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Book SynopsisFrom Modernization to Globalization is a reference for scholars, students and development practitioners on the issues of processes of social change and development in the Third World. It provides carefully excerpted samples from both classic and up-to-date writings in the development literature, short, insightful introductions to each section and a general introduction.Table of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgments. Introduction: J. Timmons Roberts and Amy Hite. Part I: Formative Ideas on the Transition to Modern Society:. 1. "Manifesto of the Communist Party" and "Alienated Labor": Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. 2. Selections from The Division of Labor in Society: Emile Durkheim. 3. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: Max Weber. Part II: How does Development Change People? Modernization Theories and the Intellectual Roots of the Development Project:. 4. Evolutionary Universals in Society: Talcott Parsons. 5. The Five Stages-of-Growth - A Summary: W. W. Rostow. 6. From A Study of Slum Culture: Backgrounds for LA VIDA: Oscar Lewis. 7. Excerpts from The Passing of Traditional Society: Daniel Lerner. 8. Making Men Modern: On the Causes of Individual Change in Six Developing Countries: Alex Inkeles. 9. From The Change to Change: Modernization, Development, and Politics, and Political Order in Changing Societies: Samuel Huntington. Part III: Blaming The Victims? Dependency and World-Systems Theories Respond: . 10. The Development of Underdevelopment: Andre Gunder Frank. 11. Dependency and Development in Latin America: Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Enzo Faletto. 12. The Dynamics of Rural Poverty in Latin America: Alain de Janvry and Carlos Garramón. 13. The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System: Concepts for Comparative Analysis: Immanuel Wallerstein. 14. The Effects of International Economic Dependence on Development and Inequality: A Cross-National Study: Christopher Chase-Dunn. 15. Rethinking Development Theory: Insights from East Asia and Latin America: Gary Gereffi. Part IV: Attempts to Understand Globalization and its Social Effects:. 16. The New International Division of Labor in the World Economy: Folker Fröbel, Jürgen Heinrichs, and Otto Kreye. 17. Globalization: Myths and Realities: Philip McMichael. 18. Capitalism: The Factory of Fragmentation: David Harvey. 19. Introduction from Has Globalization Gone Too Far?: Dani Rodrik. 20. Gender Industrialization, Transnational Corporations and Development: An Overview of Trends and Patterns: Kathryn B. Ward and Jean Larson Pyle. 21. Development after Ecology: Bob Sutcliffe. 22. Social Movements and Global Capitalism: Leslie Sklair. 23. Neoliberalism and the Sociology of Development: Emerging Trends and Unanticipated Facts: Alejandro Portes. Index.

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Book SynopsisTHE GOOD SOCIETY examines how many of our institutions- from the family to the government itself- fell from grace, and offers concrete proposals for revitalizing them.

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Book SynopsisThis essential volume brings together more than forty of the most important historical writings on feminism, covering 150 years of the struggle for women’s freedom. Spanning the American Revolution to the first decades of the twentieth century, these works—many long out of print or forgotten—are finally brought out of obscurity and into the light of contemporary analysis and criticism. This richly diverse collection contains excerpts from books, essays, speeches, documents, and letters, as well as poetry, drama, and fiction by major feminist writers, including: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, George Sand, Mary Wollstonecraft, Abigail Adams, Emma Goldman, Friedrich Engels, Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, John Stuart Mill, Margaret Sanger, Virginia Woolf, and many others. The pieces in Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings cover the crucial challenges faced by women, including marriage as an instrument of oppression; a woman's desire to

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Book SynopsisThis book represents cutting-edge research that addresses major issues of social exclusion, power and liberatory fantasies in virtual play. Specifically, the scope of the book examines three areas of concern: social psychological implications of virtual gameplay; reproduction and contestation of social inequality in virtual realms.Trade ReviewSocial Exclusion, Power, and Video Game Play is a timely collection of essays on virtual worlds and online games. The contributors challenge sociologists (and others) to take these spaces of social interaction seriously, as both revealing and shaping broader cultural dynamics. By exploring issues including the psychology of online identity, the impact of racism and sexism, and relationships between design, play, and fandom, this book helps bring questions of power and inequality to the fore in debates over the impact of online games in virtual-world and physical-world contexts, both very 'real.' -- Tom Boellstorff, University of California, Irvine and author of Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually HumanTable of ContentsPart I. Introduction Chapter 1: Introduction to Social Exclusion, Power and Video Game Play David G. Embrick, J. Talmadge Wright and Andras Lukacs Part II. Social-Psychological Implications of Virtual Play Chapter 2: Marking the Territory: Grand Theft Auto IV as a Playground for Masculinities Elena Bertozzi Chapter 3: Discursive Engagements in World of Warcraft: A Semiotic Analysis of Player Relationships Elizabeth ErkenBrack Chapter 4: The Intermediate Ego – The Location of the Mind at Play Vanessa Long Chapter 5: Producing the Social in Virtual Realms J. Talmadge Wright Part III. Social Inequalities in Video Game Spaces: Race, Gender, and Virtual Play Chapter 6: Racism in Gaming: Connecting Extremist and Mainstream Expressions of White Supremacy Jessie Daniels and Nick LaLone Chapter 7: Worlds of Whiteness: Race and Character Creation in Online Games David Dietrich Chapter 8: Gendered Pleasures: The Wii, Embodiment and Technological Desire Adrienne Massanari Chapter 9: Sincere Fictions of Whiteness in Virtual Worlds: How Fantasy Massively Multiplayer Online Games Perpetuate Colorblind, White Supremacist Ideology Joel Ritsema and Bhoomi Thakore Chapter 10: The Goddess Paradox: Hyper-resonance Shaping Gender Experiences in MMORPGs Zek Cypress Valkyrie Part IV. Game Fans Speak Out Chapter 11: To Play is to Design: An Analysis of Player/Designer Interactions in World of Warcraft Sean C. Duncan Chapter 12: Western Otaku: Games Crossing Cultures Mia Consalvo Chapter 13: Beyond the Virtual Realm: Fallout fans, Producers, and the Troublesome Issue of Ownership in Videogame Fandom R.M. Milner Part V. Summary and Conclusions Chapter 14: Conclusion Andras Lukacs, David G. Embrick, and J. Talmadge Wright

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Book SynopsisThis book provides an overview of debates about whether we are entering into a phase of social existence without precedent - the ''information society''. Intended as a bridge between the literatures of ''social theory'' and the ''social impact of technology'', this study exposes the myths surrounding the creation of the information society, discussing technologies such as cable TV and robotics.Trade Review"This is a lucid exposition of the empirical, conceptual and ethical issues surrounding the idea of the information society. In analysing significant contemporary transformations associated with the growth of information technology, David Lyon has clearly demonstrated the importance of the sociological approach." John Eldridge, University of Glasgow Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface 1. Introduction: Roots of the Information Society Idea 2. A Marriage of Convergence?The Shaping of IT 3. A New Economy: New Classes? 4. New Technology, Employment, Work and Skill 5. Information, Democracy and the State 6. The Global Dimension 7. Information, Meaning and Culture 8. Information, Ideology and Utopia References Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisProvides a clear and systematic introduction to the development of social and political theory in modern Italy. This book gives particular attention to relating the main traditions of Italian thought to the history of the country since unification.Table of ContentsThe unification of Italy - making the ideal real; Vilfredo Pareto; Gaetano Mosca; Antonio Labriola; Benedetto Croce; Giovanni Gentile; Antonio Gramsci; Bobbio, della Volpe and the "Italian Road to Socialism"; conclusion - social theory and political action.

