Sociology and anthropology Books
Cambridge University Press States against Nations
Book SynopsisFocusing on the challenges of bureaucratic recruitment, this book questions the virtues of meritocracies and develops a new theory about the conflicts facing governments that engage in both state- and nation-building. It is ideal for scholars in political science, history, sociology, public administration, public policy, law, and economics.
£28.49
John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Concise History of World Population
Book SynopsisThe latest edition of this classic text has been updated to reflect current trends and implications for future demographic developments. The areas of Africa, international migration and population and environment have been strengthened and statistical information has been updated throughout. A new edition of this classic history of demography text, which has been updated to strengthen the major subject areas of Africa, international migration and population and the environment Includes the latest statistical information, including the 2015 UN population projections revision and developments in China''s population policy Information is presented in a clear and simple form, with academic material presented accessibly for the undergraduate audience whilst still maintaining the interest of higher level students and scholars The text covers issues that are crucial to the future of every species by encouraging humanity''s search for ways to prevent fTable of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgment xi 1 The Space and Strategy of Demographic Growth 1 1.1 Humans and Animals 1 1.2 Divide and Multiply 5 1.3 Jacopo Bichi and Domenica Del Buono, Jean Guyon, and Mathurine Robin 7 1.4 Reproduction and Survival 9 1.5 The Space of Growth 17 1.6 Environmental Constraints 19 1.7 A Few Figures 24 Notes 27 Further Reading 32 2 Demographic Growth: Between Choice and Constraint 33 2.1 Constraint, Choice, Adaptation 33 2.2 From Hunters to Farmers: The Neolithic Demographic Transition 35 2.3 Black Death and Demographic Decline in Europe 42 2.4 The Tragedy of the American Indios: Old Microbes and New Populations 47 2.5 Africa, America, and the Slave Trade 53 2.6 The French Canadians: A Demographic Success Story 57 2.7 Ireland and Japan: Two Islands, Two Histories 61 2.8 On the Threshold of the Contemporary World: China and Europe 67 Notes 73 Further Reading 84 3 Land, Labor, and Population 85 3.1 Diminishing Returns and Demographic Growth 85 3.2 Historical Confirmations 89 3.3 Demographic Pressure and Economic Development 94 3.4 More on Demographic Pressure and Development: Examples from the Stone Age to the Present Day 98 3.5 Space, Land, and Development 101 3.6 Population Size and Prosperity 108 3.7 Increasing or Decreasing Returns? 112 Notes 113 Further Reading 117 4 Toward Order and Efficiency: The Recent Demography of Europe and the Developed World 119 4.1 From Waste to Economy 119 4.2 From Disorder to Order: The Lengthening of Life 124 4.3 From High to Low Fertility 131 4.4 European Emigration: A Unique Phenomenon 137 4.5 A Summing Up: The Results of the Transition 143 4.6 Theoretical Considerations on the Relationship between Demographic and Economic Growth 146 4.7 More on the Relationship between Demographic and Economic Growth: Empirical Observations 150 Notes 157 Further Reading 164 5 The Populations of Poor Countries 167 5.1 An Extraordinary Phase 167 5.2 The Conditions of Survival 172 5.3 A Brief Geography of Fertility 179 5.4 The Conditions and Prospects for Fertility Decline and Demographic Policy 184 5.5 India and China 191 5.6 Fertilia and Sterilia 201 5.7 Explaining a Paradox 205 Notes 212 Further Reading 222 6 The Future 225 6.1 Population and Self]Regulation 225 6.2 The Numbers of the Future 227 6.3 The North–South Divide and International Migration 233 6.4 On Sustainability of Extended Survival 242 6.5 The Moving Limits 251 6.6 Non]Renewable Resources and the Parable of Pauperia and Tycoonia 255 6.7 Food for All? 259 6.8 Space and Environment in a Smaller Planet 265 6.9 Calculations and Values 270 Notes 274 Major Scientific Journals for Further Reading 281 Index 283
£24.65
John Wiley & Sons Inc The Sociology of Islam
Book SynopsisThe Sociology of Islam provides an accessible introduction to this emerging field of inquiry, teaching and debate. The study is located at the crucial intersection between a variety of disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Knowledge and Power in the Sociology of Islam 1 Knowledge/Charisma vs. Power/Wealth: The Challenge of Religious Movements 18 Civility as the Engine of the Knowledge–Power Equation: Islam and ‘Islamdom’ 23 PART I Patterns of Civility 1 The Limits of Civil Society and the Path to Civility 43 The Origins of Modern Civil Society 43 Civil Society as a Site of Production of Modern Power 50 Folding Civil Society into a Transversal Notion of Civility 57 2 Brotherhood as a Matrix of Civility: The Islamic Ecumene and Beyond 73 Between Networking, ‘Charisma,’ and Social Autonomy: The Contours of ‘Spiritual’ Brotherhoods 73 Beyond Sufism: The Unfolding of the Brotherhood 85 Rewriting Charisma into Brotherhood 92 PART II Islamic Civility in Historical and Comparative Perspective 3 Flexible Institutionalization and the Expansive Civility of the Islamic Ecumene 105 The Steady Expansion of Islamic Patterns of Translocal Civility 105 Authority, Autonomy, and Power Networks: A Grid of Flexible Institutions 114 The Permutable Combinations of Normativity and Civility 118 4 Social Autonomy and Civic Connectedness: The Islamic Ecumene in Comparative Perspective 131 New Patterns of Civic Connectedness Centered on the ‘Commoners’ 131 Liminality, Charisma, and Social Organization 140 Municipal Autonomy vs. Translocal Connectedness 147 PART III Modern Islamic Articulations of Civility 5 Knowledge and Power: The Civilizing Process before Colonialism 165 From the Mongol Impact to the Early Modern Knowledge–Power Configurations 165 Taming theWarriors into Games of Civility? Violence, Warfare, and Peace 176 The LongWave of PowerDecentralization 189 6 Colonial Blueprints of Order and Civility 201 The Metamorphosis of Civility under Colonialism 201 Court Dynamics and Emerging Elites: The Complexification of the Civilizing Process 218 Class, Gender, and Generation: The Ultimate Testing Grounds of the Educational-Civilizing Project 226 7 Global Civility and Its Islamic Articulations 239 The Dystopian Globalization of Civility 239 Diversifying Civility as the Outcome of Civilizing Processes 251 From Islamic Exceptionalism to a Plural Islamic Perspective 260 Conclusion 271 Overcoming Eurocentric Views: Religion and Civility within Islam/Islamdom 271 The Institutional Mold of Islamic Civility: Contractualism vs. Corporatism? 278 From the Postcolonial Condition toward New Fragile Patterns of Translocal Civility 287 Index 295
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Organizational Change
Book SynopsisA comprehensive guide to essential theories and practices of change creation and implementation Organizational Change provides an essential overview to implementing deliberate and focused change through effective communication strategies. Author Laurie Lewis integrates academic rigor with real-world case studies to provide a comprehensive examination of both theoretical and pragmatic approaches to alterations and modifications of organizational structures. Emphasizing the importance of formal and informal communication in implementation of change, this text investigates methods of information dissemination and examines various channels for communicating change. Coverage of stakeholder relationships, concepts of uncertainty and resistance, assessing change outcomes, and more provides readers with a solid foundational knowledge of change dynamics in organizations. Extensively revised and updated, this second edition provides new case studies on topics such Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 State of the Art 3 Weaknesses in Current Approaches to Change Implementation 4 A Stakeholder Theory Perspective 7 Highlight Box 1: Hershey Builds a Community 9 A Communication Perspective 12 Cases of Organizational Change 14 Ingredients Incorporated 14 Spellings Commission on Higher Education 15 Conclusion 18 1 Defining Organizational Change 20 The Role of Communication in Triggering Change 21 Failure in Change 24 What Is Organizational Change? 25 Drive‐thru Diffusion 27 Communication, Social Pressure, and Diffusion 28 Highlight Box 1.1: The Malcolm Baldrige Award 30 Implementation 31 Understanding Key Terms 32 A Complex Model of Innovation, Diffusion, Adoption,and Implementation 34 Case Box 1.1: Ingredients Inc. Experiences Overlapping Changes 37 Types of Organizational Change 37 Complexity of Change Within Organizations 42 Interdependence 42 Structures 44 Politics 46 Case Box 1.2: Spellings Commission Political Positions Play a Role 48 Conclusion 49 2 Processes of Communication During Change 53 Formal Communication 54 Case Box 2.1: Spellings Commission – Responses to Change Announcement 55 Informal Communication 55 Importance of Communication 56 Communication Processes 57 Information Dissemination and Uncertainty 58 Common Practice Advice for Information Dissemination 62 Selecting Channels for Communicating Change 64 Case Box 2.2: Ingredients Inc. – Information Dissemination Campaigns 65 Informal Information Dissemination 66 Case Box 2.3: Spellings Commission – Stakeholders’ Informational Campaign 67 Creating Knowledge 68 Soliciting Input 69 Practice Advice for Seeking Input 70 Voice and Empowerment 70 Design of Input Solicitation 73 Categorizing Approaches to Input Solicitation 76 Perspectives of Input Providers 79 Stakeholders’ Input Solicitation 81 Case Box 2.4: Spellings Stakeholders Solicit Input from Each Other 82 Socialization 83 Case Box 2.5: Homeless Net Resists Altering Role Schema 87 Conclusion 88 3 A Stakeholder Communication Model of Change 94 Stakeholder Theory 95 Highlight Box 3.1: HUD As a Definitive Stakeholder for Agencies Serving Homeless Populations 99 Case Box 3.1: Homeless Net Implementation of Listserv Increases Awareness of Stakeholders 100 Complicating Stakeholder Relationships 102 Multiple Stakeholder Identities 104 Highlight Box 3.2: IT Reskilling Case Study – How Stakeholder Groups View Change Differently 107 Stakeholder Interactions 108 Highlight Box 3.3: Upton Sinclair Sets off Stakeholder Advocacy to Clean up Meat Packing Factories 109 Roles Stakeholders Play in Change 110 Opinion Leaders 110 Connectors 111 Counselors 112 Journalists 114 Highlight Box 3.4: Examples of “Alt” US Government 115 Stakeholder Model of Implementation of Change 115 Outcomes 116 Stakeholders’ Concerns, Assessments, and Interactions 117 Communication Strategies 117 Antecedents 119 Model Overview 119 Conclusion 120 4 Outcomes of Change Processes 126 The Importance of Goals 127 Assessing Change Outcomes 128 Timing of Assessing Outcomes 129 Assessing Outcomes from Multiple Perspectives 129 Difficulty of Metrics of Success 131 Case Box 4.1: Homeless Net Struggles to Assess a Large Mission 132 Attribution Errors 133 Documenting Failure 135 Highlight Box 4.1: March of Dimes Succeeds to the Brink of Organizational Death 136 Assessing Change Outcomes 137 Fidelity and Uniformity 138 Organizational Goals 141 Authenticity 141 Assessing Results of Change 143 Case Box 4.2: Ingredients Inc. – Foreknowledge and Change Burnout 145 Causes for Implementation Failures and Successes 146 Conclusion 150 5 Communication Approaches and Strategies 156 Uniformity, Fidelity, and Models of Implementation 159 Communication Strategy Dimensions 162 Dissemination/Soliciting Input 162 Highlight Box 5.1: Gap’s Campaign for Cultural Transformation 163 Highlight Box 5.2: CEO of Lego Transforms Co.Through Widespread Empowerment Strategy 165 Case Box 5.1: Spellings Stakeholders Solicit Input and Disseminate Information 167 Sidedness 168 Case Box 5.2: One‐ and Two‐Sided Messages from Spellings Stakeholders 171 Reluctance to Acknowledge Negatives 172 Highlight Box 5.3: Companies Use Euphemisms to Avoid Saying “Layoffs” 173 Gain or Loss Frame 175 Targeted or Blanket Messages 177 Case Box 5.3: Memo to Ingredients Inc. 178 Case Box 5.4: Official Statement by the Department of Education on Spellings Commission Report 179 Discrepancy and Efficacy 181 Channels for Communicating 183 Conclusion 185 6 Power and Resistance 191 Power During Organizational Change 192 Case Box 6.1: Spellings Commission’s Latent Power Recognized 195 Bases of Power 196 Case Box 6.2: Homeless Net Recognizes Expertise Power of Implementers 197 Meaning‐Centered Approach to Power 198 Balances of Power 199 Highlight Box 6.1: JAR Technologies Experiences Concertive Control 202 Resistance During Change 202 Thinking Patterns that Explain Managers’ “Resistance” Focus 203 Highlight Box 6.2: Defensive Routines in Implementing Strategy 205 What Is Resistance? 