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Open University Press Work Consumerism and the New Poor
Book SynopsisReviewersâ comments on the first editionâœZygmunt Bauman presents a cogently argued and compelling thesis... an important book from a distinguished scholar, that adds a new dimension to the poverty debate.âBritish Journal of Sociology âœIt will be of great interest and value to students, teachers and researchers in sociology and social policyâ [Bauman] provides a very forceful and sophisticated statement of the case; and a very well written one too. As a wide ranging analysis of our present discontents it is an admirable example of the sort of challenge which sociology at its best can offer to us and our fellow citizens to re-assess and re-think our current social arrangements.âWork, Employment and Society âœThis is a stylish and persuasive analysis of the transition between the age of the âsociety of producersâ to that of the âsociety of consumersâ.âPolitical Studies It is one thing to be poor in a society of producers and universal employmentTable of ContentsSeries editor’s forewordIntroductionPart one1 The meaning of work: producing the work ethic2 From the work ethic to the aesthetic of consumptionPart two3 The rise and fall of the welfare state4 The work ethic and the new poor5 Work and redundancy in the globalized worldPart three6 Prospects for the new poorNotesIndex
£30.39
Open University Press Social Research Issues Methods and Process
Book SynopsisâœIn this era of bountiful visual, qualitative and informationalised knowledge of the social world a conscientious guide to social research is ever more valuableâthis is a knowledgeably written, highly engaging and genuinely interesting book."Dr Pamela Odih BSoc.Sc. PhD. Senior Lecturer Goldsmiths University of London, UKâœA timely focus on intersectionality, decoloniality, as well as digital, participatory, collaborative methods and the relationship between knowledge, power and action, are all compelling new additionsâAnastasia Christou, Associate Professor of Sociology, Middlesex University, UKâœThis is the best kind of companion for social researchers: a clear, concise, and practical overview of the foundations of the fieldâgrounded in critical reflection about ethics and power, and skilfully assembled to both support and inspire.âDr Oliver Escobar, Senior Lecturer, University of Edinburgh, UK<Table of ContentsPreface to the second editionPreface to the third editionPreface to the fourth editionPreface to the fifth editionIntroductionPART 1: Issues in social research1. Knowing the social world2. Social theory and social research3. Values and ethics in the research process4. Working across boundariesPART 2: Methods and processes of social research5. Official statistics: resource and topic6. Social surveys: design to analysis with Carole Sutton 7. Documents: texts and images8. Interviewing: methods and process9. Participant observation: perspectives and practice10. Digital research11. Case study research12. Comparative research: potential and problemsPART 3: Research in practice13. Research in practice: a reflexive orientationBibliography Author Index Subject Index
£29.44
Little, Brown Book Group The Tiananmen Papers
Book Synopsis* A book that will change the course of modern history, and specifically our attitudes to China.* Three of the top four China scholars in America have said this is the most important book on China published in decades.Trade ReviewThanks to these documents, we can read the words of the Party bosses, angry and baffled... Today many Chinese officials blandly deny that there was a massacre at all. These documents, however, prove it all. * John Simpson, BBC's World Affairs Editor *Fascinating. * SUNDAY TELEGRAPH *The significance and rarity of the book and its potential value to researchers can hardly be overstated. * OBSERVER *The most valuable political book I read was THE TIANANMEN PAPERS, which gives an extraordinary insight into the old regime's ruthless stand against the freedom campaigners in Beijing in 1989. * GUARDIAN *
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Little, Brown Book Group In Spite Of The Gods
Book SynopsisIndia is poised to become one of the world''s three largest economies in the next generation and to overtake China as the world''s most populous country by 2032. Well before then India''s incipient nuclear deterrent will have acquired intercontinental range and air, sea and land capabilities. India''s volatile relationship with its nuclear-armed neighbour, Pakistan, may prove to be the source of the world''s next major conflict. And if you call anyone- from your bank to rail enquiries- your query may well be dealt with by a graduate in Gujarat. Any way one looks at it, India''s fate matters. Edward Luce, one of the most incisive and talented journalists of his generation, assesses the forces that are forging the new nation. Cutting through the miasma that still clouds thinking about India, this extraordinarily accomplished book takes the measure of a society that is struggling to come to grips with modernity. Drawing on historical research, existing literature and his own unparalleled Trade ReviewIN SPITE OF THE GODS is some way ahead of the game. Luce is a highly perceptive and intelligent writer and, unusually, he understands how India works. SUNDAY TIMES Luce delivers genuine insight and revealing observations among the exhaustive facts, interviews and history METRO Engrossing... Instead of standing loftily above the action, Luce gets in among the people to reveal the results of economic policy at street level... A wonderfully engaging portrait of India DAILY TELEGRAPH
£10.99
John Wiley and Sons Ltd What is Nature
Book Synopsis* An exploration of one of the thorniest, and most important, questions of contemporary social and political thought* Written in lively and accessbile style, this will appeal to a wide scholarly and educated audience. .Trade Review"This is an excellent book. It addresses what, in both conceptual and political terms, is arguably the most important source of tension and confusion in current arguments about the environment, namely the concept of nature; and it does so in a way that is both sensitive to, and critical of, the two antithetical ways of understanding this that dominate existing discussions." Russell Keat, University of Edinburgh "Pondering the related issues of environmental crisis and sustainability, readers will benefit greatly from close study of Kate Soper's extended essay on the discourse of nature and 'nature'." W. Lukin, University of LondonTable of ContentsAcknowledgements viii Introduction 1 1 The Discourses of Nature 15 2 Nature, Human, and Inhuman 37 3 Nature, Friend and Foe 71 4 Nature and Sexual Politics 119 5 Nature and ‘Nature’ 149 6 The Space and Time of Nature 180 7 Loving Nature 213 8 Ecology, Nature and Responsibility 249 Index 283
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Harvard University Press Numbers and the Making of Us
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA fascinating book. -- James Ryerson * New York Times Book Review *Fascinating…This is bold, heady stuff…The breadth of research Everett covers is impressive, and allows him to develop a narrative that is both global and compelling. He is as much at home describing the niceties of experimental work in cognitive science as he is discussing arcane tribal rituals and the technical details of grammar…It is often poignant, and makes a virtue of the author’s experiences with some of the indigenous peoples he describes, based on a childhood following his missionary parents—in particular his famous father, Daniel Everett—into the Amazon jungle…Numbers is eye-opening, even eye-popping. And it makes a powerful case for language, as a cultural invention, being central to the making of us. -- Vyvyan Evans * New Scientist *Everett buttresses his argument with an impressive array of studies from different fields…It all adds up to a powerful and convincing case for Everett’s main thesis: that numbers are neither natural nor innate to humans but ‘a creation of the human mind, a cognitive invention that has altered forever how we see and distinguish quantities.’ His argument that numbers played a crucial role in the development of agriculture and the complex societies it supported is equally persuasive. -- Amir Alexander * Wall Street Journal *In this multi-disciplinary investigation, anthropologist Caleb Everett examines the seemingly limitless possibilities and innovations made possible by the evolution of number systems. -- Rachel E. Gross * Smithsonian *Caleb Everett provides a fascinating account of the development of human numeracy, from innate abilities to the complexities of agricultural and trading societies, all viewed against the general background of human cultural evolution. He successfully draws together insights from linguistics, cognitive psychology, anthropology, and archaeology in a way that is accessible to the general reader as well as to specialists. He does not avoid controversy, making this a key contribution to a developing debate. -- Bernard Comrie, University of California, Santa BarbaraIn his journey through the millennia of human evolution, from the forests of Amazonia to the deserts of Australia, ever in search of a better understanding of human diversity, Caleb Everett presents a breathtaking narrative of how the human species developed one of its most distinct cognitive and linguistic achievements: to count and to use concepts of quantity to expand and enrich a wide range of cultural activities. -- Bernd Heine, University of Cologne
£18.00
Harvard University Press The Ideological Origins of the American
Book SynopsisThe Ideological Origins of the American Revolution is a classic of American historical literaturerequired reading for understanding the Founders' ideas and their struggles to implement them. In the preface to this 50th anniversary edition, Bernard Bailyn isolates the Founders' profound concern with the uses and misuses of power.Trade ReviewIn every area of Bernard Bailyn’s research—whether Virginia society of the 17th century or the schools of early America—he transformed what historians had hitherto thought about the subject. In The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, the most famous of his works, Bailyn uncovered a set of ideas among the Revolutionary generation that most historians had scarcely known existed. These radical ideas about power and liberty, and deeply rooted fears of conspiracy, had propelled Americans in the 1760s and 1770s into the Revolution, Bailyn said. His book, which won the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes in 1968, influenced an entire generation of historians. For many, it remains the most persuasive interpretation of the Revolution. -- Gordon S. Wood * Wall Street Journal *One cannot claim to understand the Revolution without having read this book. * New York Times Book Review *A distinguished achievement. Mr. Bailyn writes with the authority and integrity that derive from a thorough mastery of the material. His meticulous scholarship is matched with perceptive analysis. * New York Review of Books *Tightly written and politically sophisticated…In the field of American Revolutionary Studies, Bailyn’s book must henceforth occupy a position of first rank. * Saturday Review *The most brilliant study of the meaning of the Revolution to appear in a generation. * History *With this reading of the American Revolutionary Experience, Mr. Bailyn has substantially and profoundly altered the nature and direction of the inquiry on the American Revolution. In the process he has also erected a new framework for interpreting the entire first half-century of American national history…A landmark in American historiography. * American Quarterly *
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Theorizing Childhood
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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Beacon Press You Cant Be Neutral on a Moving Train
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Baywood Publishing Company Inc Living Victims Stolen Lives Parents of Murdered Children Speak to America Death Value and Meaning Series
Book SynopsisLiving Victims, Stolen Lives: Parents of Murdered Children Speak to America is a gripping and instructive sketch of the intense psychic pain, anger, and frustration experienced by parents of murdered children. Drawing on intimate interviews with parents enduring murdered-child grief and the insights of professionals counseling them, this unique book gives a deeply moving psychological, emotional, and spiritual portrait of people immersed in epic tragedy and loss.Table of ContentsA Note of Dedication Foreword: A Word About Method Preface AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Murder in America Click To Read It Now!PART I Voices of Parents of Murdered Children CHAPTER 1 Juanita Lopez CHAPTER 2 Jack and Yolanda Morales CHAPTER 3 Lupe Thexton CHAPTER 4 Gil Matinelli CHAPTER 5 Elly RossiPART II Toward Understanding and Healing CHAPTER 6 Nancy Ruhe-Munch CHAPTER 7 Pastor Ken Wilson and Mark MogensenPART III Reaching for ResolutionCHAPTER 8 Steps Toward Healing for Parents of Murdered Children and Other Survivors of Homicide APPENDIX I A Reflection on Teen Suicide APPENDIX II Groups Supporting Parents and Loved Ones of Murder Victims and Others Who Grieve Bibliography Index
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Sage Publications Ltd Key Texts for Japanese Sociology
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of
Book SynopsisWritten by an international team of experts, this comprehensive volume investigates modern-day family relationships, partnering, and parenting set against a backdrop of rapid social, economic, cultural, and technological change.Table of ContentsNotes of Contributors viii Preface xvi Part I Global Perspectives on Families 1 Family Systems of the World: Are They Converging? 3Göran Therborn 2 Changing European Families 20Trude Lappegård 3 American Families: Demographic Trends and Social Class 43Wendy D. Manning and Susan L. Brown 4 Family Change in East Asia 61Yen-Chun Cheryl Chen and Jui-Chung Allen Li 5 Changes and Inequalities in Latin American Families 83Irma Arriagada Part II Diversity, Inequality, and Immigration 6 Same-Sex Families 109Timothy J. Biblarz, Megan Carroll and Nathaniel Burke 7 Family Poverty 132Rys Farthing 8 Transnational Families 155Loretta Baldassar, Majella Kilkey, Laura Merla and Raelene Wilding 9 Ethnic Diversity in the United Kingdom: Family Forms and Conjugality 176Alison Shaw 10 Immigrant Families and the Shifting Color Line in the United States 194Karen D. Pyke Part III Family Forms and Family Influences 11 Cohabitation: Recent Research and Implications 217Rhiannon A. Kroeger and Pamela J. Smock 12 Partnerships, Family, and Personal Configurations 236Eric D. Widmer 13 Health and Families 255Deborah Carr, Kristen W. Springer and Kristi Williams 14 Religion and Families 277Christopher G. Ellison and Xiaohe Xu Part IV Family Processes 15 Divorce: Trends, Patterns, Causes, and Consequences 303Juho Härkönen 16 Partner Violence in World Perspective 323Emily M. Douglas, Denise A. Hines and Murray A. Straus 17 Money Management, Gender, and Households 344Sean R. Lauer and Carrie Yodanis 18 Family Transmission of Social and Cultural Capital 361Toby L. Parcel and Joshua A. Hendrix Part V Life Course Perspectives 19 Adult Intergenerational Relationships 385Matthijs Kalmijn 20 Children’s Families: A Child-Centered Perspective 404Jacqueline Scott 21 Fathers and Fatherhood 424Kevin M. Roy 22 Aging Families and the Gendered Life Course 444Phyllis Moen, Jack Lam and Melanie N.G. Jackson Part VI Families in Context 23 Public Policy and Families 467Pernilla Tunberger and Wendy Sigle-Rushton 24 Family Policy and Wives’ Economic Independence 485Hadas Mandel 25 Assisted Reproduction, Genetic and Genomic Technologies, and Family Life 508Martin Richards 26 Sex, Family, and Social Change 52Judith Treas and Thomas Alan Elliott 27 The Global Chaos of Love: Toward a Cosmopolitan Turn in the Sociology of Love and Families 547Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim Index 560