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Book SynopsisAs a result of the writings of Foucault, surveillance has come to be seen as a phenomenon of major importance in modern societies. But there are few, if any, studies which relate the concept of surveillance to that of bureaucracy, thus connecting Foucault to Max Weber. Dandeker''s text breaks new ground in re-examining the framework of Weber''s analysis of bureaucracy in the light of problems of surveillance. The author also provides a critique of a variety of other theories of the significance of bureaucracy in the modern world. The core of the book is concerned to offer a detailed analysis of the use of bureaucratic surveillance in the state and the economy. The author gives particular attention to the role of warfare in the expansion of surveillance. The text brings together problems that ordinarily are treated in substantial separation from one another, including analyses of staff and line in organization theory, military service and the formation of prisons and asylums.Trade Review'An excellent, scholarly piece ... many will find a place for it on their 'sociology of organisations' courses.' SociologyTable of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgements. 1. Bureaucracy, Surveillance and Modern Society. 2. Surveillance: Basic Concepts and Dimensions. 3. Military Power, Capitalism and Surveillance. 4. Bureaucratic Surveillance in a 'Society of Strangers':. The State and Social Control in Modern Capitalism. 5. Capitalism, Surveillance and the Modern Business Enterprise. 6. Conclusion: Capitalism, Surveillance and Modernity. Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents the first analysis and critique of the idea of practice as it has developed in the various theoretical traditions of the social sciences and the humanities. The concept of a practice, understood broadly as a tacit possession that is a shareda by and the same for different people, has a fatal difficulty, the author argues.Trade Review'This is a fresh, highly intelligent and stimulating study that should be of considerable interest to philosophers and social and political scientists alike.' Stanley Rosen, Pennsylvania State University 'Turner's book offers a devastating critique of one of the central analytic tools of contemporary humanities scholarship. He shows how the notion of practices has become the postmodernist counterpart to traditional explanation- stoppers or first principles. More importantly, he drives home the principled inability of practice jargon to explain, or even to acknowledge,the phenomena of change of rules and concepts.' Larry Laudan, University of Hawaii 'This is a wide-ranging, highly critical, indeed polemical book.' Political Studies 'Provocative and intelligent book ... impressively wide in scope.' Studies in History and Philosophy of ScienceTable of Contents1. Practices and their Conceptual Kin. 2. Practices as Causes. 3. Practices as Presuppositions. 4. Transmission. 5. Change and History. 6. The Opacity of Practice. Notes. Index.

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Book Synopsisaeo The first book to engage the study of childhood with central issues of sociological theory. aeo The three authors are highly respected and widely read in this area. aeo The book draws together an enormous amount of international research.Trade Review'An exciting book by three of the foremost social-scientific specialists on childhood writing in Britain today; it promises to consolidate Childhood Studies as a new field of concerted endeavour.' Nigel Rapport, University of St Andrews 'This new book is a spring of inspiration. Theorizing Childhood addresses in a superb way the main, if not all, relevant approaches within the 'new sociology of childhood'. It demonstrates brilliantly the salience of this new field both for what it can learn from the general body of knowledge and for what it can itself contribute to modern social science...no scholar in this or neighbouring fields can afford not to read and digest it.' Jens Qvortrup, South Jutland University Centre 'The framework developed here is potentially an extremely powerful one, with enormous potential to stimulate and focus our thinking about childhood - and in particular our research' Social Work & Social Sciences ReviewTable of ContentsPart I: Imagining Childhood. 1. The Presociological Child. 2. The Sociological Child. Part II: Situating Childhood. . 3. Childhood in Social Space. 4. The Temporality of Childhood. 5. Play as Childhood Culture?. 6. Working Children. 7. One Childhood or Many?. 8. The Body and Childhood. 9. Researching Childhood. Part III: Theorizing Childhood. 10. Theorizing Childhood. Notes. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis brilliant and original book sets out to dismantle the idea that movements, crises and other phenomena produced in society must be explained by exclusively social causes, without recourse to psychological explanations. The author argues that we should reassess the significance of psychological causes in human affairs.Trade ReviewWinner of the European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social Theory, 1988. "This book is stimulating and important." Times Higher Education Supplement "Elegantly written and persuasively argued." Political Studies "Moscovici provides a useful psychological perspective on the work of three major sociological thinkers [Durkheim, Weber and Simmel]. The volume richly deserved the European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social Theory that it won." Contemporary Sociology "Moscovici's achievement is rare and seminal: he has made social theory exciting again, a field of rewarding exploration and intellectual adventure." Zygmunt Bauman, University of Leeds "This is a book which offers a challenging and radical argument to social scientists of all shades, and one which deserves to be widely read." Gerard Duveen, University of CambridgeTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction: The Problem. Part I: Religion and Nature as the Origins of Society. 1. The Machine for the Creation of Gods. 2. Crimes and Punishments. 3. A Science Difficult to Name. Part II: The Power of the Idea. 4. Social 'Big Bangs'. 5. The Genius of Capitalism. 6. The Mana and the Numina. . Part III: One of the Greatest Mysteries in the World. . 7. The Science of Forms. 8. Money as Passion and as Representation. 9. The World that has Vanished. Concluding Remarks. Notes. Index.

