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Book SynopsisUsing a biophysical perspective, this text aims to demonstrate that there are many ways of knowing, methods of inquiry, and perspectives that can guide one's understanding of human behaviour. It encourages the development of critical thinking as opposed to memorization of theories.Trade ReviewSaleebey is telling an evocative story of how we "become human" through the lifecycle. -- Michael Hayes Clinical Social Work JournalTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Philosophical principles Conceptual frameworks Integrative themes Paradigms, postmodernism, and possibilities M & M dialogue Meaning-making Self Culture Story, connection, ritual and myth M & M dialogue Strengths and Resilience Strengths and resilience: images of altruism and humanity Power in the people: Strengths and hope M & M dialogue Biopsychosocial Understanding Human nature and the human condition Genes and experience: The case of temperament The brain and behavior: The biopsychosocial view M & M dialogue Nature and Nurture; Neurons and Narratives Nature and nurture: How necessary are parents? Nature Nurture Neurons and narratives: A biopsychosocial understanding of mental illness M & M dialogues Theories: Part I The elements of theory Part/whole analysis Psychodynamic theory Critique of psychodynamic theory M & M dialogues Theories: Part II Ecological theory Critique of ecological theory Cognitive theory Cognitive theories and the environment Critique of cognitive approaches Radical/critical theory The terms and conditions of radical/critical theory Critique of radical/critical theory Conclusion M & M dialogues Families: The Variety of Us The family and society today: What's up? The family and community What are families for? The care and feeding of infants Socialization What is a family? Nuclear family A note on social class and family Single-parent families Extended families Dual earner families Remarried families Couples Gay and lesbian families Family resilience Conclusion M & M Dialogue Growing Up in the Community and World: Part I A contextual model of family transition and adaptation Becoming partners and being a couple I love your genes A new human being joins the family Culture: Africentric childrearing The early processes that make us human Culture, again Where's dad? When things go awry Being homeless Conclusion M & M dialogue Growing up in the Family and Community: Part II Middle childhood: The forgotten years Moral development Peers and groups Siblings School and family; play and work Meaning and community A note on ADHD Conclusion M & M dialogue Growing Up in the Family and Community: Part III Sturm and drang or "the romance of risk" Identity formation: Gender and culture Gender and identity Sexuality Risks and resiliency: The family and community Violence and the neighborhood Adolescents and community Adolescents and family Family and community and understanding and intervening Conclusion M & M dialogue Coming of Age and Old Age in Family and Community Maturity: Love, work, connection, and closure Theories of the adult development of maturity Borysenko Levinson Contextual/constructionist view Generational differences Some important moments in adult life Leaving home Boomerang babies Love and work together Love and mating: the coming together of body, mind and culture Work Becoming a citizen: family and community Coming of (older) age in America Successful aging Dying and death Conclusion M & M dialogue Reprise, Vision and the Final Conversation Reprise Spirituality The ordinariness of everyday life Multiculturalism Technology The global village Organizations: Culture and behavior Context So what is the good life, anyway? The heroic and the common Some elements of a life worth living Conclusion The final M & M dialogue

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Book SynopsisSaari posits that human beings may first construct a picture of their immediate environment and then construct their identity within that environment. She argues that the psychotherapeutic profession must extend its range to include socio-cultural-economic factors and she includes ample case studies to support her position.Trade ReviewConsistent with the paradigmatic emphases, dialogue and narrative are seen as crucial to this process. This material resonates so loudly and validates my own developing views of what great clinical practice is about. -- Kia J. Bentley Clinical Social Work JournalTable of ContentsPart 1 Theory 1. The Environment in Emotional Experience 2. The Development of Meaning 3. Culture and Social Control Part 2 Domination or Liberation? 4. Inner Life and the Possibility of Freedom 5. Person and Environment Interactions 6. Culture, Sexuality, and Impingement Part 3 Implications for Practice 7. Concordance: The Therapeutic Culture 8. The Importance of Relationships 9. Symbolization: Connections Between Internal and External Worlds

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA work to be celebrated--an exciting feast of challenging, passionate, and informative contributions to social work practice. Here we move away from the traditional regimentation of relationship--along with its categories, testing, and measurements--to working pragmatically and resourcefully with clients in context. These offerings illuminate and expand upon the rich potentials of a constructionist orientation to relating effectively with challenges to change. I am deeply impressed. -- Kenneth J. Gergen, president, The Taos Institute This book provides a solid overview of social constructionism and social work, both as academic traditions and as professional practices. It also invites the reader to share, debate, and argue with these dedicated authors and their insights. The book demonstrates in the very way it has been written that social work from the point of view of social constructionism is about people in relations. Everyone interested in social work should have the privilege to share in the stories this book has to tell. -- Tarja Poso, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tampere From the first words of Chapter 1, "Humans cannot live alone," this book reflects how all of our understanding springs from our relationship experiences. This readable, appealing book has important insights for everyone in the human services. Students and practitioners will find it revitalizing: examples from practice are experience-near and bound to provoke new ideas about how to be more helpful to clients. For faculty, the book is a treasure-trove helping students develop their critical thinking and presenting innovative ideas, especially in the substantive areas of practice and research. A very important component is the volume's global reach. The future of social work is international, and this book reaches right into that future and helps bring it about with fidelity to the most innovative and original concepts of contemporary social work. This volume will help readers generate creative and original insights for many years to come! -- Katherine Tyson McCrea, Ph.D., professor, Loyola University of Chicago School of Social Work, editor in chief of Illinois Child Welfare, and clinical social worker As a teacher, I strongly recommend the book -- Joe Smeeton British Journal of Social Work Social Construction and Social Work Practice is more than a social work textbook. It is a resource tool that will enrich and support the practitioner in their practice within any setting. -- Christine Harris Irish Social Worker Written in a style which is both scholarly and accessible, both professional and personal, it should be of value to students, practicioners, and educators. -- Carol R. Swenson Families in Society This exciting contribution remakes the world and practice of social work... It is a wonderful book for classroom use and should find its way into many courses in social work education as well as other fields - sociology, women's studies, cultural studies, philosophy Qualitative Social WorkTable of ContentsForeword, by W. David Harrison Preface 1. Autoethnography: The Opening Act, by Stanley L Witkin 2. Where's Beebee? The Orphan Crisis in Global Child Welfare, by Katherine Tyson McCrea 3. A Finn in India: From Cultural Encounters to Global Imagining, by Satu Ranta-Tyrkko 4. Being of Two Minds: Creating My Racialized Selves, by Noriko Ishibashi Martinez 5. Learning From and Researching (My Own) Experience: A Critical Reflection on the Experience of Social Difference, by Jan Fook 6. What Remains? Heroic Stories in Trace Materials, by Karen M. Staller 7. What Matters Most in Living and Dying: Pressing Through Detection, Trying to Connect, by Brenda Solomon 8. Will You Be with Me to the End? Personal Experiences of Cancer and Death, by Johanna Hefel 9. Holding on While Letting Go: An Autoethnographic Study of Divorce in Ireland, by Orlagh Farrell Delaney and Patricia Kennedy 10. The Pretty Girl in the Mirror: A Gender Transient's Tale, by Allan Irving 11. Reality Isn't What It Used to Be: An Inquiry of Transformative Change, by Stanley L Witkin 12. From Advising to Mentoring to Becoming Colleagues: An Autoethnography of a Growing Professional Relationship in Social Work Education, by Zvi Eisikovits and Chaya Koren List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisWrestling with the Angel is a meditation on contemporary political, legal, and social theory from a psychoanalytic perspectiveTrade ReviewA stellar piece of scholarship whose timely intervention into controversies at the very heart of today's theoretical humanities undoubtedly will draw the admiring attention of large audiences in multiple fields. -- Adrian Johnston, University of New Mexico A very exciting book, stunningly intelligent and beautifully written. It makes strong, original interventions in a number of current debates and engages with theoretical arguments in a way that is always rigorous and wonderfully lucid and accessible. -- Elizabeth Weed, Brown University. Co-editor, differences. A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies In Wrestling with the Angel, Tracy McNulty examines the political theologies of the 'exception,' ranging from Carl Schmitt to Walter Benjamin, from Alain Badiou to Giorgio Agamben. She shows how they contradict themselves if they avoid grappling with the Symbolic order. Arguing that the force of the Symbolic must be experienced concretely via positive constraints, McNulty pushes Lacanian theory to an unprecedented sophistication and highlights its relevance for ethical activism. Wrestling with the Angel is a major book that redefines the foundations of contemporary political theory. -- Jean-Michel Rabate, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania This provocative and original defense of law and the symbolic order in psychoanalysis is distinguished by McNulty's attention to clinical work, her supple readings of both Freudian and literary texts, and the trenchant case she makes for the ongoing relevance of psychoanalysis to the practice of human freedom, action, and creativity today. McNulty's command of the notoriously complex and difficult Lacanian corpus is matched by the fluency of her engagement with adjoining and competing discourses, including political theology; experimental poetics and aesthetics; political theory and critical legal studies; and religious studies and the legacy of Judaism. Arguing that novelty, invention, and renewal occur not despite but because of processes of symbolization, Wrestling with the Angel recalls us to our limits to remind us of our capacities. -- Julia Reinhard Lupton, author of Thinking with Shakespeare: Essays on Politics and Life In Wrestling with the Angel, McNulty shows how the traditional reduction of Lacan's symbolic register to the Oedipus complex falsifies the complexity and disturbing incompleteness inherent to this crucial aspect of his theory. Her insight opens the way for a fundamental reassessment and reunderstanding of Lacan's work, and is, by itself, worth the price of admission. But she goes much farther, tracing out the implications of her rereading on a series of social thinkers, notably the influential conservative German political theorist Carl Schmitt, the German cultural critic Walter Benjamin, the philosopher Immanuel Kant, and the French Marxist philosopher, Alain Badiou. With the exception of Carl Schmitt, these analyses revolve around two principal collections of seminal legal texts: the Hebrew Decalogue and Saint Paul's discussions of the "new law" of Christianity. Essentially, she argues that in each case an imaginary version of the law is juxtaposed to a more complex and "liberatory" symbolic version of it. Rich, densely thought, and provocative, this book will reorient studies on Lacan and will excercise an enduring influence on how his writings are used in other fields and disciplines. -- Jonathan Strauss, Miami University As a reading of the French psychoanalytic thinker Jacques Lacan, the book makes an invaluable contribution to the rich discussion of the symbolic register and its relation to the real. CHOICETable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Enabling Constraints Part 1. Reinventing the Symbolic 1. Inventions of the Symbolic: Lacan's Reading of Freud 2. Demanding the Impossible: Desire and Social Change Part 2. Political Theology and the Question of the Written 3. Wrestling with the Angel 4. The Gap in the Law and the Unwritable Act of Decision: Carl Schmitt's Political Theology 5. The Event of the Letter: Two Approaches to the Law and Its Real 6. The Commandment Against the Law: Writing and Divine Justice in Walter Benjamin's "Critique of Violence" and Immanuel Kant's Critique of Judgment Coda: Toward an Aesthetics of Symbolic Life 7. Freedom Through Constraints: On the Question of Will Notes Index