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Sociology For Dummies
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 About This Book 2 Foolish Assumptions 4 Icons Used In This Book 5 Beyond the Book 6 Where To Go From Here 6 Part 1: Getting the Basic Basics 7 Chapter 1: Getting Your Head around Sociology 9 Focusing Your Sociological Lens 10 Defining sociology 10 Knowing the history of sociology 10 Doing sociology 11 The Nuts and Bolts of Society 12 Understanding culture 13 Microsociology 13 Understanding Differences Among People and Groups 14 Social stratification 14 Race and ethnicity 15 Sex and gender 15 Religion 16 Crime, deviance, and social control 16 How People Get Organized (Or At Least Try To) 17 Organizations and networks 17 Social movements and political sociology 17 Urban and rural sociology 18 Changes In Your Life, Changes In Your Society 18 The life course 19 Social change 19 Sociology For Dummies, for Dummies 20 Chapter 2: Knowing Why Sociology Matters 21 Figuring Out What Sociology is 22 Defining sociology 22 Studying society scientifically 22 Asking and answering sociological questions 25 Discovering Where Sociology is “Done” 27 Colleges and universities 27 Think tanks and research institutes 27 Nonprofit organizations 28 Government 29 Journalism and reporting 29 Business and consulting 30 Everyday life 31 Recognizing How Sociology Affects Your Life and Your World 31 Thinking about the social world in an objective, value-free way 32 Visualizing connections across times and places 33 Uncovering what really matters and what doesn’t 34 Informing social policy 35 Keeping a unique perspective for everyday problems 36 Chapter 3: Conflict and Cooperation: The History of Sociology 37 So Who Cares about History? 38 Thinking about Society before There Was Sociology 39 People are the same everywhere you go except when they aren’t 39 Pre-sociologists: People with ideas about society 40 Political and industrial revolution: Ready or not, here it comes 41 The Development of “Sociology” 43 Figuring out life with positivism 43 Common themes of early sociologists 43 Sociology: The most ambitious science 44 Sociology’s Power Trio 46 Karl Marx 47 Emile Durkheim 49 Max Weber 51 Sociology in the 20th Century 53 Sociology in America: W.E.B Du Bois and the Chicago School 53 Mass society: Are we, or are we not, sheep? 54 The Power Elite: Marx’s revenge 56 Sociology Today 58 Chapter 4: Understanding the Research Methods: You Can’t Put Society in a Test Tube 59 Performing Sociological Research 60 Asking your question 60 Checking the literature 62 Operationalizing your question and find your data 63 Analyzing your data 65 Step 5: Interpreting your results 65 Getting to Know the Research Methods 67 Getting quantitative data 68 Gathering qualitative data 72 Choosing hybrid methods 73 Preparing For Potential Pitfalls 75 Using inappropriate data 75 Getting overzealous 75 Overlooking relevant information 78 Misusing statistics 79 Making mistakes just plain oops! 80 Part 2: Seeing Society Like a Sociologist 83 Chapter 5: Getting Some Culture: How Socialization Works 85 Understanding What Culture is — and Isn’t 86 Defining “culture” 86 Breaking down structure 87 Does culture matter? 89 Studying Culture: Makin’ It and Takin’ It 91 Other angles on culture 91 The production and reception of culture 93 Culture, information, and the news 94 Paddling the “Mainstream” 95 Subculture 96 Microcultures 97 Socialization: Where You Connect in Culture 99 Nature vs nurture: Social psychology 100 You are who other people think you are 101 Culture Paradox: Pulling Us Together and Pushing Us Apart 103 Uniting through culture 103 Dividing because of culture 104 Chapter 6: Studying Sociology at Its Smallest: Microsociology 105 Grasping the Paradox of Society 106 Social facts: What your society says about you 106 Adaptation and frustration 109 Understanding Why People Make Rational — and Irrational — Choices 110 Making rational choices — or, at least, trying 111 Making bad decisions (we’ve all been there) 114 Getting How Symbolic Interactionism Works 119 Play ball! The rules of the game 120 Stop frontin’: Switching roles, changing frames 122 Part 3: Equality and Inequality in Our Diverse World 125 Chapter 7: Social Stratification: We’re All Equal, But Some of Us Are More Equal Than Others 127 Excavating the Social Strata 128 Understanding social inequality 128 Grappling with the perennial debate: Is inequality necessary? 131 Recognizing the Many Means of Inequality 134 Income and wealth: Making money (or inheriting it) 134 Occupation: Landing in the labor force 135 Innate ability: Capitalizing on your skills 137 Motivation: Getting out of bed in the morning 137 Social connections: Knowing the right people 139 Credentials: Carrying the right cards 140 Education: Learning the ropes 141 Specialized knowledge: Knowing what others don’t 142 Bias and discrimination: Being limited by others’ lack of imagination 143 Considering Global Inequality 144 Chapter 8: Race and Ethnicity: What Others See, Who We Are 147 Race: Real in Its Consequences 148 Knowing the difference between race and ethnicity 148 Grasping the complexities of life in color 152 Debunking the myth of the “model minority” 154 Putting whiteness in the spotlight 155 Considering Individuals and Institutions 158 Racial discrimination: Conscious and unconscious 158 How racism becomes institutionalized 160 Understanding Immigration in a Changing World 161 Crossing borders, keeping ties 162 Immigration today 163 Chapter 9: Sex and Gender: Beyond the Binary 167 Biology is Not Destiny 168 Distinguishing between sex and gender 168 Understanding the sex and gender spectrum 169 Changing Ideas of Femininity and Masculinity 171 The history of feminism 172 Rethinking masculinity 175 #MeToo and a new reckoning 177 Intersectionality: Race and Gender 180 Chapter 10: Getting Religion: Faith in the Modern World 183 Understanding Religion in History 184 Karl Marx on religion: Opium of the people 184 Émile Durkheim on religion: Progressing from specific rules to common principles 185 Weber on religion: A switchman on the tracks 188 Religion in Theory and in Practice 189 Religious ideas, ideology, and values 189 The important role of religious organizations 191 Faith and Freedom in the World Today 194 Shopping for God 194 Belief, action, and everything in between 197 Chapter 11: Crime and Deviance: Who’s in Control? 201 Knowing the Difference between Deviance and Crime 202 Understanding Why People Commit Crimes 204 Theory one: Are criminals bad people? 204 Theory two: Are criminals driven to it? 205 Accepting crime as normal 206 Breaking Down the Social Construction of Crime 208 Writing laws that make sense to a society 208 Enforcing the law 210 Looking Beyond Crime and Punishment 212 Rethinking policing 213 Examining the effects of America’s high incarceration rate 216 Considering whether punishment works 216 Tallying the high costs of incarceration 217 Part 4: All Together Now: The Ins and Outs of Social Organization 219 Chapter 12: Knowing What Works (and Doesn’t): Sociology and Organizations 221 Recognizing the Corporate Conundrum 222 Understanding Weber’s Big Idea About Organizations 224 Getting That People Are More Than Cogs in a Machine 226 Rational systems: Bureaucracy at its purest 227 Natural systems: We’re only human 229 Open systems: The whole wide world of work 231 Seeing Society as a Network 234 Connecting individuals to their society 234 The strength of weak ties 235 Gathering insights from network analysis 237 Exploring the New World of Work 238 Chapter 13: Getting into It: Political Sociology 241 Government: Governing and Being Governed 242 Understanding government as a social institution 242 Knowing what causes political revolution 244 Sharing (or Not Sharing) Power in Society 247 Conflict models: Everyone for themselves 247 Pluralist models: Fair is fair 250 Social Movements: Working for Change 253 Getting off the ground 253 Mobilizing supporters 256 Understanding why social movements succeed — or fizzle 259 Going Viral: How Social Media Transforms Social Movements 261 Chapter 14: Recognizing Why Density and Demographics Matter 263 Studying Sociology in the City 264 Feeling lonely in a crowd: The paradox of social life 264 Observing street corner society 267 Changing Neighborhoods Through History 269 Recognizing the relevance of neighborhoods 269 Understanding how and why neighborhoods change 271 Studying the rise of the suburbs 274 The upper class, the lower class, and the underclass 276 Considering City and Country 279 Who are cities for? 279 Small towns, high hopes 281 Part 5: Sociology and Your Life 285 Chapter 15: Exploring Family and the Life Course as Social Constructs 287 The Social Construction of Age 288 The “invention” of childhood 288 The new senior citizens — and the new young adults 290 Running the Course of Life 292 Demographics and life transitions 292 The changing role of education 294 Taking Care: Health Care and Society 296 Deciding what counts as “healthy” 296 Organizing and distributing health care 299 Families Past and Present 301 The way we never were 301 The family today 304 Chapter 16: Understanding Social Change 307 Understanding How and Why Societies Change 308 Marx: If it’s not one revolution, it’s another 308 Durkheim: Increasing diversity 310 Weber: Into the iron cage 312 Forecasting the Future of Society 314 Globalization: Does the future hold cooperation or conflict? 314 Digital communication: Protecting privacy and freedom in an always-online era 316 Climate change: The unequal effects of a warming world 318 Exploring Sociology of the Future! 320 Social science will be more important than ever 320 Too much information? A good problem to have if you’re a sociologist 322 Will sociology continue to exist? 323 Part 6: The Part of Tens 325 Chapter 17: Ten Sociology Books That Don’t Feel Like Homework 327 W.E.B Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk (1903) 328 Erving Goffman: The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1959) 328 Randall Collins: Sociological Insight (1982) 329 Arlie Hochschild: The Second Shift (1989) 329 Patricia Hill Collins: Black Feminist Thought (1990) 330 Evelyn Nakano Glenn (editor): Shades of Difference (2009) 330 Annette Lareau: Unequal Childhoods (2003) 331 Lorena Garcia: Respect Yourself, Protect Yourself: Latina Girls and Sexual Identity (2012) 332 Matthew Desmond: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (2016) 332 Suk-Young Kim: K-pop Live (2018) 333 Chapter 18: Ten Ways to Use Sociological Insight in Everyday Life 335 Thinking Critically About Claims That “Research Proves” One Thing or Another 336 Being Aware of Unprovable Assertions About Society 336 Understanding Barriers to Effective Communication 337 Knowing the Difference Between the Identity You Choose and the Identities Others Choose For You 338 Understanding Art: If It Seems Confusing, That’s Exactly the Point 339 Being Smart About Relationship-Building 340 Staying Safer in a Pandemic 341 Learning How to Mobilize a Social Movement 342 Running Your Company Effectively 342 Thinking Critically About What You Read and Hear 343 Chapter 19: Ten Myths About Society Busted by Sociology 345 With Hard Work and Determination, Anyone Can Get What They Deserve 346 Our Actions Reflect Our Values 347 We’re Being Brainwashed by the Media 348 Understanding Society is Just a Matter of “Common Sense” 348 Race Doesn’t Matter Any More 349 Immigration Equals Invasion 350 Bureaucracy is Dehumanizing 351 People Who Make Bad Choices Are Just Getting the Wrong Messages 351 Society Prevents Us From Being Our “True Selves” 352 There is Such a Thing as a Perfect Society 353 Index 355
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Strategic Social Media
Book SynopsisLearn to utilize social media strategies that inspire behavior change in any landscape Strategic Social Media: From Marketing to Social Change, Second Edition combines best social media marketing practices with the application of traditional communication, behavior change, and marketing theories. More than a basic how-to guide, this innovative resource balances social media theory and real-world practice in a variety of areas, including advocacy, public health, entertainment, and education. With a clear and readable style, the authors explain the power and possibilities of social media to influence personal relationships and social change. The media environment of today is more mobile, visual, and personalized than ever before. In the second edition of Strategic Social Media, the authors incorporate advances in the field such as enhanced visual communication, digital experience sharing, omnichannel marketing, IoT, artificial intelligence, mass personalization, and social e-commerce. An entirely new chapter on utilizing social media for personal branding efforts is accompanied by new and updated examples, action plans, business models, and international case studies throughout. Covers all key aspects of strategic social media: landscape, messages, marketing and business models, social change, and the futureHighlights opportunities to break down barriers with institutions of power, achieve greater transparency, and mobilize users through social mediaContains social media strategies readers can apply to any past, present, or future social media platformHelps practitioners make better decisions about brand objectives and evaluate and monitor social media marketing effortsProvides clear guidance on crafting social media messages that reach intended audiences and ignite dialogue and behavior change Offering comprehensive coverage of both the theory and practice of facilitating behavior change in social media audiences, Strategic Social Media: From Marketing to Social Change, Second Edition, is essential reading for undergraduate and graduate students in digital and social media marketing courses, social media practitioners, entrepreneurs, digital content creators, journalists, activists, and marketing and public relations professionals.