205 Forms of Resistance 208 Highlight Box 6.3: Mice Don’t Overanalyze Change 210 Dispositional Resistance 216 Value of Resistance 218 The Facebook Example 219 Highlight Box 6.4: Moving Cheese Might Require Thoughtful Consideration 221 Conclusion 221 7 Antecedents to Strategies, Assessments,and Interactions 227 Institutional Factors 229 Implementers’ Perceptions of Change Context 232 Assessing Stakeholders and Stakeholder Values 232 Case Box 7.1: Reactions of Powerful Stakeholders 235 Assessing Needs for Consensus‐Building 236 Assessing Needs for Efficiency 237 Assessing Individual and Organizational Change History and Readiness 238 Case Box 7.2: History as Prologue? Spellings Report Triggers Comparisons to NCLB 239 Assessing Goals for Change 240 Case Box 7.3: Flip‐Flopping on Anticipation of Change 241 Stakeholders’ Perceptions of Change Context 242 Case Box 7.4: Discrepancy Messages Overplayed 244 Case Box 7.5: Supporting Stakeholders through Change 246 Conclusion 248 8 Stakeholder Interactions: Storying and Framing 253 Creating Stories and Storylines That Make Sense 255 Highlight Box 8.1: How We Make Stories 255 Case Box 8.1: Threads of Merger Stories 257 Highlight Box 8.2: Story of Bad Treatment 258 Making Stories 258 Case Box 8.2: Varying Stories About What Was Announced as Change 259 Framing 260 Frames Tell Stories from a Perspective 260 Interactional Frames 261 Contesting and Resisting Stories and Frames 262 Highlight Box 8.3: Attempts at Framing 263 “Managing Meaning” 264 How Non‐Managerial Stakeholders “Manage Meaning” 265 Stories and Frames Create, Maintain, and Resolve Concerns 265 Concerns about Process or Substance of Change 268 Creating and Resolving Alliances, Rivalries, and Schisms 270 Highlight Box 8.4: Terse Telling 271 Highlight Box 8.5: “We Don’t Want It Either” 272 Highlight Box 8.6: Reframing and Resistance 273 Which Stories and Frames Matter? 274 Highlight Box 8.7: Social Sensemaking Sets Up Material Disappointment 276 Conclusion 277 9 Applying the Model in Practice 281 Activity Tracks 282 Managing Meaning 283 Managing Networks 283 Managing Practice 284 Keeping Track of the “Tracks” 284 Stakeholders Must Manage Activity Tracks 285 Preview of Chapter and Case Introduction 286 Tools for Managing Activity Tracks 286 Monitoring and Articulating Goals 286 Highlight Box 9.1: Virtual Problems 287 Developing Strategic Messages and Strategic Communication Plan 291 Analysis of Input 294 Influencing Implementation Climate 297 Myths about Implementing Planned Change 299 Conclusion 302 Glossary 304 Index 315
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Basic Bioscience Laboratory Techniques
Book SynopsisA portable and pocket-sized guide to foundational bioscience and biomedical science laboratory skills The newly revised Second Edition of Basic Bioscience Laboratory Techniques: A Pocket Guide delivers a foundational and intuitive pocket reference text that contains essential information necessary to prepare reagents, perform fundamental laboratory techniques, and analyze and interpret data. This latest edition brings new updates to health and safety considerations, points of good practice, and explains the basics of molecular work in the lab. Perfect for first year undergraduate students expected to possess or develop practical laboratory skills, this reference is intended to be accessed quickly and regularly and inform the reader''s lab techniques and methods. It assumes no prior practical knowledge and offers additional material that can be found online. The book also includes: A thorough introduction to the preparation of solutions in bioTable of ContentsPreface Glossary Abbrevations Ch 1 THE PREPARATION OF SOLUTIONS IN BIOSCIENCE RESEARCH CH 2 MICROSCOPY Ch 3 SPECTROPHOTOMETRY Ch 4 DATA ANALYSIS AND PRESENTATION Ch 5 THE EXTRACTION AND CLARIFICATION OF BIOLOGICAL MATERIAL Ch 6 ELECTROPHORESIS OF PROTEINS AND NUCLEIC ACIDS Ch 7 CHROMATOGRAPY Ch 8 CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES Ch 9 ANTIBODY-BASED ASSAYS (IMMUNOASSAYS) Suggestions for further reading Index
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Killer Visual Strategies
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsForward 7 Introduction 11 How To Read This Book 13 The Accidental Agency 17 Part One: Visual Content Is King 25 Chapter 1 Environmental Influences And The Rise Of Visual Content 27 Chapter 2 Visual Content And Human Nature 37 Chapter 3 Quality Visual Content Reigns Supreme 45 Part Two: 8 Rules Of Visual Communication 53 Chapter 4 Rule 1: Always Think About Con-Text 57 Chapter 5 Rule 2: Small Visual Cues Have A Large Impact 63 Chapter 6 Rule 3: There’s No Gold At The End Of That Rainbow 69 Chapter 7 Rule 4: Good Visual Strategists Ask “Wtf?!” 77 Chapter 8 Rule 5: Avoid The Stigma Of Stock 91 Chapter 9 Rule 6: Stand Out At The Cocktail Party 99 Chapter 10 Rule 7: Use Proper Data Viz Throughout 107 Chapter 11 Rule 8: Commit To The Truth And Prove It 123 Chapter 12 Rules Are Meant To Be Broken 135 Part Three: Your Visual Strategy 153 Chapter 13 You Can’t Create Great Content Without A Great Team And Process 157 Chapter 14 Going The Freelance Route 165 Chapter 15 Building An In-House Team 171 Post Script 177 Acknowledgements 181 Appendix A: Terms & Definitions 185 Appendix B: Tools 187 Appendix C: Production Time Estimates 195 Appendix D: A Timeline Of Visual Communication 199 Resources 213 Index 225
£20.40
Taylor & Francis Ltd Handbook Of Structured Techniques In Marriage And
Book SynopsisPublished in the year 1986, Handbook of Structured Techniques in Marriage and Family Therapy is a valuable contribution to the field of Family Therapy.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Development and Use of Techniques; Chapter 2 Fantasy and Imagery; Chapter 2_1 Early Recollections; Chapter 2_2 Family Photographs; Chapter 2_3 Family Puppet Interview; Chapter 2_4 Poetry and Song Lyrics in Couples Groups; Chapter 2_5 “If I Were”; Chapter 2_6 Creating Analogous Situations; Chapter 2_7 Sentence Completion; Chapter 2_8 Values Clarification; Chapter 2_9 Value Assessment Comparison; Chapter 2_10 The Use of Dreams in Family Therapy; Chapter 2_11 Draw a Dream; Chapter 2_12 The Role of Dreams in Sex Therapy; Chapter 2_13 Imagery, Shaping, and Orgasm in Sex Therapy; Chapter 2_14 Imagery; Chapter 2_15 Guided Imagery; Chapter 2_16 Couple Images; Chapter 2_17 The Empty Chair in Family Therapy; Chapter 3 Sociometric Techniques; Chapter 3_18 Sculpting; Chapter 3_19 Family Choreography; Chapter 3_20 The Genogram; Chapter 3_21 Role Card Game; Chapter 3_22 The Ecomap; Chapter 3_23 The Straw Tower; Chapter 3_24 The Family Floor Plan; Chapter 3_25 The Family Sociogram; Chapter 4 Structural Moves; Chapter 4_26 Tracking; Chapter 4_27 Supporting Generational Boundaries; Chapter 4_28 Allying with a Subsystem; Chapter 4_29 Strategic Alliances; Chapter 4_30 The Family Ritual; Chapter 4_31 The Vacation; Chapter 4_32 Role Reversal; Chapter 4_33 The Complementarity Challenge; Chapter 5 Behavioral Tasks; Chapter 5_34 The Couple Conference and Family Council; Chapter 5_35 The Marriage Contract Game; Chapter 5_36 Caring Days; Chapter 5_37 Within-Session Structured Tasks; Chapter 5_38 Positive Exchanges; Chapter 5_39 Reading Aloud as an Initial Assignment in Marital Therapy; Chapter 5_40 Teaching Choice Awareness; Chapter 5_41 Symbolism and Gift Giving; Chapter 5_42 Structured Communication Training; Chapter 5_43 The Squeeze Technique in Sex Therapy; Chapter 6 Paradox; Chapter 6_44 Reframing; Chapter 6_45 Pretending to have the Symptom; Chapter 6_46 Illusion of Alternatives; Chapter 6_47 The Paradoxical Letter; Chapter 6_48 Contaminating the Suicidal Fantasy; Chapter 6_4
£44.64
WW Norton & Co The Teen Interpreter
Book SynopsisAn insightful, revealing and practical guide to adolescents' inner world, from a renowned psychologistTrade Review"[A] brilliant book… that unlocks the baffling mysteries of the adolescent mind." -- Anna Maxted - The Times
£20.89
WW Norton & Co The Teen Interpreter
Book SynopsisThe Teen Interpreter is a generous roadmap for enjoying the most challenging, and rewarding, parenting yearsTrade Review"Terri Apter is a true expert when it comes to knowing and helping teenagers flourish. In The Teen Interpreter, she explains the workings of the teenage mind with clarity and warmth and suggests ways to encourage deeper understanding between parents and their teenager. Everyone who has a teen in their life needs this wonderful book." -- Linda Blair, clinical psychologist and author of Birth Order"Few adults can see the world through teenage eyes or write about it as eloquently as Terri Apter. In this insightful book, she documents what she calls the interplay of passion, connection, and rejection that marks the dynamic relationship between parents and their teenagers. The Teen Interpreter is a perceptive guide for parents." -- Ruthellen Josselson, author of Paths to Fulfillment"Superb! Terri Apter deftly and authoritatively integrates the latest scientific research with psychological insights and the vivid accounts of parents and teens themselves. This informative, thought-provoking, and helpful book will empower parents to communicate with, and support, their teens." -- Susan Golombok, Director of the Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge"If you ever were a teenager, know a teenager, or are living with a teenager, you will find this wise and compassionate book to be a survival manual. These are hard times for teens, but harder for parents—or is it the other way around? Terri Apter will sho" -- Carol Tavris, co-author of Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)
£15.52
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Marital Conflict and Childrens Externalizing
Book SynopsisStudy moderators examined interactions between children''s parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems (PNS and SNS) activity in order to achieve a greater specificity in the prediction of externalizing problems in the context of interparental conflict. Findings are robust across the three studies and provide the first reported evidence of interactions between PNS and SNS activity. Findings extend current theory indicating the importance of multisystem investigations for clarifying inconsistencies and discrepancies in the literature linking environmental stress, physiological responses, and child adjustment.Table of ContentsABSTRACT. I. INTRODUCTION. II. INTERACTIONS AMONG MARITAL CONFLICT, SYMPATHETIC, AND PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEMS ACTIVITY IN THE PREDICTION OF CHILDREN'S EXTERNALIZING PROBLEMS. III. ADDITIONAL TESTING OF THREE-WAY INTERACTIONS IN AN INDEPENDENT SAMPLE. IV. ADDITIONAL CONSIDERATION OF THE ROLE OF SYMPATHETIC AND PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEMS ACTIVITY IN A SAMPLE OF 6-12-YEAR-OLDS. V. DISCUSSION. REFERENCES. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. COMMENTARY. SOME DIFFICULTIES IN INTERPRETING PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGICAL RESEARCH WITH CHILDREN (Theodore P. Beauchaine). WHEN NEGATIVE IS POSITIVE (Ginger A. Moore). CONTRIBUTORS. STATEMENT OF EDITORIAL POLICY.