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Book SynopsisWrestling with the Angel is a meditation on contemporary political, legal, and social theory from a psychoanalytic perspectiveTrade ReviewA stellar piece of scholarship whose timely intervention into controversies at the very heart of today's theoretical humanities undoubtedly will draw the admiring attention of large audiences in multiple fields. -- Adrian Johnston, University of New Mexico A very exciting book, stunningly intelligent and beautifully written. It makes strong, original interventions in a number of current debates and engages with theoretical arguments in a way that is always rigorous and wonderfully lucid and accessible. -- Elizabeth Weed, Brown University. Co-editor, differences. A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies In Wrestling with the Angel, Tracy McNulty examines the political theologies of the 'exception,' ranging from Carl Schmitt to Walter Benjamin, from Alain Badiou to Giorgio Agamben. She shows how they contradict themselves if they avoid grappling with the Symbolic order. Arguing that the force of the Symbolic must be experienced concretely via positive constraints, McNulty pushes Lacanian theory to an unprecedented sophistication and highlights its relevance for ethical activism. Wrestling with the Angel is a major book that redefines the foundations of contemporary political theory. -- Jean-Michel Rabate, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania This provocative and original defense of law and the symbolic order in psychoanalysis is distinguished by McNulty's attention to clinical work, her supple readings of both Freudian and literary texts, and the trenchant case she makes for the ongoing relevance of psychoanalysis to the practice of human freedom, action, and creativity today. McNulty's command of the notoriously complex and difficult Lacanian corpus is matched by the fluency of her engagement with adjoining and competing discourses, including political theology; experimental poetics and aesthetics; political theory and critical legal studies; and religious studies and the legacy of Judaism. Arguing that novelty, invention, and renewal occur not despite but because of processes of symbolization, Wrestling with the Angel recalls us to our limits to remind us of our capacities. -- Julia Reinhard Lupton, author of Thinking with Shakespeare: Essays on Politics and Life In Wrestling with the Angel, McNulty shows how the traditional reduction of Lacan's symbolic register to the Oedipus complex falsifies the complexity and disturbing incompleteness inherent to this crucial aspect of his theory. Her insight opens the way for a fundamental reassessment and reunderstanding of Lacan's work, and is, by itself, worth the price of admission. But she goes much farther, tracing out the implications of her rereading on a series of social thinkers, notably the influential conservative German political theorist Carl Schmitt, the German cultural critic Walter Benjamin, the philosopher Immanuel Kant, and the French Marxist philosopher, Alain Badiou. With the exception of Carl Schmitt, these analyses revolve around two principal collections of seminal legal texts: the Hebrew Decalogue and Saint Paul's discussions of the "new law" of Christianity. Essentially, she argues that in each case an imaginary version of the law is juxtaposed to a more complex and "liberatory" symbolic version of it. Rich, densely thought, and provocative, this book will reorient studies on Lacan and will excercise an enduring influence on how his writings are used in other fields and disciplines. -- Jonathan Strauss, Miami University As a reading of the French psychoanalytic thinker Jacques Lacan, the book makes an invaluable contribution to the rich discussion of the symbolic register and its relation to the real. CHOICETable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Enabling Constraints Part 1. Reinventing the Symbolic 1. Inventions of the Symbolic: Lacan's Reading of Freud 2. Demanding the Impossible: Desire and Social Change Part 2. Political Theology and the Question of the Written 3. Wrestling with the Angel 4. The Gap in the Law and the Unwritable Act of Decision: Carl Schmitt's Political Theology 5. The Event of the Letter: Two Approaches to the Law and Its Real 6. The Commandment Against the Law: Writing and Divine Justice in Walter Benjamin's "Critique of Violence" and Immanuel Kant's Critique of Judgment Coda: Toward an Aesthetics of Symbolic Life 7. Freedom Through Constraints: On the Question of Will Notes Index

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Book SynopsisAnalyzing the afterimage of revolutionary violence in contemporary culture and politics.Utopia or Auschwitz: Germany’s 1968 Generation and the HolocaustTrade ReviewThe saga of the Red Army Faction's decades-long war with the West German state hardly ended when the shooting stopped, as Charity Scribner's superb book explains. Instead, the conflict captured and even haunted the imagination of generations of German novelists, filmmakers, and visual artists, whose diverse works are themselves an integral part of the RAF's legacy. Scribner offers both incisive and inventive readings of an array of texts, showing how they labored - and often struggled - to articulate a post-militant politics to move beyond the moral hazards of armed struggle. After the Red Army Faction dramatically expands our understanding of what it means to "read" violence and come to terms with its many wounds. -- Jeremy Varon, New School for Social Research, author of Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies The most innovative discussion of the RAF to date. This book provides a much-needed, nuanced understanding of the influence of the RAF on German cultural memory and will revolutionize the study of militant politics and aesthetics. -- Sabine von Dirke, University of Pittsburgh, author of "All Power to the Imagination!": Art and Politics in the West German Counterculture Charity Scribner's After the Red Army Faction will be an important contribution to our understanding of the impact of the left-wing terrorism of 1970s West Germany, and in particular the Baader-Meinhof Group or Red Army Faction (RAF), on culture in West Germany and beyond. -- Hans Kundnani, editorial director at the European Council on Foreign Relations, author of Utopia or Auschwitz: Germany's 1968 Generation and the Holocaust How can 'postmilitancy' offer clues to understanding West Germany's RAF and its afterlives, all the more after 9/11? How might it suggest new directions for resistance when everyday life remains saturated with violence? Charity Scribner provides searching and compelling answers in this study that reaches across disciplines. -- Belinda Davis, Rutgers University, University, editor of Changing the World, Changing Oneself: Political Protest and Collective Identities in West Germany and the U.S. in the 1960s and 1970s Poised between an increasingly nostalgic tendency to romanticize the violent struggles of 1970s militants and our own deeply troubled response to the brutality of contemporary fundamentalisms, After the Red Army Faction provides us with an invaluable reflection on the complexities of past leftist terrorism and its continuing ramifications. With a keen eye for the ambiguities and blind spots of ideological extremism, Scribner examines German postmilitant culture through literature, film, dance, and the visual arts. Shunning easy cliche and superficial spectacle, she reminds us of the intellectual and human costs of the German armed struggle and of the ways gender and sexuality inflected its attitudes and representation in the media. A brilliant piece of cultural history. -- Tom McDonough, Binghamton University, State University of New York, editor of The Situationists and the CityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Beyond Militancy Part 1. Militant Acts 1. The Red Decade and Its Cultural Fallout 2. Damaged Lives of the Far Left: Reading the RAF in Reverse 3. Buildings on Fire: The Situationist International and the Red Army Faction Part II. Postmilitant Culture 4. The Stammheim Complex in Marianne and Juliane 5. Violence and the Tendenzwende: Engendering Victims in the Novel and Film 6. Anatomies of Protest and Resistance: Meinhof, Fischer 7. Regarding Terror at the Berlin Kunst-Werke Afterword: Signs of a New Season Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisRoberto Simanowski takes Facebook as a starting point to investigate our social-media society—and its insidious consequences for our concept of the self. Presenting a creative, philosophically informed perspective that speaks to a shared reality, Facebook Society asks us to come to terms with the networked world.Trade ReviewFacebook Society arrives at the moment when the idea that 'Facebook is us' is front page news. Just in time, Roberto Simanowski gives us a theory as to how it is that Facebook produces the very subjects who cannot feel shortchanged by what it offers. But he delivers more. Here is the crucial test of the philosophy of history and Frankfurt School critical theory brought to bear on the phenomenon defining the sociality of our time. -- Jane M. Gaines, author of Pink-Slipped: What Happened to Women in the Silent Film Industries?Facebook Society is a wonderfully rich and deeply thought extended essay on a symptomatic social medium of our day. With his focus on autobiography, friendship, memory, and narrative Simanowski outlines ways in which digital media have the power to change human perception and social relations. A broad historical, literary, and critical perspective on social media such as Simanowski’s is very much needed both in the humanities and in the social sciences. -- Andreas Huyssen, author of Twilight Memories: Marking Time in a Culture of AmnesiaWho says Facebook can only lead to a flattening of intellectual life and political discourse? In a series of intriguing readings, Simanowski offers a compelling assessment of Zuckerberg’s empire without capitulating before its celebration of ceaseless connectivity and frenzied interaction. Whether it draws on Schopenhauer, Kracauer, or Nancy, Facebook Society brilliantly exemplifies why thought and theory remain essential to gauge the impact of social media on our imagination, our sense of self and community, and our ability to engage the past as a medium to shape different futures. -- Lutz Koepnick, author of On Slowness: Toward an Aesthetic of the ContemporaryFrom Pascal to Butler, Goethe to Baudrillard, Facebook Society offers a rich philosophical engagement with one of the most important platforms of our time. Simanowski's skillful text demonstrates how the mundane nature of Facebook includes a long media ecology of issues which bind us to others as communities and through friendship while defining what we are as subjects. This book offers coordinates to nothing less than the transformation of this political field. -- Jussi Parikka, author of Digital Contagions and A Geology of MediaVery readable book, I am sure that you will find it very captivating and absolutely informative. I just can tell you that I read it in a few hours. Highly recommended. -- Anna Maria Polidori, freelance journalist * Storie, racconti, recensioni Blog by Anna Maria Polidori *Table of ContentsPreface1. Stranger Friends2. Automatic Autobiography3. Digital NationAfterwordEpilogue to the English EditionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisHow has the way we spend our time changed over the last fifty years?Are we really working more, sleeping less and addicted to our phones?What does this mean for our health, wealth and happiness?Everything we do happens in time and it feels like our lives are busier than ever before. Yet a detailed look at our daily activities reveals some surprising truths about the social and economic structure of the world we live in. This book delves into the unrivalled data collection and expertise of the Centre for Time Use Research to explore fifty-five years of change and what it means for us today.Trade ReviewSurprising truths about modern life . . . a fascinating analysis * The Guardian *This book is brilliant at busting myths about how we spend our time . . . its insight into what we do is illuminating . . . it's impossible not to see your life - and those of your parents and children - reflected in the data . . . And that makes reading it an excellent use of time. * Literary Review *Fascinating data, revealing much about our lives in the 21st century * iNews *