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Pearson Education Qualitative Research Methods for the Social
Book SynopsisTable of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Designing Qualitative Research 3. Ethical Issues 4. A Dramaturgical Look at Interviewing 5. Focus Group Interviewing 6. Ethnographic Field Strategies 7. Action Research 8. Unobtrusive Measures in Research 9. Social Historical Research and Oral Traditions 10. Case Studies 11. An Introduction to Content Analysis 12. Writing Research Papers: Sorting the Noodles from the Soup
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John Murray Press Sociology A Complete Introduction Teach Yourself
Book Synopsis Sociology: A Complete Introduction is designed to give you everything you need to succeed, all in one place. It covers the key areas that students are expected to be confident in, outlining the basics in clear, jargon-free English and providing added-value features like summaries of key experiments and even lists of questions you might be asked in your seminar or exam.The text is split into four parts, with an emphasis throughout on understanding and treating all concepts with clarity and precision. The first part covers theoretical issues including research methods. Part two looks at the social environment, including urbanization, work, politics, religion and the mass media. The final two parts examine global society and the position of the individual.It is structured to mirror the way Sociology is taught on many A Level and university courses with each chapter covering a key introductory area. By the end you''ll have a clear understanding of the essential
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Grief: The Price of Love
Book SynopsisWherever love and death meet there is grief. It affects us all regardless of ethnicity, age, class, or sexual orientation. Grief is universal – it has endured across time, societies and cultures from the earliest human communities to the present day. But the way we deal with grief is changing. Increasingly, we are diagnosing grief as a medical condition to be treated rather than embracing it as a natural part of being human. In this book, Svend Brinkmann gets to the heart of what it is to grieve, arguing that the sorrow we experience after the death of a loved one is a necessary and meaningful dimension of human existence. However painful, it unites us all. As humans we are uniquely privileged to feel grief. Rather than trying to escape or smother grief, we must allow ourselves to feel and accept it as the price we pay for love.Table of ContentsPreface 1. Introduction: The century of grief 2. Grief as a foundational emotion 3. The phenomenology of grief 4. The body in grief – grief in the body 5. The ecology of grief 6. Grief as a psychological diagnosis? 7. A homeless love Bibliography Notes
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Correspondences
Book SynopsisWe inhabit a world of more than humans. For life to flourish, we must listen to the calls this world makes on us, and respond with care, sensitivity and judgement. That is what it means to correspond, to join our lives with those of the beings, matters and elements with whom, and with which, we dwell upon the earth. In this book, anthropologist Tim Ingold corresponds with landscapes and forests, oceans and skies, monuments and artworks. To each he brings the same spontaneity of thought and observation, the same intimacy and lightness of touch, but also the same affection, longing and care that, in the days when we used to write letters by hand, we would bring to our correspondences with one another. The result is a profound yet accessible inquiry into ways of attending to the world around us, into the relation between art and life, and into the craft of writing itself. At a time of environmental crisis, when words so often seem to fail us, Ingold points to how the practice of correspondence can help restore our kinship with a stricken earth.Trade Review“Tim Ingold’s correspondents include not only his fellow humans and their works, but also animals, trees, rocks, rivers, sunshine, wind, rain, and snow – in short, all of the variegated, sensate, ever transforming materials of a universe in constant becoming. Ranging across what the author has previously referred to as the “4 A’s” (Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture) and beyond, and expressed through a prose that is at once exactingly lucid and engagingly lyrical, these writerly exchanges set out not merely to describe but embody the co-emergence and inextricable intertwinement of human and other than human being in the world.”Stuart J. McLean, University of Minnesota “In his most artistic work, Tim Ingold invites the reader to wander through these 27 touching and breathing pieces of writing. During the process of reading them, an image has been growing along my correspondence with the author: this work is not a building, nor a box, rather a tent, or a beehive; it is made of linen cloths and wooden reeds provisionally rooted into the different grounds it encounters. It goes along with you, reader, adapting itself to the occurring weather.”Nicola Perullo, Università di Scienze Gastronomiche di Pollenzo “Tim Ingold has taught with unparalleled grace how to think with the textures of a living world. In these marvelous new dispatches from the deep woods and coastal tidelands, from museum galleries and temple ruins, Ingold recovers an art of attentive writing.”Anand Pandian, Johns Hopkins University “Tim Ingold’s extraordinary book presents a celebration of the care of letter writing which in our age risks to disappear. Correspondences helps us to relearn the art of thinking and writing from the heart and is an urgent book for the 21st century.”Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Director, Serpentine GalleryTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements Invitation Part 1: Tales from the Woods Introduction 1.1 Somewhere in Northern Karelia… 1.2 Pitch-black and firelight 1.3 In the shadow of tree being 1.4 Ta, Da, Ça Part 2: Spitting, Climbing, Soaring, Falling Introduction 2.1 The foamy saliva of a horse 2.2 The mountaineer’s lament 2.3 On flight 2.4 Sounds of snow Part 3: Going to Ground Introduction 3.1 Scissors paper stone 3.2 Ad coelum 3.3 Are we afloat? 3.4 Shelter 3.5 Doing time Part 4: The Ages of the Earth Introduction 4.1 The elements of fortune 4.2 A stone’s life 4.3 The jetty 4.4 On extinction 4.5 Three short fables of self-reinforcement Part 5: Line, Crease and Thread Introduction 5.1 Lines in the landscape 5.2 The chalk-line and the shadow 5.3 Fold 5.4 Taking a thread for a walk 5.5 Letter-line and strike-through Part 6: For the Love of Words Introduction 6.1 Words to meet the world 6.2 In defence of handwriting 6.3 Diabolism and philophilia 6.4 Cold blue steel Au revoir
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Polity Press Theory and Society
Book SynopsisThe breadth and depth of Zygmunt Bauman's engagement with social theory and the history of social thought has perhaps been underestimated, in part because many of his early writings were in Polish and never translated into English, and in part because many important pieces appeared in edited volumes and journals that are not readily available. This volume brings together hitherto unknown or rare pieces by Bauman on the theme of theory and society and also makes available previously unpublished material from the Bauman Archive at the University of Leeds. A consistent theme of Bauman's work was his sustained engagement with humanism, and this provides a unifying thread in the pieces brought together in this volume. Here Bauman reflects on some of the core concepts of sociology, examines the work of a wide range of social theorists, from Durkheim and Gramsci to Agnes Heller and C. Wright Mills, and addresses an array of key ideas and issues including inequality, identity and
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Invention of the 'Underclass': A Study in the
Book SynopsisAt century’s close, American social scientists, policy analysts, philanthropists and politicians became obsessed with a fearsome and mysterious new group said to be ravaging the ghetto: the urban “underclass.” Soon the scarecrow category and its demonic imagery were exported to the United Kingdom and continental Europe and agitated the international study of exclusion in the postindustrial metropolis. In this punchy book, Loïc Wacquant retraces the invention and metamorphoses of this racialized folk devil, from the structural conception of Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal to the behavioral notion of Washington think-tank experts to the neo-ecological formulation of sociologist William Julius Wilson. He uncovers the springs of the sudden irruption, accelerated circulation, and abrupt evaporation of the “underclass” from public debate, and reflects on the implications for the social epistemology of urban marginality. What accounts for the “lemming effect” that drew a generation of scholars of race and poverty over a scientific cliff? What are the conditions for the formation and bursting of “conceptual speculative bubbles”? What is the role of think tanks, journalism, and politics in imposing “turnkey problematics” upon social researchers? What are the special quandaries posed by the naming of dispossessed and dishonored populations in scientific discourse and how can we reformulate the explosive question of “race” to avoid these troubles? Answering these questions constitutes an exacting exercise in epistemic reflexivity in the tradition of Bachelard, Canguilhem and Bourdieu, and it issues in a clarion call for social scientists to defend their intellectual autonomy against the encroachments of outside powers, be they state officials, the media, think tanks, or philanthropic organizations. Compact, meticulous and forcefully argued, this study in the politics of social science knowledge will be of great interest to students and scholars in sociology, anthropology, urban studies, ethnic studies, geography, intellectual history, the philosophy of science and public policy.Trade Review“Loïc Wacquant's exploration of the rise and decline of the 'underclass' concept features extraordinary archival research. This important and unique book is destined to become a standard reference in studies ranging from the sociology of knowledge to urban poverty.” William Julius Wilson, author of The Truly Disadvantaged “In this thoroughly historicized account, Wacquant dissects the politics, panic, and obscurantism that accompanied the ‘underclass’ debate in the closing decades of the twentieth century – at the expense of the communities the concept purported to represent. It is an essential guide to a more ethical, genuinely reflexive sociology.”Alice O’Connor, author of Poverty Knowledge ''The Invention of the 'Underclass' is a must-read for specialists and students of urban poverty, social policy, and social theory.''Social Forces "there is much to enjoy and admire here. The investigation is focused, rich and detailed and thewriting is robust and engaging.... the book is an excellent addition to scholarship in this areaand will undoubtedly become an important reference point for future sociologicalwork on the construction of undeserving and marginalised groups.''Critical Social Policy "Wacquant has erected a critical yield sign that social scientists should heed but are likely to ignore. . . . if we are to learn anything from Wacquant’s must-read text, it should be that the line between use and abuse of a concept is perilously thin."Sociology of Race and Ethnicity"[A]n interesting exploration of an uncomfortable episode in the history of social science."Critical CriminologyTable of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements Prologue PART ONE ~ THE TALE 1. Between concept and myth: genealogy of a shifty category 2. “The tragedy of the underclass”: policy theater and scholarship 3. The three faces of the “underclass” 4. The strange career of a racialized folk devil 5. Implications for the social epistemology of urban marginality PART TWO ~ LESSONS FROM THE TALE Quandaries and consequences of naming Forging robust concepts Epistemic opportunity costs Bandwagons, speculation, and turnkeys Coda: Resolving the trouble with “race” in the 21st century Appendix: The afterlives of the “underclass” Bibliography Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Subjectified
Book SynopsisSubjectifiedis a book about subjects, objects, and verbs. It is also a book about clothing-optional resorts, masturbation circles, and sex parties. Suzannah Weiss takes the reader through her adventures as a sex and relationship writer to explore how we can create a world with less objectification and more subjectification placing women and other marginalized groups in the subject role of sentences and actions. Offering a deeply personal critique of sexual empowerment movements, Weiss presents a way forward that focuses on what women desire, not what men desire from them.Subjectifiedcalls for women everywhere to inhabit their bodies and hearts to look through their own eyes and speak as I. The book is for everybody wanting to understand themselves as subjects. Wholeheartedly, the author invites you to follow her search for subjecthood and, should you desire, forge your own path out of objecthood.Now available as an audiobook.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Paranoid Finance
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Manchester University Press Siblings and Sociology
Book SynopsisSibling relationships are full of intrigue, yet tend to be overlooked in sociological thinking.This book draws upon innovative qualitative data sources to explore the significance of siblings throughout the life course, demonstrating why sociologists ought to pay attention to siblingship. Focussing on four themes central to the discipline of sociology – self, relationality, imagination and time – the book shows why siblings matter. Grounded in theories of relatedness but spanning theoretical work on generation, life course, emotion, sensory worlds, normativity and identity, Siblings and sociology explores the importance of siblings in everyday life and how they inform wider social processes: the relational construction of identity, the inculcation of capital, experiences of institutions like schools and the meanings of relatedness. Siblings tap into profound questions about who we are and who we can become. This book shows how the intrigue of siblingship renders them an important lens through which to think in new ways about familiar sociological ideas.Siblings and sociology demonstrates why siblings are a fascinating subject for sociologists: a relationship that can influence all aspects of life, as well as an object of scrutiny capable of firing the sociological imagination and directing the analytical gaze.Trade ReviewCHOICE 2023: Recommended -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: Why siblings matter1 Asking questions about siblingship 2 Self 3 Relationality 4 Imagination 5 Time ConclusionIndex
