perspective on the Negative Socio-psychological Impact of So-Called “Gang Intervention” Tammy Tinney 15. Fight Poverty, Fight Crime: A Justice Focused Approach for Toronto/Canada Yafet Tewelde and Julet Allen 16. We Make the Path by Walking It: Repairing, Restoring, and Constructing Pathways Rick Kelly Epilogue Adam Ellis Contributor Biographies

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Book SynopsisDrawing in part on the lived experiences of contributors who have overcome a street life, Thug Criminology seeks to challenge the traditional scholarship on gangs and their behaviours.Table of ContentsIntroduction Adam Ellis, Olga Marques, and Anthony Gunter Part I: They Don’t Give a F**k about Us! Defanging and Decolonizing the Criminological Enterprise 1. Problematizing Traditional Criminological Perspectives on Thugs and Gangs Olga Marques 2. The White Male Criminological Gaze as Pornography: The Quasi-Sexual Academic Obsession with Black “Gang Bangers” Anthony Gunter 3. Writing Themselves Out of Research: “Whitemaleness” and the Study of “Gang” Active Young Women Clare Choak 4. Somethin’ Doesn’t Seem Right: A Commentary on the “Scientific Method” and “Gang”Research Adam Ellis and Anthony Gunter Part II: “Getting Over” and Inside the Ivory Tower 5. I Am (Not) What You Say I Am: The Colonizers’ “Gang” Gregory (Chris) Brown 6. A Black Scholar’s Intellectual Journey and Subsequent Perspective on the White Colonial “Gang” Project Ian Joseph 7. Good Trouble: Creating Spaces for Criminalized Populations in the Ivory Tower Lily Gonzalez, Javier Rodriguez, and Robert Weide Part III: Word on the Street 8. Shook Ones: An Insider’s Perspective on Trauma, PTSD, and the Reenactment of Street-Related Violence Adam Elis, Stephanie Belanger, and Luca Berardi 9. (De)Criminalizing the “Code of Silence" – Reflections of a Former “Gangbanger” Turned Academic Anthony Hutchinson and Jared Millican 10. The Raid: State Violence and Traumatic Responses in the Lives of Black Women Melissa McLetchie 11a. Letter from the Streetz: Growing Up in the Gutter Chad Briand aka Turk 11b. Letter from the Streetz: Don’t Interrupt Me TG 11c. Letter from the Penetentiary: The Change in Me Alejandro Vivar 11d. Letter from the Streetz: Dear Hip Hop Marcus Singleton aka Iomos Marad Part IV: Decolonizing the Gang Industry 12. Crime as Disease Contagion and Control: The Public Health Perspective and Implications for Black and Other Ethnic Minority Communities Anthony Gunter 13. A Violent Cure? Problematizing the “Cure Violence” Initiative Malte Riemann 14. When the System Harms: An Insider’s Perspective on the Negative Socio-psychological Impact of So-Called “Gang Intervention” Tammy Tinney 15. Fight Poverty, Fight Crime: A Justice Focused Approach for Toronto/Canada Yafet Tewelde and Julet Allen 16. We Make the Path by Walking It: Repairing, Restoring, and Constructing Pathways Rick Kelly Epilogue Adam Ellis Contributor Biographies

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Book SynopsisThis revised edition of this extremely popular introduction to social theory has been carefully and thoroughly updated with the latest developments in this continually changing field. Written in a refreshingly lucid and engaging style, Introducing Social Theory provides readers with a wide-ranging, well organized and thematic introduction to all the major thinkers, issues and debates in classical and contemporary social theory. Introducing Social Theory traces the development of social theorizing from the classical ideas about modernity of Durkheim, Marx and Weber, right up to a uniquely accessible review of the contemporary theoretical controversies in sociology that surround post-colonialism, gender and feminist theories, and public sociology. The ideal textbook for students of sociology at all levels, from A-level to undergraduates, Introducing Social Theory is remarkably easy to follow and understand. This new edition lives up to its predecessors' goal that students need never be intimidated by social theory again.Trade Review"This is a real treasure. This revised edition continues to focus on essential and practical aspects in major sociological theories. It introduces to readers - with clarity and succinctness - interlocking debates and themes in these theories. Moreover, it provides new exploration on theoretical practice in relations to public sociology and the uncertainties of modernity. I remain highly impressed!"—Peter Chua, San Jose State University "For a first taste of the complexity and richness of social theory, this book is excellent. This third edition includes discussions of cutting-edge material. Strongly recommended!"—Patrick Baert, University of Cambridge "This is a cool, charming book students and lecturers will enjoy from cover to end."—Sociological Research OnlineTable of Contents 1. An Introduction to Sociological Theories 2. Marx and Marxism 3. Max Weber 4. Emile Durkheim 5. Interpretive Sociology: Action Theories 6. Language, Discourse and Power in Modernity: Jürgen Habermas and Michel Foucault 7. Social Structures and Social Action 8. Feminist and Gender Theories 9. Sociology and Its Publics