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis century's most compelling theorist of racism and colonialism -- Angela DavisFanon is our contemporary because when he psychoanalysed the way the French coloniser looked at Arabs, he is also describing the way the police looked at Stephen Lawrence. In clear language, in words that can only have been written in the cool heat of rage, Fanon showed us the internal theatre of racism, and how some of us have been staged in its psychodrama -- Deborah Levy * Independent *A brilliant, vivid and hurt mind, walking the thin line that separates effective outrage from despair. . . He demonstrates how insidiously the problem of race, of color, connects with a whole range of words and images. . . It is Fanon the man, rather than the medical specialist or intellectual, who makes the book so hard to put down -- Robert Coles * New York Times Book Review *

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Book SynopsisAt its core this book is intellectual history, tracing the work of progressive historians as they in turn wrote the history of progressivism.In Progressivism: The Strange History of a Radical Idea, Bradley C. S. Watson presents an intellectual history of American progressivism as a philosophical-political phenomenon, focusing on how and with what consequences the academic discipline of history came to accept and propagate it. This book offers a meticulously detailed historiography and critique of the insularity and biases of academic culture. It shows how the first scholarly interpreters of progressivism were, in large measure, also its intellectual architects, and later interpreters were in deep sympathy with their premises and conclusions. Too many scholarly treatments of the progressive synthesis were products of it, or at least were insufficiently mindful of two central facts: the hostility of progressive theory to the Founders' Constitution and the tension Trade Review“Progressivism is novel because neither is it in thrall to progressivism nor does it consider progressivism as inevitable and inevitably domesticated. Rather, the author is capable of criticizing progressivism at a fundamental level.” —Johnathan O’Neill, author of Originalism in American Law and Politics“This is a singularly original contribution. I know of no such comprehensive review of the historiography of progressivism.” —Paul Moreno, author of Black Americans and Organized Labor“Watson has crafted, not so much a historical genealogy of Progressivism, as its historiography. . . . Along the line of Watson’s march appear some of the brightest stars in the firmament of American historical writing (and political-history writing) in the 20th century: Richard Hofstadter, . . . Henry Steele Commager, Daniel Boorstin, C. Vann Woodward, David Potter, Louis Hartz, Arthur Link, Gabriel Kolko, Henry F. May, and Robert Wiebe.” —Claremont Review of Books"The book is more than an extended review of the literature . . . ; it is an indictment. And it is hard not to agree with Watson’s assessment that these historians were guilty of obscuring as much as they illuminated about the Progressives." —Law and Liberty"Bradley C. S. Watson’s new book Progressivism: The Strange History of a Radical Idea points scholars in new and productive directions regarding the political thought of the Progressive Era. Watson writes with vigor and verve, making the book of great appeal to anyone trying to take the true measure of the legacy of Progressive political thought in American history." —Public Discourse"In this new offering from Watson, Progressivism is put under the microscope and examined during its 20th-century development. . . . The book proceeds chronologically through the 20th century to the current day, which gives readers a solid accounting of how Progressive ideas evolved and then merged with still later ideas." —Choice"This book leaves the reader with a deep suspicion of several generations of progressive historians who wrote without being fully honest or fully aware of the tensions between progressivism and the American founders. Beyond that, [it] requires us to think about the challenges of progressive thought to the legitimacy of American institutions and to the American regime as a whole. By provoking these questions, Watson leads us to the deepest level of American politics which is nothing other than a continuous dialogue and critical engagement with the American Founders." —VoegelinViewTable of ContentsForeword by Charles R. Kesler Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Revolt against the Constitution 2. The Real Presence of Christ 3. Gray in Gray: The Strange History of Progressive History in the 1940s and 1950s 4. Progressive Historiography in a Countercultural Age 5. Intellectual Consolidation and Counterattack: Conservatism and Revisionism from the 1980s to the Present 6. The Shades of History Notes Index

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Book SynopsisAt its core this book is intellectual history, tracing the work of progressive historians as they in turn wrote the history of progressivism.In Progressivism: The Strange History of a Radical Idea, Bradley C. S. Watson presents an intellectual history of American progressivism as a philosophical-political phenomenon, focusing on how and with what consequences the academic discipline of history came to accept and propagate it. This book offers a meticulously detailed historiography and critique of the insularity and biases of academic culture. It shows how the first scholarly interpreters of progressivism were, in large measure, also its intellectual architects, and later interpreters were in deep sympathy with their premises and conclusions. Too many scholarly treatments of the progressive synthesis were products of it, or at least were insufficiently mindful of two central facts: the hostility of progressive theory to the Founders' Constitution and the tension Trade Review“Progressivism is novel because neither is it in thrall to progressivism nor does it consider progressivism as inevitable and inevitably domesticated. Rather, the author is capable of criticizing progressivism at a fundamental level.” —Johnathan O’Neill, author of Originalism in American Law and Politics“This is a singularly original contribution. I know of no such comprehensive review of the historiography of progressivism.” —Paul Moreno, author of Black Americans and Organized Labor“Watson has crafted, not so much a historical genealogy of Progressivism, as its historiography. . . . Along the line of Watson’s march appear some of the brightest stars in the firmament of American historical writing (and political-history writing) in the 20th century: Richard Hofstadter, . . . Henry Steele Commager, Daniel Boorstin, C. Vann Woodward, David Potter, Louis Hartz, Arthur Link, Gabriel Kolko, Henry F. May, and Robert Wiebe.” —Claremont Review of Books"The book is more than an extended review of the literature . . . ; it is an indictment. And it is hard not to agree with Watson’s assessment that these historians were guilty of obscuring as much as they illuminated about the Progressives." —Law and Liberty"Bradley C. S. Watson’s new book Progressivism: The Strange History of a Radical Idea points scholars in new and productive directions regarding the political thought of the Progressive Era. Watson writes with vigor and verve, making the book of great appeal to anyone trying to take the true measure of the legacy of Progressive political thought in American history." —Public Discourse"In this new offering from Watson, Progressivism is put under the microscope and examined during its 20th-century development. . . . The book proceeds chronologically through the 20th century to the current day, which gives readers a solid accounting of how Progressive ideas evolved and then merged with still later ideas." —Choice"This book leaves the reader with a deep suspicion of several generations of progressive historians who wrote without being fully honest or fully aware of the tensions between progressivism and the American founders. Beyond that, [it] requires us to think about the challenges of progressive thought to the legitimacy of American institutions and to the American regime as a whole. By provoking these questions, Watson leads us to the deepest level of American politics which is nothing other than a continuous dialogue and critical engagement with the American Founders." —VoegelinViewTable of ContentsForeword by Charles R. Kesler Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Revolt against the Constitution 2. The Real Presence of Christ 3. Gray in Gray: The Strange History of Progressive History in the 1940s and 1950s 4. Progressive Historiography in a Countercultural Age 5. Intellectual Consolidation and Counterattack: Conservatism and Revisionism from the 1980s to the Present 6. The Shades of History Notes Index

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Book SynopsisAn introduction to the work of critical theorist Rahel Jaeggi for English-speaking audiences. Essays by scholars in Continental and analytic philosophy assess and critique her efforts to revitalize critical theory.Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction (Amy Allen and Eduardo Mendieta)2. “Resistance to the Perpetual Danger of Relapse”: Moral Progress and Social Change (Rahel Jaeggi)3. Decentered Social Selves: Interrogating Alienation in Conversation with Rahel Jaeggi (John Christman)4. The Normativity of Forms of Life (Frederick Neuhouser)5. In Search of the Negative in Rahel Jaeggi’s Kritik von Lebensformen (Max Pensky)6. What’s Critical about Critical Theory?—Redux (Rocío Zambrana)7. On the Politics of Forms of Life (Daniel Loick)8. Forms of Life, Progress, and Social Struggle: On Rahel Jaeggi’s Critical Theory (Robin Celikates)9. Progress, Normativity, and the Dynamics of Social Change: An Exchange between Rahel Jaeggi and Amy Allen (Conducted by Eva von Redecker)10. Reply to my Critics (Rahel Jaeggi)ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisIn this sensitive investigation into Benin's occult world, Douglas Falen wrestles with the challenges of encountering a reality in which magic, science, and the Vodun religion converge into a single universal force. He takes seriously his Beninese interlocutors' insistence that the indigenous phenomenon of àze (“witchcraft”) is an African science.Trade ReviewA stunning achievement in the anthropology of religion. Weaving together narrative and analysis, Falen provides a gripping account of the imponderables that constitute the occult in Benin. He demonstrates how African science can refine our comprehension of fidelity and betrayal, health and illness, science and religion, and life and death- the philosophical themes that define our humanity."" - Paul Stoller, author of In Sorcery's Shadow, ""Guides readers straight into the untranslatable Beninois world of àze on its own terms. Falen's sensitivity and commitment to local framings and his accessible experiential narratives make this an ideal ethnography with which to explore the ontological turn, as well as a marvelously provocative challenge to the bulwarked categories separating science from magic and religion."" - Sasha Newell, author of The Modernity BluffTable of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note on Fon Transcription and Pronunciation Introduction 1 Àzě and Bǒ: Witchcraft and Sorcery in Benin 2 Black and White: Witchcraft, Science, and Identity 3 Whose Reality? 4 Religion and the Occult: Opposition and Connection 5 Healing and the Globalization of Witchcraft Conclusion Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisArgues that public higher education institutions remain a bastion of collaborative problem solving. The contributors to this volume restore the value of state universities and humanities education as a public good, contending that they deserve renewed and robust support.Trade ReviewGoldberg situates the Wisconsin Idea in its historical, educational, institutional, and political context in ways that enlighten its original impulses, illuminating its significant contributions to rural and urban areas and to the very nature of the University of Wisconsin as a university of the people." - Michael Apple, University of Wisconsin-Madison"An important look back at the progressive Wisconsin Idea and a look forward to its possible renewal. The authors take us through numerous ideas and practices that came to be known as the Wisconsin Idea and chart out a civic vision of higher education that is badly in need of being reinvented today." - Kevin Mattson, Ohio University

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Book SynopsisAcknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction; S.Wolton - The Three Sources and Component Parts of Marxism; G.A.Cohen - Marxism and Social Construction; J.Heartfield - Uncertain Judgement: A Critique of the 'Culture of Crime'; A.Calcutt - Racial Identities: the Degradation of Human Constructions; S.Wolton - Marxism and Feminist Theory; E.Lee - The Return of the Sacred; L.Revell - Determined to be Different: Social Constructionism and Homosexuality; P.Ray - Political Internet? What a Wondrous Web we weave; K.Teare - IndexTable of ContentsAcknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction; S.Wolton - The Three Sources and Component Parts of Marxism; G.A.Cohen - Marxism and Social Construction; J.Heartfield - Uncertain Judgement: A Critique of the 'Culture of Crime'; A.Calcutt - Racial Identities: the Degradation of Human Constructions; S.Wolton - Marxism and Feminist Theory; E.Lee - The Return of the Sacred; L.Revell - Determined to be Different: Social Constructionism and Homosexuality; P.Ray - Political Internet? What a Wondrous Web we weave; K.Teare - Index

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Book SynopsisALAN SWINGEWOOD lectures in sociology at the London School of Economics. He is also the author of Cultural Theory and the Problem of Modernity.

