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Book SynopsisUnderstanding Society and Knowledge proposes that knowledge, rather than nature, violence, or power, provides the basis of and driving force behind human action in modern society. It demonstrates how the legal containment of knowledge enables the transformation of the knowledge society into knowledge capitalism. Providing an overview of the history of knowledge societies, Nico Stehr analyses the concept of knowledge as well as the nature of post-industrial societies. Chapters examine the genealogy of social scientific theories of modern society; the role of knowledge as a capacity to act or as an intersubjective resource; and recent changes in the structure of the material economy. The book concludes by discussing the political challenges of the knowledge society, highlighting the ways in which discoveries in modern knowledge and subsequent political responses continue to generate controversies. This illuminating book will be an essential resource for students and scholars of economics, political science, sociology and sociological theory, as well as science and technology studies.Trade Review‘The enormous changes of knowledge production and distribution in the last half century, extreme complexity and dangers of the social and biophysical problems that have arisen from its application, and consequent need to plot major changes of policy make this an especially important moment for reconsidering the relation of knowledge and society. Eminent scholar of modern knowledge societies, Nico Stehr’s concise yet comprehensive analysis of these matters in intellectual, socio-historical, and political-economic context provides an incisive, holistic mapping of the primary issues in hand. His Understanding Society and Knowledge will be accessible to and provoke critical thought among a wide range of readers interested in the fundamental changes of social knowledge impacting our lives and world.’ -- Robert J. Antonio, University of Kansas, US‘In his new book well known sociologist Nico Stehr draws on several decades of research on the thesis that we live in a knowledge society. One of the many interesting questions he discusses is if knowledge society will turn into knowledge capitalism and what this entails.’BR> -- Richard Swedberg, Cornell University, US‘Nico Stehr’s Understanding Society and Knowledge is the sort of book on the sociology of knowledge that Max Weber might have written, had he lived another hundred years. Stehr mirrors and updates Weber's facility with the relevant literatures in law, politics and economics – as well as sociology – all brought together in aid of a higher-order social scientific understanding of the nature of knowledge. Both theorists and policymakers will find much food for thought here, as Stehr deftly intersperses his larger and more abstract claims with pointed illustrations from reports of recent events.’ -- Steve Fuller, Auguste Comte Chair of Social Epistemology, University of Warwick, UKeTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1 Introduction: theories of modern societies 2 The lineage of knowledge society theory 3 The science of knowledge 4 Knowledge competencies 5 The knowledge wars 6 The political economy of knowledge societies 7 Modern societies as knowledge societies 8 The political economy of knowledge monopoly capitalism 9 Political challenges of knowledge societies 10 Conclusions References Index

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Book SynopsisDrawing on the diverse experience of a team of internationally recognised specialists, Teaching Political Sociology provides educators with a concise and accessible guide to the main topic areas likely to form part of term, semester or year-long courses in political sociology.The book focuses on the key pedagogic challenges posed to teachers of political sociology, from general issues of value-freedom and engagement with students’ political commitments to more specific issues which arise in relation to sensitive areas such as political violence and extremist ideologies of the far right. Chapters introduce readers to the state of the art in a wide range of topics, including race and postcoloniality, postcommunism, legal sociology, human rights and the sociology of war and peace. Highlighting the challenges and opportunities presented by these topics for political sociology teaching and curricula, the book provides an invaluable starting point for educators.Diverse in scope and approach, and offering an evaluation of appropriate literature at various levels, this book will prove an essential resource for teachers of political sociology and related fields such as international relations.Trade Review‘Political sociology is one of the liveliest parts of the discipline, with great student interest. But entry is daunting. The range of problems is vast and the number of cognate topics is large. Outhwaite and Ray have assembled a thoughtful and accessible guide to teaching the main topics, with a stellar cast of contributors.’ -- Stephen Turner, University of South Florida, USTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to Teaching Political Sociology 1 Larry Ray and William Outhwaite 2 Teaching political sociology 9 Charles Turner 3 Theories of the political 17 Peter Wagner 4 Teaching about contemporary Europe 32 William Outhwaite 5 Teaching about the far right in (political) sociology 48 Aaron Winter 6 Teaching about political violence 73 Larry Ray 7 Teaching the political sociology of war and peace 90 John D. Brewer 8 The challenges that race and coloniality present to the teaching of sociology: gender, class and migration 106 Ipek Demir 9 Teaching about postcommunism 125 Veronika Stoyanova 10 Teaching the political sociology of law 149 Chris Thornhill 11 The challenges of teaching human rights 172 Francesca Romana Ammaturo and Jennifer Melvin Index 189

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Book SynopsisThis thoroughly revised and updated third edition provides an expanded analysis of the nature and future of sociological theory. It offers new sections on feminist, post-colonial, and critical race theories, as well as a discussion of theories of system, structure and complexity.John Scott paints an overview of early developments in sociological thinking, before exploring the principal theorists and theoretical approaches of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. A review of general theory sets the scene for the strong narrative on contention and convergence that is developed throughout the book. Scott argues that the works of the theorists considered provide the basis for a vibrant future for understanding sociology as a cooperative intellectual venture. Analysing emerging debates on modernity and post-modernity, this book looks towards the development and future of theorising in sociology.Lively and accessible in its approach, Sociological Theory will be an essential guide for scholars and students of sociology and sociological theory seeking clear discussions and critical reflections on theoretical ideas.Trade Review‘John Scott has provided an exceptionally clear and positive account of sociological theory from Parsons to the present. It is an excellent introduction to a sometimes mystifying body of thought and embodies a commitment to developing theory through co-operation and mutual respect.’ -- Stephen Turner, University of South Florida, US‘In this highly erudite text, John Scott reveals with great clarity sociological theory’s cohesion through critical reflections on key thinkers and intellectual trends. He provides insightful discussions on conceptual beginnings but also on extensions, revisions, and innovations that advance sociology’s common enterprise of understanding and explaining the social world.’ -- A. Javier Treviño, Wheaton College, US

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Book SynopsisThis thoroughly revised and updated third edition provides an expanded analysis of the nature and future of sociological theory. It offers new sections on feminist, post-colonial, and critical race theories, as well as a discussion of theories of system, structure and complexity.John Scott paints an overview of early developments in sociological thinking, before exploring the principal theorists and theoretical approaches of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. A review of general theory sets the scene for the strong narrative on contention and convergence that is developed throughout the book. Scott argues that the works of the theorists considered provide the basis for a vibrant future for understanding sociology as a cooperative intellectual venture. Analysing emerging debates on modernity and post-modernity, this book looks towards the development and future of theorising in sociology.Lively and accessible in its approach, Sociological Theory will be an essential guide for scholars and students of sociology and sociological theory seeking clear discussions and critical reflections on theoretical ideas.Trade Review‘John Scott has provided an exceptionally clear and positive account of sociological theory from Parsons to the present. It is an excellent introduction to a sometimes mystifying body of thought and embodies a commitment to developing theory through co-operation and mutual respect.’ -- Stephen Turner, University of South Florida, US‘In this highly erudite text, John Scott reveals with great clarity sociological theory’s cohesion through critical reflections on key thinkers and intellectual trends. He provides insightful discussions on conceptual beginnings but also on extensions, revisions, and innovations that advance sociology’s common enterprise of understanding and explaining the social world.’ -- A. Javier Treviño, Wheaton College, US

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Book SynopsisAffirming Antonio Gramsci’s continuing influence, this adroitly cultivated Companion offers a comprehensive overview of Gramsci’s contributions to the interdisciplinary fields of critical social science, social and political thought, economics and emancipatory politics. Within the tradition of historical materialism, it explores the continuing impact of Gramscian perspectives in the present day.Featuring contributions from eminent scholars, the Companion engages with Gramsci’s thought in the broader context of his life, outlining his innovative theoretical and historical analyses of capitalist modernity. Key themes within Gramscian theory are examined such as historical bloc, passive revolution, integral state, and civil society, which elaborate upon the core concept of hegemony. Chapters map out the development of historical materialism and rigorously analyse contemporary issues of urgency including climate breakdown, the rise of far-right populism, and increasing geopolitical tension.Offering a state-of-the-art review of Gramscian theory, this Companion will prove beneficial to academics, researchers and students from across the social sciences and humanities, and will be essential reading for those interested in political economy and political theory, sociology, philosophy, radical and feminist economics, environmental studies, gender studies, and post-colonial and cultural studies.Trade Review‘The Elgar Companion to Antonio Gramsci provides a rigorous examination and utilization of Gramsci’s contributions to social and political thought. William Carroll has brought together internationally recognized scholars to explore Gramsci’s ideas and to demonstrate their contemporary relevance in debates ranging from hegemony, passive revolution, revolutionary strategy, populism, and education to the organic crises of neoliberalism and climate change – all written in the tradition of historical materialism and emancipatory politics.' -- Marcus E. Green, Secretary of the International Gramsci Society‘Considering the relevance of Antonio Gramsci across the social sciences and humanities, this volume has been long overdue. The various contributions place Gramsci’s work within his own time, develop his key concepts and explore their applicability to contemporary developments. This Companion is an essential touchstone for everyone interested in the continuing importance of this key Marxist thinker.’ -- Andreas Bieler, University of Nottingham, UK‘With an impressive range of leading scholars, The Elgar Companion to Antonio Gramsci is an enormous contribution to the relevance of Gramscian ideas to contemporary times. The volume is a rich and comprehensive engagement with Gramsci’s social and political thought and emancipatory politics. Placing Gramsci’s historical materialism as an organising pivot, the volume takes the reader on a journey from the political and social milieu in which Gramsci’s ideas came to fruition to his major concepts and, by applying his ideas and modes of analyses to understanding (and changing!) our current times, contemporary Gramscian scholarship. The Elgar Companion to Antonio Gramsci is a real tour de force!’ -- Michelle Williams, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, South AfricaTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction: recovering a Gramsci for our times 1 William K. Carroll PART I GRAMSCI IN CONTEXT 2 Gramsci: life and times of a revolutionary 31 Nathan Sperber and George Hoare 3 Gramsci, Marx, Hegel 48 Robert P. Jackson 4 ‘The Revolution against “Capital”’: Constancy, change and collective will in Gramsci’s concepts 66 Derek Boothman 5 Historico-political dynamics in the Prison Notebooks: passive revolution, relations of force, organic crisis 83 Francesca Antonini 6 Hegemony as a protean concept 99 Elizabeth Humphrys PART II THE PHILOSOPHY OF PRAXIS: A NEW POLITICAL VOCABULARY 7 The historical bloc as a strategic node in Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks 118 Panagiotis Sotiris 8 State, capital and civil society 136 Marco Fonseca 9 Intellectuals, ideology, and the ethico-political 152 Jean-Pierre Reed and Carlos L. Garrido 10 Where Trotsky’s horizons stop, Gramsci’s begin: the passive revolutionary road to capitalist modernity 171 Adam David Morton 11 War of maneuver and war of position: Gramsci and the dialectic of revolution 189 Daniel Egan 12 Welding the present to the future ... thinking with Gramsci about prefiguration 204 Dorothea Elena Schoppek 13 The Modern Prince and revolutionary strategy 219 Alexandros Chrysis PART III GRAMSCI FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY SECTION A: PHILOSOPHICAL AND POLITICAL-ECONOMIC ISSUES 14 Gramsci, post-Marxism and critical realism 240 Jonathan Joseph 15 Hegemonic projects and cultural political economy 261 Bob Jessop 16 Fordism, post-Fordism and the imperial mode of living 279 Ulrich Brand and Markus Wissen SECTION B: SOCIAL AND CULTURAL REPRODUCTION 17 Hegemony, gender and social reproduction 299 Anna Sturman 18 Cultural studies: the Gramscian current 315 Marco Briziarelli and Didarul Islam 19 Antonio Gramsci and education 334 Peter Mayo 20 Hegemony without hegemony: Gramsci, Guha and post-Western Marxism 350 Sourayan Mookerjea SECTION C: HEGEMONIC STRUGGLE 21 Social movements and hegemonic struggle 370 Laurence Cox 22 Hegemonic struggle and right-wing populism 388 Owen Worth 23 Gramsci and hegemonic struggle in a globalized world 406 Thomas Muhr SECTION D: GLOBAL ORGANIC CRISIS 24 Transnational neoliberalism in organic crisis 428 Henk Overbeek 25 Beyond ecocidal capitalism: climate crisis and climate justice 448 Kevin Surprise Index