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book to situate the territories and collective identities of former Yugoslavia within the politics of race – not just ethnicity – and the history of how ideas of racialised difference have been translated globally. The book connects critical race scholarship, global historical sociologies of ‘race in translation’ and south-east European cultural critique to show that the Yugoslav region is deeply embedded in global formations of race. In doing this, it considers the everyday geopolitical imagination of popular culture; the history of ethnicity, nationhood and migration; transnational formations of race before and during state socialism, including the Non-Aligned Movement; and post-Yugoslav discourses of security, migration, terrorism and international intervention, including the War on Terror and the present refugee crisis.Trade Review'Catherine Baker bravely focuses on what many scholars working on Yugoslavia, post-Yugoslav nations, and/or the Balkans have avoided or not been able to grapple with: race.'Sociology of Race and Ethnicity'The book is a poignant study of race and references an extensive and rich amount of literature. It fills an important gap in scholarship on Yugoslavia and Southeast Europe which often lacks a critical analysis of race. I believe it is a necessary read for those interested in Southeast and East European Studies, as well as postsocialism studies. Those interested in critical race theory, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, history, and anthropology will obtain a great deal from the text.'The Anthropology of East Europe Review -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: what does race have to do with the Yugoslav region? 1 Popular music and the ‘cultural archive’ 2 Histories of ethnicity, nation and migration 3 Transnational formations of race before and during Yugoslav state socialism 4 Postsocialism, borders, security and race after Yugoslavia Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisRefiguring childhood stages a series of encounters with biosocial power, which is a specific zone of intensity within the more encompassing arena of biopower and biopolitics. Assembled at the intersection of thought and practice, biosocial power attempts to bring envisioned futures into the present, taking hold of life in the form of childhood, thereby bridging being and becoming while also shaping the power relations that encapsulate the social and cultural world(s) of adults and children. Taking up a critical perspective that is attentive to the contingency of childhoods – the ways in which particular childhoods are constituted and configured – this book offers a transversal genealogy that moves between past and present while also crossing a series of discourses and practices framed by children’s rights (the right to play), citizenship, health, disadvantage, and entrepreneurship education. The overarching analysis converges on contemporary neo-liberal enterprise culture, which is approached as a conjuncture that helps to explain, and also to trouble, the growing emphasis on the agency and rights of children. It is against the backdrop of this problematic that the book makes its case for refiguring childhood, focusing on the how, where and when of biosocial power.Table of Contents1 Introduction: biosocial power and normative fictions2 Governing the future: childhood between the prior to and the not yet3 The playground as biosocial technology4 The right to play and the freedom to pay5 Empowering the young citizen6 Childhood as a national asset: the medical and moral framing of ‘health’7 Disadvantaged childhoods and the neuroliberal fix8 Casting the subject of enterprise: children as ‘architects of their futures’9 Refiguring childhoodIndex

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Book SynopsisSurviving repression tells the story of the Muslim Brotherhood following the 2013 coup d'état in Egypt. The Brotherhood gained legal recognition and quickly rose to power after the 2011 Arab uprisings, but its subsequent removal from office marked the beginning of the harshest repression of its troubled history. Forced into exile, the Brotherhood and its members are now faced with a monumental task as they rebuild this fragmented organisation. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and interviews with current and former members of the Brotherhood, the book explores this new era in the movement’s history, emphasising first-hand experiences, perspectives and emotions to better understand how individual responses to repression are affecting the movement as a whole.Surviving repression offers a unique insight into the main strategic, ideological and organizational debates dividing the Brotherhood.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 The Freedom and Justice Party in power: Islam is (not) the solution?2 The fall from grace3 The tanzim, shattered4 Lessons learnt? Stagnation vs adaptation5 Divided, togetherConclusionGlossaryBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisIn the neoliberal world of the twenty-first century, the progressive academy urgently needs a vehicle for normative social research. Critical theory once answered this call, but today its programme is in crisis. The ‘pathologies of recognition’ approach, popular among contemporary critical theorists, aids neoliberalism rather than challenging it, in part because it is unable to grasp the structural nature of power.To offer an alternative, this book returns to the work of Erich Fromm and Herbert Marcuse, using it as the basis for a revivified social theoretical foundation. As the first generation of critical theorists knew, thought itself can be reified, our imaginations debased, and our desires artificially induced. We need to think beyond recognition and embrace a more potent and aggressive form of social critique, true to the founding spirit of the Frankfurt School.Trade Review'Critical theory and social pathology provides a necessary recapturing of social pathology, unseating it from its position as a ‘second order’ phenomenon to the process of recognition. Harris recognises the important contribution of recent critiques of Critical Theory, but sets them aside, proposing a new way forward. Here, social pathology is regarded as an important platform for a renewed programme of social research. By engaging with this new synthesis of Fromm and Marcuse’s work, Harris allows critical theorists to, once again, step beyond recognition.'Owen Brown, Marx and Philosophy Review of Books‘Critical theory and social pathology makes a major contribution to the field. Harris shows how Erich Fromm’s work offers profound and timely insights into the nature of societal pathologies. As such, the book points beyond the recognition approach to social research and offers the foundations for a critical theory of society which reconnects with the founding aspirations of the Frankfurt School.’Gerard Delanty, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University Of Sussex‘This timely and lucid study makes an important contribution to the growing chorus of voices that claim that Frankfurt School Critical theory is in crisis. Its thinkers have abandoned their animating commitment to radical and uncompromising criticism of the pathologies of capitalism and adopted instead a defanged, reformist political stance. In his scholarly and engaging work, Neal Harris identifies the roots of this domestication in the work of Axel Honneth and other theorists of recognition who have substituted the deep critique of power with superficial epistemological concerns. Through a distinctive rereading of the work of Erich Fromm and Herbert Marcuse, Harris demonstrates how the radical thrust of Frankfurt School critique might yet be restored in a revivified diagnosis of the pathologies of neoliberal societies. Thought provoking and essential reading for anyone interested in the state of contemporary critical theory and possible pathways for the renewal of its original emancipatory aims.’Lois McNay, Professor of Political Theory, University of Oxford'Critical theory, once the purview of thinkers that were independent, iconoclastic and engaged, has sadly become academic and pedantic, flitting from one intellectual fad to the next. Neal Harris is a welcome exception to this trend. With original and committed intelligence, he reveals the pretensions of academic critical theory and exposes the pedantry that dominates the field. Above the deafening bleats of what now passes for critical theory, Harris's book renews the faith that critique can once again be fused with emancipatory political purpose and the best traditions of modern reason.'Michael J. Thompson, Professor of Political Theory, William Paterson University -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: on the battle for critical theoryPart I: Social pathology and the crisis of critical theory1 Social pathology: the ‘explosive charge’ of critical theory2 Distorted by recognition3 Pathologies of recognitionPart II: Foundations of pathology diagnosing critique4 Rousseau and the foundations of pathology diagnosing social criticism5 Hegelian-Marxism: pathologies of reason, pathologies of productionPart III: A Fromm-Marcuse synthesis6 Erich Fromm and pathological normalcy7 The pathological normalcy of what? Towards a Fromm-Marcuse synthesisConclusion: the Frankfurt School beyond recognitionIndex