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Book SynopsisThe British Migrant Experience 1700-2000 is a wide-ranging collection of first person accounts together with introductory essays, capturing varied aspects of the British migrant story from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.Trade Review'The descriptions of communities and individuals - I lived on turnips, mainly - are useful, but it is the thoughts and feelings, from anxiety to luck, that stand out. They also help to make the book enlightening: for alongside material on the familiar Irish, Jewish and black migrants, there are accounts of Latvians in Bedford, Lithuanians in Lanarkshire and a Moroccan in Exeter who sells rhubarb. And these tales add up to a striking view of Britain.' - Daniel Crewe, Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface; Professor C.K.Steedman Anthology Introduction; P.J.Leese Introduction to Part I: Migrant Life Stories in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century; B.Piatek PART I: MIGRANT LIFE STORIES IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURY Transition I Settlement and Work I Childhood and Home Life I Community I Another Culture I Searching for a Place I PART II: MIGRANT LIFE STORIES IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURY Transition 2 Settlement and Work 2 Childhood and Home Life 2 Community 2 Another Culture 2 PART III: MIGRANT PLACE STORIES FROM THE EIGHTEENTH TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY The South The Midlands and East Anglia North West England North East England Scotland Wales Biography and Further Reading Index Searching for a Place 2

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Book Synopsis"Of the several discussions of the American poverty theorists I have read, this is easily the best. Anyone interested in that debate should begin here." - Professor Lawrence M. Mead, New York University"...a compelling guide to the ideas that have shaped and seek to re-shape welfare provision. This is a student text that teachers will want to read first." - Professor Robert Walker, University of Nottingham* How do welfare benefits and services shape the attitudes, behaviour and character of claimants? Should entitlement be dependent upon good behaviour?* What are the major intellectual influences upon current welfare reforms in the UK and the US?* Is it possible to reform welfare in ways which tackle both social inequality and welfare dependency?This lucid and engaging book provides an introduction to the current debates about the future direction of welfare reform on both sides of the Atlantic. The first part outlines a range of different perspectives oTrade Review"...the book succeeds in shifting the analysis of welfare into the twenty-first century by offering well-focussed discussions of the moral debates of the new social policy and the prescriptive ways in which governments now seek to achieve compliance to their new designs." - Martin HewittTable of ContentsSeries editor's forewordAcknowledgementsList of abbreviationsIntroductionPart oneWelfare and equalityWelfare and self interestWelfare and paternalismWelfare and obligationWelfare as temporary supportPart twoEnding dependency? welfare reform in the United StatesA new deal for welfare? New Labour and the reform of welfare in BritainConclusionGlossaryBibliographyIndex.

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Book Synopsis"...effectively demonstrates the enduring importance of 'classical' social movement theory...and provides a cutting edge critical review of recent theoretical developments. This is one of the most important general theoretical texts on social movements for some years." - Paul Bagguley, University of Leeds Why and how do social movements emerge? In which ways are social movements analysed? Can our understanding be enhanced by new perspectives? Making Sense of Social Movements offers a clear and comprehensive overview of the key sociological approaches to the study of social movements. The author argues that each of these approaches makes an important contribution to our understanding of social movements but that none is adequate on its own. In response he argues for a new approach which draws together key insights within the solid foundations of Pierre Bourdieu's social theory of practice.This new approach transcends the barriers which sTrade Review'...a clear and accessible overview of both classical and more recent theoretical approaches in social movement research. ...a well written book that makes a persuasive case for revisiting the work of classical social movement theorists, and a stimulating reflection on the applicability of Bourdieu theory of practice within social movement research. ...an important and thought-provoking contribution to the to the social movements literature' - Robert GibbTable of ContentsAcknowlegementsIntroductionSocial unrest, movement culture and identitythe symbolic interactionistsSmelser's value-added approachRational actor theoryResources, networks and organizationsOpportunities, cognition and biographyRepertoires, frames and cyclesNew social movementsSocial movements and the theory of practicea new synthesisBibliographyIndex.

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Book SynopsisTHE STATE WE'RE IN affected government policy, THE WORLD WE'RE IN affects us all as we decide on Britain's future.'Will Hutton's ability to articulate contemporary anxieties borders on genius' Martin Wolf, PROSPECTTrade ReviewA timely and forward-looking book...Hutton's powerful and flawlessly argued assertion is that to opt for dependence upon America is madness * Independent on Sunday *The book skilfully charts its way through the different historical, economic and philosophical approaches to land, law and profit that have defined the European and American traditions -- Jerry BrottonWritten with typical passion and command of a battery of facts, Will Hutton's The World We're In is a fierce attack on the politics of Euroscepticism and US economic conservatism. Hutton has already established his credentials as one of the leading liberal economic thinkers on the British State with his bestselling The State We're In. In The World We're In he widens his focus to discuss the global economy and the fraught relations between the US and Europe in the aftermath of September 11. * Hutton argues that "if the rest of the world is not careful, our future will be to accept globalisation almost entirely on American conservative terms." He believes that the great tradition of liberalism in the US is in retreat, that "America is the most *The book skilfully charts its way through the different historical, economic and philosophical approaches to land, law and profit that have defined the European and American traditions, concluding that Europe offers a better "scope within globalisation fo * Jerry Brotton *a timely and forward-looking book...Hutton's powerful and flawlessly argued assertion is that to opt for dependence upon America is madness' - Independent on Sunday

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Book SynopsisThis book develops and presents a general social theory explaining social, cultural and economic ontology and, as a by-product, the ontology of other social institutions and structures. This theory is called social transaction theory. Using the framework of the complex adaptive systems model, this transdisciplinary social theory proposes that society, culture and economy are emergent from social and environmental transaction and negotiation. Each transaction contains an element of negotiation. With each transaction, there is continual renegotiation, however small or large. Even if the result is no change, renegotiation takes place. Thus, there is a constant emergence of social constructions and a continuous reconstruction of society in the specious present.' Practices, beliefs, explanations, and traditions become part of the accepted canon of a group through continual social transaction. Deviations from canon and expected outcomes are managed through narrative. Narrative can be eithTable of ContentsList of Tables, List of Figures, Preface. Why Do We Need Another Social Theory? Acknowledgments Chapter 1. An invitation to a social journey Where Have We Been? What is the Question? Where am I Taking You? Overview of the Book, Part I: Laying the Foundation, Chapter 2. Philosophy of Science, The Validity of Social Science, Explaining Human Experience, Critical Realism, Chapter 3. A Rubric for Evaluating Social Theory, The Epistemological Continuum, Objectivism, Subjectivism, Critical Realism, Constructionism, The Ontological Continuum, The Applicability Continuum, Agency, Interaction, System, Structure, Plausibility, Mechanism, My Assumptions, Chapter 4. Scientific Method and Theory, Scientific Paradigms, Theoretical Methods, Thought Experiments, Chapter 5. Other Building Blocks, Limitations, Initial Definitions, Culture, Adaptation versus Evolution, Ethics and Morality, Chapter 6. Situating the Theory, Reflective Human Consciousness, Consciousness as Emergent Process, Awareness and Self-awareness, Consciousness and Temporality, Reflection, Sociality, The Unity of Conscious Experience, Human Experience, Initial Mediations, Socially Constructed Mediations, The Environment, Situating the Theory, Part II. Developing a Theory of Social Ontology, Chapter 7. Complex Adaptive Systems, Nonadaptive versus Adaptive Systems, Chaos Theory, Dissipative Structures, Complex Adaptive and Nonadaptive Systems, Complex Adaptive Systems, Chapter 8. Emergence Theory, Defining Emergence, Mead’s Emergence Theory, Social Phenomena as Emergents, Complexity-Based Emergence Theory, Chapter 9. Applicable Social Theory, Mead and Social Interaction, Self and Mind, Past Experience and Contemplation of the Future, Giddens and Structuration, Needs and Motivation, Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, Chapter 10. Dewey and Bentley’s Transactional Approach, Emirbayer and relational sociology Chapter 11. Negotiation, Negotiated Order Theory, and Game Theory, Negotiation, Game Theory, John Nash, Thomas Schelling, Cooperation v. Non-cooperation, Folk theorem, Negotiated Order Theory, Chapter 12. Meaning, Meaning Making, Language, and Symbols, Definitions, Peirce, Signs, and Semeiotics, Mead and the Significant Symbol, Ricoeur’s Interpretation Theory, Narrative and Meaning as Social Canon, Chapter 13. Environmental Considerations, Ecological Anthropology, Ecological Psychology, Chapter 14. A Theory of Social Ontology, A General Social Theory, Complex Adaptive Systems Repositioned, Adding Social Transaction, Adding Negotiation and Emergence, Meaning and Negotiation, Structuration, Narrative and Folk Psychology, A Thought Experiment, Chapter 15. Applying the Theory in the Practical World, The Theory’s Relationship to Social Systems and Structure, Explaining Social Power, Implications for Culture Study, Ontological Implications in Economic Theory, Rules and Rule Making, The Golden Rule and Reciprocity, Social Contract Theory, The Relationship to Political Organization,Ontological Implications in Moral Philosophy, Moral Realism, Moral Relativism Implications for Moral Philosophy Chapter 16. Conclusions and Further Research Significance for Leadership and Management, Further Research, Closing Thoughts References Index