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Book SynopsisMedia technologies do not simply record or represent trauma but transform trauma into a cultural form that is multifariously commodified in different contexts. In this crucial new text, Ibrahim introduces us to the notion of ‘technologies of trauma’, in deconstructing the idea of trauma as a cultural form in society. Ibrahim examines the trajectory of witnessing and testimony through modernity, utilizing the technologies of trauma as a conceptual lens. Such a notion acknowledges humanity’s reliance on technologies to transmute history, trauma, or memory, transforming technologies from medium and machine into artefacts for circulation and exchange. The transcendence of medium into artefacts as sites of trauma equally highlights the socio-political frames within which testimony is extracted and witnessing is enacted, unleashing trauma as a cultural form and a resonant genre of popular consumption. The development of print, photography, television, and digital platforms as technologies of trauma reiterates the popularization of trauma as a cultural genre, witnessing and testimony as cultural forms reiterating how these are intimately implicated in our emergence as active consuming communities of trauma and in tandem how these remake us as vulnerable subjects through the circulation of trauma within a popular consumption economy. Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction Mediated Trauma and Modernity Chapter 2. Technologies of Trauma: Uncoupling the Incestuous Relationship between Technology and Trauma Chapter 3. Crossing the Human Limits: The Technologies of Wounding Chapter 4. Orientalism of Suffering: Trauma and the Production of Alterity Chapter 5. The Social Psychology of Hate Online: From Cyberbullying to Gaming Chapter 6. Algorithmic Logic of Black Death: Re-reading Black Virtuality Online Chapter 7. Charred and Untowering: Grenfell and the ‘Blackened’

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Book SynopsisThe defining feature of modern society is change - it never rests or provides its members or researchers the comfort and certainty of having attained an adequate understanding of its operations, how it functions, or where it is. Society in Flux: Two Centuries of Social Theory traces how tensions between order, process, structure and agency, and modes of analyzing them have evolved over the last two centuries. Understanding that modern society is perpetually in flux, albeit not across the board, but in different regards at different times, and in different locations or regions, this volume delves into three modes of theorizing: critical theory, classical theory, and systems theory - each representing a different level of reflexivity and a particular way of approaching modern societies. The authors discuss globally known theorists such as August Comte, Herbert Spencer, Karl Marx, Emil Lederer, Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, and Niklas Luhmann to present perspectives, analyses, and insights that refer to and are relevant in the social world today.Table of ContentsPART I. A PROGRAMMATIC INTRODUCTION REVISITED (AND UPDATED) Social theory’s burden: from heteronomy to Vitacide (or, how classical critical theory predicted proliferating rackets, authoritarian personalities, and administered worlds in the 21st century); Harry F. Dahms PART II. CRITICAL THEORY Chapter 1. Critical theory, the imagination, and the critique of judgment: Horkheimer’s vision reconsidered; John Levi Martin Chapter 2. Marx, critical theory, and the treadmill of production of value: why environmental sociology needs a critique of capital; Alexander M. Stoner PART III. CLASSICAL THEORY Chapter 3. Emil Lederer’s theory of the new middle class: historical and current relevance of a key sociological concept; Sandro Segre Chapter 4. Figuring the beginning: Auguste Comte and Herbert Spencer as founding figures of sociology; Tobias Schlechtriemen PART IV. SYSTEMS THEORY Chapter 5. Sociology as social system: Luhmann, enlightenment, and the gap between “facts” and “norms”; Anthony J. Knowles Chapter 6. Give me an operation and I will give you a system: the psychic in Luhmann’s theory; Santiago Gabriel Calise

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Book SynopsisWhat do we mean by the word “social?” In The Centrality of Sociality, scholars respond to themes of The Concept of the Social in Uniting the Social Sciences and Humanities in dialogue with Michael E. Brown. The Centrality of Sociality provides analyses of important distinctions between individual and society, agency-dependent and agency-independent objectivity, subject and object, theory and theorizing, and action and “course of activity.” Apart from its theoretical interest, the book raises questions about the compelling idea that “the individual is the ultimate referent of moral discourse,” formulating the question “what is human about human affairs” in such a way that the difficulties involved in defining the word individual appear to place in jeopardy the idea of the individual. The chapters analyze themes such as the conceptualization of the social vis-a-vis the individual, theories of action, and notions of subject-object relations. A thought-provoking collection of research, this edited volume is key reading for scholars and researchers in sociology.Table of ContentsIntroduction: What is Human about Human Affairs?; Jeffrey A. Halley and Harry F. Dahms Chapter 1. Consciousness and Crisis: Durkheim, Marx, Spinoza and Revolutionary vs Reactionary Spirit Today; Roslyn Wallach Bologh Chapter 2. The Uncertainties of the Social; Jean-Louis Fabiani Chapter 3. Brown on Sociality and the Social; Peter K. Manning Chapter 4. Brown’s “The Course of Activity”: Non-Repeatability, the Avant-garde, and Temporality; Jeffrey A. Halley Chapter 5. The Concept of Sociality in the Literary Criticism of Georg Lukács, Lucien Goldmann and Theodor W. Adorno; Daglind E. Sonolet Chapter 6. In Defense of the Social: Convergences and Divergences between the Humanities and Social Sciences in the United States; Harry F. Dahms Chapter 7. The Ontology of the Social as a Theory of Social Forms; Michael J. Thompson Chapter 8. Other Voices: The Concept of Heteroglossia in Michael E. Brown’s Concept of the Social in Uniting the Humanities and Social Sciences; Allen Dunn Chapter 9. Conceptual Implications in Social Sciences for Inquiring into the Social. Insights from Michael E. Brown’s The Concept of the Social in Uniting the Social Sciences and Humanities; Ilaria Riccioni Chapter 10. Theorizing, Bounded Rationality, and Expertise: Cognitive Sociology and the Quasi-Realism of Problem-Solving as a Course of Activity; Michael W. Raphael Chapter 11. Response: What Is Distinctively Human About Human Affairs: Sociality and the Question of Society; Michael E. Brown.

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Book SynopsisSubcultures have long captured the imagination of sociologists and the public alike. Making an important contribution to sociology, Subcultures is delightful reading for those who are interested in groups at the fringes of society such as Dead heads, members of the LGBTQ culture, gamers, and even subcultural elements of some alt-right groups. Illustrating the diverse application of the 'subculture' concept within sociology, this edited collection showcases insights ranging from studies on music subcultures, to groups who are formed through their leisurely pursuits (e.g. live action roleplaying and backpacking), and how these groups develop their sense of self and identity. Using a diverse range of approaches, the chapters illustrate the flexibility in the subculture concept - at times stretching the term to its breaking point. This lively collection of articles is of interest to those wanting to know more about the core principles of symbolic interactionism, and the diversity of human life.Table of ContentsSituating Subcultures: A Note From The Editor; Christopher T. Conner Chapter 1. “We Didn’t Invent Them:” The Development of Subcultural Identity Among Deadheads; Stacy Smith Chapter 2. Separating From Hardcore Ritual: Situating Post-Traditional Religious Experience in the Life Course With Ex-Straightedgers; Jason Torkelson Chapter 3. Constructing Communal Gamers: Gamers' Group Identity Work; Bertan Buyukozturk Chapter 4. Fred Perry: Polos for All; Jessica Strübel and Monica Sklar Chapter 5. David Matza From Naturalism to Cultural Criminology: Exploring Subculture and Alcohol in an Ethnographic Study of Young Adults in the UK; Shane Blackman and Robert McPherson Chapter 6. The Backpacker Hostel in Central America: Experiencing Escape, Community, and Tourism; Marko Salvaggio Chapter 7. “You're Dancing on My Seat!”: Queer Subcultures and the Production of Places in Contemporary Gay Bars; Theodore Greene Chapter 8. Becoming an Ogre: Identity Work as a Postmodern Leisure Subculture Activity; Nicholas M. Baxter

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Book SynopsisIt is often claimed that the disjunction or opposition between ‘action’ theories and ‘structural’ theories rests on a misunderstanding of what social structure is. A clear understanding of social structure dissolves this apparent opposition. It is argued that social structure is a real social fact but has no separate and substantive existence apart from the minds and actions of the individual and collective actors who produce and reproduce it. It is argued that it is possible to distinguish between ‘figurational structures’ of interaction and the deeper ‘formational structures’. Social interaction occurs within specific social worlds to form an extensive interaction order. The pattern of interactions comprises a figurational structure that can be mapped and explored through the methods of social network analysis. A figurational structure can be partitioned into the deeper, emergent levels of a formational structure that comprises class relations, divisions of gender and ethnicity, and a range of other divisions. This book examines the use of the sociological imagination to identify and explore formational structures and suggests the formal, analytical methods that can support these explorations. The two levels of structure are seen as the spheres of microsociology and macrosociology, respectively. These levels can be theorised in terms of processes of social integration and system integration. The use of the ideas presented in the book is illustrated through a brief case study of class relations in French political history from the Revolution to the Third Republic.Table of ContentsChapter 1. How is Social Structure Possible? Chapter 2. Interaction, Social Worlds, and Figurational Structures Chapter 3. Institutions, Practices, and Formational Structure Chapter 4. Integration, Contradiction, and Conflict