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Manchester University Press Black Resistance to British Policing
Book SynopsisAs police racism unsettles Britain’s tolerant self-image, Black resistance to British policing details the activism that made movements like Black Lives Matter possible. Elliott-Cooper analyses racism beyond prejudice and the interpersonal – arguing that black resistance confronts a global system of racial classification, exploitation and violence.Imperial cultures and policies, as well as colonial war and policing highlight connections between these histories and contemporary racisms. But this is a book about resistance, considering black liberation movements in the 20th century while utilising a decade of activist research covering spontaneous rebellion, campaigns and protest in the 21st century. Drawing connections between histories of resistance and different kinds of black struggle against policing is vital, it is argued, if we are to challenge the cutting edge of police and prison power which harnesses new and dangerous forms of surveillance, violence and criminalisation.Trade Review‘Brother Adam Elliot Cooper has given us an important slice of Black British history. Grounded not just in solid academic research, but also in front line work serving and working with communities. Adam’s grasp of both history and the reality on the ground today makes for an impressive read as he brings to life the characters and communities resisting policing.’Akala, rapper, activist, poet, and author of Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire'Without a doubt Adam Elliott-Cooper is a critical voice anchoring urgent conversations about the dynamics of Black resistance in the UK. Powerfully argued and compelling, his new book calls our attention to the gendered experience of state violence, the indispensable roles that Black women have played in shaping campaigns about racist policing in the UK and the imperial logics that have persisted in sanctioning the criminalisation of Black life and Black cultural forms. Moreover, this is a book that is insistent on employing history as tool for understanding the durability of anti-Black racial thinking and as a prism of knowledge that can inform our strategies of resistance to police violence in the present.'Kennetta Hammond Perry, Director of the Stephen Lawrence Research Centre and author of London is the Place for Me: Black Britons, Citizenship and the Politics of Race'Black resistance to British policing is a must-read for researchers, organisers, or students. Carefully attentive to gender, age, and sector Elliott-Cooper shows how, as Stuart Hall argued, “race is the modality through which class is lived.” Stretching through time and across colonial and metropolitan space, the book shows continuity and change in organisational forms - from labor and social movements to families to community centres - through which resistance takes shape, extends, and endures. The book builds toward abolition understood as the capacity for self-determination, not only for people like those vividly portrayed in these pages, but for all who struggle to end oppression.'Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author of The Golden Gulag'This book provides a comprehensive and timely examination of the function and practices of the police as a control apparatus of the state as they seek to regulate black people’s presence in the society and its institutions. The book is a must read, especially for young people, parents, teachers and those who shape education, youth and criminal justice policy.'Gus John, Associate Professor, UCL Institute of Education and author of Moss Side 1981: More Than Just a Riot'Elliott-Cooper provides crucial groundwork with this important and inspiring book on black resistances to British policing, which can be read as part of the black radical tradition as it deeply engages with traditions of anti-colonialism, black internationalism, black feminism and anti-capitalism, and shows that worlds beyond policing and prisons, as methods of racial capitalism, are already in the making.'Vanessa E. Thompson, Ethnic and Racial Studies (June 2022)'This book is a must-read, especially for young people, students, parents, teachers.'Race and Class'An important addition to the growing literature on this subject.'Labour Hub -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1 'We did not come alive in Britain': histories of Black resistance to British policing2 Into the twenty-first century: resistance, respectability and Black deaths in police custody3 Black masculinity and criminalisation: the 2011 ‘riots’ in context4 2011: revolt and community defence5 All-out war: surveillance, collective punishment and the cutting edge of police power6 Futures of Black resistance: disruption, rebellion, abolitionConclusionIndex
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Wildland: A Journey Through a Divided Country
Book SynopsisTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ‘A sweeping and brilliant portrait’ GUARDIAN ‘A reportorial tour de force … Heart-rending, appalling and hard to put down’ JANE MAYER ‘Visionary in scope, compassionate in procedure … Definitive’ AYAD AKHTAR Evan Osnos moved to Washington, DC, in 2013 after a decade away from the United States. While abroad, he often found himself making a case for America, urging the citizens of Egypt, Iraq or China to trust that even though America had made grave mistakes throughout its history, it aspired to some foundational moral commitments – the rule of law, the power of truth, the right of equal opportunity for all. But when he returned to the United States, he found each of these principles under assault. In search of an explanation for the crisis, he focused on three places he knew firsthand: Greenwich, Connecticut; Clarksburg, West Virginia; and Chicago, Illinois. Reported over the course of six years, Wildland follows ordinary individuals as they navigate the varied landscapes of twenty-first-century America. Through their powerful, often poignant stories, Osnos traces the sources of America’s political dissolution. He finds answers in the rightward shift of the financial elite in Greenwich; in the collapse of social infrastructure and possibility in Clarksburg; and in the compounded effects of segregation and violence in Chicago. The truth about the state of the nation may be found not in the slogans of political leaders but in the intricate details of individual lives, and in the hidden connections between them. A dramatic, prescient examination of seismic changes in American politics and culture, Wildland is the story of a crucible, a period bounded by two shocks to America’s psyche, two assaults on the country’s sense of itself: the attacks of September 11 in 2001 and the storming of the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. Following the lives of everyday Americans in three cities across two decades, Osnos illuminates the country in a startling light, revealing how it lost the moral confidence to see itself as larger than the sum of its parts.Trade ReviewA sweeping and brilliant portrait of a people subjected to fifty years of rightwing aggression . . . The most personal and the most powerful description yet . . . My hope is that everyone who reads this great book will be enraged enough to redouble their efforts to undo the damage the greedy have wrought, and to take back America for its decent citizens, once and for all * Guardian *Stellar reporting . . . As an overview of a fractious ideological landscape, this skillful treatment is hard to beat. An elegant survey of the causes and effects of polarization in America * Kirkus (starred review) *Incisive . . . An engrossing and revealing look at how deeply connected yet far apart Americans are * Publisher's Weekly *A reportorial tour de force . . . Osnos paints an indelible picture that is heart-rending, appalling and hard to put down -- ’ Jane Mayer, chief Washington correspondent for the New Yorker and author of DARK MONEYVisionary in scope, compassionate in procedure, Wildland brilliantly transmutes our national chaos into absorbing narrative order. Evan Osnos has penned a definitive portrait of what we have allowed ourselves to become: a nation reaping the harvest that long negligence has sown -- Ayad Akhtar, author of HOMELAND ELEGIESIn this richly reported, beautifully written book, Evan Osnos chronicles two decades of American anger, fury, and political dysfunction . . . A riveting tale of dark times, told with a pathos and humanity that prompts hope of something better -- Michael J. Sandel, author of THE TYRANNY OF MERIT
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Sage Publications Ltd Researching the City: A Guide for Students
Book SynopsisThis practical guide for students focuses on the city and on the different ways to research it. The authors explain how urban studies research is done, from the original idea to design and implementation, through to writing up and representation. Substantive chapters explain each method in detail, from using archival methods, interviews, ethnography, questionnaires, discourse analysis and diaries, to using GIS and visual methods. This second edition offers: · A thorough introduction to the research process · Revised and updated discussions of foundational methods · A new chapter on sensory methods · A new chapter on social media as an object or a method of studying the city. With real world examples throughout and guided further reading for each chapter, it is an inspiring guide for students carrying out their own research in urban geography, urban planning, urban sociology and urban studies. Trade ReviewMy copy of Researching the City is well worn and rarely sits still. As with all of the most valuable texts for teaching, it shuttles frequently between a shelf in my office and the hands of urban geography students who find it to be a highly accessible and useful guide. Dr Tim Bunnell, Professor of Geography, National University of Singapore -- Dr Tim BunnellThis refreshingly honest and accessible book about the messiness of doing research is a boon for undergraduate students; a diving board into the urban, it propels students to explore a variety of methods to answer their research questions. Such a resource, updated and expanded, is a very welcome addition to the urban geographer’s library. Professor Linda Peake is Director of the City Institute at York University, Toronto, Canada. -- Professor Linda PeakeTable of Contents1 Introduction by Kevin Ward 2 Designing an urban research project by Kevin Ward 3 Archival research by Stephen V. Ward 4 Interviews by Allan Cochrane 5 Urban ethnographic research by Kate Swanson 6 Using questionnaires to survey hidden populations by Nik Theodore 7 Discourse and linguistic analysis by Annette Hastings 8 Using diaries to study urban worlds by Alan Latham 9 GIS: a method and practice by Matthew Wilson 10 Worlds through glass: photography and video as geographic method by Bradley L. Garrett 11 Researching urban life through social media by Susan Moore and Scott Rodgers 12 Mapping the urban experience digitally by Monica Degen and Manuela Barz 13 Writing up by Kevin Ward
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Prometheus Books All Out!: An Autobiography
Book SynopsisThis candid autobiography, the last work by renowned psychologist Albert Ellis, is a tour de force of stimulating ideas, colorful descriptions of memorable people and events, and straightforward, no-nonsense talk. Ellis, the creator of one of the most successful forms of psychotherapy—Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)—recounts the memorable episodes of his life; discusses how he coped with emotional problems at different stages of life; describes his love life; and subjects his own self-description to a ruthlessly honest critique. The heart of Ellis's book is his analysis of the psychological leitmotifs that have appeared again and again throughout his life. He describes the aim of this autobiography as follows: "As far as I can, I shall present my bad and good, stupid and intelligent, weak and strong points. Why? Because, following H. G. Wells's recommendation, I want to go as all-out as I can. I want to acknowledge my idiocies—and use REBT to feel sorry about but unashamed of them. I want to make the point—again a central tenet of REBT—that all humans are fabulously fallible—including, of course, me. We have no real choice about this, but we can unconditionally accept ourselves—our so-called essence or being—with our fallibility. That will momentously help us, probably encourage us to acquire unconditional self-acceptance (USA) and possibly inspire other people to give it to themselves, too." With a concluding chapter by Ellis's widow, Debbie Joffe Ellis, describing the final years of his life, this is the definitive summation of the life and work of one of psychology's most successful thinkers and practitioners.
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Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd Decolonizing Equity
Book SynopsisInstitutions everywhere seem to be increasingly aware of their roles in settler colonialism and anti-Black racism. As such, many racialized workers find themselves tasked with developing equity plans for their departments, associations or faculties. This collection acknowledges this work as both survival and burden for Black, Indigenous and racialized peoples. It highlights what we already know and are already doing in our respective areas and offers a vision of what equity can look like through a decolonial lens. What helps us to make this work possible? How do we take care with ourselves and each other in this work? What does solidarity, collaboration or "allyship" look like in decolonial equity work? What are the implicit and explicit barriers we face in shifting equity discourse, policy and practice, and what strategies, skills and practices can help us in creating environments and lived realities of decolonial equity?This edited collection centres the voices of Indigenous, Black and other racialized peoples in articulating a vision for decolonial equity work. Specifically, the focus on decolonizing equity is an invitation to re-articulate what equity work can look like when we refuse to separate ideas of equity from the historical and contemporary realities of colonialism in the settler colonial nation states known as Canada and the United States and when we insist on linking an equity agenda to the work of decolonizing our shared realities.