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection harnesses a diversity of interpretivist perspectives to provide a panoramic view of the production, experiences, contexts, and meanings of religion. Scholars from the US, South Asia and Europe explore religious phenomena using ethnographic, comparative historical, psychosocial, and critical theoretical approaches. Each chapter addresses foundational themes in the study of religion – from identity, discourse and power to ritual, emotion, and embodiment. Authors examine dynamic intersections of race, gender, history, and the present within the religious traditions of Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Buddhism, as well as among the non-religious. Cutting boldly across religious traditions and paradigms, the book investigates areas of harmony and contradiction across different interpretive lenses to achieve a richer understanding of the meanings of religion.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Interpretive Approaches in the Study of Religion ~ Erin F. Johnston 1. Making Sense of Queer Christian Lives ~ Jodi O'Brien 2. Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma: Religion, Spirituality and Ritual among Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors ~ Janet Jacobs 3. Doing It: Ethnography, Embodiment, and the Interpretation of Religion ~ Daniel Winchester 4. Mind the Gap: What Ethnographic Silences Can Teach Us ~ Rebecca Kneale Gould 5. The Public Sphere and Presentations of the Collective Self: Being Shia in Modern India ~ Aseem Hasnain 6. Meaning and Power: Toward a Critical Discursive Sociology of Religion ~ Titus Hjelm 7. The Religion of White Male Ethnonationalism in a Multicultural Reality ~ George Lundskow 8. Totalitarianism as Religion ~ Yong Wang 9. The Heritage Spectrum: A More Inclusive Typology for the Age of Global Buddhism ~ Jessica Marie Falcone 10. Interpreting Nonreligion ~ Evan Stewart Afterword: Approaching Religions – Some Refl ections on Meaning, Identity, and Power ~ Vikash Singh

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Book SynopsisOffers an original contribution to the field by focusing on epistemic tensions in socio-technical systems.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Tense Thinking and the Myths of an Algorithmic New Life 2. The Pursuit of Posthuman Security 3. Overstepping and the Navigation of the Perceived Limits of Algorithmic Thinking 4. (Dreaming of) Super Cognizers and the Stretching of the Known 5. The Presences of Nonknowledge 6. Conclusion: Algorithmic Thinking and the Will to Automate

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Book SynopsisLeading migration researcher Louise Ryan’s topical and intersectional book provides rich insights into migrants’ social networks. It draws on more than 200 interviews with migrants who followed various transnational routes in every decade since the 1940s, in order to build valuable longitudinal perspectives and comparisons. With a particular focus on London, it charts how social networks are formed and sustained, how trust is developed and how social support is accessed, and explores the key opportunities and obstacles that migrants encounter. This is a seminal fusion of migration studies and social network analysis that casts new light on both subjects, essential for those interested in immigration, ethnicity, diversity and inequalities.Trade Review“Social Networks and Migration is an absolute must-read book for anyone interested in migration, social networks, social support and diversity.” Ethnic and Racial Studies"The book is an important contribution to the study of migration and of social networks." FQSTable of Contents1. Introduction: Embarking on a Book about Networks 2. Conceptualising Migrant Networks: Advancing the Field of Qualitative Social Network Analysis 3. Researching Migration and Networks: Empirical and Methodological Innovations 4. Social Networks and Stories of Arrival 5. Employment, Deskilling and Reskilling: Revisiting Strong and Weak Ties 6. Evolving Networks in Place over Time: A Life Course Lens 7. Transnational Ties: Narrating Relationality, Resources and Dynamics over Time 8. Conclusion: Thoughts and Future Directions

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Book SynopsisIn this book, leading sociologists explore how, in our digital age of connectivity, temporal acceleration and real-time simultaneity impact personal experience, relations between generations and institutional processes. The authors analyse the entanglement between past and future and explain how our ability to conceive the future is based not only upon the memory of the past, but also on forecasts about environmental crisis. Bringing memory and future studies into a unique dialogue, they highlight the crucial role of the past elaboration processes in freeing the future from the weight of trauma and renewing the ability to hope. Offering a sophisticated and innovative social theory in a burgeoning field, this is a much-needed intervention to the current ‘temporal crisis’ of social life and sociological debates.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Memories: What Memories Does the Future Need? 2. Futurity: Changing Futures in a Changing World 3. Memory and Future through the Generations Conclusion