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Book SynopsisHierarchy within the educational setting is a topic underrepresented in the existing literature, yet an area rich with unique social characteristics and particular challenges. A Sociological Perspective on Hierarchies in Educational Institutions traces hierarchical origins, differentiating between their types and discussing related terms such as positioning, social stratification, and central root vs. rhizomatic structure to offer a comprehensive complex exploration. By presenting the circumstances under which hierarchies flourish or diminish, Einav Argaman provides illustrative examples for the ways in which inter- and intra-institutional hierarchies are constructed and displayed, and points to existing and future directions that hierarchies in educational institutions may take. Offering a step-by-step guide to identifying and changing hierarchical relationships in schools, colleges and universities, A Sociological Perspective on Hierarchies in Educational Institutions bridges the gap between theory and practice. Drawing together research from different perspectives without losing comprehensiveness, accuracy, and in-depth coverage of hierarchy and educational institutions, this work is a novel contribution to Organizational Studies. The interdisciplinary scope of Argaman’s study spans across multiple academic fields, including education, sociology, organization studies, management, curriculum studies, linguistics, and architecture. It is an accessibly written resource for researchers, academics, and teaching. Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. On Hierarchy Chapter 3. Institutions and Educational Institutions Chapter 4. Vertical Hierarchies in Educational Institutions Chapter 5. Horizontal Hierarchies: Manifestation in Talk and Embodied Practices Chapter 6. The Disclosure of Hierarchies in Institutional Architecture Chapter 7. The Educational Institution and Others: The Construction of Hierarchy with External Agents Chapter 8. Summary and Discussion

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Book SynopsisMad Hazard is a memoir of the career and life of Stephen Turner, chronicling a life in social theory. Showcasing how Turner’s later work on expertise, tacit knowledge, cognitive science, leadership, and liberal democracy developed out of his early interests, this volume describes the institutional and personal constraints and pressures, as well as the personal relationships, that facilitated and shaped an academic career. From Turner’s childhood in the racially violent South Side of Chicago, the development of his interests in social theory, through to his education in the shadow of the war in Vietnam and a period of social and personal turmoil, this biographical work shows us not only the development of academic thinking, but the evolution of an academic career. The rebellion within sociology against the hegemonic Merton-Parsons conception of sociology and the methodological orthodoxies of the time leads through to a discussion of the philosophy of science and social science, and from there to a reassessment of the inherited view of the classics, to science studies, and to political and international relations theory – the comprehensive nature of Mad Hazard means the reader can truly understand how Turner’s academic journey evolved. Revealing an academic career not dependent on prestige and academic power, but also not untouched by hierarchy and academic politics, Mad Hazard is appealing for readers interested in the field of social theory, and beyond that, those interested in the evolution of intellectual life in the present university.Trade ReviewAnyone who is to some degree familiar with the sociological world will find something to relate to in the book, densely packed with names of academic figures institutions and associations […] the book also has its value for social scientists at an early career stage as a detailed overview of the discipline’s landscape in its rather hectic dynamics: it shows honestly what one is to expect on the path of sociology accepted as a calling. -- Egor Novikov, International Political AnthropologyTable of ContentsForeword; Harry F. Dahms and Robert J. Antonio Chapter 1. Meet the Family Chapter 2. Born into Chicago: Participant Observer in a time of Racial Succession Chapter 3. Miami: The Quest for Normalcy at the Edge of Change Chapter 4. Four Colleges in Fifteen Months: Higher Learning in the Sixties Chapter 5. Tulane and New Orleans: Sociology as an Identity Chapter 6. Semi-Graduate Student: Becoming a Theorist in a Time of Troubles Chapter 7. Florida Forever: Surviving in a Discipline in Crisis Chapter 8. Refugee from the War in Sociology: Conflict and Contention in Seventies Sociology and the Alternative of Philosophy of Social Science Chapter 9. Reconstructing the Philosophical Thought of Durkheim and Weber and the Turn to Science Studies Chapter 10. Graduate Research Professor and Divorce: Professional Crisis and the Turn to History of Sociology Chapter 11. New Love and the Return to Philosophy: Living Beyond Disciplines in a Disciplinary World Chapter 12. The Social Theory of Practices: Understanding Practices Naturalistically Chapter 13. Pyrrhic Victories and a Family: Leaving the Sociology of the Nineties Chapter 14. The Nineties, Postmodernism, Normativity and Other Controversies: Practices Between Cognitive Science and Ethics Chapter 15. Strange Encounters in the History of Sociology and in Archives: Learning from Archives and the Politics of Collection Chapter 16. Causal Models Again: Understanding Statistical Causality and its Problems Chapter 17. Cognitive Science: The Mutual Implications of the Cognitive Revolution and Sociology Chapter 18. Cleaning Up: Reconciling Normativity, Collective Intentionality, and the Brain Chapter 19. Politics and Law: Kelsen, Weber, and the Defense of Democracy Epilogue: Luck and the Future of Academic Thought

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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 SynopsisSociologists have not neglected the study of relationships, but there remains no central definition of what a relationship is. Conceptualizing and Modeling Relational Processes in Sociology offers a definition of relationships that supports a conceptual tool and visualization technique for analyzing relational processes that are otherwise difficult to model using standard ethnographic and social network analysis techniques. Grounded in the work of social psychologists and relational sociologists and built on the premise that relationships are both remembered and imagined, Joslyn introduces disjointed fluidity: a new concept which maintains that relationships are molded by a flow of changing circumstances and dynamic cognitive processes. Featuring data from an ethnographic study of doctoral student mentorship, Joslyn uses this cutting-edge perspective to detail the mechanisms by which relationships are created, maintained, and dissolved. Pioneering a computational ethnographic technique that visualizes the properties and characteristics of relational processes, the author offers an exciting contribution to the efforts of relational sociologists to build a universal conceptualization of relationships. With broad appeal across scholars and graduate students in the social and behavioral sciences, Joslyn presents new ideas for expanding relationship modeling methods in a way that unites relationship scholars and extends relational theory. This is a captivating read for both methodologists and practitioners in relational fields, such as marketing, library sciences, criminal justice/legal psychology, and psychotherapy.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Conceptualizing Relationships Chapter 2. Internal Mechanisms of Continuity Chapter 3. External Mechanisms of Continuity Chapter 4. Pixels and Flows Chapter 5. A Mixed Methods Analysis of Gender and Mentorship

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Book SynopsisDue to his major contributions in qualitative inquiries, Norman K. Denzin is regarded as ‘the Father of Qualitative Inquiries.’Festschrift in Honor of Norman K. Denzin: He Knew His Song Well, Volume 55 of Studies in Symbolic Interaction, is a compilation of writings published in his honor. Featuring chapters which detail Denzin’s unrivalled contributions to qualitative inquiries, the authors describe the immense scope of Denzin’s qualitative research, from symbolic interactionism and postmodernism to justice studies. Documenting Denzin’s inclusive efforts to embrace various perspectives in qualitative inquiries to advance the mission of qualitative research, this edited collection chronicles Denzin’s continuous efforts in nurturing the field of qualitative inquiries via editorship and conference organization, fostering generations of qualitative researchers around the world. This collection is a comprehensive and compelling read for students and academics interested in qualitative research who wish to chart the impressive impact that Norman K. Denzin’s work has had on the field.Table of ContentsPart I. Festschrift in Honor of Norman K. Denzin: He Knew His Song Well Chapter 1. “We Are Not Alone”: An Introduction to Norman Denzin’s ‘Book of Friends’; Michael D. Giardina Chapter 2. One Day at a Time: A Four Act Play Performed by Norman K. Denzin; John M. Johnson Chapter 3. My Apprenticeship on the Prairie: Theory, Method, and Research in the Naturalistic Study of Social Interaction; Michael G. Flaherty Chapter 4. Norm Denzin’s Empiricist Bent, Theory of the Self, and Focus on Paradoxical Agency; Michael A. Katovich Chapter 5. Norman Denzin: Building “A Bigger Tent”; Harry Torrance Chapter 6. A Case of You, Norman; Arthur P. Bochner Chapter 7. In Praise of Norman Denzin; Laurel Richardson Chapter 8. It’s a Wonderful Qualitative Life: Norman Denzin and the Building of a Qualitative Community; Mitchell Allen Chapter 9. Norman Denzin: Making Room for Capacious Inquiry; Stacy Holman Jones Chapter 10. Celebrating Norman K. Denzin; Robert E. Rinehart Chapter 11. Coming Out with Norman: Connecting Our Voices; Carolyn Ellis Chapter 12. Norman Denzin or a Life Dedicated to Social Transformation from the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry; Aitor Gomez Gonzalez Chapter 13. I Seek You, ICQI; Sophie Tamas Chapter 14. A Moral Discourse: What Norman K. Denzin Does or Simply a Love Letter to My Dear Boss; Claudio Moreira Chapter 15. Three Movements for Norman Denzin; Bryant Keith Alexander Chapter 16. Denzin, Mills, and the Prophetic Pragmatic Promise and Task of the Sociological Imagination; Emily Noelle Sanchez Ignacio Chapter 17. Early Days in Champaign; Patricia Ticineto Clough Chapter 18. Fishing with the Goat: Honoring Norman K. Denzin; Joy Pierce Part II. Reflections Chapter A. Encounters at ICQI; Lubomir Popov Chapter B. Chance Encounters; Christopher T. Conner Chapter C. Ishmael’s Oatmeal; James Salvo