£38.90
Pearson Education Sociology
Book SynopsisSamantha Punch is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at University of Stirling Jeni Harden is Senior Lecturer in Social Science and Health at University of Edinburgh Ian Marsh is Principal Lecturer in Criminology at Liverpool Hope University Mike Keating was formerly Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Sociology at Liverpool Hope UniversityTable of ContentsList of case studies List of World in focus boxes Contributors Preface Guided tour How to use this book Acknowledgements Part 1 Introduction to the sociological imagination Sociological Thinking Sociological Theories Sociological Research Part 2 Introduction to Social Divisions Social Stratification and Class Gender ‘Race’, Ethnicity and Nationalism Age Disability Global Divisions Part 3 Introduction to Understanding Social Life Environment Families and Relationships Work Health, Illness and the Body Crime and Punishment Part 4 Introduction to Knowledge and Power Education Religion The Mass Media Glossary References Index
£48.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Into the Hands of the Soldiers
Book SynopsisA poignant, deeply human portrait of Egypt during the Arab Spring, told through the lives of individualsA FINANCIAL TIMES AND AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR''This will be the must read on the destruction of Egypt''s revolution and democratic moment'' Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director of Human Rights Watch''Sweeping, passionate ... An essential work of reportage for our time'' Philip Gourevitch, author of We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our FamiliesIn 2011, Egyptians of all sects, ages and social classes shook off millennia of autocracy, then elected a Muslim Brother as president. New York Times correspondent David D. Kirkpatrick arrived in Egypt with his family less than six months before the uprising first broke out in 2011. As revolution and violence engulfed the country, he lived through Cairo''s hopes and disappointments alongside the diverse population of his new city. Into the Hands of theTrade ReviewKirkpatrick watched a historic popular uprising unfold. In this book, he brings the story to vivid life through the eyes of both the poor and the powerful -- Stephen Kinzer, author of 'All the Shah’s Men'Both astute and insightful, and often as comical as it is tragic -- Lynsey Addario, author of 'It’s What I Do'Sweeping, passionate ... An essential work of reportage for our time -- Philip Gourevitch, author of 'We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families'This will be the must read on the destruction of Egypt's revolution and democratic moment -- Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director of Human Rights WatchA twenty-first-century successor to William L. Shirer's Berlin Diary: a first-rate reporter's riveting eyewitness account of the unfolding of a world-historical tragedy. Kirkpatrick has an uncanny ability to lend a sense of real-time suspense to events in the recent past, and to get to the truth of a dauntingly elusive story -- Nicholas Lemann, author of 'The Promised Land'David D. Kirkpatrick landed in Cairo as the New York Times bureau chief on the eve of revolution. Into the Hands of the Soldiers is his gripping narrative of the tumultuous years that followed, in which he was often in the eye of the storm. Observant, eloquent and empathetic, he's the perfect guide to the perplexing and sometimes heartbreaking events that snuffed out the democratic hopes of the Arab Spring. This is the rare non-fiction book that's as entertaining as it is informative -- James B. Stewart, author of 'Tangled Webs' and 'Heart of a Soldier'In his new book, Into the Hands of the Soldiers, Mr Kirkpatrick describes these tumultuous times in compelling detail. The author is honest about how hard it was to interpret events, grasp the motives of people such as Mr Sisi and Mr Morsi and predict the direction in which Egypt was heading … But Mr Kirkpatrick, who dodged bullets and official harassment, deciphered the mystery. The same cannot be said of the foreign powers, especially America, that watched as Egypt’s democracy crumbled * Economist *
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Policy Press Decolonizing Childhoods
Book SynopsisUses a wide range of international case studies form the Global South to examine the stark repercussions of colonial conquest on children's lives and childhood policy today. Liebel shows the work that we must do to decolonize childhoods globally and ensure that children's rights are better promoted and protected.Trade Review"This is a seminal book which works as a textbook, a teaching resource and a highly significant contribution to knowledge. It is characterized by authority and enthusiasm." Heather Montgomery, The Open UniversityTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Part I ~ How to Understand Childhoods in the Postcolonial Context Childhoods From Postcolonial Perspectives Colonialism and Colonization of Childhoods Postcolonial Theories From the Global South Part II ~ Children Under Colonial and Postcolonial Rule State violence against children in British Empire and settler colonies Racist civilization of children in Latin America Pitfalls of postcolonial education and child policies in Africa Part III ~ Children’s Rights and the Decolonization of Childhoods Postcolonial Dilemmas of Children’s Rights Beyond Paternalism: Plea for the De-Paternalization of Children’s Protection and Participation Social Movements of Children As Citizenship From Below Epilogue: Childhoods and Children’s Rights Beyond Postcolonial Paternalism
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Bristol University Press Participatory Ideology
Book SynopsisThis book examines for the first time the exclusionary nature of prevailing political ideologies. Bringing together theory, practice and the relationship between participation, political ideology and social welfare, it offers a detailed critique of how the crucial move to more participatory approaches may be achieved.Table of ContentsPart 1: Exploring Ideology; Ideology: An Exclusionary Idea?; Ideology and Us; Imposing Ideology; Part 2: Reclaiming Participation; A Different Approach to Ideology; Participation: Challenging the Barriers; Part 3: Towards Participatory Ideology; Learning to Work Together: The Key to Inclusive Involvement; Developing our Own Organisations; Key Concepts to Participatory Ideology; Transforming Political Ideology.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Failure
Book SynopsisWall Street and Silicon Valley – the two worlds this book examines – promote the illusion that scarcity can and should be eliminated in the age of seamless “flow.” Instead, Appadurai and Alexander propose a theory of habitual and strategic failure by exploring debt, crisis, digital divides, and (dis)connectivity. Moving between the planned obsolescence and deliberate precariousness of digital technologies and the “too big to fail” logic of the Great Recession, they argue that the sense of failure is real in that it produces disappointment and pain. Yet, failure is not a self-evident quality of projects, institutions, technologies, or lives. It requires a new and urgent understanding of the conditions under which repeated breakdowns and collapses are quickly forgotten. By looking at such moments of forgetfulness, this highly original book offers a multilayered account of failure and a general theory of denial, memory, and nascent systems of control.Trade Review"Failure is an extraordinarily incisive and insightful work of contemporary social theory. The book unravels an infuriating paradox: Silicon Valley and Wall Street companies that move fast, break things, and ruin lives, justify their disastrous performance as a necessary step toward a glorious future. Appadurai and Alexander debunk this naïve narrative of progress, while exposing how important it is to superficially respectable social science. Their critical theory illuminates key trends of our time."Frank Pasquale, University of Maryland Carey School of Law “Appadurai and Alexander’s Failure exacts a scathing critique of how digital capitalism reorganizes time, the social, and the self. It is a stockpile of insights, an academic arsenal for overthrowing today’s ‘regimes of failure.’”John Cheney-Lippold, University of Michigan“Failure is an exercise in interdisciplinarity rendered particularly effective in its ability to touch on concepts currently on the radar of popular audiences, from questions of digital privacy to the ramifications of the financializing futures. Failure’s call to action is a reminder to remember certain failures and their effects, but its reach extends beyond readjusting day-to-day priorities—Failure is a guide for reexamining the local and global systems threatening to indefinitely divide those of us with so much in common.” Hyperrhiz 22Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 1. Introduction: The Difference that Doesn’t Make a Difference 2. Chapter 1: The Promise Machine: Between “Techno-failure” and Market Failure 3. Chapter 2: Creative Destruction and the New Socialities 4. Chapter 3: Failure, Forgotten: On Buffering, Latency, and the Monetization of Waiting 5. Chapter 4: Too Big to Fail: Banks, Derivatives, and Market Collapse 6. Conclusion: Failure, Remembered 7. References
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Race and the Cultural Industries
Book SynopsisStudies of race and media are dominated by textual approaches that explore the politics of representation. But there is little understanding of how and why representations of race in the media take the shape that they do. How, one might ask, is race created by cultural industries? In this important new book, Anamik Saha encourages readers to focus on the production of representations of racial and ethnic minorities in film, television, music and the arts. His interdisciplinary approach combines critical media studies and media industries research with postcolonial studies and critical race perspectives to reveal how political economic forces and legacies of empire shape industrial cultural production and, in turn, media discourses around race. Race and the Cultural Industries is required reading for students and scholars of media and cultural studies, as well as anyone interested in why historical representations of 'the Other' persist in the media and how they are to be challenged.Trade Review"I love this book. Alongside the justified, simmering rage concerning racism, there is careful and elegant analysis of the production systems behind the media's promotion and manifestations of racial inequality. This is a major contribution not only to media studies, but also to understandings of race and ethnicity in contemporary culture and society."David Hesmondhalgh, University of Leeds "In this carefully researched volume, Anamik Saha carves out an original and compelling approach for studying how the cultural industries shape the politics of race today, and how those industries need to change to allow more equitable societies to emerge. This book is required reading for every citizen, student, activist and scholar with a commitment to race and social justice."Timothy Havens, The University of IowaTable of Contents Contents Preface and Acknowledgements Part 1: Framework Chapter 1: Race and the cultural industries Chapter 2: Approaching race and cultural production Part 2: Media, race and power Chapter 3: Capitalism, race and the ambivalence of commodification Chapter 4: ‘Diversity’ in media and cultural policy Part 3: The cultural politics of production Chapter 5: The racialisation of the cultural commodity Chapter 6: Enabling race-making in the cultural industries Chapter 7: Conclusion References Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The PlayStation Dreamworld