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Book SynopsisDespite noteworthy exceptions, nursing's literature largely disregards the ways in which social and sociological theory permeates, guides and shapes research, education, and practice. Likewise, social theory's ability to position nursing within wider structures of healthcare and educational provision is similarly and puzzlingly downplayed. The questions nurses ask and the problems they face cannot however, adequately be addressed without engaging with social and sociological theory and, to progress this engagement, contributors to this book explore how social theories are used by and might apply to nursing and nursing practice. The book draws on a wide range of perspectives philosophical, theoretical, empirical and political to offer a robust and wide-ranging critique and analysis. Social Theory and Nursing is essential reading for nursing researchers, academics and educators, as well as scholars and researchers in medical sociology, medicine and allied health.Trade Review‘This text provides a timely resource for nurses undertaking research with a social theoretical dimension. All too frequently social theory receives insufficient attention in nursing research. Or, when discussed, very specific (often simplistic or incomplete) interpretations of social theory are offered. Contributors to this volume seek to redress this imbalance with concise explanations of key theorists and theories and, also, examples of the relevance of social theory to and in nursing practice. The book is highly recommended.’ - Bernie Garrett, University of British Columbia, Canada 'The strengths of the book include the diversity of scholarship involved from well-known contributors. The attempt to address theoretical misconceptions as they apply to nursing is to be highly commended. There is an urgent need for a much wider understanding of critical concepts to allow nurses to critique contextualise their practice, and this book goes a long way to doing so. I found myself highlighting sections and inwardly nodding away, for example Rolfe on C Wright Mills, Aranda on Feminism, Nairn on the Purpose and Scope of nursing and Porter on Critical Realism. It is about time! Those without any social science grounding might find this literature difficult, which is however kind of one of the points being addressed – the need for a more critical and deeper understanding of social theory and nursing. There was a recognition of the existence of an ‘alien’ literature in its preparation so this is a challenge. However, the chapters are diverse enough to allow readers to start where they feel comfortable before engaging in more challenging material. The wish to stimulate inquiry and discussion is laudable. This is a must read for those interested in the social sciences and nursing, and should be read more widely by the nursing community in general' - Benny Goodman, Plymouth University, UK‘This text provides a timely resource for nurses undertaking research with a social theoretical dimension. All too frequently social theory receives insufficient attention in nursing research. Or, when discussed, very specific (often simplistic or incomplete) interpretations of social theory are offered. Contributors to this volume seek to redress this imbalance with concise explanations of key theorists and theories and, also, examples of the relevance of social theory to and in nursing practice. The book is highly recommended.’ - Bernie Garrett, University of British Columbia, Canada 'The strengths of the book include the diversity of scholarship involved from well-known contributors. The attempt to address theoretical misconceptions as they apply to nursing is to be highly commended. There is an urgent need for a much wider understanding of critical concepts to allow nurses to critique contextualise their practice, and this book goes a long way to doing so. I found myself highlighting sections and inwardly nodding away, for example Rolfe on C Wright Mills, Aranda on Feminism, Nairn on the Purpose and Scope of nursing and Porter on Critical Realism. It is about time! Those without any social science grounding might find this literature difficult, which is however kind of one of the points being addressed – the need for a more critical and deeper understanding of social theory and nursing. There was a recognition of the existence of an ‘alien’ literature in its preparation so this is a challenge. However, the chapters are diverse enough to allow readers to start where they feel comfortable before engaging in more challenging material. The wish to stimulate inquiry and discussion is laudable. This is a must read for those interested in the social sciences and nursing, and should be read more widely by the nursing community in general' - Benny Goodman, Plymouth University, UKTable of ContentsForeword Introduction 1. Nursing Theory, Social Theory and Nursing Practice 2. Mechanistic Social Science and Middle Range Theory 3. Sociological Theory in Nursing Literature: A Threat to Professional Identity? 4. Lies, Damned Lies and Stories: Nursing and the Need for Border Controls 5. The Purpose and Scope of Social Theory: Implications for Nursing 6. Critical Realism: A Perspective Worthy of Consideration 7. Foucault, Social Theory and Nursing Research: A Critique 8. Accounting for Knowledgeable Practice 9. C Wright Mills: Lessons for Nurse Researchers 10. Feminist Theories: Silences and Absences 11. Contemporary Political Debates, Social Theory and Nursing Practice in Mental Healthcare 12. Triangulation, Sociological Theory and Nursing 13. Genre and the Nursing Research Article

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Book SynopsisThis handbook presents a systematic and comprehensive overview of economic sociology, an exemplary interdisciplinary field which draws on theoretical frameworks and empirical findings from both economics and sociology to present a unique lens on the interdependence of the economy and society. The handbook is arranged in four parts which together present the current state-of-the-art of economic sociology as well as pointing toward future directions for research. The first part outlines the theoretical foundations of economic sociology and its relations to other fields, particularly with regard to other alternative approaches to economics, and looks at conceptions and definitions of economic sociology vary. The second part provides an overview of the historical development of economic sociology from classical political economy to the present day. The third part explores the main problematics of economic sociology, analyzing the economy in relation to particular social institutions, the sTable of ContentsCHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION PART I: THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS AND RELATIONS OF ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY CHAPTER 2. THE CONCEPTION AND DEFINITION OF ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY CHAPTER 3. ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY CHAPTER 4. ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY AND INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS CHAPTER 5. MARXISM OR ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY CHAPTER 6. SOCIOLOGICAL ECONOMICS: ITS ELEMENTS IN ECONOMICS AND ITS CONVERGENCE WITH ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY PART II: HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY CHAPTER 7. ELEMENTS OF ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY IN CLASSICAL POLITICAL ECONOMY CHAPTER 8. CLASSICAL ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY CHAPTER 9. NEOCLASSICAL ECONOMIC APPROACHES TO ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY CHAPTER 10. ELEMENTS OF ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY THAT REFRAME THE DOMINANT NEOCLASSICAL ECONOMIC PARADIGM PART III MAIN PROBLEMATICS OF ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY CHAPTER 11. THE ECONOMY, SOCIAL STATUS, AND SOLIDARITY CHAPTER 12. SOCIAL RATIONALITY AND ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY CHAPTER 13. ECONOMY AND POLITY CHAPTER 14. SOCIOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC APPROACHES TO LAW AND THE ECONOMY, FRIENDS, OR FOES? CHAPTER 15. ECONOMICS OF CONVENTION–A TRANSDISCIPLINARY APPROACH AS CORE PART OF NEW FRENCH ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY CHAPTER 16. ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY AS COMPARATIVE MACROSOCIOLOGY: EXEMPLIFIED BY THE MORAL ECONOMY OF DEBT CHAPTER 17. THE DAILY-LIFE AND MORAL ECONOMY CHAPTER 18. THE CREATIVE ECONOMY: PRODUCTION, CONSUMPTION, AND TEMPORALITY CHAPTER 19. EMOTIONS AND THE ECONOMY CHAPTER 20. ECONOMY AND SOCIAL CAPITAL, MARKETS AND SOCIAL NETWORKS CHAPTER 21. UNCERTAINTY IN ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY PART IV: SPECIAL BRANCHES AND PROBLEMS OF ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY CHAPTER 22. SOCIOLOGY OF PRODUCTION, WORK AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS CHAPTER 23. THE SOCIOLOGY OF ECONOMIC ENTERPRISE, MANAGEMENT, ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATION: PUBLIC SECTOR, PRIVATE SECTOR, AND NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS CHAPTER 24. FISCAL SOCIOLOGY CHAPTER 25. SOCIOLOGY OF FINANCIAL MARKETS, MONETARY POLICY AND CENTRAL BANKING CHAPTER 26. SOCIOLOGY OF CONSUMPTION, LEISURE AND LIFESTYLE: WHAT IS A THEORY OF CONSUMPTION A THEORY OF? CHAPTER 27. ECONOMIC GROWTH, SOCIOLOGICAL TRADITIONS, AND THE RESTORATION OF SOCIAL ECOLOGY IN ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY CHAPTER 28. THE ECONOMICS AND ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY OF COLLECTIVE ACTION ON GLOBAL WARMING CHAPTER 29. GLOBAL ECONOMY, CULTURE, AND UNEQUAL ECOLOGICAL EXCHANGE IN LATE MODERNITY: THE IMPORTANCE OF FRACTAL INSTITUTIONAL PROCESSES IN ADDRESSING IMBALANCES CHAPTER 30. THE SOCIOLOGY OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: A FOCUS ON COMMUNITIES CHAPTER 31. THE FUTURE IN THE ECONOMY Index

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Book SynopsisFirst published in French in 1943, Jean-Paul Sartreâs LâÊtre et le NÃant is one of the greatest philosophical works of the twentieth century. In it, Sartre offers nothing less than a brilliant and radical account of the human condition. The English philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch wrote to a friend of the excitement â I remember nothing like it since the days of discovering Keats and Shelley and Coleridge. This new translation, the first for over sixty years, makes this classic work of philosophy available to a new generation of readers.What gives our lives significance, Sartre argues in Being and Nothingness, is not pre-established for us by God or nature but is something for which we ourselves are responsible. At the heart of this view are Sartreâs radical conceptions of consciousness and freedom. Far from being an internal, passive container for our thoughts and experiences, human consciousness is constantly projecting itself into the outside world and Trade Review"Sarah Richmond has now produced a meticulous, elegant translation…" - Jonathan Rée, London Review of Books"Sarah Richmond’s superb new translation…is supplemented by a wealth of explanatory and analytical material [and] a particularly detailed and insightful set of notes on the translation…The first translation of Being and Nothingness was a major academic achievement that has influenced thought across a range of disciplines for more than sixty years. This new edition has the potential to be at least as influential over the coming decades." - Jonathan Webber, Mind"The publication of this excellent new English translation of L’Être et le néant is a welcome addition to the library of Sartre scholarship … There is every chance that it will also attract non-specialist readers to Sartre’s early philosophy and will thus importantly contribute to keeping existentialist thought alive in a context and era chronically bereft of genuine philosophical enlightenment." - Sam Coombes, French Studies"Translating such a book is manifestly a labour of love—it was as much for Barnes as for Richmond, and generations of Anglophone Sartre scholars remain grateful to Barnes, even if, as I expect (and hope) it will, Richmond's careful, thoughtful, and thought‐provoking translation becomes the standard one for use by students as well as professionals." - Katherine J. Morris, European Journal of Philosophy"Sarah Richmond's marvellously clear and thoughtful new translation brings Sartre's rich, infuriating, endlessly fertile masterpiece to a whole new English-language readership." – Sarah Bakewell, author of At The Existentialist Café"Sartre’s philosophy will always be important. Being and Nothingness is not an easy read but Sarah Richmond makes it accessible in English to the general reader. Her translation is exemplary in its clarity." - Richard Eyre"Sarah Richmond's translation of this ground-zero existentialist text is breathtaking. Having developed a set of brilliant translation principles, laid out carefully in her introductory notes, she has produced a version of Sartre’s magnum opus that—finally!—renders his challenging philosophical prose comprehensible to the curious general reader and his most compelling phenomenological descriptions and analyses luminous and thrilling for those of us who have studied Being and Nothingness for years." - Nancy Bauer, Tufts University, USA"This superb new translation is an extraordinary resource for Sartre scholars, including those who can read the work in French. Not only has Sarah Richmond produced an outstandingly accurate and fluent translation, but her extensive notes, introduction, and editorial comments ensure that the work will be turned to for clarification by all readers of Sartre. All in all, this is a major philosophical moment in Sartre studies." - Christina Howells, University of Oxford, UK"A new translation of Being and Nothingness has been long overdue. Sarah Richmond has done an excellent job of translating and clarifying Sartre’s magnum opus, making its rich content accessible to a wider audience." - Dan Zahavi, University of Copenhagen, Denmark"With its scholarly introduction, up-to-date bibliography and numerous footnotes, Richmond's fluent and precise translation will be an indispensable tool even for scholars able to read Sartre in French." - Andrew Leak, University College London, UK"This fine new translation provides us with as crisp a rendering as possible of Sartre’s complex prose. Richmond’s introduction, and a panoply of informative notes, also invite readers to share with her the intricacies of the task of translation and assist in grasping many of the conceptual vocabularies and nuances of this vital text." - Sonia Kruks, author of Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of AmbiguityTable of ContentsForeword Richard Moran Translator’s Introduction Sarah Richmond Introduction: In Search of Being Part 1: The Problem of Nothingness 1. The Origin of Negation 2. Bad Faith Part 2: Being-For-Itself 1. The Immediate Structures of the For-Itself 2. Temporality 3. Transcendence Part 3: Being-for-the-Other 1. The Other’s Existence 2. The Body 3. Concrete Relations with the Other Part 4: To Have, To Do and To Be 1. Being and Doing: Freedom 2. To Do and to Have Conclusion. Index