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive and authoritative Encyclopedia, featuring entries written by academic experts in the field, explores the diverse topics within the discipline of political sociology. By looking at both macro- and micro-components, questions relating to nation-states, political institutions and their development, and the sources of social and political change such as social movements and other forms of contentious politics, are raised and critically analysed.The Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Sociology highlights the key questions relating to political sociology through demonstrating that issues concerning power and political conflict, as well as the relationship between societies and states, are critical for understanding contemporary political and social contexts. The entries also shed light on the current position of this interdisciplinary field of study, which sits at the interface between political science and sociology, and consider its aims in addressing those aspects that pertain to the critical interplay between factors relating to both fields. A timely and stimulating reference work, this Encyclopedia will be a key resource for researchers and students in the field of political sociology, political science and theory, social policy, social theory, and public policy, providing both an excellent entry point for study as well as an essential reference tool for more experienced academics.Key Features: Discusses major approaches and theories Summarises key topics in over 160 entries Includes entries on key historical thinkers and concepts Presents frontier areas across the discipline for future research work Trade Review‘It is no easy task assembling an Encyclopedia of political sociology which needs, at the same time, to be comprehensive and authoritative. This is both in equal respect. A major reference point and a significant statement as to the identity of political sociology today.’ -- Colin Hay, Sciences Po, Paris, France‘This outstanding Encyclopedia will stand as the most comprehensive and authoritative contemporary survey of political sociology for many years to come. Editors Maria Grasso and Marco Giugni have done an exceptional job in assembling a truly international team of leading scholars to cover a wide and growing subfield of research and scholarship.’ -- Jeff Manza, New York University, US‘Providing an invaluable guide to contemporary political sociology, by a range of foremost contributors, this comprehensive Encyclopedia will be an essential point of research reference for scholars and students.’ -- Pippa Norris, Harvard University, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Sociology xx Maria Grasso and Marco Giugni 1 Age and generation 1 Achim Goerres 2 Alienation 5 Amy Wendling and Rebecca Murray 3 Anarchism 9 Dana M. Williams 4 Authoritarian and totalitarian regimes 14 Natasha Lindstaedt 5 Biopolitics 18 Knut Ove Eliassen and Sverre Raffnsøe 6 Bourdieu, Pierre 22 Craig Calhoun 7 Bureaucracy 26 Marina Nistotskaya and Palina Kolvani 8 Capitalism 30 Bruno Amable 9 Citizenship 34 Christine Hobden and Laurence Piper 10 Civic engagement 38 Kristin Strømsnes 11 Civic voluntarism 42 Henry E. Brady 12 Civil disobedience 47 Sandra Laugier 13 Civil society 53 Simone Baglioni 14 Civil wars 56 Francisco Villamil 15 Class 59 Magnus Wennerhag and Anders Hylmö 16 Class consciousness and class struggle 63 Berch Berberoglu 17 Class voting 67 Geoffrey Evans 18 Cleavages 71 David Attewell and Marco R. Steenbergen 19 Clientelism 75 Francesco Stolfi 20 Coalition formation 78 Anna Bassi 21 Collective action 82 Nella Van Dyke 22 Comparative-historical sociology 86 Barry Eidlin 23 Comparative political economy 91 Jonas Pontusson and Lucio Baccaro 24 Comparative political sociology 95 Kai Arzheimer 25 Conflict theory 99 Jörg Rössel 26 Constructivism 103 Michael Buckley 27 Contentious politics 107 Kaylin Bourdon and David S. Meyer 28 Corporatism and neo-corporatism 111 Michael Dobbins and Rafael Pablo Labanino 29 Decommodification 115 Kenneth Nelson 30 Democracy 118 Natalie J. Doyle 31 Democratization 123 Jan Teorell 32 De Tocqueville, Alexis 127 Marinus Ossewaarde 33 Discrimination 131 Kassra A.R. Oskooii 34 Durkheim, Emile 134 Nicolas Sembel 35 Economic voting 138 Martin Okolikj 36 Emotions 142 Helena Flam 37 Empowerment 147 Aaron Schutz 38 Environmentalism 151 Amanda Machin and Alexander Ruser 39 Ethnicity 154 Shamit Saggar 40 Ethnocentrism 158 Wouter van der Brug and Linet R. Durmuşoğlu 41 Europeanization 162 Anna Kyriazi 42 Euroscepticism 166 Sofia Vasilopoulou 43 Exploitation 169 Arthur Sakamoto and Michael Ohsfeldt 44 Extreme right 174 Jens Rydgren and Ryan Switzer 45 Factionalism 177 Matthijs Bogaards and Hager Ali 46 Feminism 181 Christine M. Slaughter, Kennia L. Coronado, and Nadia E. Brown 47 Field theory 185 Gregor Kungl 48 Foucault, Michel 188 Vanessa Lemm and Venessa Ercole 49 Framing/frame analysis 192 Louisa Parks 50 Frankfurt School 195 Dustin Garlitz 51 Functionalism 199 Jonathan H. Turner and Alexandra Maryanski 52 Gender 204 Silke Roth 53 Globalization 208 Amentahru Wahlrab 54 Governance 212 Ramona Coman and Leonardo Puleo 55 Governmentality 216 Mathias Hein Jessen 56 Gramsci, Antonio 219 Fabio de Nardis 57 Group consciousness 222 Jacquelien van Stekelenburg 58 Identity 226 Francesca Polletta, Dylan Gray, and Nathan Redman 59 Ideology 229 Mathew Humphrey and Marius S. Ostrowski 60 Inequality (political) 234 Paul Marx 61 Institutionalism 237 Edwin Amenta 62 Interest groups 241 Anne Skorkjær Binderkrantz 63 Intersectionality 244 Karine Duplan 64 Left/right 249 Anthony F. Heath 65 Legitimacy 253 David Beetham 66 Liberalism 257 Julie Smith 67 Libertarianism and authoritarianism 262 Paula Surridge 68 Lifestyle politics 267 Francesca Forno 69 Marx, Karl 271 Bob Jessop 70 Marxism and neo-Marxism 275 Rohan Advani and Michael A. McCarthy 71 Mass media 279 Rens Vliegenthart 72 Memory (collective) 282 Lorenzo Zamponi 73 Michels, Robert 285 Giorgio Volpe 74 The micro–macro link 289 Karl-Dieter Opp 75 Migration 292 Catherine Wihtol de Wenden 76 Modernity 296 John Rundell 77 Modernization 301 Stefan Kruse 78 Multiculturalism 306 Tariq Modood and Thomas Sealy 79 Nationalism 310 Liah Greenfeld 80 Neoliberalism 313 Johanna Bockman and Margaret Zeddies 81 New politics and postmaterialism 317 Toni Rodon and Raül Tormos 82 NGOs 322 Grace L. Chikoto-Schultz and Bryson Davis 83 Nonviolence 326 Selina Gallo-Cruz 84 Norms 330 Vicente Valentim 85 Parties and party systems 334 Emilie van Haute 86 Partisanship 338 Paolo Bellucci 87 Patriarchy 343 Carol Gilligan and Naomi Snider 88 Pluralism 347 Rainer Eisfeld 89 Polarisation 351 Juan Rodríguez-Teruel and Fernando Casal Bértoa 90 Policy analysis 355 Frédéric Varone and Karin Ingold 91 Policy networks 359 Manlio Cinalli 92 Political attitudes 363 Kathrin Ackermann 93 Political behaviour 367 Sadiya Akram 94 Political communication 371 Chiara Valli and Alessandro Nai 95 Political consumerism 375 Shelley Boulianne 96 Political corruption 379 Marcia Grimes and Oleksandra Keudel 97 Political culture 384 Mabel Berezin, Nathan T.B. Ly, and Chiara Visentin 98 Political efficacy 388 Jennifer Oser 99 Political elites 391 Lars Vogel and Christian Schneickert 100 Political engagement 395 Judith Bessant and Rob Watts 101 Political generations 399 Laura Stoker 102 Political institutions 404 Elisabeth S. Clemens 103 Political knowledge 408 Wyatt I. Dawson and Lindsay H. Hoffman 104 Political learning 412 Diana Owen 105 Political opportunities 416 Katerina Vrablikova 106 Political organizations 420 Tom Einhorn and Catherine Corrigall-Brown 107 Political participation 423 Yvette Peters 108 Political preferences 427 Rose McDermott 109 Political regimes 431 Erik Martinez Kuhonta 110 Political representation 435 Nathalie Giger and Zoe Lefkofridi 111 Political socialization 439 Tawnya Adkins Covert 112 Political sophistication 443 Marta Fraile 113 Political transitions 447 Olga Onuch 114 Political trust 451 Marc Hooghe 115 Political violence 454 Måns Robert Lundstedt and Lorenzo Bosi 116 Politics/the political 458 Oliver Marchart 117 Populism 461 Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser 118 Postcolonialism 465 Daniela Musina and Francesco Strazzari 119 Postmodernism 470 Simon Susen 120 Post-structuralism 475 Oscar L. Larsson 121 Poverty 479 Leo Azzollini and Brian Nolan 122 Power 482 Sebahattin Ziyanak, Jesse Lindley, and Leticia Haro 123 Precariat 486 Arne L. Kalleberg and Kevin Hewison 124 Protest 489 Hank Johnston 125 Public choice 493 Bruno S. Frey, Sandro Bieri, and Louis Moser 126 Public opinion 496 Viktor Orri Valgarðsson and Daniel Devine 127 Public policy 500 Jean-Francois Savard 128 Race and racism 503 Ali Meghji and Seetha Tan 129 Rational choice theory 507 Paul Whiteley 130 Religion and politics 510 Alberta Giorgi 131 Repression 514 Christian Davenport 132 Resources 518 Kay Lehman Schlozman 133 Revolutions 521 Sharon Erickson Nepstad and Jalal Fetrati 134 Riots 525 Matteo Tiratelli 135 Security 528 Jonathon Whooley and Laura Sjoberg 136 Social capital 531 Francesca Vassallo 137 Social change 534 Jennifer Earl, Sam Scovill, and Rina James 138 Social democracy 538 Frank Bandau 139 Socialism 542 Pierre Musso 140 Social media 546 Francesco Bailo 141 Social movement organizations 550 Edward T. Walker and John D. McCarthy 142 Social movements 555 Donatella della Porta 143 Social networks 560 Elena Pavan 144 Socio-economic status 564 Sebastian Jungkunz and Nadja Wehl 145 Solidarity 568 Christian Lahusen 146 State/state formation 572 John L. Brooke and Julia C. Strauss 147 Strikes 576 Roberto Franzosi 148 Structuralism 580 Johannes Angermuller 149 Structure and agency 583 Matthew Norton 150 Terrorism 586 Jeff Goodwin 151 Tilly, Charles 591 Lesley Wood 152 Trade unions 595 Jelle Visser 153 Transnationalism 599 Michele Ford 154 Underclass 603 Robert MacDonald 155 Unemployment 607 Emmanuel Pierru 156 Universalism/traditionalism 610 Alain Policar 157 Urban politics 613 Claire Colomb 158 Values 618 Jan Cieciuch and Eldad Davidov 159 Verba, Sidney 623 David E. Campbell 160 Voluntary associations 627 Sarah Cameron 161 Volunteering 631 Nathalie Hofstetter and Markus Freitag 162 Voting 635 Pascal Sciarini and Andreas C. Goldberg 163 War 639 Christian Olsson 164 Weber, Max 643 Kari Palonen and Niilo Kauppi 165 Welfare state 646 Romana Careja 166 World-systems 650 Christopher Chase-Dunn 167 Xenophobia 656 Claudia Alegre, Jessica Cobian, and Efrén Pérez Index 660