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Vintage Publishing The Cubans: Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times
Book Synopsis'Moving and rich...overflowing with warmth and humanity' The Times In this pioneering work of life-writing and reportage, Anthony DePalma reconstructs the interwoven stories of five ordinary citizens and their families to bring the true story of the Cuban people to the world. From Castro's heyday, through the devastation of post-Soviet collapse, to the false dawn of recent years, we witness the hardships of life across six decades of socialist state control - where even today the government decides what work you can do and where you live; where food is rationed, and basic medicines are unavailable. The Cubans maps a country where the revolution that once inspired its people has since tested their faith with tragedy and disillusionment, revealing the daily acts of heroism and the endlessly adaptive resilience that are required of them to survive.'Page-turning...revealing and unputdownable' Claire Boobbyer, Cuba travel expert 'A deeply reported...account of Cuba's bittersweet realities' Financial TimesTrade ReviewVibrant and hugely enjoyable ... DePalma is a terrific reporter, with a novelist's eye for detail. He uses the extraordinary trust he has gained from his subjects to paint a vivid, deeply sympathetic picture of Cuban life, and the quiet fortitude of its people * Telegraph *An immersive and compelling read ... DePalma wanted to 'reach beyond the myths, to show the real Cuba and the real Cubans who live there' ... In this, he has succeeded brilliantly * Literary Review *A moving and rich account ... DePalma's book is overflowing with warmth and humanity - much like the Cuban people * The Times *Remarkably revealing ... [DePalma] renders a Cuba few tourists will ever see ... You won't forget these people soon, and you are bound to emerge from DePalma's bighearted account with a deeper understanding of a storied island * The New York Times *Think of this as an anti-Fidel corrective to the scores of volumes fixated on the ruler-for-life-force-of-nature-movie-star dictator * Washington Post Sunday *
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C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd Among the Eunuchs: A Muslim Transgender Journey
Book SynopsisA courageously personal exploration of gender identity across Muslim cultures, from the West to South Asia. From an early age, Leyla Jagiella knew that she would be defined by two things: being Muslim and being trans. Struggling to negotiate these identities in her conservative, small hometown, she travelled to India and Pakistan, where her life was changed by her time among third-gender communities. Known as hijras in India, khwajasaras in Pakistan, these marginal communities have traditionally been politically and culturally important, respected for their supernatural powers to bless or curse, and often serving as eunuchs in Mughal India’s palaces. But under British colonialism, the hijras were criminalised and persecuted, entrenching taboos they still battle today. Among the Eunuchs reveals vastly varied interpretations of religion, gender and sexuality, illuminating how deeply culture informs our experiences. As identity becomes an ideological battlefield, Jagiella complicates binaries and dogma with her rich personal reflections. Her fascinating journey speaks to all who find themselves juggling different kinds of belonging.Trade Review'An amazing, intricately detailed and personal history of the life of hijras and the modern-day trans community. From the glory of royal courts to the loss of respect and a fight for survival, this is a powerfully written exploration of sexuality, gender, Islam and South Asian culture.' -- Madian Al Jazerah, author of 'Are You This? Or Are You This?''A brave and compelling account of the author's transnational journey, interrogating questions of gender, faith, belonging and their complex intersections. It provides a fascinating lens through which to explore the politics of difference, gendered and otherwise, during these polarising times.' -- Gayatri Reddy, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Gender & Women’s Studies, University of Illinois Chicago'Brimming with critical insight, this is a rich account of transfeminine experience, exploring political questions of faith, gender, race, sexuality and belonging, and highlighting how personal and social history enmesh. An important and timely intervention.' -- Avtar Brah MBE, Professor Emerita of Sociology, Birkbeck, University of London'A compelling narrative of transition, moving from rural Germany to South Asia, and located within a rich trajectory of trans folk in Islamic societies. Jagiella interweaves personal and political challenges, arguing for sexual and gender liberation across the world.' -- Shahnaz Khan, Professor Emerita of Women and Gender Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, and author of 'Transnational Feminism and the Moral Regulation of Pakistani Women'
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Berghahn Books Growing Up in Transit: The Politics of Belonging
Book Synopsis “[R]ecommended to anyone interested in multiculturalism and migration….[and] food for thought also for scholars studying migration in less privileged contexts.”—Social Anthropology In this compelling study of the children of serial migrants, Danau Tanu argues that the international schools they attend promote an ideology of being “international” that is Eurocentric. Despite the cosmopolitan rhetoric, hierarchies of race, culture and class shape popularity, friendships, and romance on campus. By going back to high school for a year, Tanu befriended transnational youth, often called “Third Culture Kids”, to present their struggles with identity, belonging and internalized racism in their own words. The result is the first engaging, anthropological critique of the way Western-style cosmopolitanism is institutionalized as cultural capital to reproduce global socio-cultural inequalities. From the introduction: When I first went back to high school at thirty-something, I wanted to write a book about people who live in multiple countries as children and grow up into adults addicted to migrating. I wanted to write about people like Anne-Sophie Bolon who are popularly referred to as “Third Culture Kids” or “global nomads.” … I wanted to probe the contradiction between the celebrated image of “global citizens” and the economic privilege that makes their mobile lifestyle possible. From a personal angle, I was interested in exploring the voices among this population that had yet to be heard (particularly the voices of those of Asian descent) by documenting the persistence of culture, race, and language in defining social relations even among self-proclaimed cosmopolitan youth.Trade Review “Growing up in Transit is a welcome addition to the emerging literature on elite schooling in the Global South. Its rich ethnographic details, critical but sensitive rendering of the lives of privileged youth, and attention to contemporary political economy present a nuanced and evocative analysis of privilege. The book will be of interest to anthropologists and sociologists of education.” • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI) “This well‐written and engaging book gives new interesting information and fresh analytical perspectives on an increasingly common phenomenon that has not been widely studied among anthropologists until now…[It] can be recommended to anyone interested in multiculturalism and migration; looking at the more privileged migrants provides food for thought also for scholars studying migration in less privileged contexts.” • Social Anthropology “The pace of the book is methodical and thorough. Following an admiring Foreword from Fazal Rizvi, the 18-page preface is an enlightening and necessary account of the author’s own heritage, life and intellectual development, establishing her authority as a quadrilingual emic researcher in several of the student communities… It is its objectivity and methodology that facilitates it which make this book so original…This ground-breaking book offers a foundation for studies in the new generation of international schools.” • Journal of Research in International Education “[This volume] makes a riveting read... Danau Tanu delivers an exceptional, genuinely interesting, thought-provoking account of her experiences in a secondary school in Jakarta… [that is] tightly researched and presented in lucid prose,… [and] a must-read for all leaders of international schools because it presents the opportunity for them to question the most fundamental purpose of what they do, i.e. shape the contexts in which identities develop.” • International Schools Journal “The book is an exceptional contribution to the theory and practice of cosmopolitanism among privileged students with high mobility in transnational spaces such as an international school… The author’s unique experience growing up as a Third Culture Kid enabled her to breathe life into the ethnographic data, making sophisticated concepts and complicated processes discussed in the book engaging and relevant.” • Asia Pacific Journal of Education “This book is the first that not only allow insight into the mechanism of cultural reproduction of transnationality with western norms set by International Schools, but the author goes beyond her perspectives from inside and, not least through her appealing and relaxed style, allows the reader to participate.” • Anthropos “This ethnographic study offers a valuable correction to our understandings of the ‘third culture kid’ phenomenon.” • Huon Wardle, Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies, University of St Andrews “This book offers profound insights on how class and race can play out among globally mobile children. I highly recommend it.” • Ruth E. Van Reken, co-author, Third Culture Kids: Growing Up Among WorldsTable of Contents Figures Foreword Fazal Rizvi Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Unpacking “Third Culture Kids” Chapter 1. Being International Chapter 2. The Power of English Chapter 3. Living in "Disneyland" Chapter 4. Chasing Cosmopolitan Capital Chapter 5. The Politics of Hanging out Chapter 6. Invisible Diversity Chapter 7. Race and Romance Chapter 8. Whose United Nations Day? Conclusion: Transnational Youth References Index
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C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd Why Men?: A Human History of Violence and
Book SynopsisAre war and inequality inevitable, because evolution made men competitive and dominant? Think again with this entertaining yet powerful new history of ‘true’ human nature. How did humans, a species that evolved to be cooperative and egalitarian, develop societies of enforced inequality? Why did our ancestors create patriarchal power and warfare? Did it have to be this way? Elites have always called hierarchy and violence unavoidable facts of human nature. Evolution, they claim, has caused men to fight, and people—starting with men and women—to have separate, unequal roles. But that is bad science. Why Men? tells a smarter story of humanity, from early behaviours to contemporary cultures. From bonobo sex and prehistoric childcare to human sacrifice, Joan of Arc, Darwinism and Abu Ghraib, this fascinating, fun and important book reveals that humans adapted to live equally, yet the earliest class societies suppressed this with invented ideas of difference. Ever since, these distortions have caused female, queer and minority suffering. But our deeply human instincts towards equality have endured. This book is not about what men and women are or do. It’s about the privileges humans claim, how they rationalise them, and how we unpick those ideas about our roots. It will change how you see injustice, violence and even yourself.Trade Review'The evidence Lindisfarne and Neale present is eye-opening and eclectic. … 'Why Men?' is conceived as a tonic against popular grand histories of humanity … whose naturalising of inequality the authors chastise, together with their purportedly related neoliberal politics. … [A] refreshing book.' -- Oren Harman, The Spectator'A brilliant, funny, unputdownable book for our times, spectacularly puncturing dominant myths about human nature to explain how wealth creates war, why the "dark ages" weren’t so dark, and how we were once much less violent. Wonderful.' -- Danny Dorling, author of 'Peak Inequality' and 'All That Is Solid''Fantastic storytelling and exhaustive research. This book takes us on a journey through civilisations and mythology to uncover the roots of gendered violence and inequality. Like nothing I have read before.' -- Pragya Agarwal, author of 'Sway', '(M)otherhood' and 'Hysterical''Whether you're a hater or a fan of Harari, Diamond and Pinker, this is a must-read: a fantastic historical thriller, and an insightful, expansive look at a great mystery of our time, showing that human oppression and violence are not inevitable.' -- Chip Colwell, author of 'Stuff: Humanity's Epic Journey from Naked Ape to Nonstop Shopper''A provocative counter-history of that elusive entity, "human nature". This book gives us much to think about.' -- Priyamvada Gopal, author of 'Insurgent Empire''Eye-opening. Evolutionary accounts stressing the selfish, violent and male-dominated nature of our species--or our primate relative--often reflect thinly disguised ideological biases, as "Why Men?" so clearly shows.' -- Frans de Waal, author of 'Chimpanzee Politics' and 'Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist'
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Bedford Square Publishers Beyond Happiness
Book SynopsisHappiness and wellbeing are often in conflict. In fact, the things that make for a full life typically involve a mix of emotions. If you seek only the pleasant ones, you'll end up with tranquillity, not happiness. Maybe that's what you want. No judgement. But I want more. And, given that you're reading this book, I suspect you do too.'Forget the oversimplified happiness hacks' true wellbeing is richer, more demanding, and collective. This groundbreaking book by renowned interdisciplinary scholar Dr. Mark Fabian dives deep into what true wellbeing means far beyond simple happiness. Beyond Happy brings together honest case studies, psychological research, personal experiences and ancient philosophy to change the way we think about happiness, and to illuminate how it can really be achieved. Tackling today's challenges, from cultural malaise to creeping nihilism, requires more than just feel-good fixes. Dr Mark Fabian redefines wellbeing as something we do together, weaving practical insights with bold ideas on how to build a culture beyond capitalism that places wholeness at its core. This isn't just another self-help book; it's a deep, refreshing take on how we can thrive as individuals and as communities.
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Emerald Publishing Limited The Intersections of a WorkingClass Academic
Book SynopsisThe ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. Acknowledging the institutional challenges that hinder the work and careers of working-class academics, Teresa Crew calls for a more inclusive and equitable higher education landscape.
