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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Early Sociology of Culture
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Taylor & Francis Logics of Critical Explanation in Social and Political Theory
The Social Science Wars have precipitated a renewed interest in the character, purpose and methods of social science. Positivists and naturalists are criticized by interpretivists and critical theorists, while quantitative researchers are challenged by those who favour qualitative and ethnographic techniques. In turn, mainstream social scientists have responded with a vigorous defence and restatement of their commitments. Logics of Critical Explanation in Social and Political Theory proposes a novel approach to practising social and political analysis based on the role of logics. The authors articulate a distinctive perspective on social science explanation that avoids the problems of scientism and subjectivism by steering a careful course between lawlike explanations and thick descriptions. Drawing upon hermeneutics, poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, and post-analytical philosophy, this new approach offers a particular set of logics â social, political and fantasma
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Education Policy and Realist Social Theory Primary Teachers ChildCentred Philosophy and the New Managerialism Routledge Studies in Critical Realism
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Taylor & Francis Jean Baudrillard Fatal Theories International Library of Sociology
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Taylor & Francis Globalization
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Taylor & Francis Globalization
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Companion to Social Theory Routledge Companions
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Companion to Social Theory By Elliott Anthony EDT Mendelson Daniel CON
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Taylor & Francis Citizenship between Past and Future
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Taylor & Francis Interdisciplinarity and Wellbeing A Critical
Book SynopsisIn this book, the authors provide a much-needed general theory of interdisciplinarity and relate it to health/wellbeing research and professional practice. In so doing they make it possible for practitioners of the different disciplines to communicate without contradiction or compromise, resolving the tensions that beset much interdisciplinary work.Such a general theory is only possible if we assume that there is more to being (ontology) than empirical being (what we can measure directly). Therefore, the unique approach to interdisciplinarity applied in this book starts from ontology, namely that there is a multimechanismicity (a multiplicity of mechanisms) in open systems, and then moves to epistemology. By contrast, the mainstream approach, which fails to acknowledge ontology, is âœunseriousâ and tends to result in a methodological hierarchy, unconducive of interdisciplinarity, in which empiricist science is overtly or tacitly assumed to be the superior version of science.This book is primarily aimed at those people interested in improving health and wellbeing â such as researchers, policy-makers, educators, and general practitioners. However, it will also be useful to academics engaged in the broader academic debate on interdisciplinary metatheory.Trade ReviewThis book is the definitive critical realist account, in accessible prose, of what science must do to maximize its understanding of the world, and in particular human wellbeing and flourishing.Mervyn Hartwig, editor and principal author of Dictionary of Critical RealismTable of Contents1. Introduction Part I: Antinomies of Mainstream Interdisciplinarity 2. Overview of the Contemporary Literature 3. Contemporary Ways to Justify Interdisciplinarity Part II: A Critical Realist General Theory of Interdisciplinarity4. Core Concepts of Critical Realism 5. Critical Realism and Social Science 6. The Ontological Case for Interdisciplinarity 7. The Seven Steps to a Deeper Understanding of Ontology8. Critical Realism and the Alternative Metatheories/MethodologiesPart III: Applied Interdisciplinary Research9. Biophysical Interventions Are Not Enough: the Hidden (Holistic) Healing Ensemble10. The Seven Enigmas of Healing 11. The Biopsychosocial Approach, with Special Reference to the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health12. The Practical Organization of Interdisciplinary Co-operation 13. Understanding Methodological Imperialism 14. Interdisciplinarity in Action: Explaining the Epidemiology of HIV15. Concluding Considerations
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Taylor & Francis Europe and Asia beyond East and West
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Taylor & Francis The Fugitive Identity of Mediation
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Taylor & Francis Routledge Handbook of Global Citizenship Studies Routledge International Handbooks
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Taylor & Francis Managing Overflow in Affluent Societies
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Taylor & Francis Contexts of Social Capital Social Networks in Markets Communities and Families Routledge Advances in Sociology
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Taylor & Francis Handbook of Cultural Sociology Routledge International Handbooks
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Taylor & Francis Frankfurt School Perspectives on Globalization Democracy and the Law Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The New Individualism