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Book SynopsisLaying down the foundations of a critical sociological approach to the interdisciplinary domain of public policy, this insightful book presents the first systematic reflection on the use of Bourdieu’s theory of social fields to analyse policy processes. Engaging with theoretical dimensions, it provides innovative methodological tools, both quantitative and qualitative in nature, to be used in the wider field of policy studies.Bringing together expert contributors from across the globe, the book explores a diverse range of case studies on various policy sectors and processes such as international policy circulation and policy implementation. Offering a wealth of critical analysis, chapters highlight the unsatisfactory nature of mainstream policy approaches and advocate for the use of Bourdieu’s sociological theory to account for the social milieus, structures of relationships, and power dynamics in which public policies are made. Encompassing numerous actors and groups, this theory enables a critical sociological understanding of policy orientations by unveiling the structures of relationships in policymaking.Innovative and perceptive in its approach, this book will prove to be an important resource for scholars and students interested in the fields of critical policy studies, public policy, public administration and management, and sociology.Trade Review‘This volume is a timely and long-expected contribution, spanning over a wide range of countries and policy domains. The book delivers precisely what the title announces: It brings Bourdieu’s powerful theory of fields into a new domain – policy analysis – where it can provide a critical edge that this field of research has been waiting for. The book provides a range of valuable examples of how Bourdieu’s relatively abstract theory of fields may be operationalized and put to work in empirical analyses of new topics. The proof of the value of this theoretical approach lies in the insights the numerous empirical contributions provide into the complex working of the power struggles underlying policy formations. Highly recommended reading!’ -- Annick Prieur, Aalborg University, Denmark‘At last, a book on policy analysis which tackles head on power and its unequal distribution between policymakers. The authors not only use Bourdieu’s concept of the field to unpack power relations in a range of issue areas but also make significant contributions to Bourdieusien sociology and social theory.’ -- Andy Smith, University of Bordeaux, FranceTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to Bringing Bourdieu’s Theory of Fields to Critical Policy Analysis 1 Vincent Dubois PART I POLICY DOMAINS AS SOCIAL FIELDS 1 Constructing the field of educational power: socio-history and structural analysis of two critical moments 18 Pierre Clément 2 The Brazilian National Development Bank’s public policy examined through multiple correspondence analysis and social network analysis 37 Elisa Klüger 3 Colorado River Basin water policy: using Bourdieu’s field theory in the environmental policy arena 56 Brian F. O’Neill, Joan Cortinas Muñoz and Franck Poupeau 4 Security as a field of force: the case of Switzerland in the mid-2010s 74 Stephan Davidshofer, Amal Tawfik and Jonas Hagmann 5 From the theory of the state to the sociology of public policy fields in Latin America: the production of economic policies in Peru 90 Arthur Morenas PART II THE BUREAUCRATIC FIELD IN POLICY-MAKING 6 The bureaucratic field and the sociology of public policy: from the structure of the administration to the production of policies 109 Victor Demenge and Melaine Robert 7 The role of autonomization of the bureaucratic field in the development of public policy: the case of Canadian food safety policy 1874–1969 128 Caroline Dufour 8 Public policy as a product of the professional structure of the bureaucratic field 134 Victor Demenge PART III TWO INTERSTITIAL FIELDS: EXPERTISE AND THINK TANKS 9 Interstitial knowledge: considerations based on the case of expertise on radicalization in France 154 Lili Soussoko 10 On the strength of lesser fields: a reflection on public policy think tanks and the concept of interstitial fields 173 Thomas Medvetz PART IV POLICY AND THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FIELDS 11 The ‘grip’ of the journalistic field on national public policy: a sociological explanation of a media-oriented governmental decision 188 Jérémie Nollet 12 Relations between the scientific field and the bureaucratic field in ‘authoritarian’ and ‘democratic’ contexts: history policy in Poland 207 Valentin Behr 13 The relationship between the bureaucratic and the entrepreneurial fields: shedding light on the contribution of public policy to delimiting legitimate economic activities 214 Antoine Roger PART V THREE POLICY PROCESSES REVISITED WITH THE SOCIOLOGY OF FIELDS: DECISION-MAKING, IMPLEMENTATION, INTERNATIONAL CIRCULATION 14 Sociology of fields and the decision-making process: the example of presidential cultural projects in France 235 Thomas Hélie 15 Analysing the implementation of European public policy with the sociology of fields: some remarks on the European Union’s regional policy 253 Vincent Lebrou 16 International policy circulation and fields of public policy in the (Latin American) periphery 262 Paul Hathazy PART VI THE EFFECTS OF INTERNATIONAL CONFIGURATIONS ON PUBLIC POLICIES 17 What the field of eurocracy tells us about European policies 282 Didier Georgakakis 18 What the international field does to foreign policies 300 Florent Pouponneau Conclusion to Bringing Bourdieu’s Theory of Fields to Critical Policy Analysis 318 Vincent Dubois

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Book SynopsisThis engaging and timely book demonstrates how a deeper understanding of theories about organizations are necessary for the development of a relational sociology and provides an in-depth explanation of globalization and social change. It also examines how social bonds are constructed through combinations of different forms of communication and investigates the bonds of intimate relationships and partially organized relationships such as street gangs, brotherhoods, and social movements.Göran Ahrne addresses the five key organizational elements: membership, rules, monitoring, sanctions, and hierarchy and illustrates this detailed analysis with examples of organizations ranging from rock groups and mafias, to global organizations such as Google, and meta-organizations such as FIFA. Drawing on extensive research with co-authors, Ahrne reviews how both old and new relationships expand, change and remain together amongst globalization and social change.This insightful book will be an invaluable resource for researchers and students in organizational studies as well as those studying sociology. It will also provide useful guidance for sociologists and theorists interested in social and organization theories.Trade Review‘Göran Ahrne starts his deep-reaching argument for a relational sociology with what most social scientists would seldom admit, that we really do not know how to define society, or structure, or system, or lifeworld or even individual. Ahrne goes back to the forefathers and to a plethora of more recent others to advocate for a sociology that can describe and analyze today’s world with (apparently simple) concepts like social bond, social relationship, and organization. He shows that we do not need to divide the world into micro and macro levels, and even less into different societies that follow the boundaries of nation-states. Looking at how different kinds of new bonds are formed and organized into ordered systems of rules, governed by authority, he succeeds in bringing back in organizations of different kinds and scope, from families to the meta-organizations of world soccer and the world-wide-web. We should thank him for proposing a much better and simpler access to this new multi-tiered world.’ -- Magali Sarfatti Larson, Temple University, Pennsylvania, US‘Göran Ahrne begins with a master class in social analysis. He follows this up with compelling ideas about the reconstitution of social relations in a globalising world. The new forms of organised relationships envisaged - often just outside the range of conventional scholarship - are revelatory. In sum, this book is a bold assertion of the importance of social relationships and the social sphere in an emerging world more often exclusively defined in terms of concentrations of political and economic power.’ -- Stephen Ackroyd, University of Lancaster, UK‘Göran Ahrne is one of the most creative sociologists in Europe and the author of a number of important studies, mainly in the areas of organization and everyday life. In this new volume he has produced a highly interesting synthesis of what is new and old in his thinking about society. His concept of social bonds is very innovative and helpful. Researchers, students and libraries should all get a copy.’ -- Richard Swedberg, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Why relational sociology? 2. Social bonds 3. Social relationships 4. Organizations 5. Bonded actions 6. A striped world of relationships References Index

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Book SynopsisFifty years after the appearance of The Dialectical Imagination, his pioneering history of the Frankfurt School, Martin Jay reflects on what may be living and dead in its legacy. Rather than treating it with filial piety as a fortress to be defended, he takes seriously its anti-systematic impulse and sensitivity to changing historical circumstances. Honouring the Frankfurt School's practice of immanent critique, he puts critical pressure on a number of its own ideas by probing their contradictory impulses. Among them are the pathologization of political deviance through stigmatizing "authoritarian personalities," the undefended theological premises of Walter Benjamin's work, and the ambivalence of its members' analyses of anti-Semitism and Zionism. Additional questions are asked about other time-honored Marxist themes: the meaning of alienation, the alleged damages of abstraction, and the advocacy of a politics based on a singular notion of the truth. Rather, however, than allowing these questions to snowball into an unwarranted repudiation of the Frankfurt School legacy as a whole, the essays also acknowledge a number of its still potent arguments. They explore its neglected, but now timely analysis of "racket society," Adorno's dialectical reading of aesthetic sublimation, and the unexpected implications of Benjamin's focus on the corpse for political theory. Jay shows that it is a still evolving theoretical tradition which offers resources for the understanding of - and perhaps even practical betterment - of our increasingly troubled world.Trade ReviewA century after its founding, the Institute for Social Research, now better known as the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, continues to generate provocative ideas and critical perspectives on the world that we inhabit. Just as from the vantage point of Adorno, Benjamin, Horkheimer, and others, however, there can be no genuinely critical thought that is not mediated in decisive ways by the history of its own genesis, thereby rendering the task of inheriting the refractory legacy of the Frankfurt School a difficult and ongoing undertaking. Martin Jay's powerful new study provides us with a beautifully articulated path through the thicket of that inheritance, thoughtfully lingering along the way to illuminate central tropes and concerns that emerge from this constellation of writers. By focusing on the characteristic critical gesture that unites many Frankfurt School thinkers-that of immanent critique-Jay succeeds in opening up a productive and unfailingly fascinating perspective on a critical legacy that, even a century on, remains open and still to come. In Jay's masterful hands, the texts that constitute this legacy have lost none of their urgency and abiding interest. -- Gerhard Richter, L. Herbert Ballou University Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature, Brown UniversityThroughout these thought-provoking studies Martin Jay's characteristic lucidity and unrivalled command of the relevant source material is on display. Jay is sensitive both to the socio-political contexts of Frankfurt School thinking and to the continuing relevance of the School's legacy. Even those steeped in the tradition of Critical Theory will learn something new from his wide-ranging and sometimes provocative reflections. -- Peter Dews, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of EssexThat Martin Jay is not only the leading historian of the Frankfurt School, but one of its most creative and interesting practitioners in the third generation, becomes irrevocably apparent in this superb collection of articles. Circling around the notion of "immanent critique", these articles explore the viability of some of this tradition's core ideas in a time of political turbulences and postcolonial challenges. In so doing, Martin Jay teaches us how to actualize Critical Theory without credulously sticking to the original texts. -- Axel HonnethTable of Contents1 1968 in an Expanded Field: The Frankfurt School and the Uneven Course of History2 Adorno and the Role of Sublimation in Artistic Creativity and Cultural Redemption3 Blaming the Victim? Arendt, Adorno and Erikson on the Jewish Responsibility for Anti-Semitism4 The Authoritarian Personality and the Problematic Pathologization of Politics5 The Age of Rackets? Trump, Scorsese and the Frankfurt School6 Go Figure: Fredric Jameson on Walter Benjamin7 Leib, Körper and the Body Politic8 Marx and Mendacity: Can There Be a Politics without Hypocrisy?