Book SynopsisFrom mobile phones to consoles, tablets and PCs, we are now a generation of gamers. The PlayStation Dreamworld is – to borrow a phrase from Slavoj Zizek – the pervert's guide to videogames. It argues that we can only understand the world of videogames via Lacanian dream analysis. It also argues that the Left needs to work inside this dreamspace – a powerful arena for constructing our desires – or else the dreamworld will fall entirely into the hands of dominant and reactionary forces. While cyberspace is increasingly dominated by corporate organization, gaming, at its most subversive, can nevertheless produce radical forms of enjoyment which threaten the capitalist norms that are created and endlessly repeated in our daily relationships with mobile phones, videogames, computers and other forms of technological entertainment. Far from being a book solely for dedicated gamers, this book dissects the structure of our relationships to all technological entertainment at a time when entertainment has become ubiquitous. We can no longer escape our fantasies but rather live inside their digital reality.Trade Review“The universe of video games and the action they involve us in render perfectly the illusions and antagonisms of our ideological predicament - the popularity of post-apocalyptic games tells it all. But perhaps even more important is the type of subjectivity a gamer has to adopt when immersed into a game: a mixture of extreme engagement and loss of reality, a universe of immortality where actions are indefinitely repeatable. So it is not that we can understand the impact of these games only through the analysis of our social reality - it's also the other way round: to understand how our societies work you have to know video games And Alfie Bown does this at such a high level that he produces an instant classic, a book that everyone who seeks to find a way in our confused social life will have to read. The Playstation Dreamworld is unputdownable, once you start reading it you will get addicted to it... as in a good video game!” Slavoj iek “If you ever asked yourself what Freud and Lacan would think if they had a chance to play video games, Alfie Bown gives you the answer. As a passionate gamer and a playful philosopher, he succeeds in showing not only why video-games matter but why they might carry subversive potential. This exciting psychoanalysis of video games shows why Pokémon GO and other games were only the beginning of a brave new world."Srećko Horvat From mobile phones to consoles to tablet, we are now a generation of gamers. This book dissects the structure of our relationships to all forms of technological entertainment at a time when digital enjoyment has become ubiquitous.Alfie Bown is Assistant Professor of Literature at HSMC, Hong Kong and co-editor of the Hong Kong Review of Books. "A significant contribution to the debate around virtual reality" TLSTable of Contents Contents Acknowledgements Note on the Games Tutorial: The Pokémon Generation Level 1. From Farming Simulation to Dystopic Wasteland: Gaming and Capitalism Work and Play - Cultures of Distraction - Pastoral Dystopia, Apocalyptic Utopia – No Alternative Level 2. Dreamwork: Cyborgs on the Analyst’s Couch Japanese Dreams, American Texts – The Dreamworld - Repetitions and the Dromena – Immersion and Westworld Level 3. Retro Gaming: The Politics of Former and Future Pleasures 90s Rational Gaming – Virtual/Reality - Subject, Object, Enjoyment - Jouissance in the Arcades Bonus Features: How to be a Subversive Gamer Game Index Endnotes
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd What is Cultural Sociology?
Book SynopsisCulture, cultural difference, and cultural conflict always surround us. Cultural sociologists aim to understand their role across all aspects of social life by examining processes of meaning-making. In this crisp and accessible book, Lyn Spillman demonstrates many of the conceptual tools cultural sociologists use to explore how people make meaning. Drawing on vivid examples, she offers a compelling analytical framework within which to view the entire field of cultural sociology. In each chapter, she introduces a different angle of vision, with distinct but compatible approaches for explaining culture and its role in social life: analyzing symbolic forms, meaning-making in interaction, and organized production. This book both offers a concise answer to the question of what cultural sociology is and provides an overview of the fundamental approaches in the field.Trade Review“What is Cultural Sociology? reveals Spillman's remarkable ability for analytical synthesis, and her knowledge of (often little-known) empirical studies adds welcome depth to her theoretical discussion. Rather than posing cultural sociology as a battle between schools, Spillman reconstructs it as a relatively coherent model of social life, developing a sophisticated and compelling model that provides an organizing frame for the entire cultural sociological field.”Jeffrey C. Alexander, Yale University, and Co-Director, Center for Cultural Sociology “Spillman has produced a particularly smart, sound, clear, and up-to-date description of the state of the field of cultural sociology. With a focus on meaning-making and cultural processes, she takes stock and provides an excellent account of what this popular field has to offer after thirty exciting years of dynamic growth. Her book should become an essential tool for all sociologists and a popular reference source.”Michèle Lamont, Harvard University and former President of the American Sociological Association"What is Cultural Sociology? makes for a valuable resource for students and teachers from the undergraduate level and up, as well as researchers interested in cultural sociology, meaning making, and the social construction of reality."Acta Sociologica"The goal of this book is to create a means by which to learn cultural sociology that is not only about certain theorists or mutually exclusive theoretical positions, and towards this end, I believe, Spillman succeeds. […] The text would make for an excellent undergraduate primer, and as such, makes the task of teaching an introduction to cultural sociology all the more attainable."International Journal of Politics, Culture, and SocietyTable of Contents1. Introduction2. Making Meaning Central3. Meaning and Interaction4. Producing Meaning5. Conclusion: Landscapes, Stages, and Fields
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Forms of Capital: General Sociology, Volume 3:
Book SynopsisThis is the third of five volumes based on the lectures given by Pierre Bourdieu at the Collége de France in the early 1980s under the title General Sociology. In these lectures, Bourdieu sets out to define and defend sociology as an intellectual discipline; in doing so he introduces and clarifies all the key concepts for which he has become so well known, concepts that continue to shape the way that sociology is practised today. In this volume, Bourdieu focuses on one of these key concepts, capital, which forms part of the trilogy of concepts – habitus, capital, field – that define the core of his theoretical approach. A field, as a social space of relatively durable relations between agents and institutions, is also a site of specific investments, which presupposes the possession of specific forms of capital and secures both material and symbolic profits. While there are many different forms of capital, two are fundamental and effective in all social fields: economic capital and cultural capital. These and other forms of capital exist only in relation to the fields in which they are deployed: the distribution of the forms and quantities of capital constitutes the structure of the field within which agents act and they confer power over the field, over the mechanisms that define the functioning of the field and over the profits engendered in the field – over, for example, the transmission of cultural capital in the educational system. An ideal introduction to one of Bourdieu’s most important concepts, this volume will be of great interest to the many students and scholars who study and use Bourdieu’s work across the social sciences and humanities, and to general readers who want to know more about the work of one of the most important sociologists and social thinkers of the twentieth century.Trade Review‘Capital exists and functions only in relation to the field in which it operates: like trumps in a card game, it exerts power over this field, in particular over the materialized or incorporated instruments of production and reproduction whose distribution composes the very structure of the field, and over the regular patterns (or mechanisms) and the rules (or institutions) that define the ordinary functioning of the field; and thereby over the profits engendered in the field (for example, the cultural capital and the laws of transmission of cultural capital, as mediated by the educational system).’ Pierre BourdieuTable of ContentsEditorial NoteLecture of 1 March 1984Lecture of 8 March 1984Lecture of 15 March 1984Lecture of 22 March 1984Lecture of 29 March 1984Lecture of 19 April 1984Lecture of 26 April 1984Lecture of 3 May 1984Lecture of 10 May 1984Lecture of 17 May 1984Situation of the third and later volumes by Julien DuvalAppendix: Summary of lectures for 1983-1984, published in the Annuaire du Collège de France
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Principles of Vision: General Sociology, Volume 4
Book SynopsisThis is the fourth of five volumes based on the lectures given by Pierre Bourdieu at the Collège de France in the early 1980s under the title ‘General Sociology’. In these lectures, Bourdieu sets out to define and defend sociology as an intellectual discipline, and in doing so he introduces and clarifies all the key concepts which have come to define his distinctive intellectual approach. Having elaborated the concepts of habitus and field in previous volumes, Bourdieu now undertakes an analysis of the relations between them, showing that social fields are objects of perception and knowledge for the agents engaged in them. The field of forces is the source of different visions of the social world, visions that are linked to agents’ positions via the specific interests that motivate them and the habitus that is, at least partly, the product of the determining factors associated with their position. This relation between the world perceived and our cognitive structures explains why the social world commonly appears as self-evident. Visions of the social world are necessarily different and often antagonistic, and the field of forces is at once the source and the goal of struggles over its present and future being: the struggle for the legitimate principle of vision and division helps to transform or conserve the field of forces that underlies the agents' standpoints. An ideal introduction to some of Bourdieu’s most important ideas, this volume will be of great interest to students and scholars who study and use Bourdieu’s work across the social sciences and humanities, and to general readers who want to know more about the work of one of the most important sociologists and social thinkers of the 20th century.Table of ContentsEditorial Note Acknowledgements Lecture of 7 March 1985 Inventory – Capital and power over capital – The process of differentiation – Objectivism and perspectivism Lecture of 14 March 1985 First session (lecture): the elasticity of objective structures - A programme for the social sciences – Reintroducing the point of view – Reintroducing objective space – A political sociology of perception – The theory effect – Social science and justice. Second session (seminar): the invention of the modern artist (1) – The programme for future painters – What is at stake in the struggle – A revolution in the principles of vision – Academic artists. Lecture of 28 March 1985 First session (lecture): going beyond perspectivism and absolutism – Scientific categories and official categories – The struggle over perspectives – Practical logics – Political creation – The theory effect and the master-thinkers. Second session (seminar): the invention of the modern artist (2) - Perhaps the writers should write about nothing? - The master and the artist – A symbolic revolution – Historical painting – A lector's painting – The de-realization effect. Lecture of 18 April 1985 First session (lecture): the sociological relation to the social world – A materialist vision of symbolic forms – Perception as system of oppositions and discrimination – Investing in the game of the libidines – The passage from action to discourse on action – The political struggle for the right vision. Second session (seminar): the invention of the modern artist (3) – Writing the history of a symbolic revolution – The surplus of educated men and the academic crisis – The education system and fields of cultural production – The morphological effects – The effects of the morphological crisis on the academic field. Lecture of 25 April 1985 First sssion (lecture): thinking the already thought – The liberty and autonomy of a field – A question about symbolic power – The political struggle as struggle for the legitimate vision – Symbolic capital and gnoseological order – The law as the right way to speak of the social world – The verdict of the State in the struggle for identity. Second session (seminar): the invention of the modern artist (4) – The psychosomatic power of the institution – The symbolic work of the heretic – Collective conversion – The strategies of the heresiarch – A revolution affecting the ensemble of the fields of cultural production. Lecture of 2 May 1985 First session (lecture): collective bad faith and struggles for definition – Justification of a decision to buy and competing viewpoints – 'Taking apart' and 'putting together' – Subjective manipulations and objective structures – Managing the collective capital of the group – Effects of the corps. Second session (seminar): the invention of the modern artist (5) – The alliance of painters and writers – The artist's way of life and the invention of pure love – Artistic transgression today and a century ago – The mercenary artist and art for art's sake. Lecture of 9 May 1985 First session (lecture): certification and social order – The principle and justice of distributions – Private charity and public welfare – The three levels of analysis of a distribution – Where is the State? - Verdicts and the effects of power – The field of certification. Second session (seminar): the invention of the modern artist (6) – Academic painting as a theological universe – Institutionalizing perspectivism – The invention of the artist as character – The painter-writer couple. Lecture of 23 May 1985 First session (lecture): Paul Valéry's insights – Amateur and professional – Bureaucracy as a massive fetish – Categorial mediation – Validated perception – Science and the Science of the State. Second session (seminar): the invention of the modern artist (7): Polycentrism and the invention of institutions – The false antimony of art and the market – The collective judgement of the critics- The three reproaches. Lecture of 30 May 1985 Providing a theoretical perspective – The Kantian tradition: symbolic forms – The primitive forms of classification – Historical and performative structures – Symbolic systems as structured structures – The Marxist logic – Integrating the cognitive and the political – The division of the labour of symbolic domination – The State and God. Situating the Third and Later Volumes of General Sociology in the oeuvre of Pierre Bourdieu by Julien Duval Summary of Lectures of 1984-1985 Notes Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Politics and Sociology: General Sociology, Volume