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Book SynopsisFeminists have long differed in their view of prostitution. While some regard it as a classic form of exploitation and degradation, others offer a more sympathetic interpretation of women''s involvement in the sex industry. In this important new book, Maggie O''Neill seeks to explore the theoretical debates on prostitution and the relevance of these to the everyday lived experiences of women working on the streets. Based upon her own ethnographic research - defined as ethno-mimesis - the author seeks to undermine and demystify stereotypical images of prostitutes. She explores the narratives offered by prostitutes themselves, as well as other forms of their representation in film, art and photography, and shows how these various mediums may be used to shed light on the socio-economic processes and structures which lead women into prostitution. These personal accounts produce what O''Neill refers to as ''a politics of feeling'', which, she argues, may be used to transform attituTrade Review‘Prostitution and Feminism is a great examples of feminist research, developing new theoretical concepts and methodological approaches for a feminism that can entwine critical conceptual explorations with an ethnographic approach that brings life to the broader analysis. A wide-ranging, readable and authoritative book.’ – Vikki Bell, Goldsmiths College, University of London ‘By working across traditional disciplinary divides, O’Neill provides a stimulating and fresh approach to feminist work in the area of prostitution, at the same time making timely demands on the reader to think more deeply about the nature and purpose of feminist theory and research.’ – Jenny Ryan, Manchester Metropolitan UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction: Socio-cultural Contexts-Renewed Methodologies for Social Research. Part I Feminist Knowledge and Social Research: Understanding Prostitution. 1 Feminism(s) and Prostitution. 2 Feminist Knowledge and Social Research: Ethno-mimesis as Perfomative Praxis. Part II Interpretive Ethnographies: Life History Work. 3 Women's Voices, Women's Lives. 4 Adolescent Prostitution: Runaways, Homelessness and Living in Local Authority Care. III Feminist Postmodernisms and Ethnographies of Difference: between Modernity and Postmodernity. 5 Imagining Women: Prostitution, the Aestheticization of the Whore and the Social Organization of Desire. 6 The City, Masculinity and the Social Organization of Desire: Pimps and Punters. 7 Conclusion: Towards a Politics of Feeling. Notes. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisSince the end of the eighteenth century, the pursuit of a true lovea has been enshrined in the expectations of Western societies. We regard this pursuit as our right, and organize our lives around it. However, the possibility that love is becoming more difficult to achieve in the West has begun to attract considerable attention.Trade Review"What's happening to love? In this deeply important, and well crafted book, Evans explores the cultural premises underlying our fantasies about it. Over the last two hundred years in the West, she argues, we have personalized and sexualized love, and unhitched it from marriage. But then we have de-eroticized sex, and unwittingly thinned out the cultural soil which might nurture the bonds we so care to preserve. This is not because we're bad people but because we're swimming around in a culture of love we need to radically rethink."Arlie Russell Hochschild, University of California at Berkeley, and author of the forthcoming Commercialization of Intimate Life and Other EssaysTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Chapter One: What is This Thing Called Love?. Chapter Two: Going Back. Chapter Three: The Language of Love. Chapter Four: The Rules of Love. Chapter Five: The Limits of Love. Chapter Six: The Future of Love. Bibliography. Index

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Book Synopsis* An outstanding introduction to the work of Franz Fanon, one of the most important and controversial thinkers of postwar period. * Fanon was an anti--colonial / postcolonial critic whose work spans across the political and academic disciplines of philosophy, psychiatry, social science, and literature.Trade Review"Caricatured as a mindless apostle of violence, Fanon emerges in Nigel Gibson's rigorous and subtle analysis as a major humanistic thinker about injustice, a serious critic of nationalism and, for the first time, as an impressively profound philosopher of modern post-colonial politics and culture." Edward W. Said, Columbia University "This definitive interpretation of Fanon brilliantly touches the heart. Gibson presents a compelling and engaging analysis of Fanon's original theory of the racial gaze, of revolution, and of Fanon's complex theory of violence. All the perennial themes of political theory are masterfully presented in this major book. Readers will feel morally civilized after they read it." Teodros Kiros, Harvard University "Gibson's prose is elegant and clear and this book is, by far, the best introduction to Fanon's life and work. But it does more than this....The key idea that runs throughout the book is that of the dialectic. Gibson argues that there is an unstable, critical and creative element in the heart of FAnon's thought that seeks to move through apparently irreconcilable contradictions. This kind of analysis is what we would expect from any responsible engagement with Fanon's work and Gibson develops it very well. But he goes further and makes an original and significant contribution by showing that for Fanon this kind of progress requires the development of a fighting culture." Richard Pithouse, Sunday IndependentTable of ContentsAcknowledgments. Abbreviations for Fanon’s Works. Introduction. 1. The Racial Gaze: Black Slave, White Master. 2. Psychoanalysis and the Black’s Inferiority Complex. 3. Negritude and the Descent into a “Real Hell”. 4. Becoming Algerian. 5. Violent Concerns. 6. Radical Mutations: Toward a Fighting Culture. 7. Crossing the Dividing Line: Spontaneity and Organization. 8. Nationalism and a New Humanism. Notes. Bibliography. Index

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Book Synopsisaeo A major new book by one of the most original thinkers today. aeo Develops a distinctive argument about the a liquida nature of modernity. aeo Re--examines key concepts which look at the heart of orthodox accounts of the human condition, including the concepts of emancipation, individuality, work and community.Trade Review"Bauman on a bad day is still far more stimulating than most contemporary social thinkers. He is the Georg Simmel of our age, and his books and essays will be read when contemporary exponents of social arithmetic are long forgotten." Times Higher Education Supplement "Liquid Modernity is Zygmunt Bauman's term for the present condition of the world as contrasted with the 'solid' modernity that preceded it ... He is a vivid and original writer with an eye for the revealing personal experience.' Dennis Wrong, Times Literary Supplement "Zygmunt Bauman can be counted among those giants of sociology - C. Wright Mills, Émile Durkheim, Max Weber - who are bound together not by a shared ideological or disciplinary alignment, but by a profound and moral passion. I do not employ the term "moral" in the commonly used sense of "judgmental", but to describe their ability to define the spirit of the age, to ask cutting questions about society's direction, warn of dangers and perceive opportunities." Contemporary Politics "These books mark an important advance in Bauman's project. He seems to be trying to bring the intellectuals back into the game, twitting them for their passivity. Bauman wants social critics to take a more active role, taking a lead by showing how the relationships between individuals and society and between the private and public spheres may be rearticulated and the spirit of the agora restored to social and political life." British Journal of Sociology "His work is essential reading for those political theorist who feel that part of their task is to elaborate relevant and compelling normative critique." Contemporary Political Theory "Bauman lucidly depicts what others call the 'postmodern situation' a term that he painstakingly avoids, and his analysis is important for anyone interested in cultural criticism" Caterina Norlin-Brage, Religious Studies Review "One of post-modernity's great commentators." Pete Ward, Church TimesTable of ContentsForeword: On Being Light and Liquid. 1. Emancipation. 2. Individuality. 3. Time/Space. 4. Work. 5. Community. Afterthoughts: On Writing; on Writing Sociology. Notes. Index.