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Book SynopsisCrisis is a buzzword, but what does it actually mean? Many argue that multiple crises coexist, but how are they actually related? If crises are defining our time, why isn’t there a proper socialist crisis policy?This book analyses economic and ecological crises, partly to understand the crisis itself, but, even more, to understand capitalism. Crises are not exceptions to an otherwise functioning capitalism, but integral parts of the system. Still, socialists often cling to the hope that crises are ’opportunities’, and resort to Keynesianism as soon as they need concrete policies. In contrast, this book shows how capitalism produces crises and how crises reproduce capitalism.There are crucial similarities between the crises: rooted in capitalism and having similar class characters. But there are also differences. Economic crises are solved through creative destruction, and the ruling class will ensure that these crises are resolved at any cost. But neit

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Book SynopsisIn The Zone, Justinien Tribillon takes the reader on a tour of an eponymous Parisian hinterland. The site of dreams and nightmares, from Van Gogh’s paintings to the cinematic violence of La Haine, the Zone, so often misun- derstood, is the key to understanding today’s Paris, and even France itself.Originally the site of defensive walls, alongside which mushroomed makeshift housing, allotments, and dancehalls in the nineteenth century, the Zone has performed many functions and been a place of contention for two centuries. Dismantled in the 1920s, the fortifications were first replaced with gardens, stadia and homes. After the war came the Boulevard Périphérique, a ring road promising seamless travel in a futuristic car-centric Paris. With the ring road came new dreams of modernity in reinvented suburbs: new towns, high-rise architecture and social housing built at record speed. Yesterday’s Paris made way for tomorrow’s banlieue.

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Book SynopsisWith the advent of colonialism and the monetarized market economy, the gift economy, once a widely embedded cultural and economic practice, has become a niche of modern diplomacy, often serving as the means for corruption rather than human connection. In presenting an overview of the history and development of the gift economy, Vjeran Katunarić defines this exchange as a form of communication, similar to language, rather than an exchange that is merely material. By examining different theoretical approaches, including neoclassical, radical feminist, and conservative Christian views, the chapters explore how nonlinear forms of development may contribute to correcting the failures of competitive markets. Katunarić advocates for the gift economy as a means for introducing balance between planning and the market, as well as between the public and private sectors of the economy. In this way, a sense of restoring, and restorative, peace may be spread around the globe, along with a more equitable distribution of financial resources. On the whole, A Sociological Examination of the Gift Economy presents gift-giving as an intuitive path toward a viable economy, society, and culture here on Earth, and even toward an amiable engagement with our cosmic surroundings in the future.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. The Empire Meets the Gift Economy Chapter 2. Was the Gift Economy a Long Prelude to the Market Economy? Chapter 3. The History and Classifications of the Gift Economy Chapter 4. Theoretical Approaches to the Gift Economy Chapter 5. Can A Mosaic of Different Economies Be Sustainable? Chapter 6. Some Personal Experiences with Gifts: Banal, Tempting, Fascinating Chapter 7. The Quest for an Alternative Infrastructure of the Gift Economy: Nonlinear Time and Evolution Chapter 8. The Persistence of an Inappropriate Economy And Power: The (too) Long Nineteenth Century Chapter 9. A Forgotten Economy Chapter 10. The Fall into the Abyss or Cargo from Distant Neighbors? Conclusions

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Book SynopsisLife course analysis recognizes that, depending on the exact life stage, different factors and contexts can become important in shaping identity and experience, as well as the ability to accomplish and respond to certain life transitions and events. Prioritizing individuals’ lived experiences, Disabilities and the Life Course broadens the application of life course perspective to explore how impairments and disabilities factor across life span and impact assorted life stages. Conceptual, methodological, and empirical, chapters consider how individuals might think about, maneuver, and encounter impairments, or ‘become disabled,’ in a variety of ways depending on time, place, and life contexts. Contributors highlight commonalities and differences in identity and experience with special attention to intersecting social locations and the diversity of impairments and disabilities. Featuring a framework rarely applied in the field of disability studies, Disabilities and the Life Course explores not only a range of disabilities and impairments but also a diverse array of life course experiences, deepening knowledge across both fields for the widest possible impact. The Research in Social Science and Disability series is essential reading for researchers and students across the social sciences interested in disability, social movements, activism, and identity.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Disabilities And The Life Course; Heather E. Dillaway, Carrie L.Shandra, Kiera Chan, And Alexis A. Bender Chapter 1. Integrating the Social and Political Dimensions of Disability Into Life Course Theory; Kenzie Latham-Mintus And Scott D. Landes Chapter 2. Multiple Sclerosis Diagnosis Pathways: An Intersectional Feminist Disability Life Course Perspective; Louise C. Palmer Chapter 3. Disability, Gender, or Something Else? Identity-Based Interpretations of Inequalities Over the Life Course In France; Célia Bouchet And Mathéa Boudinet Chapter 4. Young-Adulthood Development in the Lived Experience of Persons With Kidney Failure: Challenges of Youth, Disability, And Transition; Nancy G. Kutner And Tess Bowles Chapter 5. Doing Gender, Doing Disability: How Disabled Young Adults Approach Gender in Response to Ableism; Hillary Steinberg Chapter 6. The Reception of Disability Policy in France: A Qualitative Life Course Perspective on Policy Impact; Anne Revillard Chapter 7. College Completion Among Young Adults with a Disabled Sibling; Anna Penner Chapter 8. Negotiating the Spousal Caregiving Relationship Following Spinal Cord Injury; Alexis A. Bender Chapter 9. Disability and Precarious Work Over the Life Course: An Application of Key Concepts; Robyn Lewis Brown Chapter 10. The Disability Gap in Time Use by Age Across the Life Course; Carrie L. Shandra And Fiona Burke

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Book SynopsisKathy Charmaz (1939–2020) was the developer of Constructivist Grounded Theory (CGT), a key method in qualitative research internationally and across many disciplines and professions. She was Professor Emerita of Sociology at Sonoma State University, California, and former Director of its Faculty Writing Program. Her book, Constructing Grounded Theory, is the definitive guide to developing a constructivist perspective, and is the seminal title for anyone serious about doing CGT research. This Festschrift to honour Kathy Charmaz’s scholarship features fourteen chapters plus an editors’ introduction, exploring CGT extensively, examining topics including “Indigenization” of the method, its approaches to decolonizing research, uses of CGT in social justice research, and the legacies of Kathy Charmaz’s remarkable mentorship. Edited by Antony Bryant and Adele E. Clarke, both of whom co-authored and edited with Kathy, and eminent scholars of qualitative methods in their own right, this is a glowing tribute to her long and distinguished career.Table of ContentsChapter 1. On the Edges of Grounded Theory: Ode to Kathy; Norman K. Denzin Chapter 2. Older, Wiser and Much More Daring: On Kathy Charmaz’ Creative Explosion c1995-2020; Adele E. Clarke Chapter 3. Kathy’s Context: In spite of. . .; Janice M. Morse Chapter 4. Promoting Social Justice with Grounded Theory: Applying the Grounded Text Mining Approach to Deposition Analyses; Hisako Kakai and Mitsuyuki Inaba Chapter 5. Wispy Selves: Identity and Identification on History’s Edge; Gary Alan Fine Chapter 6. “Indigenization” of the Grounded Theory Methodology (GTM): An Unfinished Conversation with Kathy Charmaz; César A. Cisneros-Puebla Chapter 7. Kathy Charmaz and Critical Grounded Theory: Memories, Reflections, and Contributions; Gregory Hadley Chapter 8. Forging New Directions for Qualitative Sociology: The legacy of Kathy Charmaz; Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman Chapter 9. Humanizing and Decolonizing Grounded Theory: A Journey Lived by Kathy Charmaz; Kumar Ravi Priya Chapter 10. A View from the Corner; Terrie Vann Ward Chapter 11. Embracing a Legacy, Enabling Social Justice Research through Constructivist Grounded Theory; Denise R. Simmons Chapter 12. The Legacy of Kathy Charmaz’s Scholarship and Mentorship: Enacting Her Constructivist Principles through Critically Reflexive Grounded Theory Practice; Elaine Keane Chapter 13. Adapting Constructivist Grounded Theory and the New Sociology of Childhood to Study Children’s Everyday Experiences and Social Life; Robert Thornberg Chapter 14. Research Practice in the Interregnum: An Appreciation of the Work and Vision of Kathy Charmaz; Antony Bryant Part I: New Empirical Studies Politeness as Collective Facework: The Case of Swedish Jante Law; Susie Scott

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Book SynopsisWhile many analysts emphasize Trump’s uniqueness, he can also be viewed as a symptom of a deeper systemic crisis. This collection examines the roots, impacts, and future prospects of Trumpism as well as the possibilities for combatting it. Chapters analyze the role of racism and xenophobia, evangelical religion, and elite support in enabling Trump’s political ascent, demonstrating how both his demagogic style and his policies draw from the historic repertoire of the Right. The authors also trace the impacts of his presidency on inequality, health, ecological destruction, and U.S. empire. As far-right forces cement their hold on the Republican Party, and as the Democratic Party appears unable to stop them, what lies ahead? The authors argue that confronting Trumpism requires a frontal attack on the conditions that incubated the monster.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Trump As Symptom; Kevin A. Young Chapter 1. Trump, Biden, and Why Elections Don’t Bring Bigger Policy Changes; Kevin A. Young Chapter 2. Trumping the People: How the Corporate Elite Benefitted from the Trump Administration; Joshua Murray Chapter 3. Trumpism and Racial Oppression; Malik Miah Chapter 4. The Marriage of White Evangelicals and Trump: Vaccine Refusal, Critical Race Theory, and the New Culture Wars; Grace Yukich Chapter 5. Immigration Politics from Trump to Biden: The End of Reform and the Growth of Class Struggle; Justin Akers Chacón Chapter 6. Risky Business: Health Care Before and After Trump; Colin Gordon Chapter 7. Fossil Fuels, the Ruling Class, and Prospects for the Climate Movement; Kevin A. Young Chapter 8. Domination without Hegemony and the Limits of U.S. World Power; Corey R. Payne and Beverly J. Silver Chapter 9. Trump and the Politics of Imperial Decline; Richard Lachmann