Book SynopsisThis is a new and revised edition of a book which has had a major impact upon the social sciences and public political debate. Anthony Elliott and Charles Lemert's THE NEW INDIVIDUALISM inspired readers with the dramatic suggestion that 'the reinvention craze' - from self-help and therapy culture to management restructurings and corporate downsizings - is central to a 'new individualism' sweeping the globe. Giving particular attention to the narratives of people seeking to define anew their lives in an age of globalization, the authors contend that an endless hunger for instant change and relentless emphasis on self-reinvention is fundamental to grasping the disorientating effects of the new individualism.This edition contains a substantial new Introduction in which Elliott and Lemert reply to some of the standard criticisms made of the theory of the new individualism, and also addresses the escalation of new individualist thinking in the wake of recent global crises.Trade Review'It's not a business book, but these two sociologists have some interesting things to say about the way we construct our identities in the age of Botox.' Voted into the 50 Best Management Books For 2006 by The Australian Financial Review.'An inspiring book.'.............Professor Ulrich Beck, British Journal of Sociology'This thought-provoking book is essential reading for social scientists.'..............Journal of Sociology'In The New Individualism Anthony Elliott and Charles Lemert have infused high theory with a sense of what it means for everyday life. Blending a discussion of theory with case histories they take us into the heart of the contemporary dilemmas of globalisation, and the growing inequalities--and awareness of these inequalities--that create a growing sense of unease within even the most prosperous of societies. This is an important contribution to the sociology of a world marked both by increasing fear and unprecedented consumption.'......Dennis Altman, Professor of Politics, LaTrobe University. Author of Global Sex and Gore Vidal's America.Bringing sociology down to earth the authors force us to confront the disturbing consequences of the new individualism. A powerful account of the implosion of private life.'........Frank Furedi, Professor of Sociology, University of Kent at Canterbury. Author of Therapy Culture: Cultivating Vulnerability In An Anxious Age, Routledge 2003.'The New Individualism provides us with an original analysis of what is happening to our day-to-day life, and therefore our psyches, under globalization [...] Clearly written and well argued, this book will provide an important tool for anyone struggling to come to terms with our complex world.'..........Drucilla Cornell, Professor of Political Science, Women and Gender studies and Comparative Literature, Rutgers University.'The New Individualism remains the most recent and most intellectually enthusiastic statement of an idea which, more than perhaps anything else sociology has produced in the neoliberal age, captures the spirit of that age.'-Mark Carrigan, University of Warwick, in the Journal of Critical Realism, Vol 9 No 3'It's not a business book, but these two sociologists have some interesting things to say about the way we construct our identities in the age of Botox.' Voted into the 50 Best Management Books For 2006 by The Australian Financial Review.'An inspiring book.'.............Professor Ulrich Beck, British Journal of Sociology'This thought-provoking book is essential reading for social scientists.'..............Journal of Sociology'In The New Individualism Anthony Elliott and Charles Lemert have infused high theory with a sense of what it means for everyday life. Blending a discussion of theory with case histories they take us into the heart of the contemporary dilemmas of globalisation, and the growing inequalities--and awareness of these inequalities--that create a growing sense of unease within even the most prosperous of societies. This is an important contribution to the sociology of a world marked both by increasing fear and unprecedented consumption.'......Dennis Altman, Professor of Politics, LaTrobe University. Author of Global Sex and Gore Vidal's America.Bringing sociology down to earth the authors force us to confront the disturbing consequences of the new individualism. A powerful account of the implosion of private life.'........Frank Furedi, Professor of Sociology, University of Kent at Canterbury. Author of Therapy Culture: Cultivating Vulnerability In An Anxious Age, Routledge 2003.'The New Individualism provides us with an original analysis of what is happening to our day-to-day life, and therefore our psyches, under globalization [...] Clearly written and well argued, this book will provide an important tool for anyone struggling to come to terms with our complex world.'..........Drucilla Cornell, Professor of Political Science, Women and Gender studies and Comparative Literature, Rutgers University.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Individualism for Beginners 2. Was the Free Individual Just a Dream? 3. Living in a Privatized World? 4. On the Individualist Arts of Sex 5. The Self and Other Ethical Troubles 6. Surviving the New Individualism
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Taylor & Francis The New Individualism
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Taylor & Francis Cultural Analysis
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Taylor & Francis Primitive Classification Routledge Revivals
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Taylor & Francis Socialism and SaintSimon Routledge Revivals Routledge Revivals Emile Durkheim Selected Writings in Social Theory
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Taylor & Francis The Coming Fin De SiÃcle
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Taylor & Francis Freedom and Equality Routledge Revivals The Moral Basis of Democratic Socialism
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Taylor & Francis Russias Skinheads Exploring and Rethinking Subcultural Lives Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series
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