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Book SynopsisThe first full-length study of cycling activism through the lens of social movement theory, this book demonstrates that, despite tremendous differences, bike activism can be understood as a continuous and connected activity spanning a century and a half and across continents. With examples from street protest to institutional lobbying, it emphasises cycling's current central importance to zero carbon transport futures, while showing that cycling activism is also not always about the bike or the cyclist, as successive generations of activists have used cycling to articulate different visions of freedom and autonomy. Moving from a consideration of social movement theory as a means to understand cycling activism, the author presents a series of case studies of collective action, organisations, networks and campaigns in order to illustrate and elaborate a theoretical model through which diverse campaigns and approaches to change can be understood. As such, Cycling Activism will aTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction A GenealogyAimsCycling as PoliticsA note on languageSection One: Theorising movement activism1) Cycling activism and social movements Introduction: Why Cycling activism?Cycling practicesUnderstanding collective actionDefining social movementsContext of analysisCycling studiesSocial movement studies and the politics of knowledgeConfiguring a research questionConclusions2) Movements, Mobilities and Messy Methods IntroductionDefining the field of study: cycling is not a "social movement"Framing activismWhy take action? Achieving goals or simply "being"?Mobilities and Movement(s)Social change and agencyEffective action or efficacious activity?Campaigns and organisations versus lived experienceWhat is research into social movements for?Locating the research and outlining methodEthical reflexivity in cycling studiesConclusions3) Models of social change Introduction: Finding an appropriate interpretative lensThe political subject and practical difficulties of definition Contentious politics and machismoBeyond a focus on the stateOutlining an analytical framework The way of reason and the way of subjectivityWhat is the purpose of change?Change theories in cycling activismRadar plotting as a tool for analysis and actionChange theories exploredContagionEducation Innovation Institutional changeDisruptionPrefigurationApplication Separating change theories from tactical repertoires Further thoughts on prefigurationConclusions4) Ethics, embodiment and experience in social movement research IntroductionReflexive research ethicsActivists, academics and knowledgeDecolonising social movements researchRearguard intellectuals Practical applicationsCo-productionThe corpus and the body as epistemological locationsThe body and marginality Emotions and actionsThe limits of political analysisExperiential knowledgesConclusion: towards an ecology of knowledges5) Post-hegemonic pluralism, everyday resistance and telling storiesIntroductionPost-hegemonic pluralism in cycling activismConnecting the elementsMetaphors matter: seeds and bubblesBubbles and political alternativesInfrapolitics and hidden transcriptsLifestyle movementsLifestyle activism and bourgeois individualismQuiet activismEveryday (quotidian) resistanceCollective action without intentionalityRhetorical agencyMaking StoriesThinking about the past and using historyStories and biography in movementsConclusionsSection Two: Stories of cycle activismIntroducing the case studiesAdvocacy is politicsExplaining the case studiesA note on referencing6) The historic politics of UK cycle activismCycles, technology and politics in the latter years of the long nineteenth centuryContext: cycling and political activismThe formation of the CTC and its first advocacyThe Road Improvement Association and the Road BoardIndustry activism and conservatismEnclosing the commons of the roadRoad deaths in the 1930sCycle path controversiesChanging tactics: making protest publicAnalysing interwar campaigning by the CTCPost war campaigns: boom, bust and an uncertain voiceConclusions7) Transport Politics, Urbanism, Technology and Counterculture Changing landscapes of transport policyThe New Left, 1968 and the Right to the CityThe emergence of political environmentalism UK transport politicsAnti-roads campaigningBicycle Activism Before the Energy CrisisThe dilemmaParis 1972 and Richard’s Bicycle BookCycling and appropriate technologyAfter the energy crisis8) Environmentalism, innovation and entrepreneurshipIntroductionEnvironmentalism and ecopoliticsExceptionalism?Meanwhile, back in the real world…CTC: constructing environments of cyclingLeisure, pleasure and politicsBuilding a DIY cycling countercultureIndustry, innovation, designSpreading the word, shaping the imageCycle festivalsWider significance: innovation and changeConclusions9) Cycle activism and public spaceCritical MassCiclovíaInterpreting mass actions: carnival and heterotopiaThe right to the city: rethinking rights-based campaigningInsurgent public spaces and tactical urbanismCycling through the Covid-19 pandemicConclusions10) Activism in political space: institutions and internationalism IntroductionECF and international cycle advocacyAntecedents – International organisation for cycle tourism (and sport)Formation of the ECFChanging governance: changing advocacyFrom national cycling organisations representation to BrusselsECF ProjectsCyclelogisticsCycling and the SDGsEU cycling economyThe Pan-European MasterplanAcademia and activism in Brazil Feminist cycling research and activismBackground to Brazil’s upsurge in cycle activismChallenging problem frameworksConclusions11) Supporting everyday resistance, diversity and inclusionIntroductionEveryday cycling: just ridingAction on diversityConnecting varieties of activismCycling and autonomyBike kitchens and velonomyWomen’s voices in cycle activismGhost bikes and emotionsPlacing everyday resistance in a larger frameworkConclusions

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Book SynopsisThis book engages with the classic philosophical question of mind and matter, seeking to show its altered meaning and acuteness in the era of the Anthropocene. Arguing that matter, and, more broadly, the natural world, has been misconceived since Descartes, it explores the devastating impact that this has had in practice in the West. As such, alternatives are needed, whether philosophical ones such as those offered by figures such as Whitehead and Nagel, or posthumanist ones such as those developed by Barad and Latour. Drawing on recent anthropological work ignored by philosophers and sociologists alike, the author considers a radical alternative cosmology: animism understood as panpsychism in practice. This understanding of mind and matter, of culture and nature, is then turned against present-day posthumanist critiques of what the Anthropocene amounts to, showing them up as philosophically misguided, politically mute, and ethically wanting. A ground-breaking reconceptualization of the natural world and our treatment of it, Cosmologies of the Anthropocene will appeal to scholars of sociology, social theory, philosophy and anthropology with interests in our understanding of and relationship with nature.Trade Review"How ought one do philosophy in a time defined by the human impact on earthly systems and ecologies? That is, what does the Anthropocene require of philosophers? Many believe that thinking closely about human existence demands thinking closely about the environmental devastation that seems to accompany that existence. For Vetlesen (Univ. of Oslo), the best way to address the anthropocentric excesses that give rise to environmental crises is to move from anthropocentrism (as a cosmological conception and moral vision) to panpsychism. Drawing on research in anthropology, Vetlesen argues that “animism is panpsychism in practice” (p. 15). He offers substantive engagement with Thomas Nagel, Alfred North Whitehead, and the “agential realism” of Karen Barad, providing a rigorously analytic treatment that appreciates the philosophical contributions of Continental thought. Whether or not one ultimately agrees with Vetlesen’s conclusions regarding the promise of panpsychism, this book is an important contribution to debates about devoting philosophical attention to a transformed, and sustainable, relationship between humans and others (whether human or not). This is a compelling but controversial text."-J. A. Simmons, Furman UniversityTable of ContentsPreface Introduction: From Anthropocentrism to the Anthropocene 1. Getting it Right about Mind, Nature, and Cosmos 2. Panpsychism as "Inner Physics": Whitehead’s Project 3. Prospects and Pitfalls of Agential Realism 4. Animism – Panpsychism in Practice 5. Agency Posthumanist Style: Proliferation or Decimation?

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the meaning and implications of the sociological maxim, make the familiar strange'. Addressing the methodological questions of why and how sociologists should make the familiar strange, what it means to make the familiar strange', and how this approach benefits sociological research and theory, it draws on four central concepts: reification, familiarity, strangeness, and defamiliarization. Through a typology of the notoriously ambiguous concept of reification, the author argues that the primary barrier to sociological knowledge is our experience of the social world as fixed and unchangeable. Thus emerges the importance of constituting the familiar as the strange through a process of social defamiliarization as well as making this process more methodical by reflecting on heuristics and patterns of thinking that render society strange. The first concerted effort to examine an important feature of the sociological imagination, this volume will appeal to sociologists Trade Review"Ryan Gunderson’s fusion of critical theory and phenomenology and incisive exploration of reification and defamiliarization provide analytical tools to unmask the neoliberal ideology that ‘there is no alternative,’ come to terms with the grim social realities exposed by the covid-19 pandemic, and imagine a future that averts plutocracy and ecological catastrophe." - Robert J. Antonio, University of Kansas, USA"Through a systematic exploration of the topic of ‘defamiliarization’ in sociology, critical theory and phenomenology are once again brought together. The result is a powerful endorsement of active estrangement that fully brings home Brecht’s alienation-effect to social theory. By showing us how to think about the world in a different way, Ryan Gunderson opens the way to social change, at least in theory." - Frédéric Vandenberghe, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil"Gunderson’s intellectually stimulating study joins the ranks of many important theoretical approaches dedicated to visualizing problematic dimensions of social life that have been normalized via everyday life, and constitutes a most welcome effort to spell out efforts to systematize strategies to counteract mediating processes like alienation and reification, which are detrimental to human agency." - Harry F. Dahms, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, USATable of Contents1. What is Sociology’s Epoché? 2. Modes of Reification 3. Familiarity and/as Strangeness 4. Modes of Social Defamiliarization 5. The Anti-Consolation of Sociology