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University of California Press Vintage Crime
Book SynopsisTrade Review"What’s most impressive is that Gibb has managed to maintain a lively, well-paced, humorous, deliciously gossipy, slyly acerbic narrative. While she’s got a good grip on the events and is adept at teasing out the threads that come together to shape the course of history, it’s her ability to bring people to life that underpins her storytelling." * JancisRobinson.com *"Takes the reader on a highly entertaining tour of wine fraud from ancient times up to the present day. . . . The book is full of brilliant details." * The Spectator UK *"[An] entertaining gallop through wine fraud down the ages." * Daily Mail *"Triumphs in the way in which it combines a history of wine and the wine trade with some very detailed and well-researched examples of cunning crookery. Gibb writes well and can weave together convincing and authoritative tales of wine concoctions that would even make the three witches in Macbeth opt to go on the wagon." * Business Day *"The British master of wine Rebecca Gibb has great fun picking through the skulduggery in an entertaining read that romps around the vineyards of the world." - Best Cookbooks and Food Writing of 2023 * The Times *"This slim yet insightful and entertaining volume documents the many instances where wine drinkers did not get what they paid for, sometimes with deadly consequences." - Best Wine Books of 2023 * The New York Times *"What a brilliant idea this is for a book. . . . No wine lover should be without a copy of Vintage Crime, though in future it might make you sniff a little more suspiciously when handed a glass of fine wine." - Best Wine Books for Christmas * Club Oenologique *Table of ContentsContents Introduction: A Story as Old as Wine Itself 1. When in Rome 2. Dying for a Drink 3. An Enlightened Drinker? 4. I Predict a Riot 5. Appellation Nation 6. Winegate 7. You Say “Prost,” I Say “Frost”! 8. Indiana Jones and the Glass Crusade 9. A Message to You, Rudy 10. The Last Drop Acknowledgments Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Making Our Beasts Paleontology in the United States
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Harvard University Press The Class Matrix
Book SynopsisDoes class determine economic options, or is class in our headsa matter of interpreting symbols and meanings? Cultural theorists have made the second claim, sidelining materialism. Now, amid deepening inequality, Vivek Chibber defends materialist analysis of class power, while arguing that we still have something to learn from cultural frameworks.Trade ReviewA quite thorough and impressive work, not only a compelling defense of materialism but also a fair-minded if highly critical engagement with cultural theory. It isn’t clear how culturalists—especially the anti-Marxist ones—can effectively respond to this broadside, tightly and cogently argued as it is. -- Chris Wright * CounterPunch *Chibber has accomplished something quite astounding in The Class Matrix—he has developed a sophisticated, elegant, and readable defense of the sociological significance of class structure in understanding and addressing the key problems inherent in capitalism. * Choice *The Class Matrix is a clear, compelling, and systematic statement of the view that class is an objective reality that predictably and rationally shapes human thought and action, one we need to grapple with seriously if we’re to comprehend contemporary society and its morbid symptoms. * Jacobin *Concisely and systematically argues the case for the continued importance of class for the radical left today. Vivek Chibber rigorously debunks various long held understandings that characterise radical left thought since the cultural turn. -- Chris James Newlove * Marx & Philosophy Review of Books *The Class Matrix is an important theoretical contribution to a wide and lively discussion in the humanities and social sciences about structural and cultural explanation. Chibber’s profound reassessment of the Marxist theory of class in the light of the new culturalist arguments shows in a sophisticated and convincing way that the capitalist economic system and its class structure of capital and wage labor have a special force in constraining the choices of action open to capitalists and wage-workers. -- Goran Therborn, University of CambridgeVivek Chibber’s magnificent new book carves a path forward for structuralist and materialist analysis in a post–cultural turn academic era. Chibber reformulates Marxist theory to recognize the fundamental role of class structure in shaping human well-being while allowing a place for contingency in the generation of collective action. He adroitly uses this framework to shed light on the trajectory of modern capitalism and class formation in the twenty-first century. The Class Matrix is the response to the cultural turn that structuralists like me have been waiting for, and the book does not disappoint. -- James Mahoney, Northwestern UniversityAlong with a materialist critique of the cultural turn, Chibber restores the centrality of class. Lucid theory from a brilliant mind. Sure to generate vigorous debate. -- Michael Burawoy, author of The Politics of Production
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Harvard University Press Leadership Without Easy Answers
Book SynopsisDrawing on a dozen years of research among managers, officers, and politicians in the public realm and the private sector, among the nonprofits, and in teaching, Heifetz presents clear, concrete prescriptions for anyone who needs to take the lead in almost any situation, under almost any organizational conditions, no matter who is in charge.Trade ReviewLeadership Without Easy Answers is a masterwork of great subtlety, and of punch and practicality. Leadership is not value-free, Mr. Heifetz writes… [The author puts] soul and values squarely back into a vital topic, leadership. -- Tom Peters * New York Times Book Review *Ronald Heifetz brings knowledge of an astonishingly wide range of disciplines to this study of leadership… As a musician, a cellist, he understands that the quality of a performance depends on the audience as well as on the instrumentalist… As a psychiatrist, Heifetz understands that communities cannot be pushed beyond their capacity to adapt… These insights give to Heifetz’s book an originality and vivacity one rarely associates with studies on leadership. He illustrates his theses with an extraordinary range of cases and examples… Leadership Without Easy Answers reminds us of democracy’s rich potential. It is a bold book and an encouraging one. I hope some of our leaders are out there learning. -- Shirley Williams * Times Higher Education Supplement *Ronald Heifetz has written an interesting and timely book, in which he moves away from the idea of leaders as visionaries and saviors to stressing leadership as an activity as opposed to a position of authority or a set of personal characteristics. -- Robert Hooijberg * Journal of Leadership Studies *This pioneering study constitutes one of the most insightful and innovative approaches to leadership studies in over a decade… Heifetz masterfully presents his new leadership model by intertwining general theory and prescriptive practical guidance through fertile historical and workplace case studies. Heifetz’s goal is nothing less than a summoning for a new social contract that seeks to revitalize America’s civic ethos by adopting leadership strategies to empower the citizenry rather than to merely enhance the authority of the leader… The upshot of this study should place it in the front line in leadership historiography for years to come. -- R. J. Lettieri * Choice *Heifetz presents a new theory of leadership for both public and private leaders in tackling complex contemporary problems. Central to his theory is the distinction between routine technical problems, which can be solved through expertise, and adaptive problems, such as crime, poverty, and educational reform, which require innovative approaches, including consideration of values. Four major strategies of leadership are identified: to approach problems as adaptive challenges by diagnosing the situation in light of the values involved and avoiding authoritative solutions, to regulate the level of stress caused by confronting issues, and to shift responsibility for problems from the leader to all the primary stakeholders. The theory is applied to an analysis of historical accounts of local, national, and international events. An innovative and thoroughgoing work; highly recommended. * Library Journal *A superb book for any age, but particularly for our current one, where society is so desperately in need of its wisdom and expertise. Leadership Without Easy Answers should be required reading for top managers in all sectors—private, public, and nonprofit. I hope it will also be widely read by the citizenry that is so much in need of an attitude shift on the nature of authority. This book is also very much about citizenship. -- M. Scott Peck, author of The Road Less TraveledAlive with insights, concepts, new ideas, just teeming with the kind of creative approach to the study of leadership that I and of course many others esteem. In a field in which there has been a great deal of repetitious work, Heifetz strikes out in ground-breaking directions. -- James MacGregor Burns, author of LeadershipRemarkably thoughtful, provocative, and useful. This book will be seen as a major contribution that provides a rare interdisciplinary view of leadership in context. Leaders as well as serious students of the process of leadership and the development of leaders need to have this book on their shelves. -- General Walter Ulmer, U.S. Army (Ret.), President and CEO, Center for Creative Leadership, Greensboro, North CarolinaHeifetz turns out to be one of the most thoughtful scholars on leadership. His direct and relevant concepts are pathbreaking. -- James David Barber, author of Presidential CharacterOriginal and penetrating in its analysis of leadership. This is an excellent book. Important and valuable. -- John Gardner, former Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and founder of Common CauseLeadership Without Easy Answers should go a long way toward clearing up many confusions about leadership. Long a master teacher of leaders, Heifetz’s courses and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government have been standing-room only for years. Read this book and see why. -- Peter Senge, author of The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning OrganizationTable of Contents* Foreword by Richard L. Neustadt * Introduction Part I. Setting the Frame * Values in Leadership * To Lead or Mislead? * The Roots of Authority Part II. Leading with Authority * Mobilizing Adaptive Work S Applying Power * On a Razor's Edge * Failing Off the Edge Part III. Leading Without Authority * Creative Deviance on the Frontline * Modulating the Provocation Part IV. Staying Alive * Assassination * The Personal Challenge * Notes * Acknowledgments * Index
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Harvard University Press The Return of Inequality Social Change and the
Book SynopsisSociologist Mike Savage shows how economic inequality aggravates cultural, social, and political conflicts, challenging the framework of liberal democracy. By fracturing social bonds, inequality turns back the clock, reviving conditions we have struggled for centuries to escape, including empire, dynastic elitism, and explosive ethnic division.Trade ReviewA major sociological contribution to the ongoing global debate on inequality and the return of social class. A must-read. -- Thomas Piketty, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, author of Capital and IdeologyWith a wide-ranging, original, and visionary argument and engagingly written, The Return of Inequality is a major contribution, the crowning of an exceptionally productive career focused on the sociology of inequality, social change, and culture in the UK, Europe, and the world. -- Michèle Lamont, Harvard University, past president of the American Sociological AssociationEmpirical analyses have documented increasing inequality over recent decades. There have been passionate calls to action. But the analyses and the action need to be linked by careful consideration of just how to think about inequality, including its locations, dimensions, forms, and visceral experiences. The Return of Inequality responds to that need with insight, deep thought, and important new perspective. -- Craig Calhoun, Arizona State UniversityFor Savage, there is a link between the rise of an ‘inequality paradigm’ (focused especially on wealth, rather than income) and movements such as Black Lives Matter and Rhodes Must Fall, which seek to address the economic legacy of historical injustices. The spotlight that has fallen on Russian oligarchs since the invasion of Ukraine is another manifestation of the inequality paradigm, emphasizing the links between present injustices (not to say humanitarian catastrophes) and political-economic maneuvering dating back to the 1990s. -- William Davies * London Review of Books *This highly original book deploys a unique combination of history, classic sociology, cultural sociology, and contemporary economics. Savage makes a compelling argument about how the legacy of the past combines with capitalist accumulation to affect inequalities of race, gender, and class around the world. His sophisticated reflections about the visual representation of inequality inform a broader inquiry into how the achievements and limits of social science shape the new politics of inequality. The book defines the emerging field of comparative global inequality. -- Patrick Le Galès, Sciences Po, Centre for European Studies and Comparative PoliticsSavage’s provocative book compels us to seek organizational answers. -- Mitchel Y. Abolafia * Administrative Science Quarterly *A much-needed and highly insightful intellectual history of the concept and analysis of inequality…Extremely well written, engaging, and learned…It should be read carefully by social scientists who study inequality. -- Richard Lachmann * American Journal of Sociology *
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Summer of Theory: History of a Rebellion,
Book Synopsis‘Theory’ – a magical glow has emanated from this word since the sixties. Theory was more than just a succession of ideas: it was an article of faith, a claim to truth, a lifestyle. It spread among its adherents in cheap paperbacks and triggered heated debates in seminar rooms and cafés. The Frankfurt School, Structuralism, Post-Structuralism, Adorno, Derrida, Foucault: these and others were the exotic schools and thinkers whose ideas were being devoured by young minds. But where did the fascination for dangerous thoughts come from? In his magnificently written book, Philipp Felsch follows the hopes and dreams of a generation that entered the jungle of difficult texts. His setting is West Germany in the decades from the 1960s to the 1990s: in a world frozen in the Cold War, movement only came from big ideas. It was the time of apocalyptic master thinkers, upsetting reading experiences and glamorous incomprehensibility. As the German publisher Suhrkamp published Adorno’s Minima Moralia and other High Theory works of the Frankfurt School, a small publisher in West Berlin, Merve Verlag, provided readers with a steady stream of the subversive new theory coming out of France. By following the adventures of the publishers who provided the books and the reading communities that consumed and debated them, Philipp Felsch tells the remarkable story of an intellectual revolt when the German Left fell in love with Theory.Trade Review"Impassioned and full of detail, this is a fascinating snapshot of the period."—Publisher's Weekly "Felsch's stance (well captured by his English translator, Tony Crawford) is that of a wry but sympathetic participant–observer. You end the book uncertain as to whether you should marvel at the grandiose pointlessness of it all, or celebrate a movement that put pure thought, accessed by careful reading and refined through intense discussions with comrades, at the very centre of life."—Sheila Fitzpatrick, Australian Book Review "...evocative and brilliant...."—European Journal of Social Theory"[A]n amazing book"Thesis ElevenTable of ContentsIntroduction: What Was Theory? 1965: The Hour of Theory 1. Federal Republic of Adorno Reflections from Damaged Life Culture After Working Hours In the Literary Supermarket Adorno Answers Are Your Endeavours Aimed at Changing the World? 2. In the Suhrkamp Culture New Leftists He Didn’t Write School of Hard Books Paperback Theory Birth of a Genre 1970: Endless Discussions 3. Ill-made Books Theoretical Practice Smash Bourgeois Copyright! Mondays, Fridays and Sundays The Disorder of Discourse 4. Wolfsburg Empire Proletarian Public Sphere In the Land of Class Struggle The Lightness of Being Communist A Fateful Stroke of Luck 1977: Reading French in the German Autumn 5. (Possible) Reasons for the Happiness of Thought All Kinds of Escapes Intensity Is Not a Feeling The Laugh of Merve Vague Thinkers 6. The Reader as Partisan The Death of the Author The Pleasure of the Text Children’s Books A Different Mode of Production Lying on Water 7. Foucault and the Terrorists A Schweppes in Paris Political Tourists Vermin On Tunix Beach 1984: The End of History 8. Critique of Pure Text The Master Thinkers Adults Only Sola Scriptura Aesthetics of Counter-Enlightenment A Little Materialism 9. Into the White Cube The Mountain of Truth Be Smart – Take Part German Issues The Island of Posthistoire The Trouble with Duchamp 10. Prussianism and Spontaneism War in the Time of Total Peace Machiavelli in Westphalia The Wild Academy In Search of the Punctum Jacob Taubes’s Best Enemy 11. Disco Dispositive Tyrannies of Intimacy Pub Blather The Art of Having a Beer In the Jungle Above the Clouds Epilogue: After Theory? Bibliography Appendix: Translations of Illustrations Notes Index
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ERIS Where Are We Now?: The Epidemic as Politics -
Book SynopsisIn this volume, Agamben has collected all of his fierce, passionate, and deeply personal interventions regarding the current health emergency.