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Book SynopsisAs nations reel from the effects of poverty, inequality, climate change and the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, it feels as though the world has entered a period characterized by pessimism, cynicism and anxiety. This edited collection challenges individualized understandings of emotion, revealing how they relate to cultural, economic and political realities in difficult times. Combining numerous empirical studies and theoretical developments from around the world, the diverse contributors explore how dystopian visions of the future influence, and are influenced by, the emotions of an anxious and precarious present. This is an original investigation into the changing landscape of emotion in dark and uncertain times.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Feeling of Dystopia - Jordan McKenzie 1. Borderland Emotions: A Case Study of Youths in Kinmen, Taiwan - Gina Chin-Yi Yang 2. Beyond Wicked Facebook: A Vital Materialism Perspective - Deborah Lupton and Clare Southerton 3. Detangling Online Dystopias: Emotional Reflexivity and Cyber-Deviance - Vern Smith 4. Mass Emotional Events: Rethinking Emotional Contagions after COVID-19 - Jordan McKenzie, Roger Patulny, Rebecca E. Olson and Marlee Bower 5. Between the Nationalists and the Fundamentalists, Still We Have Hope! - Kiran Grewal and Hasanah Cegu Isadeen 6. ‘The New Economy and the Privilege of Feeling’: Towards a Theory of Emotional Structuration - Roger Patulny 7. Neo-Villeiny University - Geraint Harvey and Simon Williams 8. Resuscitating the Past: Zygmunt Bauman’s Critical Analysis of the Recent Rise of Retrotopia - Michael Hviid Jacobsen 9. Hope Out of Stock: Critical and Melancholic Hope in Climate Fiction - Briohny Doyle Conclusion: A Critical Mass of Emotions - Reflexivity, Loneliness and Hope? - Roger Patulny and Jordan McKenzie

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Book SynopsisThe idea of public sociology, as introduced by Michael Burawoy, was inspired by the sociological practice in South Africa known as ‘critical engagement’. This volume explores the evolution of critical engagement before and after Burawoy’s visit to South Africa in the 1990s and offers a Southern critique of his model of public sociology. Involving four generations of researchers from the Global South, the authors provide a multifaceted exploration of the formation of new knowledge through research practices of co-production. Tracing the historical development of ‘critical engagement’ from a Global South perspective, the book deftly weaves a bridge between the debates on public sociology and decolonial frameworks.Table of Contents1. Critical Engagement in South Africa and the Global South: An Introduction - Andries Bezuidenhout, Sonwabile Mnwana and Karl von Holdt 2. Critical Engagement and SWOP’s Changing Research Tradition - Andries Bezuidenhout and Karl von Holdt 3. Choosing Sides: The Promise and Pitfalls of a Critically Engaged Sociology in Apartheid South Africa - Edward Webster 4. The Decline of Labour Studies and the Democratic Transition - Sakhela Buhlungu 5. From ‘Critical Engagement’ to ‘Public Sociology’ and Back: A Critique from the South - Karl von Holdt 6. The Antinomies and Opportunities of Critical Engagement in South Africa’s Rural Mining Frontier - Sonwabile Mnwana 7. Sociological Engagement with the Struggle for a Just Transition in South Africa - Jacklyn Cock 8. Feminist Participatory Action Research in African Sex Work Studies - Ntokozo Yingwana 9. Participatory Action Research for Food Justice in Johannesburg: Seeking a More Immediate Impact for Engaged Research - Brittany Kesselman 10. Dilemmas and Issues Confronting Socially Engaged Research within Universities - Aninka Claassens and Nokwanda Sihlali 11. Experiences of Meetings and Cooperation between Academics and Unions: The Work Studies Group from the South (GETSUR) - Dasten Julián Vejar 12. Critically Engaging Public Sociology in Turkey and 'Sociology across the South' - Ercüment Çelik 13. Reflections on Critical Engagement - Michael Burawoy 14 Conclusion: Towards a Southern Sociology - Karl von Holdt

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Book SynopsisAt the heart of capitalism lies the idea of ‘homo economicus’: an ever-rational human being motivated by self-interest which arguably leads societies to economic prosperity. Drawing on French sociologist Marcel Mauss' influential theory of ‘the gift’, Frank Adloff shatters this fallacy to show mutual trust is the only glue that holds societies together; people are giving beings and they can cooperate for the benefit of all when the logic of maximizing personal gain in capitalism is broken. Acknowledging the role of women, nature, and workers in the Global South in transforming society, this book proposes a politics of conviviality, (from the Latin con-vivere: living together) for global and environmental justice as an alternative to the pursuit of profit, growth, and consumption.Table of ContentsIntroduction: From Capitalism’s Crises to a Convivial Society Part 1: An Anthropology of Giving 1. Self-interest, Altruism, and the Gift 2. Mauss’ Gift 3. 'Homo donator': A Different Anthropology Part 2: Society’s Gifts 4. Locating the Gift in Society 5. The Gift between Socialism and Capitalism 6. Commodities, Values, Money, Gifts Part 3: Crossing the Borders 7. Science and Technology, Nature and Conviviality 8. Gifts of Nature 9. Civil Society, Conviviality, Utopia Part 4: Worlds of Conviviality 10. Aesthetic Freedom, or The Gift of Art 11. Pluriversalism: Towards a European and Global Politics of Conviviality Conclusion