Book SynopsisThis is the fifth and final volume based on the lectures given by Pierre Bourdieu at the Collège de France in the early 1980s under the title ‘General Sociology’. In these lectures, Bourdieu sets out to define and defend sociology as an intellectual discipline, and in doing so he introduces and clarifies all the key concepts which have come to define his distinctive intellectual approach. In this volume, Bourdieu develops his view of the social world as the site of a struggle for the legitimate vision of the world. The specific weapon used in these struggles is what Bourdieu calls symbolic capital, which is economic, cultural or social capital when perceived through suitable categories of perception. All forms of power seek to impose their own categories of perception in a way that is both recognised and misrecognised. This is how forms of power establish themselves as legitimate, because legitimacy is a force of recognition based on misrecognition, that is, recognised in a way that prevents us from recognising its arbitrariness. By rejecting the opposition between structuralist objectification and subjectivist constructivism, sociology can seek to grasp both the objective structure of social fields and the properly political strategies that agents use in order to establish and impose their viewpoint. And it can do so without forgetting that the whole world of social construction is oriented by the perception agents have of the social world, which depends on their position in the structures of social fields and their dispositions, themselves fashioned by these structures. An ideal introduction to some of Bourdieu’s most important ideas, the five volumes of this series will be of great value to students and scholars who study and use Bourdieu’s work across the social sciences and humanities, and they will be of interest to general readers who want to know more about the work of one of the most important sociologists and social thinkers of the twentieth century.Trade Review‘A science of the social world must include a theory of struggle, based on a theory of the power relationships within which these struggles are waged. We can, for instance, suggest that the symbolic power available in the struggles to change the social world or preserve it will depend, firstly, on the symbolic capital held by the individual or the group proposing a conservative or transformational vision of the social world and, secondly, on the level of realism, that is, on the foundation in reality of the proposed representation. Between two conflicting visions of the social world, the two principles of differentiation then will be, on the one hand, the symbolic authority held by the two parties and, on the other, the level of realism, that is, of predictability, of the two conflicting visions.’ PIERRE BOURDIEUTable of ContentsEditorial NoteAcknowledgements Lecture of 17 April 1986 First session (lecture): recapitulation - Symbolic capital - Cognition and misrecognition - Symbolic power as fetish - Socialization through social structures - A political phenomenology of experience - Nostalgia for a lost paradise - From doxa to orthodoxy - Returning to symbolic power. Second session (seminar): biography and social trajectory (1) - The prob-lem of the unity of the self - The unity of the self across different spaces - The self as foundation of the socially constituted individual - Curriculum vitae, cursus honorum, criminal record, school reports. Lecture of 24 April 1986 First session (lecture): the fidès, a historical realization of symbolic capital - An ethnology of the unconscious - The examples of ethnicity and the designer label - The habitus as determination and as sensitivity. Second session (seminar): biography and social trajectory (2) - Importing a literary break - Establishing consistency - The space of biographical discourse - From the life story to the analysis of trajectories. Lecture of 15 May 1986 First session (lecture): a dispositional solution - The independence of the habitus from the present - Prediction, protention and projection - Changing the habitus - Power - The petit-bourgeois relation to culture. Second session (seminar): To the Lighthouse (1) - Fields as traps - A man-child - Men, oblates of the social world. Lecture of 22 May 1986 First session (lecture): summary of previous lectures - Socialized individual and abstract individual - Habitus and the principle of choice - Mental structures and objective structures - The magical match of the body with the world - The false problem of responsibility - Coincidence of positions and dispositions - Amor fati. Second session (seminar): To the Lighthouse (2) - Incorporating the politi-cal - Paternal power and the verdict effect - The somatization of social cri-ses - Metamorphosis and the founding experience of primordial power. Lecture of 29 May 1986 First session (lecture): the division of labour in the production of representations - A theory of action - The conditions of rational decision - The problem as such does not exist - Deliberation as accident - A broader rationalism - Alternatives and the logic of the field. Second session (seminar): the field of power (1) - The field of power and differentiation of fields - The emergence of universes ‘as such’ - Power over capital - Power and its legitimization. Lecture of 5 June 1986 First session (lecture): eternal false problems - The alternative of mechanism and purposiveness, and the conditions of rationality - Scientific oppositions and political oppositions - The practical mastery of structures - Imposing the right point of view. Second session (seminar): the field of power (2) - The example of the ‘capacities’ - Educational system, numerus clausus and social reproduction - The search for stable forms of capital - The strategies of reproduction according to species of capital - Sociodicy and ideology Lecture of 12 June 1986 First session (lecture): the space of positions and the space of stand-points - The representation of the social world at stake - A collective construction - A cognitive struggle - Making the implicit explicit - The specificity of the scientific field. Second session (seminar): the field of power (3) - Boundaries of the fields and right of entry - The example of the literary field - Flow of capital and variations in the exchange rate - Establishing a new mode of reproduction - Maxwell’s demon. Lecture of 19 June 1986 Practical struggles and struggles among theoreticians - The struggles of the professional explicators - Science of science and relativism. Science as a social field - A rationalist relativism - The vulnerability of social science - The Gerschenkron effect - The problem of the existence of social classes - ‘Class’: a well-constructed fiction - Constructed classes and infra-representational classes - The constructivist phase. Situating the Later Volumes of General Sociology in the Work of Pierre Bourdieu Summary of Lectures of 1985-1986 Notes Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd When I Say Yes
Book SynopsisHow should we talk about desire, power and equality in the wake of the #Me Too debate? For Carolin Emcke, bestselling author and winner of the German Peace Prize, the debate demonstrates one thing above all: a conversation about abuse and sexuality has emerged that can no longer be stifled. Too many questions remain unanswered: which images and concepts shape our imaginings of desire and revulsion? How is violence exposed and obstructed? How do the norms and structures into which men, women and those in between must fit get constructed? What gets hushed up, and who remains powerless? How can the plurality of desire and sexuality be expressed, without sacrificing their intricacies? By interrogating her own experiences as well as social practices, music and literature, Emcke demonstrates the enduring complexity of the relationship between sexuality and truth.Trade Review�When I Say Yes is an odd yet beautiful volume with a rebellious message and relatable stories. Emcke has produced a genuine piece that sparks outrage, doubt and hope at the same time. But mostly, serves as a powerful tool to fight the burden of #MeToo at a very convenient time.�The F Word
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Migration Studies and Colonialism
Book SynopsisThe history of migration is deeply entangled with colonialism. To this day, colonial logics continue to shape the dynamics of migration as well as the responses of states to those arriving at their borders. And yet migration studies has been surprisingly slow to engage with colonial histories in making sense of migratory phenomena today. This book starts from the premise that colonial histories should be central to migration studies and explores what it would mean to really take that seriously. To engage with this task, Lucy Mayblin and Joe Turner argue that scholars need not forge new theories but must learn from and be inspired by the wealth of literature that already exists across the world. Providing a range of inspiring and challenging perspectives on migration, the authors’ aim is to demonstrate what paying attention to colonialism, through using the tools offered by postcolonial, decolonial and related scholarship, can offer those studying international migration today. Offering a vital intervention in the field, this important book asks scholars and students of migration to explore the histories and continuities of colonialism in order to better understand the present.Trade Review"In this book, Lucy Mayblin and Joe Turner offer a thoroughgoing critique of the analytical and political blind spots that plague migration studies when posited from the unexamined Eurocentric standpoint of formerly imperial nation-states. This book provides a synoptic overview of how postcolonial and decolonial critiques are utterly necessary to adequately comprehend cross-border, intercontinental human mobility in our global society, and it makes an impassioned appeal to situate the contemporary politics of migration, citizenship and race within the enduring legacies of colonialism."Nicholas De Genova, University of Houston"This book is sorely needed. If your students ‒ or you yourself ‒ need to navigate the complex terrain of global violence, expropriation and the movement of people over a very long period, let them read this."Gargi Bhattacharyya, University of East London"The book is a sharp and salutary read."Ethnic and Racial Studies"A powerful case for rethinking migration under the lens of colonialism and its enduring legacies […A] much needed and long-awaited intervention, which renders readily available key literatures that migration scholars should engage with."International AffairsTable of ContentsForeword 1. Introduction 2. Time and Space: Migration and Modernity 3. ‘Race’ & Racism in International Migration 4. Putting sovereignty, citizenship and migration in dialogue with past and present colonialisms 5. Deconstructing Forced Migration, Rethinking Asylum 6. Towards a Colonial Account of Security and Borders 7. Gender, Sexuality, Colonialism… and Migration 9. Conclusion References
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Futures of Racial Capitalism