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Book SynopsisSets out to dispel the myths surrounding the concept of trust in contemporary society and politics. The author examines the growing literature on trust to analyze public concerns about declining levels of trust, both in our fellow citizens and in our governments and their officials.Trade Review"No one now writing has Hardin's intellectual reach and elegance of argument." —Paul M. Sniderman, Stanford University "Although Trust is suitable for a wide audience, it is a must-read for anyone who is considering research on trust." —Jonathan Baron, University of PennsylvaniaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments. 1 An Age of Distrust? 2 Trust and its Relatives. 3 Current Research on Trust. 4 Social Capital and Trust. 5 Trust on the Internet. 6 Terrorism and Distrust. 7 Liberal Distrust 8 Representative Democracy and Trust. Notes. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisA A sequel to the authors previous widely acclaimed work on science, technology and society A Develops a highly original account of the changing notions of science and scientific knowledge A A well, written accessible text that makes good use of illustrative examples A The authors are leading scholars in the field.Trade Review'What you always wanted to know about the "knowledge society", Nowotny, Scott and Gibbons are telling it in Re-Thinking Science, the sequel to their much acclaimed book The New Production of Knowledge (1994). This is a splendid book, full of empirical insight and intellectual vision. Re-Thinking Science is reliable and robust at the same time.' Wolf Lepenies, Rektor, Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin 'The authors take us beyond the dichotomies of science and society in their ovular new work, Re-Thinking Science, into a new agora of interactive forces in which old institutional boundaries of science, industry and government are transcended. Re-Thinking Science re-thinks society.' Henry Etzkowitz, Director, Science Policy Institute, State University of New York at Purchase 'This book goes far beyond The New Production of Knowledge (1994), the earlier collection of essays by Michael Gibbons, Helga Nowotny and others. That book launched the debate on the trend towards a new regime for the production of knowledge and the practice of research ... Re-Thinking Science revisits these themes in the form of a single brilliant essay in social theory ... a splendid vision of a probable future world, in which science and society will increasingly overlap and be exposed to the growing expertise and contesting forces of the agora.' Nature 'This book is packed with novel and quite complicated ideas ... We look forward to a further harvest of sharp observations and deep interpretations in the next product from this outstanding scholarly team.' Interdisciplinary Science Review 'an enourmously important book, which deserves to be widely read and discussed.' Science as Culture The book could be influential in providing sustenance to higher education managers as they struggle to find new definitions of what it means to be a university. Political leaders too would do well to study it in order to move their policy-making away from dependence on mode 1 ideas. The vision of the science of the future outlined in the book could perhaps have gone further. However, there is a balance to be struck between being influential and being visionary. This book will clearly be influential. The vision will hopefully grow." Studies in Higher EducationTable of ContentsPreface. Chapter 1: The Transformation of Society. Chapter 2: Beyond Modernity - Breaching the Frontiers. Chapter 3: The Co-Evolution of Science and Society. Chapter 4: The Context Speaks Back. Chapter 5: The Transformation of Knowledge Institutions. Chapter 6: The Role of Universities in Knowledge Production. Chapter 7: How does Contextualization Happen?. Chapter 8: Weakly Contextualized Knowledge. Chapter 9: Strongly Contextualized Knowledge. Chapter 10: Contextualization in the Middle Range. Chapter 11: From Reliable Knowledge to Socially Robust Knowledge. Chapter 12: The Epistemological Core?. Chapter 13: Science Moves to the Agora. Chapter 14: Socially Distributed Expertise. Chapter 15: Re-Visioning Science. Chapter 16: Re-Thinking Science is not Science Re-Thought. References. Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is a major contribution to our understanding of the condition of the immigrant and it will transform the reader's understanding of the issues surrounding immigration. Sayad's book will be widely used in courses on race, ethnicity, immigration and identity in sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, politics and geography.Trade ReviewA brilliant excavation of the condition we usually describe as immigration. Sayad brings to light aspects of that condition typically camouflaged or neutralized by the language itself of most academic research on immigration. He juxtaposes to this language the apparent opacity of the language of immigrants’ lived experience and helps us see its transparence and what it communicates.’ – Saskia Sassen, author of Guests and AliensTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. A Note on Terminology. Preface. Sources. Introduction. 1 The Original Sin And The Collective Lie. 2 The Three Ages Of Emigration. 3 An Exemplary Immigration. 4 Nationalism And Emigration. 5 The Backlash On The Society Of Origin. 6 A Relationship Of Domination. 7 The Wrongs Of The Absentee. 8 The Immigrant: ‘Os For Life’. 9 Illness, Suffering And The Body. 10 The Weight Of Words. 11 ‘Naturalisation’. Appendix: Three Interviews About Identity. 12 Immigration And ‘State Thought’. 13 Recapitulation. Notes. References. Bibliography: The Writings Of Abdelmalek Sayad

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Book SynopsisThis bold and accessible study of human languages and communication explores issues which are at the forefront of today's globalized society. The human species is divided into more than five thousand language groups that do not understand each other.Trade Review"Abram de Swaan is the world's leading political sociologist of language. He has a profound knowledge of the complex history interlinking states and languages and an equally acute understanding of individual incentives to learn languages. Here he applies his insights and methods – with surprising results -- to globalization and its implications for the survival of world languages. Words of the World is both a pleasure to read and a remarkable contribution to political sociology." Professor David Laitin, Stanford University "...de Swaan's view is original and rich to the extent that it sheds new light on this problem...De Swaan's analysis is definitely new and fruitful for an understanding of the relations of power and language" Anais Bokobza, European University Institute, Florence, Italy "De Swaan's study is an impressive tour de force; it presents an original and refreshing social science perspective, is rich in empirical detail, rigorous in its theoretical elaboration, and written in an elegant and accessible style: a path-breaking study of language change and human communication in an age of globalisation." Johan Heilbron, Multilingual Matters "...this book is an important contribution to our understanding of the relationship among languages of the world in the era of globalisation. It is a good addition to the growing body of texts used in increasingly popular courses on 'World English(es)'. Alamin Mazuri, The Ohio State University, USATable of ContentsPreface ix 1 Introduction: the global language system 1 1.1 The global language system: a galaxy of languages 4 1.2 A historical atlas of the world as a language system 6 1.3 Supercentral constellations in the present language system 11 1.4 Scope and approach of this book 17 1.5 Plan of the book 20 2 The political economy of language constellations 25 2.1 Languages as ‘hypercollective goods’ 27 2.2 The communication potential of a language: the Q-value 33 3 Language, culture and the unequal exchange of texts 41 3.1 Texts as commodities in international exchange 42 3.2 Protectionism and free trade in cultural exchange 47 3.3 Monoglossia, polyglossia and heteroglossia 53 3.4 Discussion 57 4 India: the rivalry between Hindi and English 60 4.1 Characterization of the Indian constellation 61 4.2 State formation, nation-building and language unification 63 4.3 The vicissitudes of language policy in India 69 4.4 Discussion 73 5 The triumph of bahasa Indonesia 81 5.1 Gandhi’s dream 81 5.2 The rise of Malay 83 5.3 The demise of Dutch 86 5.4 The rejection of Javanese 90 5.5 Discussion 93 6 Africa: the persistence of the colonial languages 96 6.1 A two-by-three comparison 99 6.2 Three francophone constellations south of the Sahara 102 6.3 Three English-centred constellations south of the Sahara 116 7 South Africa: the survival of the old language regime 127 7.1 The language regime under Apartheid 128 7.2 Language policy after Apartheid 132 7.3 The dynamics of the constellation 136 7.4 Discussion 140 8 The European Union: the more languages, the more English 144 8.1 Civil Europe (1): language unification in national constellations 146 8.2 Civil Europe (2): Q-values in the European Union 151 8.3 Institutional Europe (1): the public level 166 8.4 Institutional Europe (2): the bureaucracy 171 8.5 Discussion 173 9 Conclusions and considerations 176 9.1 Conclusions 177 9.2 Considerations 187 Notes 194 References 225 Index 244