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Book SynopsisWhile it was evident to the classics of social theory that modern societies are highly dynamic forms of social organization, and that this dynamic nature must be reflected explicitly and confronted directly in modes of analysis across the social sciences, over the course of the twentieth century, the acknowledgement of this fact has been weakening. As the social sciences became increasingly concerned with issues of professionalization and standards of validity inspired by more established disciplines, especially the natural sciences and economics, the focus on dynamic processes gave way to efforts to illuminate structural (i.e., static) features of modern social life. In recent decades, however, this preoccupation with structure has begun to give way to more process-oriented research orientations. In part, this renewed interest in dynamics rather than statics is reflective of the growing influence of Continental European traditions, especially in Germany and France. In this follow-up volume to "Theorizing the Dynamics of Social Processes (vol. 27)", the emphasis is placed on recent trends in Continental European social theory, and on the importance of political analyses to theorizing modern societies.Table of ContentsList of Contributors. EDITORIAL BOARD. Acknowledgements. Introduction: Theorizing Historical Processes in Modern Societies. Toward Bridging Analytics and Dialectics: Nonergodic Processes and Turning Points in Dynamic Models of Social Change with Illustrations from Labor Movement History. Adorno, Advocate of the Nonidentical: An Introduction. Developments of Analytical Logic and Dialectical Logic with Regard to the Study of Process Dynamics. Communication, Language, and the Emergence of Social Orders. Culture, Theory, and Critique: Marx, Durkheim, and Human Science. Sociality–Normativity–Morality: The Explanatory Strategy of Günter Dux's Historico-Genetic Theory. Politics Disembodied and Deterritorialized: The Internet as Human Rights Resource. Civil Society and the State in the Neoliberal Era: Dynamics of Friends and Enemies. The Social Construction of the European Society. About the Authors. Theorizing Modern Society as a Dynamic Process. Current Perspectives in Social Theory. Current Perspectives in Social Theory. Copyright page.

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Book SynopsisNetwork Persistence and the Axis of Hierarchy shows how networks, modestly redefined as a strong, yet imperfect tendency for pairings to recur day after day, that is, stickiness, imply a singular axis of stratification. This is contrary to the nearly universal insistence that stratification is multidimensional. Reanalysis of three central mobility data sets sustains the novel claim. Network concepts provide a supple base for analysis whereby order and regularity are strongly sustained in network neighborhoods but are not necessarily uniform or universal. This provides new takes, often quite radical, on accounts of structure and order by authors such as Pierre Bourdieu, Randall Collins and Talcott Parsons.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations; Preface; Chapter One Sticky Struggles: The Unified Pattern of Social Ranks Inherent in Networks; Chapter Two Foundations of Cacophony; Chapter Three Knots of Regularity; Chapter Four Hierarchy: Inevitable but Inevitably Messy; Chapter Five The Inevitable Emergence of Stratification; Chapter Six Scaling Intergenerational Continuity: Is Occupational Inheritance Ascriptive After All?; Chapter Seven Taming the Mobility Table; Chapter Eight Is Occupational Mobility Declining in the United States?; Chapter Nine The Continuum of Class over Time: Deconstructing Imposed Class to Uncover Empirical Classes; Chapter Ten Concluding Reflections; Appendix: Why Robust Attraction Is (Effectively) Inevitable for Mobility Data; Index.

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Book Synopsis The world we live in is constantly changing. Climate change, transforming gender conceptions, emerging issues of food consumption, novel forms of family life and technological developments are altering central areas of our forms of life. This raises questions of how to cope with and understand the moral changes implicit in such alterations. This volume is the first to address moral change as such. It brings together anthropologists and philosophers to discuss how to study and theorize the change of norms, concepts, emotions, moral frameworks and forms of personhood.Trade Review “An original and far-reaching work that will excite both students and senior scholars, attracting a wide readership within and beyond anthropology and moral philosophy and prompting lively debate across multiple fields and specialisms.” • Susan Bayly, University of Cambridge “This volume is a valuable collection of texts around the undertheorized and crucial notion of moral change, which brings together anthropologists of ethics and moral philosophers. Such a book is needed and it would naturally find its place in the growing literature in the field of morality.” • Monica Heintz, Université Paris NanterreTable of Contents Introduction: Moral Change in Philosophy and Anthropology Cecilie Eriksen and Nora Hämäläinen This chapter is available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license thanks to the support of the ERC via Utrecht University. Chapter 1. Moral Change Through the Lens of Marriage Susan MacDougall Chapter 2. Queering ‘Ayb in the Urban Landscapes of Amman Marie Rask Bjerre Odgaard Chapter 3. Ordinary Possibility, Transcendent Immanence, and Responsive Ethics: A Philosophical Anthropology of the Small Event Cheryl Mattingly Chapter 4. Moral Revolutions, Value Change, and the Question of Moral Progress Joel Robbins Chapter 5. Losing Selves: Moral Injury and the Changing Moral Economies of State-Sanctioned Violence Elizabeth M. Bounds and Joseph Wiinikka-Lydon Chapter 6. Dementia Care Ethics, Social Ontology, and World-Open Care: Phenomenological Motifs Rasmus Dyring Chapter 7. On Moral Revolutions Robert Baker Chapter 8. Moral Borderlands: Ethical Normativity in Liminal Spaces Cecilie Eriksen This chapter is available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license thanks to the support of the ERC via Utrecht University. Chapter 9. Moral Change and Moral Truth Nora Hämäläinen Chapter 10. The Problem of Piety Cora Diamond Chapter 11. Guiding Ethical Sentences, Moral Change, and Form(s) of Life Anne-Marie Søndergaard Christensen Chapter 12. Two Historical Periods Within One Human Breast Niklas Forsberg Conclusion: Morality in Action Nora Hämäläinen Index