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Harvard University Press When the State Meets the Street
Book SynopsisBernardo Zacka probes the complex moral lives of street-level bureaucrats—the frontline social and welfare workers, police officers, and educators who represent government’s human face to ordinary citizens. Too often dismissed as soulless operators, these workers wield significant discretion and make decisions that profoundly affect people’s lives.Trade ReviewWhen the State Meets the Street reads as one might imagine a collaboration between Bernard Williams, Richard Sennett, and James Scott could turn out. If there can be such a thing as an instant classic, this book is one. -- David Owen, University of SouthamptonIn this refreshing study, Zacka finds in the commonplace decision-making of street level bureaucrats an implicit but coherent moral structure. When citizens experience the state through street-level encounters, the author shows, they are subject to moral reasoning no less than when elected officials expand or contract social welfare policies, or bring a nation to war. -- Michael Lipsky, author of Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of the Individual in Public ServicesBeautifully written, tightly argued, and totally original. -- Michael Piore, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyIn his groundbreaking book When the State Meets the Street: Public Service and Moral Agency, Bernardo Zacka illustrates a new methodological approach for political theory, opens up avenues of normative research on the neglected topic of bureaucracy and bureaucrats and overturns an intellectually dubious, but nonetheless dominant, model of the state…Zacka’s discussion is subtle and thoughtful and opens many avenues for political and moral theorists to explore. -- Alex Sager * LSE Review of Books *This book…not only offers a valuable contribution to the street-level bureaucracy literature, but is also an essential read for political theorists interested in a bottom-up account of the state. -- Nadine Raaphorst * Acta Politica *Zacka’s application of normative theory to state-level bureaucrats and his efforts at injecting ethnographically informed descriptive evidence into political theory are to be applauded and should represent a vanguard in political theory. -- Timothy Werner * Administrative Science Quarterly *An exemplary and exquisitely written book from which sociologists have much to learn. -- Gretchen Purser * American Journal of Sociology *Drawing from first-hand observations adds an anthropological sensitivity to the book, in the process showing that political philosophers have much to gain from venturing into the real world. The result is an original book that most democratic theorists should read, especially those interested in moral reasoning in everyday life. -- Jan Pieter Beetz * Constellations *Zacka persuasively argues that street-level bureaucrats are, in fact, moral agents ‘vested with a considerable margin of discretion.’ More importantly, he makes a compelling case for the normative desirability of that discretionary power…The book draws on a broad array of literatures, from other qualitative work on bureaucracies to psychology, sociology, and normative political philosophy, providing Zacka with an astounding and productive array of interlocutors…Zacka’s remarkable book opens up many intriguing questions and will hopefully be one of many future studies that combine the virtues of an ethnographic approach and normative political theory. -- Yuna Blajer de la Garza * Contemporary Political Theory *Drawing eclectically from a breathtakingly wide range of sources and disciplinary approaches to the study of politics, policy, and organizations, Zacka develops a robust and analytically rigorous framework for understanding street-level work that builds on, and ultimately surpasses, Lipsky’s original treatment in several respects. -- Chad Broughton * Contemporary Sociology *It is wide-ranging in its theoretical breadth, evocative in its traversing of theory and practice, and convincing in its marshalling of argument. Above all, it is stylish. It makes bureaucracy—largely neglected in contemporary political theory as technical, apolitical, mundane—intellectually sexy…Brilliant. -- John Boswell * Critical Policy Studies *When the State Meets the Street offers an innovative take on the conditions of and possibilities for frontline workers’ moral agency. Further, the strength of this work is grounded in Zacka's engagement with previous qualitative research on frontline workers, moving seamlessly from vocational rehabilitation agents in the United States to immigration agents in France…An essential read. -- Sule Tomkinson * Governance *A thoughtful book that usefully brings the tools of political theory to bear on questions of public administration. It argues persuasively that democratic theorists need to pay attention not just to the principles and the institutions that shape our laws but also to the street-level bureaucrats who interpret and apply them. -- Clarissa Rile Hayward * Perspectives on Politics *One emerges from this insightful book with a considerable measure of respect for bureaucrats...Studying their experience as well as their behavior, is indeed, 'an experiment in living,' as well as a test of our own values and vision. It is, or should be, humbling. -- Glenn C. Altschuler * Psychology Today *An examination of street level bureaucracy rooted in anthropological fieldwork, but with the philosopher’s toolkit dexterously deployed, it announces [Zacka] as a major new voice. -- Paul Sagar * Political Quarterly *Since Michael Lipsky coined the term in 1969, street-level bureaucracy has developed into a scholarly theme of its own. Nevertheless, the normative dimensions of the work done in this segment of government bureaucracy have remained almost entirely in the shadow so far. Filling this lacuna the book is an absolute must-read. -- Peter Hupe * Public Administration *An excellent piece of work that will interest researchers, current and future policy makers, public administrators, and nonprofit leaders as well as students. But more importantly, as part of the need to integrate more political science in the study of public administration, this is a book that is particularly important to political scientists and implementation scholars. -- Nissim Cohen * Public Administration Review *When the State Meets the Street is both a strikingly original work and a penetrating analysis of governmental decision-making. Not only is the book a sophisticated deconstruction of the administrative state, it also encourages liberty-minded readers to expand their intellectual horizons beyond the traditional citizen-government relationship. -- John Ehrett * The University Bookman *From its novel theorizing about the normative underpinnings of discretion to the nuanced discussion of the ‘impossible situations’ faced by street-level bureaucrats, When the State Meets the Street is essential reading that ought to inform the work of scholars and practitioners alike. -- Yanilda María González * Social Service Review *A sophisticated and empirically rich theorization of street-level agency and discretion. Through close and evocative appreciation of the conflicts and dilemmas posed by street-level work, it yields numerous valuable insights into everyday practice. -- James Kaufman * Social Policy & Administration *A really rich and rewarding read. It fizzes with stimulating insights and ideas and offers the kind of empathetic portrayal of street-level bureaucracy which participant-observation is particularly good at. -- Simon Halliday * Social & Legal Studies *A bold and interesting contribution…Given the recent ‘behavioral turn’ in public administration, Zacka’s unique efforts to understand individual behavior in relation to social dynamic provides an alternative, serious mezzo-level explanation that should not be overlooked. -- Jodi R. Sandfort * American Review of Public Administration *An unusual work of political theory, invigorating and innovative in terms of its methodology and argumentative thread…Its arguments are the result of a reflection on observed practices and on interpretations and analyses of similar practices in philosophical and social scientific literatures. The perceptiveness and care with which it builds taxonomies for the intra- and interpersonal challenges involved in navigating the normative demands of street-level bureaucracy are an outstanding example of this approach. This perceptiveness and care allow Zacka to address several audiences differently, thus providing orientation for political theorists, for street-level practitioners and their managers, and for citizens dealing with public services. Each of these audiences may come away with changed views. -- Janosch Prinz * Polity *
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The Bodleian Library Divination Oracles Omens
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Yale University Press Affirmative Action Around the World
Book SynopsisAn eminent authority presents a new perspective on affirmative action in a provocative book that will stir fresh debate about this vitally important issueTrade Review“A delight: terse, well-argued, and utterly convincing.”—Economist “Among contemporary economists and social theorists, one of the most prolific, intellectually independent, and iconoclastic is Thomas Sowell. . . . Enormously learned, wonderfully clear-headed, he sees reality as it is, and flinches at no truth. . . . Sowell’s presentation of the data is instructive and illuminating—and disturbing.”—Carl Cohen, Commentary“Another brilliant, bracing achievement by Thomas Sowell. With characteristic lucidity, erudition, and depth, Sowell examines the true effects of affirmative action around the globe. This book is compelling, important, mind-opening.”—Amy Chua, author of World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability
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Princeton University Press Addiction by Design
Book SynopsisTakes readers into the intriguing world of machine gambling, an increasingly popular and absorbing form of play that blurs the line between human and machine, compulsion and control, risk and reward.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2013 Sharon Stephens First Book Prize, American Ethnological Society Honorable Mention for the 2013 Gregory Bateson Prize, The Society for Cultural Anthropology The Atlantic Editors' "The Best Book I Read This Year" for 2013, chosen by senior editor Alexis C. Madrigal "Natasha Dow Schull, an anthropologist at MIT, has written a timely book. Ms Schull has spent two decades studying the boom in casino gambling: the layout of its properties, the addicts and problem gamblers who account for roughly half its revenue in some places, and the engineering that goes into its most sophisticated products. Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas reads like a combination of Scientific American's number puzzles and the 'blue Book' of Alcoholics Anonymous."--Christopher Caldwell, Financial Times "Addiction by Design is a nonfiction page-turner. A richly detailed account of the particulars of video gaming addiction, worth reading for the excellence of the ethnographic narrative alone, it is also an empirically rigorous examination of users, designers, and objects that deepens practical and philosophical questions about the capacities of players interacting with machines designed to entrance them."--Laura Noren, PublicBooks "Schull adds greatly to the scholarly literature on problem gambling with this well-written book... Applying an anthropological perspective, the author focuses especially on the Las Vegas gambling industry, seeing many of today's avid machine gamblers as less preoccupied with winning than with maintaining themselves in the game, playing for as long as possible, and entering into a trance-like state of being, totally enmeshed psychologically into gaming and totally removed from the ordinary obligations of everyday life... The book offers a most compelling and vivid picture of this world."--Choice "If books can be tools, Addiction by Design is one of the foundational artifacts for understanding the digital age--a lever, perhaps, to pry ourselves from the grasp of the coercive loops that now surround us."--Alexis Madrigal, The Atlantic "Natasha Schull's Addiction By Design is fascinating, absorbing, and at times, a bit frightening... Schull's work will have wide relevance to many audiences, including those interested in technology studies, media studies, software studies, game studies, values-in-design, and the psychology and sociology of addiction and other technologically mediated behavioral disorders."--Hansen Hsu, Social Studies of Science "Original, ambitious, and written with elegant lucidity, Addiction by Design presents us with a narrative that is as compulsive as the behavior it describes. The book repositions debates in the field of gambling and will surely become a classic text in studies of society and technology."--Gerda Reith, American Journal of Sociology "Based on fifteen years of ethnographic work, Addiction by Design is an ambitious and thought-provoking book that challenges the neoliberal ethos currently governing the way in which governments and professionals think about gambling addiction."--Kah-Wee Lee, Technology and Culture "A handbook on regaining our proper orientation to the world. Schull's book offers a grim warning about the ways others can deliberately cut us off from natural and supernatural joys."--Leah Libresco, CommonwealTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Note on Informant Anonymity xiii Introduction: Mapping the Machine Zone 1 Part One: Design 1. Interior Design for Interior States: Architecture, Ambience, and Affect 35 2. Engineering Experience: The Productive Economy of Player- Centric Design 52 3. Programming Chance: The Calculation of Enchantment 76 Part Two: Feedback 4. Matching the Market: Innovation, Intensification, Habituation 107 5. Live Data: Tracking Players, Guiding Play 137 6. Perfect Contingency: From Control to Compulsion 166 Part Three: Addiction 7. Gambled Away: Liquidating Life 189 8. Overdrive: Chasing Loss, Playing to Extinction 210 Part Four: Adjustment 9. Balancing Acts: The Double Bind of Therapeutics 239 10. Fix upon Fix: Recipes for Regulating Risk 257 Conclusion: Raising the Stakes 290 Notes 311 References 385 Index 42