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Book SynopsisSpace, the City and Social Theory offers a clear and critical account of key approaches to cities and urban space within social theory and analysis.Trade Review“A wonderfully eclectic but focused book about social relations and spatial process in the US city.” British Journal of Sociology “Fran Tonkiss has written an important book. She shows the ways in which classic social theory continues to haunt the understanding of modern urban life. In clear, direct prose she shows also the ways cities are changing, and so require new thinking. The urbanite as well as the urbanist will be provoked.” Richard Sennett, London School of Economics “This is an exceptionally useful and inspiring book that will be used to instruct many of the urbanists of the future.” Nigel Thrift, University of OxfordTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction. 1. Community and Solitude: Social Relations in the City. 2. Spaces of Difference and Division. 3. The Politics of Space: Social Movements and Public Space. 4. Capital and Culture: Gentrifying the City. 5. Embodied Spaces: Gender, Sexuality and the City. 6. Spatial Stories: Subjectivity in the City. 7. Making Space: Urban Cultures, Spatial Tactics. Conclusion. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisThe struggle for recognition features prominently in the work of various thinkers. Lois McNay argues that the insights of the recognition theorists are undercut by their reliance on an inadequate account of power. By focussing on issues of gender she develops an alternative account of individual agency that connects identity to structure.Trade Review"Against Recognition is an important critique of some of the recognition theorists, and McNay analyses some important blind spots in the recognition literature. It is certainly a recommendable book." Political Studies Review "Incisive, committed and engaged: this is feminist social theory at it should be practised. McNay?s critique of theories of recognition develops her earlier work on agency and incorporates a powerful and compelling new analysis of the relationship between embodied identity and gender inequalities." Henrietta L. Moore, London School of Economics and Political Science "Against Recognition presents a carefully argued critique of recent efforts to represent social and political agency as a struggle for recognition. Though sympathetic to the aims of recognition theorists, McNay finds that their paradigm rests on a reductive conception of power. By way of alternative, she presents a modified version of Pierre Bourdieu's relational phenomenology, whose key concepts of habitus, field, and capital are used to provide a better account of the role that power plays in the complex interplay between agency and social situation." Andrew Cutrofello, Loyola University, ChicagoTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction: Against Recognition. Chapter One: Recognition and Misrecognition in the Psyche. Chapter Two: The Politics of Recognition. Chapter Three: Narrative and Recognition. Chapter Four: Recognition and Redistribution. Chapter Five: Beyond Recognition: Identity and Agency. Bibliography

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Book SynopsisSociety is under siege -- under attack on two fronts: from the global frontier--land where old structures and rules do not hold and new ones are slow to take shape, and from the fluid, undefined domain of life politics.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction. PART ONE: GLOBAL POLITICS. Chapter 1. Chasing the Elusive Society. Chapter 2. The Great Separation Mark Two. Chapter 3. Living and Dying in the Planetary Frontier-Land. PART TWO: LIFE POLITICS. Chapter 4. (Un)Happiness of Uncertain Pleasures. Chapter 5. As seen on TV. Chapter 6. Consuming Life. Chapter 7.From Bystander to Actor. CONCLUSION: From Utopia with no Topos. Notes. Index

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Book SynopsisIn the past twenty years, social injustice has increased enormously in Britain and the United States, regardless of the party in power.Trade Review“A brilliant polemic against inequality.” Roy Hattersley, The Guardian “Barry's pugnacious defence of a robust social democracy deserves to find a wide readership ... for disillusioned social democrats, Why Social Justice Matters stands as a refreshingly staunch and intelligent manifesto.” New Statesman “Barry's writing is extremely engaging. His arguments are supported by a wide range of examples and illustrations and an impressive breadth of scholarship.” Ethics and Social Welfare “This book is a powerful argument against the utter inequity of the current political and economic system in the UK and against the way in which a discourse of ‘equal opportunities’ is used to maintain what Barry describes as the ‘machinery of injustice’. In this extraordinarily simple and lucid book, Barry weaves striking threads of supporting evidence, anecdotes, quotations and statistics together to encourage us to insist that another (just) world is not only possible but that an unjust world cannot endure.” British Journal of Sociology “Barry persuasively argues that differentials in positional goods allow the rich to have better personal health due to higher self-esteem, better access to more fulfilling jobs due to a wealth of social connections, and greater ability to capture the government and use it to secure their own interests.” UtilitasTable of ContentsPreface vii Part I Social Justice: The Basics 1 Why We Need a Theory 3 2 The Machinery of Social Injustice 14 3 The Scope of Social Justice 27 Part II Equality of Opportunity 4 Why Equal Opportunity? 37 5 Education 46 6 Health 70 7 The Making of the Black Gulag 95 Part IV The Cult of Personal Responsibility 10 Responsibility versus Equality? 131 11 Rights and Responsibilities 142 12 Irresponsible Societies 154 Part V The Demands of Social Justice 13 Pathologies of Inequality 169 14 Wealth 186 15 Jobs and Incomes 200 16 Can We Afford Social Justice? 215 Part VI The Future of Social Justice 17 The Power of Ideas 233 18 How Change Happens 243 19 Meltdown? 251 20 Justice or Bust 261 Notes 274 Index 311

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Book SynopsisThe passage from 'solid' to 'liquid' modernity has created a new and unprecedented setting for individual life pursuits, confronting individuals with a series of challenges never before encountered.Trade Review"Liquid Times and Living on Borrowed Times offer deep insights into post-modern life. Specifically, it exposes the essential social and philosophical changes that lie at the heart of the conditions that led to the global financial crisis ... the ideas in these books are fascinating."Satyajit Das, Willmot.comTable of ContentsIntroduction: Bravely into the Hotbed of Uncertainties 1 1 Liquid Modern Life and its Fears 5 2 Humanity on the Move 27 3 State, Democracy and the Management of Fears 55 4 Out of Touch Together 71 5 Utopia in the Age of Uncertainty 94 Notes 111

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Book SynopsisStudent-friendly introduction to the sociology of everyday life. Introduces in very accessible style the various theories used to interpret our everyday actions that on the surface of things might look mundane. Considers topics such as eating and drinking, leisure, time and schedules, emotions, home, as well as how to study everyday life.Trade Review"This book is a wonderful introduction to sociology. It makes the reader rethink and re-evaluate the meaning and importance of everyday events such as gardening, shopping and eating out. It makes the familiar strange but not unrecognizable." Phil Manning, Cleveland State University "At last we have a study that brings together much of what we have learnt about everyday life from social thinkers over the past fifty years or so. Inspired by Goffman?s classic work, Susie Scott brings coherence to previously disparate fields. This book is much needed and long overdue. It provides an invaluable introduction, a unique and comprehensible synthesis. This is an indispensable gift to students of social psychology and social interaction." Ken Plummer, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Essex "A lucid and richly illustrated account of how the so-called little things loom large. Integrating theory and empirical work, this book will be invaluable to teachers and students of everyday life." Tia DeNora, University of ExeterTable of ContentsDetailed Contents vi Acknowledgements xi Illustration Acknowledgements xii 1 What is Everyday Life? 1 2 Theorizing the Mundane 10 3 Emotions 33 4 Home 49 5 Time 69 6 Eating and Drinking 92 7 Health, Illness and Disability 116 8 Shopping 139 9 Leisure 161 10 Researching Everyday Life 184 References 209 Index 233