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Book SynopsisThe 1960s saw pioneering changes in the realms of international politics, science, culture and art. Turning this historical lens onto the study of sociology, The Sociological Inheritance of the 1960s reveals both the continuities and the departures the field has seen in its core principles and approaches over the past several decades. Beginning with an overview of society in the ‘60s, Jiří Šubrt provides an important reflection on a period worthy of contemporary reflection. In this context, what new concepts emerged? What were the popular methodological approaches? What controversies and debates emerged? How did sociology form part of a wider landscape of creative explosion throughout the decade? What implications does this have for contemporary sociology? Inspiring an enriched understanding of a legacy still deeply relevant to current issues and concerns across the field, The Sociological Inheritance of the 1960s proves that, despite the half a century that has since passed, we still have much to learn from this rich period of sociological development.Trade ReviewUnderstanding the 1960s as a decade of hope and a call for radical change, Šubrt . . . masterfully makes astute observations outside of ideas already posited, using language that demonstrates that sociologists are not only dry repeaters of previous thinkers, but instead creative, thoughtful minds, reflecting on society and how it can move forward, even if there is no clear trajectory where that forward might take us . . . The Sociological Inheritance of the 1960s is a useful tool for sociologists as both a reference and as a means to better understand their field, giving credence to the value of historical sociology and placing social phenomena in its appropriate time and place along with context. This is done to the benefit of all, demonstrating that the past, present, and future are all connected in a continuum, showcasing that the present state of sociology did not arise out of nowhere. -- Haylee Behrends, Instructor in History, Political Science, and Sociology, Western Technical College, USA[Šubrt] skillfully situates his work in the concerns and events of historical time, geographical space, and political power. Specifically, he clarifies how US, as well as Western and Eastern European, political and economic structures shaped and legitimized specific ways of thinking . . . Especially informative and powerful for analyzing today’s historically situated social problems, Dr. Šubrt’s work provides the context needed to better understand the development and use of sociological theory, as well as society itself. -- Dawn Norris, Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, USATable of ContentsChapter 1. A time when progress was still believed in (in place of an introduction) Chapter 2. Societies of the 1960s, sociologically speaking Chapter 3. The legacy of positivism, or how to make a sociological theory Chapter 4. How to focus the systems approach on modern societies Chapter 5. Social classes and stratification Chapter 6. Conflicts may not bring only evil Chapter 7. Media and mass communication Chapter 8. Imagination – creative and sociological Chapter 9. The birth of sociological constructivism Chapter 10. What about individual human freedom? Chapter 11. The point is to change the world Chapter 12. One thing ends, another begins (in place of a conclusion)

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Book SynopsisHindu nationalism is transforming India, as an increasingly dominant ideology and political force. But it is also a global phenomenon, with sections of India's vast diaspora drawn to, or actively supporting, right-wing Hindu nationalism. Indians overseas can be seen as an important, even inextricable, aspect of the movement. This is not a new dynamic--diasporic Hindutva ('Hindu-ness') has grown over many decades. This book explores how and why the movement became popular among India's diaspora from the second half of the twentieth century. It shows that Hindutva ideology, and its plethora of organisations, have a distinctive resonance and way of operating overseas; the movement and its ideas perform significant, particular functions for diaspora communities. With a focus on Britain, Edward T.G. Anderson argues that transnational Hindutva cannot simply be viewed as an export: this phenomenon has evolved and been shaped into an important aspect of diasporic identity, a way for people to connect with their homeland. He also sheds light on the impact of conservative Indian politics on British multiculturalism, migrant politics and relations between various minoritised communities. To fully understand the Hindutva movement in India and identity politics in Britain, we must look at where the two come together.Trade Review'A timely and important book adding to our understanding of the complexities of the diasporic experience and its relationship to India.' -- Kavita Puri, Writer and Broadcaster, BBC'This book is so extraordinary and important that it deserves a very wide readership ... An unrivalled perspective of the recent rise of a Hindu nationalism as a global project. It is crucial reading for those interested in Hindu nationalism's global footprint.' -- Joya Chatterji FBA, Professor of South Asian History, Trinity College, University of Cambridge, and author of 'Shadows At Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century''A carefully researched, deep dive into the Hindutva in diaspora phenomenon. The focus of Anderson's excellent, historical-political work is Britain, but he tells a story that spans India, its diaspora, and globally networked nationalisms more broadly. This is a book for these times, and for times to come.' -- Nikita Sud, Professor of the Politics of Development, University of Oxford'[An] illuminating study ... A major contribution to our understanding of Hindu nationalism as a global project.' -- Thomas Blom Hansen, Reliance-Dhirubhai Ambani Professor, Stanford University‘Anderson’s important study of rightwing Hindu nationalism in multicultural Britain makes a critical intervention ... A must-read for all scholars interested in Hindu religious nationalism.’ -- Tanika Sarkar, Retired Professor, Modern History, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi'[A] uniquely rich and highly readable account ... The book is a must read for anyone interested in the global reach of Hindu nationalism and its diasporic forms.' -- William Gould, Professor of Indian History, University of Leeds'This book offers meticulous documentation of how the expression of Hindu identity in India and abroad became connected... through an organization whose political party now rules India. This is the best account of the process we have, and hence is an important contribution to the literature.' -- Arvind Rajagopal, Professor of Media Studies, New York University

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Book SynopsisBringing together contributions from anthropology, sociology, religious studies, and philosophy, along with ethnographic case studies from diverse settings, this volume explores how different disciplinary perspectives on the good might engage with and enrich each other. The chapters examine how people realize the good in social life, exploring how ethics and values relate to forms of suffering, power and inequality, and, in doing so, demonstrate how focusing on the good enhances social theory. This is the first interdisciplinary engagement with what it means to study the good as a fundamental aspect of social life.