Book SynopsisCapitalism appears to be endlessly in crisis but without ever loosening its hold on our lives. New modes of racism and exclusion emerge, but the old ones never go away. We continue to struggle to live and survive in its wake but are unable, still now, to build commonality with each other. In this incisive book, Gargi Bhattacharyya revisits debates about racial capitalism and its violence through differentiation. Taking the four lenses of prisons, borders, debt and platforms, Bhattacharyya reveals how this moment of capitalist crisis positions humans as expendable, but differentially so, in a process that remakes longstanding racialized hierarchies. Uncovering practices and techniques embedded in the shifting processes of accumulation and state power, the chapters illuminate how value is extracted from populations through non-wage routes and indebtedness. This engaging introduction to racial capitalism offers an interlocking and insightful analysis of capitalist renewal, essential for students and scholars interested in issues of race, racism and inequality.Trade Review‘Gargi Bhattacharyya is one of our greatest public intellectuals. The Futures of Racial Capitalism is gripping in its exposition and profound in its insights – another landmark text in the author’s ongoing exploration of how we might build a more humane world.’Arun Kundnani, author of What is Antiracism? ‘The Futures of Racial Capitalism, refusing the analytic comforts of historical continuity, reorders with signature intellectual openness the dismal puzzle that is racial capitalism. Bhattacharyya offers neither plea nor denunciation but an invitation to rearrange ourselves as a collective force against and beyond capitalism’s always adapting assault on our very capacity to be together.’Sivamohan Valluvan, University of Warwick‘Bhattacharyya isn’t interested in having the last word or winning an argument. ‘I’ve done my best to point out the shapes in the water,’ she writes modestly … but it’s important work.’Earthbound ReportTable of ContentsPreface: Staying Human Introduction: If Not Theses, then What? Chapter 1: What is at Stake? Chapter 2: Why Understanding Racial Capitalism Also Returns to the Question of Social Reproduction Chapter 3: How to Think About Racial Capitalism in Times of Widespread Indebtedness Chapter 4: Borders – Small Adaptations in Familiar Techniques of Racial Capitalism Chapter 5: Prisons and the Carcerality of Transforming Racial Capitalism Chapter 6: Platform Capitalism as a Remaking of Racial Capitalism Conclusion: Fun and Games Afterword: Being Ridiculous
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The New Gender Paradox: Fragmentation and
Book SynopsisToday, in Western countries, we are seeing both the fragmentation of the gender binary (the division of the social world into two and only two genders) and its persistence. Multiple genders, gender-neutral pronouns and bathrooms, X designations, and other manifestations of degendering are becoming common, and yet the two-gender structure of our social world persists. Underneath the persistence of the binary and its discriminatory norms and expectations lurks the continuance of men’s power and privilege. So there is the continued need to valorize the accomplishments of women, especially those of denigrated groups. This succinct and thoughtful book by one of the world’s foremost sociologists of gender shines a light on both sides of this paradox – processes in the fragmentation of gender that are undermining the binary and processes in the performance of gender that reinforce the binary, and the pros and cons of each. The conclusion of the book discusses why we haven’t had a gender revolution and how degendering would go a long way in creating gender equality.Trade Review“The New Gender Paradox provides a blueprint of the contemporary institution of gender, identifying the ways in which it is reconstructed, showing where there are cracks in its structure, and highlighting a path toward equality. … Three decades since Lorber first used the term ‘paradox’ to describe gender, it is now more relevant than ever.” Social Forces“[T]his is a book that students will love for what it succeeds at doing: laying out in concise and clear language how we think about gender in feminist studies and how the fragmentation of gender in and of itself will not bring about a world without patriarchy.”International Sociology“Lorber gives us a much needed and clear sighted assessment of what is and is not changing about the gender binary that says there are two and only two genders, and lays out the implications for eliminating gender inequality.”Cecilia L. Ridgeway, Stanford University “For those interested in both the fragmentation and persistence of the gender binary, this short book is essential reading. The New Gender Paradox is engaging, thought-provoking, carefully researched, and well written. I highly recommend it!”James W. Messerschmidt, University of Southern MaineTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. How gendered people, organizations, and societies are constructed 2. Fragmentation of the gender binary 3. Persistence of the gender binary 4. Why haven’t we had a gender revolution? References Index About the author
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Body and Gender: Sociological Perspectives
Book SynopsisEven though we often think of bodies as natural and given, or else as freely plastic objects, bodies are both constructed and fundamental to our sense of self. This book investigates the body as an essential vector of inequality, shaped by institutions, interaction and culture, and how in turn it contributes to partly modify them. Sassatelli and Ghigi show how the process of embodiment is at the same time naturalized and contested, particularly evident in the case of gender. Drawing on classical sociological research about modernity and contemporary studies that emphasize intersectionality, the book looks at how the gendered body has been conceptualized with special attention to body politics, the power of appearance and the representation of embodied identity. It also considers the interplay between body, sex and sexuality and the way gendered bodies intersect with other dimensions of social inequality such as race, age, class and disability. This exploration of the rich field of sociological inquiry into the gendered body will be an invaluable read for all seeking to understand gender, sexuality and embodiment in contemporary society.Trade Review‘Body and Gender is a comprehensive feminist and sociological account of how the body is socially constructed as gendered. Informative and thoughtful, it would be a broadly useful text for gender studies and embodiment studies.’Judith Lorber, City University of New York, author of The New Gender Paradox‘Sensitive to the materiality of the body and its deeply constructed character, Sassatelli and Ghigi have produced a comprehensive study of the sociology of the body and the many social, political and legal complexities of gender from birth to old age.’Bryan S. Turner, Australian Catholic UniversityTable of ContentsIntroducing: Embodying GenderChapter 1: The Social BodyChapter 2: Gendered Bodies and SubjectivityChapter 3: Body PoliticsChapter 4: Gender, Sex and SexualityChapter 5: Intersectional Experiences and IdentitiesChapter 6: The Power of AppearancesChapter 7: Visualizing Gendered BodiesConclusion
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd What is Sexual Capital?
Book SynopsisThis book does to sex what other sociologists did to culture: it shows that sex, no longer defined by religion, now plays a role in the economy and can yield tangible benefits in the realms of money, status, and occupation. How do people accumulate sexual capital, and what are the returns for investing money, time, knowledge, and energy in establishing and enhancing our sexual selves? Dana Kaplan and Eva Illouz disentangle the current cultural politics of heterosexual life, arguing that sex – that messy amalgam of sexual affects and experiences – has increasingly assumed an economic character. Some may opt for plastic surgery to beautify their face or body, while others may consume popular sex advice or attend seduction classes. Beyond particular practices such as these, the authors trace an emerging form of “neoliberal” sexual capital, which is the ability to glean self-appreciation from sexual encounters and to use this self-value to foster employability, as exemplified by Silicon Valley sex parties. This highly original book will appeal to students and scholars in sociology, anthropology, gender studies, and cultural studies and to anyone interested in the nature of sex and how it is changing today.Trade Review“There’s plenty of food for thought here, and Kaplan and Illouz offer an important contribution to understanding the socioeconomic function of sex.”Publisher's Weekly“What is Sexual Capital? sets up an ambitious query and offers bold, illuminating answers. With historical evidence and incisive theoretical logic, Dana Kaplan and Eva Illouz uncover the intricate neoliberal mingling of sexuality, economic worth, and social inequality. A compelling book that will inspire future research.”Viviana A. Zelizer, Princeton UniversityTable of Contents1. Introduction: Sex and sociological metaphors 2. Sexual freedom and sexual capital 3. What is sexual capital? 4. Forms of sexual capital: The four categories 5. Conclusion
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Socialization
Book SynopsisHow does society form and transform individuals? Sociology has been asking this question since its inception and “socialization” has been analyzed from different vantage points by various prominent thinkers. Socialization offers an overview of some of these perspectives in the classic work of key theorists and in contemporary research that has either developed or challenged these ideas. The book argues that, while socialization has sometimes been framed as an outdated, static approach, it in fact remains highly relevant and continues to provide valuable insight into how we come to act and think as we do. Drawing on a wide variety of empirical examples, the book offers a lively, accessible account of primary and secondary socialization, and how they interconnect. By considering socialization as a process that continues throughout the life course, the book highlights the dynamic and enduring ways in which the social world is involved in shaping and reshaping individuals, shedding productive light on the effects of class, gender, and race, as well as on inequality and domination. Socialization will appeal to students and scholars in sociology, as well as other disciplines such as psychology and education.Trade Review“Socialization gives us a fresh look at a classic, if recently maligned and neglected, core idea in sociology. Darmon is a wonderful guide, showing the value of sociogenetic approaches and their capacity to make sense of intersecting forms of power and domination.”Shamus Khan, Willard Thorp Professor of American Studies and Sociology at Princeton University“Showing how socialization both forms us and ‘transforms’ us, Professor Darmon offers a fresh, and welcome, analysis of socialization. Strikingly, her analysis is deeply attuned to power, inequality, and changes over the life course. The book is incredibly clear; it is excellent for teaching. Highly recommended!”Annette Lareau, Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Unequal ChildhoodsTable of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1. Building People I: the Strength of Primary SocializationChapter 2. Building People II: the Plurality of Primary SocializationChapter 3. Rebuilding People: the Varied Forms of Secondary SocializationChapter 4. Studying People-Building: Socialization across the Life CourseChapter 5. Engaging with Challenges Old and New: Race, Gender, Children’s AgencyConclusion
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Defending Women's Spaces