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Book SynopsisSpecially selected by Diane Reay, this is a collection of innovative and thought-provoking recently published papers that 'use' Bourdieu to put theory into practice in order to understand and analyse educational problems. Bourdieu's work is renowned for its focus on inequalities and its centering of social justice. The contributions utilise a wide range of diverse concepts in Bourdieu's theoretical 'tool-kit', and address educational inequalities across different aspects of the educational system â from higher education and parental choice of schooling, to teachers' professional development and the PE classroom. Illuminating key aspects of Bourdieu's scholarship, they reveal how good Bourdieu is 'for thinking withâ; illustrate the merits of reflexivity, the move beyond binary ways of reading the social world; and demonstrate the significance of power in any analysis of education. The chapters in this book were all originally published as articles in TayloTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The practical importance of Bourdieu’s analyses of higher education 2. How Bourdieu bites back: recognising misrecognition in education and educational research 3. Emotional Capital and Education: Theoretical Insights from Bourdieu 4. The power of one? Conditions which challenge managerial professional development practices 5. Using Bourdieu in practice? Urban secondary teachers’ and students’ experiences of a Bourdieusian-inspired pedagogical approach 6. Education and Cultural Capital: The Implications of Changing Trends in Education Policies 7. Fields and institutional strategy: Bourdieu on the relationship between higher education, inequality and society 8. Violent youth or violent schools? A critical incident analysis of symbolic violence 9. Bourdieu and the Social Space of the PE Class: Reproduction of Doxa through Practice 10. Mainland Chinese students at an elite Hong Kong university: habitus–field disjuncture in a transborder context 11. Cultural capital as whiteness? Examining logics of ethno-racial representation and resistance 12. Student retention in higher education: the role of institutional habitus

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Book SynopsisSome studies estimate that each year, around a quarter of the population of Western countries will suffer from at least one mental disorder. Should this be interpreted as evidence for the progress of psychiatry, a discipline that is now able to identify and treat mental illnesses that have always existed, or might it be the case that modern life somehow creates new conditions, or social pathologies? This book argues that in fact something more fundamental has been taking place in recent years: the development of diagnostic cultures. Taking account of the phenomenon of patients themselves ''pushing for'' pathologization - and acknowledging therefore that this is not simply a case of psychiatry pursuing an agenda of ''medicalisation from above'' - this volume examines the emerging trend towards interpreting our sufferings in terms of psychiatric conceptions and diagnostic categories. Drawing on new empirical case studies of psychological diagnoses, including depression and ADHD, and emplTrade Review"A captivating analysis of the ways that use of medical diagnoses to categorize human behavior has altered our inner experience and our everyday social lives." - Donald R. Marks and Larissa Redziniak in PsycCRITIQUES (2016)Table of ContentsList of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Introducing the Concept of Diagnostic Cultures2. Psychiatric Diagnoses as Epistemic Objects3. Languages of Suffering4. Psychiatric Diagnoses as Semiotic Mediators5. "Do More, Feel Better, Live Longer": Being a Psychiatric Subject6. Interpreting the Epidemics7. Towards a Comprehensive Understanding of Mental Disorder8. General ConclusionsBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisWhatever else they may be doing, human beings are also and always expressing themselves whenever they are in the awareness of others. As such, the metaphor of life as theater - of people playing roles to audiences who review them and then coordinate further action - is an ancient idea that has been resurrected by social scientists as an organizing simile for the analysis and understanding of social life. The Drama of Social Life examines this dramaturgical approach to social life, bringing together the latest original work from leading contemporary dramaturgical thinkers across the social sciences. Thematically organized, it explores: the work of classical and contemporary thinkers who have contributed most to this theoretical framework the foundational concepts of the dramaturgical approach a rich array of substantive areas of empirical investigation to which dramaturgy continues to contribute directions for future dramaturgical thinking. An indispensable collection that updates and extends the dramaturgical framework, The Drama of Social Life will appeal to scholars and students of sociology, social psychology, performance studies, cultural studies, communication, film studies, and anthropology - and all those interested in the work of Goffman and symbolic interactionist theory and practice.Trade Review’The Drama of Social Life is a joy to read and a treasure trove for social analysts! It offers a unique, engaging, and clear-sighted explication of dramaturgical theory, highlighting not only its origins and foundational concepts, but also its contemporary applications and future directions. The editor, Charles Edgley, masterfully compiles a collection of essays that reveal the power and value of the dramaturgical perspective, particularly by illuminating how people create and enact meanings, identities, and social worlds.’ Kent Sandstrom, North Dakota State University, USA 'This collection is both coherent and cohesive. Edgley has compiled a fine assortment of essays here. They are sufficiently diverse, but are necessarily bounded by a commitment to demonstrating and explicating the dramatic character of social life. And, as sociologists of the everyday, we appreciate that this is the only drama on which the curtains will never close.' Symbolic InteractionTable of ContentsThe Drama of Social Life

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Book SynopsisIn a new reading of Immanuel Kant's work, this book interrogates his notions of the imagination and anthropology, identifying these rather than the problem of reason as the two central pivoting orientations of his work. Such an approach allows a more complex understanding of his critical-philosophical program to emerge, which includes his accounts of reason, politics and freedom as well as subjectivity and intersubjectivity, or sociabilities. Examining Kant's theorisation of the complexity of our phenomenological existence, the author explores his transcendental move that includes reason and understanding whilst emphasising the importance of the faculty of the imagination to undergird both, before moving to consider Kant's pluralised, transcendental notion of freedom. This outstanding book will appeal to scholars with interests in philosophy, politics, anthropology and sociology, working on questions of imagination, reason, subjectivities and human freedom.Table of ContentsIntroduction: A Pragmatic Anthropology with Imaginative Intent; 1. Freedom as Release from Self-Incurred Tutelage; 2. Anthropological Investigations: Difficult Selves; 3. The Critique of Impure Reason: The Schematic Imagination; 4. The Harmony and Dissonance of the Beautiful and the Sublime; 5. Kant’s Political-Cosmopolitan Notion of Freedom: Freedom, Society and Politics in the Context of Unsociable Sociability; 6. Creating Sociable Sociability: Practical Imagining; 7. Difficult Selves, Imagination and Blurred Sketches of Freedom

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This book explores the innovative, sociological approach adopted by Harriet Martineau in her efforts to develop a scientific' approach to understanding social and societal change. With attention to her focus on the key social structures and societal issues of her day the economy, education, the condition of women and the evils of slavery the authors highlight her creation and application of what we now recognise as sociological methodology, fieldwork and analysis. Through an examination in each chapter of the writings that best illustrate Martineau's sociological perspective, Reintroducing Harriet Martineau discusses her enduring contribution to sociology. As such, it will appeal to scholars and students of sociology with interests in the history of the discipline and questions of methodology.

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Book SynopsisThis book stages a provocative dialogue between social work, health and social care and contemporary philosophy in order to inform theory and practice in a complex and challenging world. Today, the social world is marked by deep-rooted complexities, tensions and challenges. Health workers and social workers are constantly reminded to employ critical thinking to navigate this world through their practice. But given how many of these challenges pose significant problems for the theories that these subjects have traditionally drawn upon, should we now be critical of critical thinking its assumptions, its basis and its aspirations itself? Arguing that health and social work theory must reconsider its deep-rooted assumptions about criticality in order to navigate complex neoliberalism, post-truth and the relationship between language and late capitalism, it examines how the fusion of theory and practice can re-imagine critical thinking for health, social care and social work. ItTable of ContentsIntroduction: against critical thinking? 1.Critical atmospheres: where are we now with facts, critique and care? 2.The rhetoric of urgency: tensions between critique and practice. 3.Autonomy, critique, and consensus. 4.Placing the review under review: reconciling critique with assemblage in safeguarding reviews. 5.The power of critique: looking back and forwards with Foucault. 6.The vulnerability of critique.