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Book SynopsisDavid R. Maines (1940-2021), one of the most important sociological scholars of the 20th and 21st centuries, constructed a vast area of research to advance the field of symbolic interactionism during his career. Highlighting the significance of Maines’ works in symbolic interactionism, Festschrift in Honor of David R. Maines documents his most celebrated areas of scholarship, including social structure, narrative sociology, social interaction, dialectic perspective, temporality, and mesostructure. Including stories from individuals who knew Maines via kinship, friendship, or professional relationship, the chapters conclude with two new empirical studies to reflect Maines’ interest in continually advancing the field with cutting-edge research. The collection also features a list of Maines’ selected works for further reading to guide other symbolic interactionists in their research endeavors. Volume 57 of Studies in Symbolic Interaction is a source of both consolation and celebration for those who knew David R. Maines, as well as those who have just begun to discover his inspiring work.Table of ContentsPART I. Festschrift in Honor of David R. Maines Chapter 1. David R. Maines and his Collaborative Circles: A Remembrance; Jeffrey T. Ulmer Chapter 2. David R. Maines: The Stranger who Studied Social Structure; Michael A. Katovich Chapter 3. David Maines: Legend or Legacy?; Jim Thomas Chapter 4. David Maines: A Personal Remembrance; Albert Jay Meehan Chapter 5. Police Narratives and Accounts for Viral Use of Force Videos; Joel O. Powell and Rylan Fitzpatrick Chapter 6. Reflecting on Friendship Matters with David R. Maines; William K. Rawlins Chapter 7. Narrating Stories of Elite Blind Athletes: A Study Honoring Learning with David Maines; Elaine Bass Jenks Chapter 8. From Mesostructure to Narrative Structures: David Maines’s Contributions to Communication Research; Shing-Ling S. Chen PART II. Reflections Chapter 9. From Dave Van Ronk - He Was A Friend of Mine (sung at the Phil Ochs Memorial Concert, 1976; original folk); Norman K. Denzin Chapter 10. Remembering David: Childhood Memories of a Remarkable Brother; Rebecca Maines Scheer Chapter 11. Thoughts of David; David W. Britt Chapter 12. Memories; Jim Thomas Chapter 13. My Fond Memories of David R. Maines; Susan Haworth-Hoeppner PART III. New Empirical Studies Chapter 14. Anthropomorphism as Symbolic Interaction: The Demographics of Purgatory; David Aveline Chapter 15. Professions as Closed-Networks: Mississippi River Pilots and Mead’s Conceptualization of Mind; Kenneth H. Kolb Selected Publications by David R. Maines

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Book SynopsisMicroverses comprises over a hundred short essays inviting us to think about society - and social theory - in new ways. Lockdown created the conditions for what Adorno once termed 'enforced contemplation'. Dylan Riley responded with the tools of his trade, producing an extraordinary trail of notes exploring how critical sociology can speak to this troubled decade. Microverses analyses the intellectual situation, the political crisis of Trump's last months in office, and love and illness in a period when both were fraught with the public emergency of the coronavirus.Riley brings the theoretical canon to bear on problems of intellectual culture and everyday life, working through Weber and Durkheim, Parsons and Dubois, Gramsci and Lukács, MacKinnon and Fraser, to weigh sociology's relationship to Marxism and the operations of class, race and gender, alongside discursions into the workings of an orchestra and the complicatedness of taking a walk in a pandemic.Invitations rather than finished arguments, the notes attempt to recover the totalising perspective of sociology - the ability to see society in the round, as though from the outside - and to recuperate what Paul Sweezy described as a sense of the 'present as history'.Trade ReviewRarely have the concepts of classical sociology and Marxist analysis seemed so relevant to life itself. -- Malcolm Bull, author of The Concept of the SocialInspiring and thought-provoking, living up to the author's credo that ideas should be 'strange...difficult...antagonizing'. -- Göran Therborn, author of Inequality and the Labyrinths of DemocracyProvocative and moving observations on the crisis-conjuncture, and a transcript of an embattled soul -- Gavin Jacobson * New Statesman *An impassioned defense of social theory -- Ishan Desai-Geller * Nation *Small starbursts written with a light hand but deep scholarship -- Luisita Lopez Torregrosa * LA Review of Books *A withering demolition of a political culture. Both warranted and necessary -- Luke Warde * Review 31 *