Book SynopsisWho counts as a woman? This question lies at the heart of many public debates about sex and gender today. While we increasingly recognise the desire of some to eliminate the sex binary in law, a particular boiling point emerges through conflicting demands over women’s spaces. Which should govern access to these – sex or gender identity? Karen Ingala Smith, a veteran campaigner for women’s and girls’ rights, opts for the former. In this trenchant critique of inclusivity politics, she argues that we cannot ignore the wealth of evidence which shows that people of the female sex have a unique set of needs which are often not met by mixed-sex spaces. Drawing on her 30 years of experience in researching and recording men’s violence against women and girls, she outlines how certain spaces, including refuges, benefit from remaining single sex – and what they stand to lose. Written with sensitivity and respect for all concerned, this book nevertheless dismantles the idea that we have reached a post-sex utopia.Trade Review"This is it. This is the reminder, handbook and call that everyone on the frontline of defending women's rights, voices and single-sex services has been waiting for. Swerving from the personal to the professional, from the historical to the present, and tackling every area of life relevant to women and our lived realities, this book does what Karen has always done: it places women first. In a world so willing to drown out women's bodies, abuses and needs, this is a must-read for anyone wanting to know why attempts to dismiss, dismantle, and 'cancel' the reality of biological sex mean a decimation of the hard-won rights and spaces of women and girls everywhere."Onjali Raúf, author and CEO of Making Herstory"It says something about the alarming political times in which we live that a book like this has to be written. Who would have thought that, 40 years after the start of second wave feminism, we would have to go back to first principles by defending all over again the women only spaces that were created as a prerequisite to achieving women’s autonomy, equality, and freedom - a struggle that remains not only unfinished business but is now under huge multi-directional threat? Karen Ingala Smith makes a clear and powerful case for the right of women to have a room of our own, not as part of some crude competition for the status of ultimate victimhood or to prioritise the human rights of women over others, but as a key site of feminist resistance against patriarchal violence and sex-based oppression. Let’s read, discuss and even agree to disagree, but let’s do it with honesty, decency and compassion, and without descending into the blind alley of regressive identity politics."Pragna Patel, founder and ex-director of Southall Black Sisters"A lucid and insightful defence of women’s sex-based rights and the need for single-sex services for women who have been subjected to male violence and abuse written by someone who has worked in the sector for three decades."Joanna Cherry QC MP"Karen Ingala Smith is a giant in women’s safety: few have done more to fight for women’s lives and voices to count. She is unapologetically women-focused."Jess Phillips MP"Karen is a true feminist, gutsy and determined and forcing us to confront the terrible extent of violence against women and girls carried out every single day in the UK. Her book is accessible, sometimes brutal, but delivered in her own style as a very funny and incredibly likeable women. Direct, punchy and readable, these are things all women should know."Rosie Duffield MP"This authoritative book marshals all the evidence for providing single-sex spaces for women traumatised by male violence—and for excluding transwomen, that is males who identify as women, from such spaces. Ingala Smith is one of Britain’s foremost campaigners against male violence, and as chief executive of one of the few organisations supporting women victims of men’s violence to stand up publicly for female-only spaces, she has played a key role in the recent resurgence of feminist activism in opposition to trans ideology. Her deep knowledge and crisp, clean prose make this both an essential and enjoyable read."Helen Joyce, author of Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality" Defending Women’s Spaces is an important, factual, and therefore appropriately chilling account of how gender identity politics has destroyed women’s safe spaces and challenged our feminist understanding of women’s sex-based rights. Essential reading."Phyllis Chesler, author of Women and Madness and A Politically Incorrect Feminist"Karen Ingala Smith makes a compelling argument in favour of female-only spaces and services. Her practical insights, derived from three decades of experience working for women, provide an important and welcome intervention into the academic debates around gender. This book will also force policy-makers to recognize how sex matters."Michael Biggs, Associate Professor of Sociology and Fellow of St Cross College, University of Oxford“How one reads Defending Women’s Spaces depends on how much one allows oneself to engage with ideas that have suddenly become dangerous … It shouldn’t have had to be written, but it needs to be read.”Victoria Smith, The Critic“An angry, brilliant classic of feminist philosophy, Defending Women’s Spaces not only challenges the continuing marginalisation of women but reveals the masculine appropriation of feminine space that makes it possible.”Antonella Gambotto-Burke, The Australian
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Lineages of the Feminine: An Outline of the
Book SynopsisWe are experiencing an anthropological revolution. We see it in the #MeToo movement, in the denunciation of femicide and in an increasingly vociferous critique of patriarchal domination. Why this sudden rise of an antagonistic conception of the relationship between men and women, at the very moment when progress is accelerating and when the goals of first- and second-wave feminism seem on the verge of being achieved? In this book, the anthropologist and historian Emmanuel Todd, while not underestimating the importance of crucial inequalities that remain, argues that the emancipation of women has essentially already taken place but that it has given rise to new tensions and contradictions. As women gain more freedom, they also gain access to traditional male social pathologies: economic anxiety, the disorientation of anomie, and individual and class resentment. But because they remain women, with the ability to bear children, their burden as human beings, although richer, is now more difficult to bear than that of men. In order to understand our current condition, Todd retraces the evolution of the male/female relationship through the long history of the human species, from the emergence of Homo sapiens a hundred thousand years ago to the present. He also conducts a broad empirical study of the convergence between men and women today and of the differences that still separate them – in education, in employment and in relation to longevity, suicide and homicide, electoral behaviour and racism. He explores the relations between women’s liberation and other changes in contemporary societies such as the collapse of religion, the decline of industry, the decline of homophobia, the rise of bisexuality and the transgender phenomenon, and the decline in a sense of the collective life. And he shows how and why Western countries – and especially the Anglo-American world, Scandinavia and France – are, in their new feminist revolution, perhaps less universal than they think.Trade Review‘Todd brings his immense learning to bear on current understandings of the position of women in different parts of the world, with a particular focus on contemporary feminist positions in the West. What is original in his analysis is the way he brings his longue durée anthropological approach to bear on cultural representations of gender. He integrates the analysis of family and kinship with the status of women over ten thousand years. He shows that the post-industrial revolution coincided with the emancipation of women and an elevation of their status, but with freedom and emancipation, women confront a world in disarray and develop new anxieties. It is hard to think of another scholar with Todd’s range, command of detail and breadth of reading. This is an important book, one which will be studied and debated for years to come.’David Sabean, Distinguished Professor of European History and the Henry J. Bruman Chair in German History, Emeritus, at UCLA‘Lineages of the Feminine is a tour de force of thinking outside the box, adroitly grounded in historical anthropology and demography. The author’s deep knowledge of the history of family forms and relationships empowers him to open new debates about current social predicaments.’Kenneth Wachter, Emeritus Professor of Demography and Statistics, University of California, BerkeleyTable of ContentsPreface Introduction The future is now The singularity of the original human couple Research versus ideology The power of women today Economics and anthropology Women’s liberation, and the antagonism between (or abolition of) the sexes Part One. The contribution of historical anthropology Chapter One Patriarchy, gender and intersectionality The fog of patriarchy The emergence of the concept of gender Gender: a useless and ideologized duplication For a generalized intersectionality French intersectionality Chapter Two Degendering anthropology A tribute to female anthropologists Julian Steward: sexual equality among hunter-gatherers described by a classical anthropologist Martin King Whyte: anthropology just before gender Henrietta Moore: The first disruptions Marilyn G. Gelber: the monstrous man Janet Carsten: Decomposition An insufficiently feminist history Chapter Three The tools of historical anthropology The nuclear family The stem family The communitarian family The local group and marriage Chapter Four In search of the original family Classical anthropology and the original family The block in anthropology The conservatism of peripheral zones: English, Americans, French, Shoshone, Bushmen, Eskimos, Chukchi and Agtas in one humanity Saving Private Murdock A new geography of the world Chapter Five The confinement of women: history comes to a halt Nomads and the history of the family Patrilineality and social stratification The patrilineal impasse Chapter Six A detour by way of Australia The debate on the Aborigines The role of New Guinea Chapter Seven The sexual division of labour Ideology versus reality Ideology against itself Collectivist men versus individualist women The issue of equality: we are not chimpanzees Chapter Eight Christianity, Protestantism and women Early Christianity and women The Church and sexual security Protestant patricentrism Part Two. Our revolution Chapter Nine Liberation: 1950-2020 1950-1965: the height of petty-bourgeois conformism The educational and sexual revolution: 1965-2000 Women, services and industry Educational matridominance: 2000-2020 From hypergamy to hypogamy Differences according to social class Poverty and single-parent families The middle classes in survival strategy Women at the risk of anomie The concept of soft anomie Chapter Ten Men resist but the collective collapses The persistent sexual division of labour, yet again The sex of the state The medical profession Mathematics The top 4%: a residual patridominance Even higher: capital has no sex Divorce at the heart of the system The masculine collective and its disintegration Chapter Eleven Gender: a petty bourgeois ideology France in the face of the Anglo-American world The sex of social classes Anger as a general social phenomenon Ideological hegemony in the feminine: doctorates Matridominance at the OECD as well as at the INED Farewell to reality A provisional summary Chapter Twelve Women and Authority Women as less racist The weakening of the collective, but not of authority The origin of Prohibition? Ideological anomalies Swedish family types The riddle of authoritarian feminism No paternal authority without maternal authority The mother at the centre of the family Constructed authority and natural authority Chapter Thirteen The mystery of Sweden Against the myth of an original matriarchy The Sweden of the origins Interpreting the runic steles Peasant patrilocality from the seventeenth to the twentieth century The birth of the ‘Swedish woman’: literacy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Sweden and Denmark Chapter Fourteen Homophobia: a male business Orders of magnitude and causal sequences LGBT: a tactical alliance Words before things Homosexuality, a natural human behaviour Mapping homophobia: the BBO axis yet again Homophobia: a male business Chapter Fifteen Women, between Christianity and bisexuality Simple Protestant homophobia and Catholic ambivalence The collapse of religious sentiment and homophobia Are gays zombie Christians? The objection of Eastern Europe Marriage for all men and all women The rise of female bisexuality Chapter Sixteen The social construction of transgender The case of the berdaches Berdaches and transgender people ‘My new vagina won’t make me happy’ Ideological centrality… … but statistical weakness Women and identity The omnipotence of mothers Does society think through individuals? The Christian taste for extraordinary sexuality Chapter Seventeen Economic globalization and the deviation from anthropological trajectories Globalization and the tertiarization of the economy Economic or anthropological specialization? The worker nations of Eastern Europe Sweden, yet again... The cost of rejecting liberation Conclusion Has humanity come of age? Notes Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Planning for the Wrong Pandemic
Book SynopsisThe fractious and disorganized governmental response to the coronavirus pandemic in the United States prompted many observers to ask why the country ? which had the knowledge, resources, and plans to deal with such an event ? was caught so unprepared when the crisis struck. In fact, as Andrew Lakoff shows, US officials had been planning for a pandemic for more than two decades, and many of these plans were implemented in the early stages of the pandemic. As authorities responded to the crisis, they relied on an already formulated set of concepts and tools that had been devised for managing a future emergency. These preexisting tools enabled officials to make sense of the event and to rapidly implement policies in response, but they also led to significant blind spots. What did these planning tools allowofficials to see, and what did they hide from view? And, as we assess the failures in our response to the pandemic and attempt to prepare for the next one, to what extent s
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Worlds of Public Health: Anthropological