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Book Synopsis* Up-to-date introduction to the study of subcultures, with a particular emphasis on theoretical approaches. * Synthesizes a huge body of literature and shows how the field has developed over the years.Trade Review"By far the most thorough and thoughtfully researched introduction to the field to date ... Highly recommended." Choice "Lays important tracks in the field of youth cultural studies and contributes powerful new data to the Chicago School’s legacy of urban ethnography and deviance studies, returning symbolic interactionism to its roots without looking backward." Symbolic Interaction "In this book, Patrick Williams offers the fields of sociology, criminology, and youth cultural studies the most encyclopedic and visionary treatment of subcultural theory and youth sensibilities to date. Williams's fusion of classic theory, modern research, and contemporary popular culture trends is masterful and Subcultural Theory is an invaluable resource to professors and researchers working in the areas of youth subcultures, deviance, and social theory." Tammy Anderson, University of Delaware "Subcultural Theory is essential reading for anyone interested in subculture studies. Patrick Williams explores the central concepts of the field - style, homology, moral panics, identity, authenticity, and more - with depth, precision, and clarity. He carefully outlines the key contributions and controversies related to major schools of thought, from the Chicago School to post-subculture studies. The thoughtful discussions of hegemony and resistance will push the study of subcultures forward. This book will be one of the most important texts in this field for years to come." Ross Haenfler, The University of Mississippi "Thorough, accessible and engaging throughout, Subcultural Theory offers an invaluable guide for those new to the subject at the same time as providing a distinctive and thought-provoking critical contribution which will be of great interest to established scholars." Paul Hodkinson, University of SurreyTable of ContentsDetailed Table of Contents. List of Figures and Images. Preface. Chapter 1: Subcultural theory. Chapter 2: Theoretical and methodological traditions. Chapter 3: Race and gender in subcultural experience. Chapter 4: Style. Chapter 5: Resistance: Subculture from the inside. Chapter 6: Labels and moral panics: subcultures from the outside. Chapter 7: Identity and Authenticity. Chapter 8: Scales. Chapter 9: Related fields. Chapter 10: A final note on concepts. Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisThe second edition of The Ethnicity Reader offers a comprehensive and engaging selection of readings for students of sociology, politics, international relations and race relations. Updated with a large proportion of new readings and extended editorial summaries, the reader analyses the ethnic component present in nationalism, multiculturalism and migration, making it indispensable to those seeking to understand the relevance of ethnicity as one of the most prominent forces in the modern world. Drawing on a wide range of examples, the selections included examine theories of nationalism and consider issues of ethnic integration and conflict in the USA, Middle East, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Quebec and Catalonia among other countries and regions. The concept of ethnicity, however, is discussed not only in relation to group rights in existing nation-states: many of the selections deal with the role of ethnicity in groups which are not nationalist at all but for which ethnicitTrade Review"The new edition of Montserrat Guibernau and John Rex's Ethnicity Reader makes it the most useful volume of its kind available at present: its range is marvellous, its texts the most important and the most recent in the field."John A. Hall, McGill University "Guibernau and Rex have put together a superb collection of writings on ethnicity. They have selected from the best historical and contemporary scholarship on this fraught issue, covering a wide range of topics, from citizenship to violence. Most importantly, the variety of contributions spans the globe. The Ethnicity Reader is an excellent resource for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in a wide range of disciplines."Eric D. Weitz, University of Minnesota "The wide-ranging coverage of contemporary issues of 'ethnic' conflict and integration is what distinguishes this reader. It is a welcome addition to our course reading lists."Yasemin Soysal, University of EssexTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction. Part 1 Ethnicity and Nationalism. 1 The Concept of Ethnicity. What is an ethnic group? (Max Weber). Structure and persistence of Ethnie (Anthony D. Smith). Ethnicity without groups (Rogers Brubaker). Ethnicity, race and nation (Thomas Hylland Eriksen). 2 Ethnicity and Nationalism. The nation and the origins of national consciousness (Benedict Anderson). Nationalism as a product of industrial society (Ernest Gellner). An anti-nationalist account of nationalism since 1989 (Eric Hobsbawm). 3 Ethnicity and Violence. Causes and implications of ethnic conflict (Michael E. Brown). State collapse and the rise of identity politics in Iraq (Toby Dodge). Ethnicity and the emergence of Somaliland (Mark Bradbury). 4 Ethnicity and Self-determination. Catalonia: Nationalism and intellectuals in nations without states (Montserrat Guibernau). Scotland: The importance of raising your own revenues (Russell Mellett). Quebec and Canada: Understanding the federal principle (Alain-G Gagnon and Raffaele Iacovino). Galicia: economic backwarness and nationalist revival (Ramón Máiz). First Nations in the USA (Franke Wilmer). The Kurds in Iraq and Iran (M.R. Izady). Part II Multiculturalism, Migration and Racism. 5 Multicultural and Plural Societies. The concept of a multicultural society (John Rex). Plural societies (Leo Kuper). What is multiculturalism? (Bhikhu Parekh). Multiculturalism, liberal citizenship and national identity: on British Muslims (Tariq Modood). 6 Citizenship, Assimilation and Multiculturalism. Ethnicity and liberalism in the USA (Will Kymlicka). The 'hispanic' challenge to American identity (Samuel Huntington). Rethinking assimilation theory (Richard Alba and Victor Nee). Multiculturalism in welfare states: the case of Germany (Frank-Olaf Radtke). 'Culturalism' and 'Nationalism' in modern China (Ma Rong). 7 Migration in the Global Age. Causes of migration (Douglas S. Massey et Al.). Diasporas (James Clifford). Transnational Migrant Brokerage in China (Li Minghuan). 8 Racism and Xenophobia. Racism in Europe: unity and diversity (Michel Wieviorka). The liberal retreat from race since the Civil Rights Act (Stephen Steinberg). 'Class racism' (Étienne Balibar). Index.