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Book SynopsisThis book is an introductory guide to the work of Talcott Parsons, designed specifically for students and those new to his work. It offers a comprehensive guide to reading and understanding the development of Parsons' sociological ideas, placing them in the context of his life and his position in American sociology. Scott delves into crucial resources on Parsons, including a bibliography of key works and a guide to further reading. By equipping readers to understand Parsons, the author arms them to engage with Parsons' work for themselves and to come to their own, informed judgments about his contemporary relevance.Trade Review'Talcott Parsons’ theories remain central to the developing tradition of sociological theory, but access to his work has been difficult. His writings are complex and often shrouded in a unique terminology. Finally, there is a clear and direct way to engage his work. John Scott has written the first text that is both accurate and comprehensive. It is also a pleasant read. Students of sociological theory and professionals who have not studied Parsons intensively will enjoy and benefit from Professor Scott’s landmark achievement.' -- Victor Lidz, Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychiatry, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Talcott Parsons and American Sociology Chapter 2. Parsons, Economics, and Sociology Chapter 3. The Sociology is About to Begin! Chapter 4. Outlines of a Sociological Theory Chapter 5. A Theory of the Social System Chapter 6. Refining the Functional Basis Chapter 7. A Revised Theory of the Social System Chapter 8. Evolution, Modernity, and American Society Chapter 9. Action, Society, and the Human Condition Chapter 10. Parsons: Looking Forward Appendix 1: Conspectus of Parsons’s Principal Works Appendix 2: Sources and Further Reading

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Book SynopsisCity of Panic takes the reader on a journey across the airy boulevards of Paris and into the crypt of its Metro. For Virilio, whose sense of cities was formed by earlier wars, Paris is both the City of Light and the City of Panic. Written in the shadow of war, City of Panic argues that cities everywhere have been the dedicated target of political and technological terror throughout the 20th century. The wanton erasure of the past, the construction of identikit places, the proliferation of gated-communities, the ever-widening net of surveillance, the privatisation of what was public ...Now every metropolis is a war zone and every metropolis is the same. In this globalized and militarized everywhere, all citizens are becoming one citizen - saturated, standardized and synchronized - ever-more reliant on a media fabricating a world of fear. For the panic of the 21st century is simply the final phase of the pincer movement. Place-less, media-fed, panic-struck - welcome to the desert of the real.Trade Review'Essential reading for anyone trying to make sense of America's out-of-control war of prevention.' The Guardian 'A speed-driven stream of consciousness centring on the city-world, the metropolitics of globalization, telesurveillance, bunkerization and hyperterrorism.' Times Literary Supplement'It is no accident that when Virilio's dromology (the study of speed) crashes head-long into semiology (the study of signs) the order of things starts to look precarious. Over a diverse career as professor of architecture, film critic, urbanist, military historian, and peace strategist, Virilio has interrogated the integral relationships of security and territory, war and cinema, speed and politics, technology and culture, and left no prisoners.' James Der Derian, author of Virtuous War: Mapping the Military-Industrial-Media-Entertainment Network 'If Walter Benjamin had one true intellectual descendant who extended his inquiries into the second half of the twentieth century, thisTable of Contents* Tabula Rasa * Democracy of Emotion * Kriegstrasse * An Accident in Time * Panicsville * The Twilight of Places

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Book SynopsisFor nearly 40 years, Ronald Reagan's vision--small government, lower taxes, and self-reliant individualism--has remained America's dominant political ideology. The Democratic Party has offered no truly convincing competing vision. Instead, American liberalism has fallen under the spell of identity politics. Mark Lilla argues with acerbic wit that liberals, originally driven by a sincere desire to protect the most vulnerable Americans, have now unwittingly invested their energies in social movements rather than winning elections. This abandonment of political priorities has had dire consequences. But, with the Republican Party led by an unpredictable demagogue and in ideological disarray, Lilla believes liberals now have an opportunity to turn from the divisive politics of identity, and offer positive ideas for a shared future. A fiercely-argued, no-nonsense book, The Once and Future Liberal is essential reading for our momentous times.Trade Review'[Lilla's] argument is an important counter-weight to the prevailing wisdom.' * Financial Times *'The Once and Future Liberal is a dead-on diagnosis of what ails the Democrats.' * The Guardian *'A deep and provocative brief on what has gone wrong, and what liberals, moderates, and progressives might do about it' -- Steven Pinker'Lilla in his new book issues an important, passionate and highly critical wake-up call to liberals who, he believes, are stuck in the mud. . . . Lilla's message to liberals is timely and welcome.' * Arlie Hochschild, Washington Post *‘Lilla is no conservative. Yet it would be hard to find a better skewering of modern American liberalism than in this slim volume . . . Lilla’s book is a sizzling polemic.’'A dead-on diagnosis''Mark Lilla's The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics has annoyed a great many people in the US, though its message is nothing but common sense: in the age of Trumpery, nothing can be done for vulnerable minorities unless liberals get themselves elected to positions of influence. An urgent and important book by one of the clearest and most inspired political thinkers of the day.''Challenging and powerful''Lilla masterfully sets a dialogue in this short book.' * Los Angeles Review of Books *'A terrific short book about the decline of American liberalism explaining how they went from the successes of FDR's coalition to the pitfalls of today's identity politics. It's an accessible book that's essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how we arrived in the Trump era and where the Democrats go from here.' - * Fareed Zakaria, CNN *'Lilla seeks to summon liberals to a politics of broad national interest''An urgent and important book' -- John Banville'A stunning indictment of the left's fatal descent into a bedlam of identity- and a stirring call to the power of shared citizenship and the universality of liberal ideas. Brilliant and necessary.' -- Lord Ken Macdonald QC, Warden, Wadham College, Oxford, and former Director of Public Prosecutions'If I could magically place a copy of Mark Lilla's The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics into the hands of every Democratic Party politician, activist, major donor, pollster, and consultant in the country, I would . . . Lilla has written the most admirable and necessary political broadside in years.''Mark Lilla questions liberalism's intellectual foundations in order to make it forceful and successful . . . An important book.''Besides analysing how American liberals have lost both their appeal and their politi­cal power, The Once and Future Liberal proposes a way to make liberalism relevant again.'

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