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Book SynopsisJudging and Emotion investigates how judicial officers understand, experience, display, manage and deploy emotions in their everyday work, in light of their fundamental commitment to impartiality.Judging and Emotion challenges the conventional assumption that emotion is inherently unpredictable, stressful or a personal quality inconsistent with impartiality. Extensive empirical research with Australian judicial officers demonstrates the ways emotion, emotional capacities and emotion work are integral to judicial practice. Judging and Emotion articulates a broader conception of emotion, as a social practice emerging from interaction, and demonstrates how judicial officers undertake emotion work and use emotion as a resource to achieve impartiality. A key insight is that institutional requirements, including conceptions of impartiality as dispassion, do not completely determine the emotion dimensions of judicial work. Through their everyday work, judicial offiTrade Review"Judging and Emotion is a milestone in research that examines emotion in the practices of the judiciary … It is a fitting testament to the pioneering research into the judiciary that Roach Anleu and Mack have undertaken over many years. It is a must-read for anyone interested in the interconnection between law, justice, the judiciary and emotions. It is an invaluable study of the skills and knowledge a good judge needs to have and to put to work in the courtroom." Leslie J. Moran, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK; from a review in Emotions and Society, 2022"… Roach Anleu and Mack show how impartiality, as a process rather than a state, involves continuous emotion work to balance emotions…" Stina Bergman Blix, Uppsala University, Sweden; from a review in Journal of Law and Society (2021, vol. 48)"Judging and Emotion: A Socio-Legal Analysis is not only a stunning empirical exploration of the everyday emotional landscape of the judiciary in the lower courts in Australia, but it is also a masterclass in doing empirical Socio-Legal research." Leslie J. Moran, School of Law, Birkbeck College University of London in Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies."Drawing on research with Australian judicial officers, Roach Anleu and Mack investigate how judicial officers understand, experience, display, manage, and deploy emotions in their everyday work, and they challenge the conventional assumption that emotion is inherently unpredictable, stressful, or inconsistent with impartiality. They articulate a broader conception of emotion as a social practice emerging from interaction and argue that judicial officers undertake emotion work and use emotion as a resource to achieve impartiality." Law & Social EnquiryTable of ContentsChapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Emotion and everyday judicial work: The contextChapter 3. Judicial impartiality, emotion and empathyChapter 4. Judicial emotion: Experience, display and management Chapter 5: Judicial emotion work: Others’ emotionsChapter 6. Professional regulation of judicial emotion Chapter 7. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisShades of Deviance is a turbo-driven guide to crime and deviance. It offers politically engaged, thought-provoking and accessibly written accounts of a wide range of socially and legally prohibited acts. This updated and revised edition is designed to be essential reading for general readers, undergraduate students in the fields of criminology and sociology, and those preparing to embark on degree courses in these fields. Written by field-leading experts from across the globe and designed for those who want a clear and exciting introduction to the complex areas of crime and deviance, this book provides short overviews of a wide range of social problems, harms and criminal acts, offering a series of cutting-edge and critical treatments of issues such as war and terrorism, incels and the alt-right, ecocide, trolling, hate crime and chemsex. A guide is also given to further readings and films to develop the reader's understanding of these issues. This new edition has beTrade ReviewAs with the first edition of this remarkable and indispensable book, this thoroughly revised second version pushes readers to broaden the way they think about deviance and social harm in modern societies—and to recognize the connections between the behaviors that often trouble us the most and the increasingly precarious and neglectful character of the contemporary global social order. Professor Elliott Currie, University of California, Irvine, USAA collection of fascinating insights into acts of deviance so wide and varied that conformity appears to an increasingly rare commodity. However, as the chapters in this volume attest, even as we become more diverse we are ever more policed. A book for our times.Professor Danny Dorling, University of Oxford Shades of Deviance is a thought-provoking collection bringing together short essays on a vast range of issues that are viewed in contemporary society as ‘deviant’, ‘harmful’, or ‘criminal’. Questioning the value of mainstream approaches which prioritise a focus on state defined problematic behaviours, this second edition collection includes 60 entries with new topics and authors covering low level issues such as yarnbombing to the more serious —such as terrorism and child soldiers. Written in a thoroughly engaging and accessible manner, this introductory text is a must read for all criminology students. Professor Christina Pantazis, University of BristolQuestions of deviance lie at the heart of criminological inquiry. The breadth and sociological curiosity that informs this book make it both a useful and highly enjoyable introduction to the topic. It will be a useful companion to students of criminology and several other social science disciplines. In fact, it creates a real danger that it will convert the latter into the former. Professor Katja Franko, University of OsloTable of ContentsPart I: Acts of transgression1 Crime Is Not Just for Criminologists Rowland Atkinson and Tammy Ayres 2 Begging Sabina Yasmin Rahman 3 Yarn Bombing Alyce McGovern 4 Spitting Ross Coomber 5 Street Racing and Joyriding Yunis Alam 6 Sex work Molly Dunn 7 Sadomasochism Thomas S. Weinberg 8 Public Sex Katharine Parker Part II: Subcultures and deviating social codes 9 Drugs, Substances and Intoxicants Tammy Ayres 10 Tattooing and Body Modification Kyla Bevin and James Treadwell 11 Incel Masculinity Sam Andrews and Anthony Ellis 12 Music and Subculture Víctor Ávila Torres 13 Chemsex Ford Hickson 14 Weapon Use Nicolas Florquin and Peter Squires 15 Graffiti Robert D. Weide 16 Parkour and Freerunning Thomas Raymen 17 Organised Fighting Sports Victoria E. Collins Part III: Changing technologies and harms 18 Online Fraud Kate Tudor 19 Hacking and Hacktivism Kevin F. Steinmetz 20 Lifestyle Medicines and Performance Enhancing Drugs Nick Gibbs 21 Robot Sex Corina Medley 22 Trolling and Online Abuse Emma A. Jane 23 Video Games Craig Kelly and Adam Lynes 24 Voyeurism and Trash Streaming Grace Gallacher Part IV: Social change and social problems 25 Domestic Violence and Abuse Jade Levell 26 Tourism Oliver Smith 27 Debt Mark Horsley 28 Sexual Deviance Katie McBride 29 Gambling Suzanne Baggs 30 Paedophilia Maggie Wykes 31 Pornography Samantha Keene 32 Stalking Laura Logan 33 Maritime Piracy Patricia Schneider 34 Drug Trafficking Zulia Orozco Reynoso Part V: Invisible and contested harms 35 Corporate Crime Mark Monaghan 36 Corruption Marina Zaloznaya 37 State Crime and Violence Diogo Azevedo Lyra, Carolina Christoph Grillo, Renato Coelho Dirk and Daniel Veloso Hirata 38 Tax Evasion Rowland Atkinson 39 Elder Abuse and Neglect Marie Beaulieu, Julien Cadieux Genesse and Kevin St-Martin 40 Fraud Jörg Wiegratz 41 Police Deviance Bill McClanahan 42 Consumption Rowland Atkinson Part VI: Hate, difference and culture 43 Gypsy Roma and Travellers Haley Read 44 Squatting Samuel Burgum 45 Hate Crime Tina G. Patel 46 Policing Politics and Protest Aidan O'Sullivan 47 Alt-Right Tanner Mirrlees Part VII: Questions of violence 48 Homicide Gabriel Feltran and Marcelli Cipriani 49 Terrorism Jacob Holzer 50 Animal Abuse Ruth McKie 51 School Violence Valéria Cristina de Oliveira 52 Child soldiers Tammy Ayres Part VIII: Harms in a global context 53 Ecocide Rob White 54 Environmental Activism Olivia Hasler 55 Gangs Dennis Rodgers 56 Human Trafficking and People Smuggling Daniel Briggs 57 Green Criminology Daan van Uhm 58 International Migration Mark Bushell 59 Slavery, Webcams and Human Trafficking Rosemary Broad 60 Urban Conflict Luana Motta 61 Waste Avi Brisman

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This innovative handbook, edited by four of the leading figures in the area, provides a comprehensive, and truly global, overview of the main approaches and themes at the intersection of of law and society.

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Symbols matter, and especially those present in public spaces, but how do they exert influence and maintain a hold over us? Why do such materialities count even in the intensely digitalized culture? This book considers the importance of urban symbols to political revolutions, examining manifold reasons for which social movements necessitate the affirmation or destruction of various material icons and public monuments. What explains variability of life cycles of certain classes of symbols? Why do some of them seem more potent than others? Why do people exhibit nostalgic attachments to some symbols of the controversial past and vehemently oppose others? What nourishes and threatens the social life of icons? Through comparative analyses of major iconic processes following the epochal revolution of 1989 in Berlin and Warsaw, the book argues that revolutionary action needs objects and sites which concretize the transformative redrawing of the symbolic boundaries between the sacred and pr

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Book SynopsisUnderstanding where ageing occurs, how it is experienced by different people in different places, and in what ways it is transforming our communities, economies and societies at all levels has become crucial for the development of informed research, policy and programmes.This book focuses on the interdisciplinary field of study geographical gerontology that addresses these issues. With contributions from more than 30 leading geographers and gerontologists, the book examines the scope and depth of geographical perspectives, concepts and approaches applied to the study of ageing, old age and older populations. The book features 25 chapters organized into five parts that cover the field's theoretical traditions and intellectual evolution; the contributions of key disciplinary perspectives from population geography, social and cultural geography, health geography, urban planning and environmental studies; the scales of inquiry within geographical gerontology from the Trade Review"Geographical Gerontology: Perspectives, Concepts, Approaches takes a critical perspective by acknowledging and addressing the diversity of the aging experience. There is much discussion of understanding aging and differences among older adults by gender, socioeconomic status, race, ethnicity, location (e.g., urban vs rural), morbidity, and mental health. Focusing on these dimensions allows us to understand how and why older adults interact with space and place."- Marie Y. Savundranayagam, PhD, School of Health Studies, Faculty of Health Sciences, Western University London Ontario, CanadaTable of ContentsPreface Part I. Introduction 1. Introduction to geographical gerontology Mark W. Skinner, Gavin J. Andrews and Malcolm P. Cutchin 2 Space and place in geographical gerontology Gavin J. Andrews, Malcolm P. Cutchin and Mark W. Skinner Part II. Geographical perspectives on ageing 3. Health geographies of ageing Janine L. Wiles 4. Social and cultural geographies of ageing Christine Milligan and Anna Tarrant 5. Population geographies of older people Mark W. Rosenberg and Kathi Wilson 6. Planning and design of ageing communities Judith E. Phillips 7. Environment and ageing Keith Diaz Moore Part III. Geographical scales of inquiry 8. Global ageing David R. Phillips and Zhixin Feng 9. Ageing in low- and middle-income countries Andrea Rishworth and Susan J. Elliott 10. Urban ageing: new agendas for geographical gerontology Tine Buffel and Chris Phillipson 11. Rural ageing Mark W. Skinner and Rachel Winterton 12. Ageing communities Sarah A. Lovell 13. Household spaces of ageing Anne Martin-Matthews and Denise S. Cloutier 14. Embodiment and emotion in later life Rachel Herron Part IV. Key issues in geographical gerontology 15. Explaining the ageing in place realities of older adults Stephen Golant 16. Being in place Graham D. Rowles 17. Active relationships of ageing people and places Malcolm P. Cuthcin 18. Older persons, place and health care accessibility Neil Hanlon 19. Mobilities and ageing Anthony C. Gatrell 20. Constructions of old-age social exclusion Kieran Walsh 21. Employed ca

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Book SynopsisTeam Human is a manifesto—a fiery distillation of preeminent digital theorist Douglas Rushkoff’s most urgent thoughts on civilisation and human nature.Trade Review"In Team Human, [Rushkoff] enumerates the ways connectedness matters, and argues that the technology we think connects us today is in fact tearing us apart... his cause is worthy: ‘The first step toward reversing our predicament is to recognize that being human is a team sport’..." -- New Scientist"Can the revolution start already? This book will help us. Thank God for Douglas Rushkoff." -- Parker Posey"[Rushkoff] paints our current predicament with infectious élan and energy." -- The Wall Street Journal"Mr Rushkoff... a vibrant thinker of the online age." -- The Economist"Rushkoff deals with heavyweight topics with a light touch, and Team Human is a joy to read – witty, accessible, and highly quotable." -- Make Wealth History"An astonishing, paradigm-shifting must-read for all inhabitants of the twenty-first century. Precisely and cogently written. Rushkoff’s best work so far." -- Grant Morrison"‘Team Human’ presents a convincing central argument and sometimes delights, particularly in Rushkoff’s roasting of the techno-solutionists who refuse to challenge antihuman values." -- Engineering and Technology"A vivid thinker, Rushkoff is an insightful and acerbic antidote to Facebook, cultural hegemony, and the corporatization of everything. " -- Seth Godin, bestselling author of The Dip, Linchpin, and What to Do When It’s Your Turn (and It’s Always Your Turn)"Team Human serves as a reminder that we do not have to surrender ourselves to technology... Joining Team Human means prioritizing the social, transcending a digital inclination and connecting as humans." -- Chris Yogerst - The Washington Post

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Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking study focuses on the importance of place, scale, and nation to the study of globalization.

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