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Book SynopsisWhy do powerful states like the U.S., U.K., China, and Russia repeatedly fail to meet their international legal obligations as defined by human rights instruments? How does global capitalism affect states' ability to implement human rights, particularly in the context of global recession, state austerity, perpetual war, and environmental crisis? How are political and civil rights undermined as part of moves to impose security and surveillance regimes? This book presents a framework for understanding human rights as a terrain of struggle over power between states, private interests, and organized, bottom-up social movements. The authors develop a critical sociology of human rights focusing on the concept of the human rights enterprise: the process through which rights are defined and realized. While states are designated arbiters of human rights according to human rights instruments, they do not exist in a vacuum. Political sociology helps us to understand how global Trade ReviewArmaline, Glasberg, and Purkayastha use riveting and insightful examples to illustrate the character of the human rights enterprise as contested terrain. Despite its flaws, the human rights paradigm continues to empower and inspire those whose lives are most compromised by the dehumanizing forces of global capitalism.Bruce K. Friesen, University of Tampa This penetrating and provocative analysis brings the lens of critical sociology to bear on today's international human rights regime. It explores corporate and state abuses of power that constrain the protection and fulfilment of human rights, particularly within the United States. These abuses of power are being increasingly challenged by grass-roots movements aimed at ending gross human rights violations. The authors push the boundaries of political science, sociology, and human rights scholarship, and provide a rich and timely examination of contemporary attacks on human rights that will be helpful to both scholars and on-the-ground human rights advocates.Ken Neubeck, University of ConnecticutTable of ContentsAcknowledgements 1. The Human Rights Enterprise and a Critical Sociology of Human Rights 2. Power and the State: Global Economic Restructuring and the Global Recession 3. The Human Rights Enterprise: A Genealogy of Continuing Struggles 4. Private Tyrannies: Rethinking the Rights of “Corporate Citizens” 5. Current Contexts and Implications for Human Rights Praxis References

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Book SynopsisSuccess often depends on the strength of a single quality: leadership. Winston Churchill is universally recognized as one of the 20th century's great political leaders and his words ring just as true in the world of commerce. A wise, witty, and inspiring leader, Churchill ran Great Britain like a great corporation. Perhaps the finest book on practical leadership ever written. — Brian Tracy Churchill on Leadership demonstrates that the principles that guided Churchill ably translate to private industry today. Author Steven F. Hayward gives strong evidence that, if you remove Churchill from his political context, he would have the resume to be among the great business leaders of any age. Churchill: • was a financier (as chancellor of the Exechequer) and labor negotiator (as home secretary) • managed a large transportation network (as head of the British Navy) and far-flung property holdings (as colonial secretary) • perseve

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Book SynopsisThis edition of Response to Disaster provides an updated and more thorough version of the well-received 1994 first edition. The author adds new research and expands on areas only briefly developed in the first edition, which disseminated the original research findings from several disaster research studies completed by the author. He provides the reader with a basic understanding of how people and organizations usually respond to a disaster in contrast to how they are usually perceived to respond, as well as a description of how and why the mass media helps provide both accurate and inaccurate information involving disasters. In addition, the author discusses organizational response to disasters and assesses future needs in research to improve the reaction to them so that mitigation, planning, and disaster response activity are more effective. Here, he greatly expands the areas of theory of approaches to disaster.Trade Review. . . the collection of papers contained in the book may provide a useful introduction to disaster research to newcomers, in need of a synthetic overview of the main issues dealt with. -- Bruna De Marchi * Journal Of Contingencies and Crisis Management *. . . the collection of papers contained in the book may provide a useful introduction to disaster research to newcomers, in need of a synthetic overview of the main issues dealt with. -- Bruna De Marchi * Journal Of Contingencies and Crisis Management *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Preface Chapter 3 Acknowledgments Chapter 4 What is a Disaster? Chapter 5 Behavioral Response to Disaster Chapter 6 Why We Believe the Disaster Mythology Chapter 7 Organizational Response to Disaster Chapter 8 Future Research Needs Chapter 9 Bibliography Chapter 10 Index Chapter 11 About the Author

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Book SynopsisThis book examines eternal colonialism, a term used to describe the policies that were designed by the Western world and the United States in order to keep most of the world in a permanently subordinate political, economic, social, and military state. Eternal colonialism is a combination of both internal and external colonialism, or neocolonialism. Benjamin and Hall argue that the colonialism beginning in the fifteenth century never ended, but rather developed different forms over time. The scope of their work examines eternal colonialism in both American and international contexts. The authors contend that the United States practices internal colonialism within its borders, in addition to being fully engaged in external colonialism. Eternal Colonialism will prove essential to those who want to understand the ongoing global tension and turmoil, especially with regard to North-South relations. Furthermore, readers will see how the United States, arguably the greatest of the colonizers, Table of ContentsChapter 1 Acknowledgments Chapter 2 Introduction Part 3 Part I. The Domestic Dimension of Eternal Colonialism: Internal Colonialism in the United States Chapter 4 1: The American Internal Colonial Environment Chapter 5 2: Going Beyond the Accepted: Black Politics and Enduring Colonialism Chapter 6 3: The Legacy of U.S. Internal Colonialism and the Struggle for Democracy Chapter 7 4: Battling Neocolonialism: A Guevarian Model of Social Action Part 8 Part II. The Global Dimension of Eternal Colonialism: External Colonialism Chapter 9 5: The New North-South Dealignment in International Relations and the Impact on Regional and Global Affairs Chapter 10 6: Globalization's Gendered Consequences for the Caribbean Chapter 11 7: Africa in Fragments: Justice, Politics, and Transformation Chapter 12 8: Democracy by Coup: A Colonial Legacy? Western Hegemony, Indigenous Sovereignty, and Governance in Mutliethnic Fiji Chapter 13 9. Conclusion Chapter 14 Index Chapter 15 About the Contributors

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Book SynopsisA collection of essays, this volume is subdivided into sections posing research, policy, and strategic questions regarding social change. It introduces conceptual innovations regarding the spatial boundaries of development, sovereignty and the politics of globalization, food regime analysis, recompositions of rural activity, and more.Table of ContentsNew Research Agendas in the Era of Global Development. New Directions in Commodity Chain Analysis of Global Development Processes. (J.L. Collins). Trans-Local and Trans-Regional Socio-Economic Structures in Global Development: A 'Horizontal' Perspective. (S. Halperin). Changing Rural Scenarios and Research Agendas in Latin America in the New Century. (N. Long, B. Roberts). Conquering, Comprador, or Competitive: the National Bourgeoisie in the Developing World. (A. Schrank). Global Development and Policy Questions. What is Food and Farming For? - The (Re)emergence of Health as a Key Policy Driver. (T. Lang). Promoting Sustainable Development: the Question of Governance. (G. Lawrence). 'Stateless' Regulation and Consumer Pressure: Historical Experiences of Transnational Corporate Monitoring. (G. Seidman). Strategic Questions and Global Developments. The Poverty of Resource Extraction. (S.G. Bunker). From Colonialism to Green Capitalism: Social Movements and the Emergence of Food Regimes. (H. Friedmann). Global Development and the Corporate Food Regime. (P. McMichael). Shifting Strategies of Sovereignty: Brazil and the Politics of Globalization. (S. Schoonmaker).