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The End of Illusions: Politics, Economy, and
Book SynopsisWe live in a time of great uncertainty about the future. Those heady days of the late twentieth century, when the end of the Cold War seemed to be ushering in a new and more optimistic age, now seem like a distant memory. During the last couple of decades, we’ve been battered by one crisis after another and the idea that humanity is on a progressive path to a better future seems like an illusion. It is only now that we can see clearly the real scope and structure of the profound shifts that Western societies have undergone over the last 30 years. Classical industrial society has been transformed into a late-modern society that is molded by polarization and paradoxes. The pervasive singularization of the social, the orientation toward the unique and exceptional, generates systematic asymmetries and disparities, and hence progress and unease go hand in hand. Reckwitz examines this dual structure of singularization and polarization as it plays itself out in the different sectors of our societies and, in so doing, he outlines the central structural features of the present: the new class society, the characteristics of a postindustrial economy, the conflict about culture and identity, the exhaustion of the self resulting from the imperative to seek authentic fulfillment, and the political crisis of liberalism. Building on his path-breaking work The Society of Singularities, this new book will be of great interest to students and scholars in sociology, politics, and the social sciences generally, and to anyone concerned with the great social and political issues of our time.Trade Review“This is a fascinating read, truly imaginative and remarkably wide-ranging. Andreas Reckwitz presents a compelling, novel outlook on the global challenges ahead.”Patrick Baert, University of Cambridge “In The End of Illusions, Reckwitz conducts a ‘socio-analysis’ of a patient known as late modernity and reveals the contradictions, paradoxes, and anomalies that characterize contemporary society. The hard work involved in this sobering analysis pays off: while pathways toward a better society are neither obvious nor linear, embracing today's ambiguities opens up spaces to reimagine our shared futures.”Urs Gasser, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsList of FiguresIntroduction: The Disillusioned PresentProgress, Dystopia, NostalgiaDisillusionment as an OpportunityFrom Industrial Modernity to the Society of Singularities1. Cultural Conflict as a Struggle over Culture:Hyperculture and Cultural EssentialismThe Culturalization of the SocialCulturalization I: HypercultureCulturalization II: Cultural EssentialismHyperculture and Cultural Essentialism: Between Coexistence and Conflict“Doing Universality” – The Culture of the General as an Alternative?2. From the Leveled Middle-Class Society to the Three-Class Society:The New Middle Class, the Old Middle Class, and the Precarious ClassThe Global and Historical ContextUnderlying Conditions: Post-Industrialization, the Expansion of Education, a Shift in Values In the Paternoster Elevator of the Three-Class SocietyThe New Middle Class: Successful Self-Actualization and Urban CosmopolitanismThe Old Middle Class: Sedentariness, Order, and Cultural DefensivenessThe Precarious Class: Muddling Through and Losing StatusThe Upper Class: Distance due to AssetsCross-Sectional Characteristics: Gender, Migration, Regions, MilieusA Trend toward Political Polarization and Future Social Scenarios3. Beyond Industrial Society:Polarized Post-Industrialism and Cognitive-Cultural CapitalismThe Rise and Fall of Industrial FordismThe Saturation CrisisThe Production Crisis and Polarized Post-IndustrialismGlobalization, Neoliberalism, FinancializationCognitive Capitalism and Immaterial CapitalCultural Goods and Cultural CapitalismWinner-Take-All Markets: The Scalability and Attractiveness of Cognitive and Cultural GoodsExtreme Capitalism: The Economization of the Social4. The Weariness of Self-Actualization:The Late-Modern Individual and the Paradoxes of Emotional CultureFrom Self-Discipline to Self-ActualizationSuccessful Self-Actualization: An Ambitious Dual StructureThe Culture of Self-Actualization as a Generator of Negative EmotionsWays Out of the Spiral of Disappointment?5. The Crisis of Liberalism and the Search for the New Political Paradigm:From Apertistic to Regulatory LiberalismPolitical Paradigms and Political ParadoxesProblems and Solutions: Between the Paradigms of Regulation and DynamizationThe Rise of the Social-Corporatist ParadigmThe Crisis of OverregulationThe Rise of the Paradigm of Apertistic LiberalismThe Threefold Crisis of Apertistic LiberalismPopulism as a Symptom“Regulatory Liberalism” as the Paradigm of the Future?Challenges Facing Regulatory LiberalismBibliographyNotesIndex
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Harvard University Press Salsa Dancing into the Social Sciences
Book SynopsisThis book is both a handbook for defining and completing a research project and an astute introduction to the neglected history and changeable philosophy of modern social science.Trade ReviewLuker's book offers a startlingly original and unorthodox take on how to teach research methods, and is funny accessible, and inviting too. It gives a down-to-earth view of how knowledge evolves, how good research questions gel, and how to go about creating a research design. I cannot wait to be able to assign it to my students. -- Michèle Lamont, Harvard UniversityAn irreverent and engaging mixture of memoir, history of research methods, and 'how-to' manual, Luker's book is chock-full of helpful suggestions to turn an idea (even a half-baked idea) into a meaningful and rigorous research project. The conversational style, the witty style, and the metaphors sprinkled through the pages make the ideas come alive. -- Rebecca Klatch, University of California, San DiegoKristin Luker has managed to produce a charming and effective manual on how to get through the research process with most of one's enthusiasm still intact. This is a guidebook for the methodologically bewildered, with an attractive blend of homespun wisdom, illustrated from her own research career, as well as glimpses of herself, her family and her enthusiasms—of which the salsa dancing of the title seems to be one—threaded through a lucid and accessible discussion of the elements of research practice. Although it will be a comforting and useful read for postgraduates, which is its intended market, it is already on my undergraduate recommended list. This is a refreshing and well-judged guide produced by an engaging writer in touch with a long career's lessons and the changing realities of researching today. For young researchers undertaking their first project or beginning a dissertation, it should prove an excellent guide. The book sets out to rethink the existing conventions of research practice… A great deal of the book's attractiveness lies in its refusal to pursue the grandiose and the ineffable. Endorsing what used to be called 'theories of the middle range,' this approach eschews master narratives and grand theory. A little modest realism about what the aims of social research can be, and ought to be, rather than inflated claims and rhetoric in pursuit of what it hoped to be for so long, goes a long way, and makes for a book that will, I suspect, generate a spirit of optimism in those who fall for its down-to-earth charms… Above all, however, this is a book to enjoy—and for a text on method this is rare indeed. Really enjoyable writing among social scientists is itself, unfortunately, a rarity, and it is a pleasure to welcome into the canon someone who celebrates the teaching role as well and successfully as Luker. Her determined cheer is a tonic, and a perspective well worth fostering in every student approaching the social-research process. More than that, however, she has developed a robust, effective approach to the conduct and practices of research and to the question of how one should prepare for research. -- Leslie Gofton * Times Higher Education *I enjoyed this book very much and I thought it was one of the best books on the philosophy of the social sciences I have read, ever. -- Tyler Cowen * Marginal Revolution *Table of Contents* Salsa Dancing? In the Social Sciences? * What's It All About? * An Ode to Canonical Social Science * What Is This a Case of, Anyway? * Reviewing the Literature * On Sampling, Operationalization, and Generalization * Getting Down to the Nitty-Gritty * Field (and Other) Methods * Historical-Comparative Methods * Data Reduction and Analysis * Living Your Life as a Salsa-Dancing Social Scientist * Appendix One: What to Do If You Don't Have a Case * Appendix Two: Tools of the Trade * Appendix Three: Special Resources for Specific Methods * Appendix Four: Sample Search Log * Notes * Bibliography * Author's Note * Acknowledgments * Index
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Harvard University Press Salem Possessed
Book SynopsisThe stark immediacy of what happened in 1692 has obscured the complex web of human passion which had been growing for more than a generation before building toward the climactic witch trials. Salem Possessed explores the lives of the men and women who helped spin that web and who in the end found themselves entangled in it.Trade ReviewAn illuminating and imaginative interpretation…of the social and moral state of Salem village in 1692. Provides an admirable illustration of the general rule that, in Old and New England alike, much of the best sociological history of the twentieth century has only been made possible by the antiquarian and genealogical interests of the nineteenth… This sensitive, intelligent, and well-written book will certainly revive interest in the terrible happenings at Salem. -- Keith Thomas * New York Review of Books *A provocative book. Drawing upon an impressive range of unpublished local sources, Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum provide a challenging new interpretation of the outbreak of witchcraft in Salem Village. They argue that previous historians erroneously divorced the tragic events of 1692 from the long-term development of the village and therefore failed to realize that the witch trials were simply one particularly violent chapter in a series of local controversies dating back to the 1660s. In their reconstruction of the socio-economic conditions that contributed to the intense factionalism in Salem Village, Boyer and Nissenbaum have made a major contribution to the social history of colonial New England… [They] have provided us with a first-rate discussion of factionalism in a seventeenth-century New England community. Their handling of economic, familial, and spatial relationships within Salem Village is both sophisticated and imaginative. -- T. H. Breen * William and Mary Quarterly *This is an ‘inner history’ of Salem Village that aims to raise the events of 1692 from melodrama to tragedy… It is a large achievement. This book is progressive history at its best, with brilliant insights, well-organized evidence, maps, and footnotes at the bottom of the page. -- Cedric B. Cowing * American Historical Review *The authors’ whole approach to the Salem disaster is canny, rewarding, and sure to fascinate readers interested in that aberrant affair. * The Atlantic *This short book is a solid contribution to the understanding of the 1692 witch trials. The authors use impressively rich demographic detail to support the thesis that the witch trials are best explained as symptoms of typical social tensions in provincial towns at the time. According to Boyer and Nissenbaum, Salem villagers played roles determined by economic, geographic, and status interests. -- Richard Ekman * Canadian Historical Review *An important, imaginative book that brings new insights to the study of the 1692 witchcraft outbreak in Massachusetts. Building on Charles Upham’s Salem Witchcraft (1867), Boyer and Nissenbaum explore decades of community tension and conflict in order to explain why Salem was the focus of this episode. The authors reveal a complex set of relationships between persons allied with the growing mercantile interests of Salem Town and those linked to the subsistence-based economy of outlying Salem Village. -- Carol Karlsen * Journal of Women in Culture and Society *Table of ContentsPreface Salem Village in the Seventeenth Century: A Chronology Abbreviations Used in the Notes Prologue: What Happened in 1692 1. 1692: Some New Perspectives 2. In Quest of Community, 1639-1687 3. Afflicted Village, 1688-1697 4. Salem Town and Salem Village: The Dynamics
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