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Book SynopsisMore extensive methodology is required to study the complexities of everyday life in the rapidly expanding urban areas around the globe, as well as to gain a better understanding of life in established urban areas. Presented over two volumes, Visual and Multimodal Urban Sociology A and B explore the use and potential of visual materials and methodologies that expand the level of analysis and ways of seeing in urban sociology. Both volumes comprise examinations of sources, tools, and methods to capture, analyze, and communicate the visual dimension of urban environments, using existing visual sources as well as visual media as tools to both produce data and communicate insights and views on the contemporary urban condition and experience. Visual and Multimodal Urban Sociology Part B explores the urban every day in globalizing cities, considering utilizing perception in motion, the visual component of neighbourhoods, smoking in the city, resignifying urban traces of colonialism, visual/sensory ethnography and co-living with death, and isolated buildings as indicators of social change. Yielding empirical data and insights regarding the visually observable impact of urban planners, designers, advertisers, commercial forces, cultural institutions, local authorities, artists, protesters as social agents in the (re)production of urban cultural processes, both volumes are a novel and wide-ranging contribution that advances the contours and potential of a more ‘visual’ urban sociology.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction to ‘Visual and Multimodal Urban Sociology Part B: Exploring the Urban Everyday’; Luc Pauwels Chapter 2. Visually Exploring Globalizing Cities: From Data Visualizations to ‘in-situ’ Approaches; Luc Pauwels Chapter 3. Perception in Motion: Alternative Research Techniques for Exploring the Urban Landscape; Saskia I. de Wit Chapter 4. The Visual Commons: Where Residents Become Neighbors; Jon Wagner Chapter 5. Burned Out: A visual and Lyrical Sociology of Smoking in the City; Stephen Coleman and Jim Brogden Chapter 6. What We See and What We Don’t: Resignifying Urban Traces of Colonialism; Giovanni Semi and Annalisa Frisina Chapter 7. For an “Expanded” Visual/Sensory Ethnography: Co-living with Death in New Delhi; Paolo Silvio Harald Favero Chapter 8. Isolated Buildings as Indicators of Social Change, A Visual Essay; David Schalliol

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Book SynopsisAt a time of significant local, national, and international change, in which children are already actively involved, it seems not only right but necessary that we should be seeking to further our knowledge and understanding of what informs and shapes meaningful and effective practice for and with children. Such research has implications across the spaces that children and adults share whether that is at school, at home, in the law courts, in health care through to local, national, and international platforms for social action. Establishing Child Centred Practice in a Changing World, Part B extends the conversation to connect research and practices in a changing world. This edition examines children’s voices in relation to research methodologies, in particular co-production, as well as extending conversations around child centred practice from forest schools to the home through to community change initiatives that further understandings of what it means to be a learner and an advocate. Authors from around the world offer a range of perspectives to advance transformational practice in a changing world. Furthering dialogues around the applied relevance of key principles in childhood studies, this diverse edited collection is an important contribution to the fields of education, sociology, childcare and youth policy and practice.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Extending the Conversation; Sam Frankel Chapter 2. Children's Voices in Early Childhood Education and Care; Nadine Correia and Cecília Aguiar Chapter 3. Children’s Voice in Praxiological Transformation; Cristina Mesquita Chapter 4. Using Pupil Views Templates to Explore Children’s Experiences of Teaching and Learning; Kirstin Mulholland Chapter 5. Engaging Authentic Pupil Voice in Schools; David Littlefair Chapter 6. Hearing Children’s Voices in the Forest; Joanna Hume Chapter 7. Young Children’s Participation in Homeschooling During the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Reflective Case Study from England; Fengling Tang Chapter 8. Reclaiming Agency: A Social Pedagogical Orientation to Child Centred Practice; Daniel Nester Chapter 9. Co-production in Creative Design to Amplify Childhood Voices of Parental Separation; Susan Kay-Flowers Chapter 10. Children’s Perceptions of Participation Within their Families: Listening to Children of Bolivian Families Living in Madrid; Rossana Perez-del-Aguila, Patricia Rodriguez Aguirre, and Jimena Cuba Blanco Chapter 11. Children and Negotiation of Family Rules in Ibadan, Nigeria; Ewajesu Okeewumi and Olayinka Akanale Chapter 12. Shared Decision-Making Processes in a Contemporary Urban Art Project and its Impact on Children; Joana Campos Louçã Chapter 13. The 'Added Value' of the Youth Contribution and the Call of Young People for Intergenerational Partnerships: Reflections from the 2021 World Congress for Justice WITH Children; Walt Burkard, Alexandra-Maria Dan, Macholi Chris Benard, Iliana Pujols, and Anas Darouichi Chapter 14. Youth Political Participation in the Canadian Senate: Discussions with the Vote 16 Steering Group; Gabrielle Gooch Chapter 15. Childhood Participation in Chile: Debts and Opportunities from Child Protagonism; Paulina Jara-Osorio

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Book SynopsisA powerful new history of the idea of race, forcing us to rethink today's culture wars.Is white privilege real? How racist is the working class? Why has left-wing antisemitism grown? Who benefits most when anti-racists speak in racial terms?The culture wars' have generated ferocious argument, but little clarity. This book takes the long view, explaining the real origins of race' in Western thought, and tracing its path from those beginnings in the Enlightenment all the way to our own fractious world. In doing so, leading thinker Kenan Malik upends many assumptions underpinning today's heated debates around race, culture, whiteness and privilege.Malik interweaves this history of ideas with a parallel narrative: the story of the modern West's long, failed struggle to escape ideas of race, leaving us with a world riven by identity politics. Through these accounts, he challenges received wisdom, revealing the forgotten history of a racialised workin

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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 SynopsisCivil-military relations have changed over time with respect to changing demographics, new domestic and international responsibilities, Industry-Defence cooperation, women in the armed forces and contemporary veteran wellbeing.The New Australian Military Sociology aims to provide an antipodean view to theorising civil-military entanglements and uses Australia's unique geographic, political and cultural context to serve as a case study for other countries.

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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 SynopsisConsumption studies are underrated in the social sciences. Drawing specific attention to this need for further analysis, this latest volume of Comparative Social Research presents a rich collection of chapters offering an up-to-date view of the sociology of consumption.Providing a theoretically informed discussion of the specificities of sociology of consumption, Consumers and Consumption in Comparison focuses on three main approaches: Consumption and social inequality; Consumption and gender; and Consumption and social movements.With chapters covering consumer collective action, health and food consumption, sustainable consumption, the cost-of-living crises, gendered online play, and more, this is compelling read for scholars across the social sciences interested in a comparative view of consumers and consumptions.

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Book SynopsisShowcasing the legacy of Norwegian political scientist and sociologist Stein Rokkan, this volume ushers in a new vision in the field of state formation and nation building.

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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 SynopsisMarxism is not just a Euro-American preoccupation. It has had vibrant articulations around the world, particularly in Latin America, Africa, the Caribbean, and amongst Black diasporas. But South Asia has been relatively neglected in efforts to register the revolutionary theoretical traditions of the Global South. Reinvigorating the study of Marxism within the South Asian context, this volume of Political Power and Social Theory highlights lesser-known thinkers to unsettle the propensity within the Marxist cannon to disproportionately fixate on white male theorists. Forging an anti-imperialist Marxism through dialectical and historical approaches, chapters demonstrate how the South Asian facet of this revolutionary tradition can contribute to and even reenergize global Marxist theory.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Marxist Theory Unbound: Global Perspectives From South Asia; Kristin Plys, Priyansh, and Kanishka Goonewardena Chapter 2. The Anti-Imperialist Marxisms of SBD de Silva and GVS de Silva; Kanishka Goonewardena Chapter 3. Alavi Contra Alavi: Towards a Conjunctural Awareness; Ayyaz Mallick Chapter 4. Mapping the Politics of Postcolonial Critique in Pakistan Through the Writings of Aziz-ul-Haq (1958-72); Muhammad Azeem Chapter 5. Murder as Praxis? Theorising Marxist Feminism in Pakistan Through Akhtar Baloch’s Prison Narratives; Umaima Miraj Chapter 6. Mohammad Azharuddin as a Theorist of Shock: The Life of an Indian Muslim Cricket Captain in the Time of Hindu Nationalism; Priyansh Chapter 7. Crisis and Revolt in Sri Lanka: Theorizing a Horizon of Possibilities Amidst the Unravelling of the Global Order; Devaka Gunawardena and Ahilan Kadirgamar Chapter 8. Anti-Colonial Marxism in French and Portuguese India Compared: Varadarajulu Subbiah and Aquino de Bragança’s Theories of Colonial Independence; Kristin Plys Chapter 9. Interview With Professor Himani Bannerji; Himani Bannerji, Kanishka Goonewardena, Kristin Plys, and Priyansh Chapter 10. Poems of Resistance; Salman Haider

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Book SynopsisActing as a follow up to Volume 41 of Studies in Symbolic Interaction (2013), Symbolic Interaction and Inequality explores further the concept of Radical Interactionism, a perspective of researching domination and subordination introduced by scholar Lonnie Athens.Demonstrating advancements made in Radical Interactionism over the past decade, chapters examine the omnipresent and insidious nature of inequality as well as its social construction among family members, cisgender and gender-diverse people, as well as university students and personnel, particularly college athletes.Highlighting fruitful accomplishments achieved by a range of symbolic interactionists, this volume exhibits the significance of studying inequality, a venture that not only enriches symbolic interactionism but human life as a whole.