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Book SynopsisThe Portion Teller Plan is a sensible eating guide and the end of diet deprivation. No forbidden foods, no calorie counting. Welcome to diet liberation. Would you ever consider going to the kitchen in the morning and grabbing five slices of bread for breakfast? No? Just one bagel is more like it, right? Well, your morning bagel is equivalent to eating five slices of bread. Your steak at dinner is equal to the protein in eighteen eggs. And that huge bowl of pasta you had at lunch is anybody’s guess. Nobody likes to cut back but the cold hard facts are in: Portion sizes have steadily increased over the past thirty years and our collective waistlines are ballooning right along with them. You may need to eat a little less if you want to lose weight, but with The Portion Teller Plan you can eat all of your favorite foods. Nutrition and portion size expert Dr. Lisa Young presents an individualized guide to eating according to your port

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Book SynopsisA history of peyotism, an important Native American religious movement. Presenting ethnographic and ethnohistorical data, rather than a theoretical exegesis, the study of this pan-tribal movement should appeal to anthropologists and historians, as well as those interested in religious groups.

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Book SynopsisAn examination of a movement of evangelical Christian men who promoted adherence to a code of conduct that masculinized conservative, religious and social values, this title details the social forces that contributed to the group's wild popularity, declining fortunes and efforts to reinvent itself.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. The Rise and Fall of the Christian Men's Movement 2. Situating the Promise Keepers: History, Culture, and Religious Identity 3. Godly Masculinities: Archetypes of Christian Manhood 4. Reforming American Culture: Sport, Gender, and Religion at Stadium Conferences 5. The ABCs of Promise-Keeping: Accountability, Brotherhood, and Confessional Culture 6. Multicultural Evangelicalism: Racial Reconciliation and Cultural Diversity 7. Conclusion: Promise Keepers' Fate in a New Millennium Appendix: Research Methodology Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThis text explores the profound changes that have affected social relations in Morocco over the last 150 years, particularly those between the sexes and between linguistic identities and cultures. It provides a portrait of Morocco under colonial and post-colonial leadership.

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Book SynopsisThis introduction to model building in the social sciences looks at, among other things, the nature of models and how they are constructed.

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Book Synopsis"Mapping the Present" assesses the relationship between Foucault and Heidegger, particularly on the issue of space and history. It suggests that space and history need to be rethought, and combined as a spatial history, rather than as a history of space.Trade Review"Offers a powerful reinterpretation of Foucault and reveals the frequently neglected significance of the work of Heidegger to Foucault's intellectual project. Mapping the Present provides analytically rigorous yet accessible reinterpretations of relevant works of both Foucault and Heidegger and demonstrates the crucial importance of spatial relations in the exercise of modern forms of power."--Barry Smart"A marvellous book--critical and generous, clear and sophisticated, wise and witty. For those interested in the project of a spatial history, Elden has opened up wholly new ways of thinking about (and working with) Heidegger and Foucault that are alert to the philosophical and theoretical complexities of their writings and to the political and ethical responsibilities of a history of the present."--Derek Gregory"...excellent study...It is a rich and complex book, which is at once an interpretation of Heidegger and Foucault, an argument for the importance of Heidegger for understanding Foucault and a forceful case for the claim that Foucault's Nietzsche is a Nietzsche mediated by Heidegger...it is an amazing book in the sense that it can handle such a variety of topics, and thinkers and issues and so many layers of argument in a concise, readable and yet immaculate manner. Stuart Elden is a master of brevity. The main body of the book is supplemented by nearly fifty pages of notes and an excellent bibliography that will be of great help to those who want to pursue the issues of their interest further, leaving the book accessible to the 'general' reader." -- The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, 2005 -- The Journal of Natural and Social PhilosophyTable of ContentsSpace and history in being and time; in the shadow of Nazism - reading Holderlin and Nietzsche; art, technology, place and the political; towards a spatial history; the spaces of power.

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Book SynopsisArgues that the greater danger in our culture is the tendency to fear achievements representing a more constructive side of humanity. This work relates the author's thinking on the sociology of fear to the thought of earlier thinkers such as Darwin and Fred and to the sociological tradition of Durkheim, C Wright Mills, Anthony Giddens and others.Trade ReviewMentioned in Psychologies (main) in article by Hannah Borno, 1 March 2009Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction; 1. The explosion of risks; 2. Why do we panic?; 3. the culture of abuse; 4. A world of risky strangers; 5. Who can you trust?; 6. The new etiquette; 7. The Politics of Fear; 8. Towards a sociology of fear; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe fall of communism, the emergence of ''the information age,'' and the expansion of economic globalism are the points of departure for this new edition of Chase-Dunn''s landmark book. The author shows how these seemingly new developments fit with earlier patterns of global formation and change, extending the influential model that drew wide attention to this award-winning book. The new edition also evaluates recent major studies of the modern world-system and assesses the implications for the future of the contemporary system.Trade ReviewIn this impressive book, Chase-Dunn . . . explains in masterly fashion the political and social factors that make the capitalist system so good at producing wealth. -- Susan Strange * Times Higher Education *[T]he major statement to date of American world-systems theory and research. -- Walter L. Goldfrank, University of California, Santa CruzThe second edition of Global Formation brings us doubly up to date on Chase-Dunn's contributions to the joint effort. * International Sociology Review *An updated edition extends a world-systems structural modelof the world economy to take into account events that have occurred since 1985, including the emergence of the information age, the expansion of economic globalism, & the fall of communism..... * Sociological Abstracts, April 2000 *An updated edition extends a world-systems structural modelof the world economy to take into account events that have occurred since 1985, including the emergence of the information age, the expansion of economic globalism, & the fall of communism. * Sociological Abstracts, April 2000 *Table of ContentsPart 1 Part I: The Whole System Chapter 2 The Deep Structure: Real Capitalism Chapter 3 Constants, Cycles and Trends Chapter 4 Stages of Capitalism or World-System Cycles? The World-System Since 1945: What Has Changed Chapter 5 World Culture, Normative Integration and Community Part 6 Part II: States and Interstate System Chapter 7 States and Capitalism Chapter 8 Geopolitics and Capitalism: One Logic or Two? Warfare and World-Systems Chapter 9 Rise and Decline of Hegemonic Core States Part 10 Part III: Zones of the World System Chapter 11 Core and Periphery Chapter 12 Reproduction of the Core/Periphery Relationship

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Book SynopsisThis collection brings together Daniel Bell''s best work in essay form. It deals with a variety of topics: technology and culture, religion and personal identity, intellectuals and their societies, and the uses and abuses of doctrines of social class. The Winding Passage demonstrates the author''s continuing concern with the salient issues of our times, while its inspiration draws upon an older, humanistic sociological tradition.In a central essay on intellectuals, Bell examines the term new class and calls it a muddle. Though the idea of class has been relevant to Western industrial society for the past two hundred years, the concept is less useful for examining Communist states, the Third World, and even the emerging postindustrial sectors of the West. Bell seeks to establish the idea of situs, the competitive conflict of functional groups for shares in the state budgetary process.A more personal note is struck in the final section of the bTable of ContentsForeword, Preface, Part I - Techne and Themis, Part II - Prophets of Utopia, Part III - The Intellectuals and The New Class, Part IV - Directions of Social Change, Part V - Culture and Beliefs, Acknowledgements, Index

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