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Book SynopsisDrawings are everywhere. Daubed on ancient cave walls and projected on screens. Drawings helps us describe science, depict emotions and discover. Yet many of us laid aside drawing - or more simply, mark-making - in childhood, thereby losing a rich and varied way to tell our stories. This book gathers research evidence to demonstrate the substantial value of drawing for health, healthcare and improving wellbeing. It is for anyone interested in engaging in drawing - the low-cost, low-tech, and flexible process which is easily tailored to clients, parents, carers and professionals. The activities featured in the book are distilled from the author’s experience of two decades facilitating drawing. Drawing is easily integrated in health and wellbeing contexts and benefits both our mental and physical health. Practically, it can record observations, make visual notes, invite the telling of important stories, improve stress and anxiety, express feelings, and explain complexities. This important book encourages readers to enjoy mark-making once again and learn that thinking through drawing is a powerful life skill that enriches health and wellbeing.Trade ReviewThis immensely practical and readable book is a significant contribution to thinking about how drawing can be used for a variety of practical purposes, and also emphasises the extent to which drawing can be a positive agent for wellbeing. It is underpinned by sound scholarship, but wears its erudition lightly, so we as readers will learn not only how to use drawing as a creative process but can also gain confidence in drawing ourselves. -- Sally Brown, Independent consultant and Emerita professor of Leeds Beckett UniversityThis inspiring book is a gift to readers who thought they had left the pleasure of drawing behind in childhood. Packed with examples and ideas, it demonstrates and encourages the potential for cognition and wellbeing that is unlocked simply by picking up a pencil. Educators and professionals of all kinds will find numerous resources within its pages for creatively enriching their work with students and clients. -- Professor Charlotte Sleigh, Department of Science and Technology Studies, UCL, and author of The Paper Zoo: 500 Years of Animals in Art (British Library, 2016)As a self-professed 'person who can’t draw' this book was very liberating - showing the deep connection as humans we have to drawing, and that we draw for many reasons and in different ways during our lifetimes. Drawing can help convey often complex ideas and emotions in a more meaningful way than plain text. Curie highlights how we can use drawing in our personal and professional lives, and I would recommend it to health and social care professionals and students in training as well as anyone with an interest in rekindling or developing their interest in drawing. I commend Curie for writing (and drawing!) such an accessible book that can be read sequentially or dipping into chapters of interest depending on your mood. -- Professor Inam Haq, Associate Dean Education, faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, AustraliaThis book gives examples of skills that can be used and developed by novice and experienced 'sketch makers'. By expanding drawing methods to include different senses and methodologies the author is able to engender a spirit of freedom to explore and personalise mark making and drawing for different purposes both at an individual level and in collaboration with others. Her experiences as a medical practitioner, teacher and artist give her a valuable insight into the practical application and many uses and purposes of drawing. -- Jenny Wright PhD, Independent artist researcherCurie Scott offers readers an engaging and well-crafted account of the significance of drawing in practice. As a researcher who incorporates visual, creative, and participatory modes in their own work, I have developed a deep appreciation of the value of drawing to engender reflexivity, organise thinking, and generate different ways of seeing and representing everyday worlds. This book is important as it brings together different histories, traditions and methods which foreground the usefulness of drawing. -- Dr Dawn Mannay, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff UniversityI am just so thrilled that Curie has written this lovely book. She shows us how and why we all need to be reintroduced to the joy of drawing - surely the first and most universal of arts. Its therapeutic, soothing qualities and ready ability to make and record meaning make drawing more important than just mark making. It prolongs our focus and gives us time to reflect more deeply on the small beauties around us. -- Dr. Jonathan Barnes, Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Canterbury Christ Church University, National Teaching Fellow 2015Curie's book is a brilliant overview of the potential of drawing as an educational tool to support learning. It details drawing practices and exercises that Curie has developed in her extensive work with health practitioners and university colleagues over the years. It is a very useful text for teachers who want to enhance children's thinking and literacies through multimodal approaches. -- Dr Kate Smith, Senior Lecturer Childhood and Early Childhood Studies, Canterbury Christ Church UniversityDrawing provides an excellent summative account of the wide range of methods and benefits of drawing. Far from being the privilege of artists, Curie convinces the reader that drawing offers means of expression and communication surpassing verbal means of expression to all, regardless of training, background or perceived drawing ability. -- Dr Doris Rohr, Senior Lecturer in Fine Art, Liverpool Hope UniversityWhat a practical, philosophical, and engaging view of drawing, what Curie refers to as 'mark making'. Alongside the ways this book opens up liberating possibilities for how we can use drawing with adults, it provides such an expansive orientation to what counts as drawing for children and young people. I am excited to see this book become a guide for all educators interested in multimodal learning. -- Claudia Mitchell, Distinguished James McGill Professor, McGill UniversitySpanning the emotional joy of drawing to clear methods of approach, Scott builds a thoughtful case for the 'why' behind picking up a pencil to make a mark. I'd say it’s a must-read for anyone concerned with collective understanding and planetary wellbeing! -- Kelvy Bird, Co-Founder, Presencing Institute and author, Generative Scribing: A Social Art of the 21st CenturyDrawing is an easily accessible publication making it an ideal introductory text for those interested in the uses and methods of drawing within healthcare. More broadly, the inclusion of examples of drawing exercises, methods and media, make the publication appealing to those wishing to re-engage with drawing as a tool for expression and learning. -- Dr Deborah Harty, Co-director of TRACEY and the Drawing Research Network, Loughborough UniversityCurie has made me realise where I was already using drawing in my work, encouraged me to think more about using drawing for therapeutic benefit and has given me the confidence to experiment and use drawing in a wider range of work. This book is an interesting clear read for any health professional who doesn't think they use drawing but will probably find they have already started on the journey into drawing. It will encourage you to experiment and give you another therapeutic tool. -- Dr Elizabeth Field, Clinical PsychologistStrategies for promoting and enhancing health and wellbeing abound, but for many, the question is how can we apply these to our own lives? And the answer is here in this glorious book. Exquisitely crafted and illustrated, it offers hope, insights and stepping stones to embracing the creativity within. The techniques can be adapted to 'lock down life' and shared communally, digitally - or - face-to-face. A book that transcends the pandemic. -- Debbie Holley, Professor of Learning Innovation, Bournemouth UniversityCurie Scott's engaging and readable work challenges the way we think about the value of drawing. She makes a convincing case for reconsidering the place of drawing in intellectual and educational hierarchies, presenting evidence for its transformative effects. This book is wide-ranging in its scope, intermingling theory, case studies and practical guidance, accompanied by a useful list of sources for getting started. The book is flavoured with insights from Scott's experience as a doctor, educator and artist. The book views drawing through a healthcare lens, but it is likely to be of interest to anyone in favour of championing creativity. -- Giskin Day, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College LondonAlongside writing, reading and arithmetic, drawing is the fourth skill that we each need to prosper in our life and health. Drawing comes before writing: it is an innate act of personal expression and non-verbal communication. Yet, we soon lose touch with our ability to draw, it is being squeezed out of the curriculum, displaced by the monitor and mouse, and as adults we quickly lose the connection between eye, hand, and the graphic mark. -- Professor Paul Gough, Principal and Vice‑Chancellor, Arts University BournemouthTable of ContentsChapter 1. An introduction to drawing Chapter 2. The value of drawing for health and wellbeing Chapter 3. Case presentations of drawing Chapter 4. Ways to engage with drawing Chapter 5. Practical considerations for health professionals on drawing Chapter 6. Potential challenges of drawing and how to conquer them Chapter 7. Useful drawing resources

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Book SynopsisHumans have engaged in theatre for at least 50,000 years for good reason: it builds social connections, provides opportunities to learn, and creates meaning through storytelling. Perhaps most importantly, it is an enjoyable, and therefore self-reinforcing, activity. Theatre offers readers an introduction to the role that theatre plays in health and wellbeing, and provides guidance on how to incorporate it into professional health and social care environments, community spaces, and the family home. The book provides an overview of the current evidence demonstrating the effects of theatre on specific domains of health and wellbeing, including mental health, physical health, and public health, as well as its impacts on the education of health and social care professionals. Case studies illustrate the broad range of applied theatre methods currently in use across the human lifespan - from bedside theatre performed for children in hospital to theatre workshops for people living with dementia and theatre-based interpersonal communication training for medical students. Theatre also delivers plenty of practical advice on how to bring theatre into health and social care environments, including step-by-step instructions for specific activities, insights into potential barriers, and (most importantly) strategies needed to overcome them with empathy, collaboration, and creativity. This volume will be useful to professionals working in health and social care settings, as well as to theatre artists and educators who already are or who would like to work in health or social care settings with special populations.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Why Theatre?Chapter 1. What Helps? Chapter 2. Who Can Benefit? Chapter 3. How Can I Engage with Theatre? Chapter 4. What Can Professionals Do to Help? Chapter 5. What Are the Challenges and Opportunities? Chapter 6. Resources

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Book SynopsisThis special issue is animated by the necessary entanglement of theory and history, the cortical relationship between theory and practice, and the transboundary (i.e. international) relations that help to constitute systems of thought and practice. We make three core arguments: first, all theory is situated knowledge, derived in and through history; second, theory-practice is a single field in which theory arises out of and acts upon historical experience; and third, both social and political theory have international origins -- theory is forged through ongoing encounters between 'here' and 'there', 'home' and 'abroad', and the 'domestic' and the 'foreign'.Trade ReviewThis special edition of the annual series documents a workshop held at the London School of Economics and Political Science during 2016, and the 10 essays offer insights into the under-examined relations between international history and social theory. Among the topics are the imperial origins of social and political thought, the international origins of Hannah Arendt's historical method, empire and violence: continuity in the age of revolution, superfluous injury and unnecessary suffering: national liberation and the laws of war, and the sovereign society: historical rupture and the emergence of the "domestic" in 17th-century Europe and East Asia. -- Annotation ©2017 * (protoview.com) *Table of ContentsThe International Origins of Social and Political Theory; Tarak Barkawi and George Lawson The Imperial Origins of Social and Political Thought; Beate Jahn The International Origins of Hannah Arendt's Historical Method; Patricia Owens What Kind of Theory is the Labor Theory of Value? Marx as Genealogist in Zur Kritik; Samuel A. Chambers "These Days of Shoah": History, Habitus, and Realpolitik in Jewish Palestine, 1942-1943; Daniel J. Levine Late-Victorian Worlds: Alfred Marshall on Competition, Character, and Anglo-Saxon Civilization; David L. Blaney Epistemic Ruptures: History, Practice, and the Anticolonial Imagination; Ricarda Hammer Empire and Violence: Continutiy in the Age of Revolution; Jeppe Mulich Superfluous Injury and Unnecessary Suffering: National Liberation and the Laws of War; Helen M. Kinsella The Sovereign Society: Historical Rupture and the Emergence of the "Domestic" in 17th Century Europe and East Asia; Aleksandra Thurman

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