Book SynopsisPublic health erupted into the world’s consciousness in early 2020 with the Covid pandemic and its multiple social and economic consequences. What had been until then, for most people, a remote and specialized field of expertise suddenly became the very basis for the government of lives. The Worlds of Public Health analyzes the moral and political issues at stake in the practice of public health today, including the influence of positivism, the boundaries of disease, conspiracy theories, morality tests, and the challenges posed by the health of migrants and prisoners. This exploration transports readers from South Africa, the country most impacted by the AIDS epidemic, to Ecuador, with the supposedly highest maternal mortality rate in Latin America; from the scientific controversies concerning the so-called worm wars in Kenya to conflicts between doctors and patients around Gulf War syndrome in the United States; from lead poisoning and public housing in France to the Covid-19 pandemic worldwide. Through these case studies, Didier Fassin argues that, ultimately, public health is a politics of life, revealing the different and unequal ways in which life is valued – and either protected or not – in contemporary societies.Trade Review“Didier Fassin reinvents the image and language of public health through a daring ‘shift of gaze.’ These compelling lectures offer radical new perspectives on what it means to live under perpetual threat in the 21st century.”Richard Horton, The Lancet“Trespassing disciplinary boundaries and challenging methodological detachment, Didier Fassin’s timely excursion is a master class in ‘intellectual dishabituation.’ Set against a ravaging Covid pandemic, Fassin’s latest tour de force urges us to rethink the biopolitical and the ethical from the ground up. A much-needed compass for our imperiled present.”João Biehl, Princeton UniversityTable of ContentsPrefaceThe Birth of Public HealthThe Truth in NumbersEpistemic BoundariesConspiracy TheoriesEthical CrisesPrecarious ExilesCarceral OrdealsReadings of the PandemicEndnotesBibliography
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Climate and Society
Book SynopsisThis bold and passionate textbook has become a go-to introduction to current and emerging thinking on the social dimensions of climate change, presenting key concepts and frameworks for understanding the multifaceted connections between climate and society. Using clear language and powerful examples, Robin Leichenko and Karen O''Brien explore the varied social drivers, impacts, and responses to climate change. They highlight the important roles that worldviews, values, and especially in this updated edition emotions play in shaping interpretations of climate challenges. They include additional material on climate justice and equity, eco-centric discourses, paradigm shifts, and other topics. Situating climate change within the context of a rapidly changing world, the book demonstrates how dynamic political, economic, and environmental contexts amplify risks, often unequally for different groups based on race, gender, wealth, and location. Yet these shifting conditions als
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Polity Press Climate and Society
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd How to Inhabit the Earth: Interviews with Nicolas
Book SynopsisIn a series of televised interviews broadcast in spring 2022, Bruno Latour explained, in clear and straightforward terms, how humans have changed the planet and why environmental disasters are an intrinsic part of modern life. We have now come to realize that all life depends on a thin skin of our planet that is only few kilometres thick – what scientists call the ‘critical zone’. Our capacity to continue to live on a planet we are transforming is now at risk and if we wish to survive as a species, we must put an end to the mechanisms of destruction, rethink our connection to living beings, and face head-on the confrontation between the extractivists who are exploiting the Earth’s resources and the ecologists. This poignant reflection on the greatest challenge of our time was also an opportunity for Latour to explain the underlying thread that guided his work throughout his career, from his pathbreaking research on the social construction of scientific knowledge to his last writings on the Anthropocene.Table of ContentsIntroduction by Nicolas TruongChanging worldsThe end of modernityGaia puts us on noticeWhere do we land?The new ecological classInventing collective apparatusesThe truth of the religiousScience in actionThe modes of existenceThe circle of politicsPhilosophy is so beautiful!Letter to Lilo Thanks
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Ethical Violence
Book SynopsisHuman civilization is founded on ethical principles, norms of behaviour that have accumulated over time. Perhaps the oldest of ethical principles is the rejection of violence, which includes the respect for life and for the physical and psychological integrity of others. But, in some circumstances, violence itself can be regarded as ethical – for example, when it is used by states claiming to act in self-defence. In these circumstances, the need to defend oneself against an enemy can transform war from an unacceptable act into a necessary, socially shared and morally sanctioned choice. And it is when violence becomes ethical that we must begin to fear for our future. In the wake of the pandemic, we are witnessing the growing prevalence of aggression and emotionality in social and political life. We find ourselves living in an increasingly impatient and insecure society, which is sceptical of scientific thought and which takes refuge in the irrational. The decline of rationality and the growing prevalence of violence are increasingly common features of a society that has lost touch with the great Enlightenment narrative. We need, argues Bordoni, to rediscover the rationality we have lost and recuperate the positive side of technology.Trade Review"Carlo Bordoni has written a remarkable book. It should serve as a wakeup call to what is happening in terms of our increasing abandonment of science in favor of technology, which, by the very click-of -the-button nature has disastrously changed the perception of knowledge to mere personal opinions. Because of this imbalance, and its pocketbook nature, we are seeing an irrational drift in the nature of our societies democratic responses, and a revival of the predominance of the emotional which is gaining ground and dangerously altering the very nature of social and political life. Bordoni also warns of the difficulties of putting scattergun beliefs and notional opinions back into any agreed and rational collective order in the years ahead. An informed and challenging book."Mari Fitzduff, Brandeis University"Bordoni’s search for an understanding of the paradox of ethical violence – and of many other puzzles of human rationality and irrationality – takes him through many times and places of human history, a wealth of philosophers and others from the ancient Greeks to today’s writers, and a myriad of ideas. This is a book that makes you stop and think after nearly every sentence."Colin Crouch, University of Warwick"Ethical Violence is a timely book, a theoretical vade mecum for dark times, simultaneously ambitious and cautious, taking the reader on unusual paths from ancient philosophers to contemporary social scientists, questioning what is taken for granted about the distinction between rationality and irrationality. A needed reflection on the crisis of late modernity."Didier Fassin, Collège de France and Institute for Advanced Study, PrincetonTable of ContentsIntroduction: Living in Disturbing Times1. Do We Live in the Most Rational of All Possible Worlds?2. The Violence of Reason3. Avoidable Conflicts4. The Ethics of Violence5. The Fault of Modernity6. Only Technology Can Save Us
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd What is Political Sociology
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Manchester University Press Migrating Borders and Moving Times: Temporality
Book SynopsisMigrating borders and moving timesanalyses migrant border crossings in relation to their everyday experiences of time and connects these to wider social and political structures. Sometimes border crossing takes no more than a moment; sometimes hours; some crossers find themselves in the limbo of detention; for others, the crossing lasts a lifetime to be interrupted only by death. Borders not only define separate spaces, but different temporalities. This book provides both a single interpretative frame and a novel approach to border crossing: an analysis of the reconfiguration of memory, personal and group time that follows the migrants' renegotiation of cross-border space and recalibrations of temporality.Trade Review‘A superb collection of contemporary excursions into little explored European worlds and from the vantage point of migrants themselves.’Brad Blitz, Middlesex University, EuropeNow Issue 25 -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: Crossing borders, changing timesMadeleine Hurd, Hastings Donnan and Carolin Leutloff-Grandits1 EU cross-border Passagenwerk Olivier Thomas Kramsch2 Negotiating 'neighbourliness' in Sarajevo apartment blocks Zaira Lofranco3 Border crossings, shame and (re-)narrating the past in the Ukrainian-Romanian borderlandsKathryn Cassidy4 Travelling genealogies: tracing relatedness and diversity in the Albanian-Montenegrin borderlandJelena Tosic5 Living on borrowed time: borders, ticking clocks and timelessness among temporary labour migrants in Israel Robin A. Harper and Hani Zubida6 New pasts, presents and futures: time and space in family migrant networks between Kosovo and western Europe Carolin Leutloff-Grandits7 Silenced border crossings and gendered material flows in southern AlbaniaNataša Gregoric Bon8 Missing migrants: deaths at sea and unidentified bodies in Lesbos Iosif Kovras and Simon Robins
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Manchester University Press European Cities: Modernity, Race and Colonialism
Book SynopsisThis multidisciplinary collection of scholarship rethinks European urban modernity from a race-conscious perspective, being aware of (post)colonial entanglements. The twelve original contributions empirically focus on such varied cities as Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Cottbus, Genoa, Hamburg, Madrid, Mitrovica, Naples, Paris, Sheffield, and Thessaloniki, engaging multiple combinations of global urban studies, from various historical perspectives, with postcolonial, decolonial and critical race studies. Inspired by Dipesh Chakrabarty's notion of 'provincializing Europe', the collection interrogates dominant, Eurocentric theories, representations and models of European cities across the East-West divide, offering the reader alternative perspectives to understand and imagine urban life and politics. With its focus on Europe, it ultimately contributes to decades of rigorous critical race scholarship on varied global urban regions.European cities is a vital reading for anyone interested in the complex interactions between colonial legacies and constructions of 'modernity', in view of catering to social change and urban justice.Trade Review‘This long overdue conversation between urban studies and postcolonial, decolonial and critical race studies will jolt urban studies beyond its Eurocentric legacy, and into the twenty-first century. Highlighting histories of colonialism, racism and anti-Semitism alongside self-organised movements of resistance, the authors write back against a European City model that is cleansed of race and wedded to developmentalist notions of European superiority. A must-read, paradigm-shifting collection that crucially thinks together histories of colonialism, National Socialism and the Cold War.’Jin Haritaworn, Associate Professor of Gender, Race and Environment, University of York‘Timely in its reminder of the historical erasures and spatial amnesia of too much urban thinking, this volume explores powerfully both the hubris and the deeply racialised traces and spaces of the European city.’Michael Keith, Director of the PEAK Urban Research programme, University of Oxford'This volume offers an immensely exciting and original intervention into (European) Urban Studies, questioning a number of assumptions around the "modernity" of European cities that tend to erase the history of colonialism and its ongoing impacts, key among them the role of race. The contributions assembled by Ha and Picker provide historical depth and geographical breadth, they deconstruct artificial hierarchies between Europe and the Global South as well as the continent’s East and West, at long last including European Urban Studies in a truly global conversation. The book could not have been published at a better moment: Its insights are urgently needed in a world that is rapidly changing yet continues to be framed through flawed paradigms reiterating an understanding of progress that blocks rather than opens a path to real transformation. The work assembled here suggested alternative models that I will be certain to draw on in my work.'Fatima El-Tayeb, Professor of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration, Yale University'Overall, the book provides new material on how the prevailing narratives of Europeanization and “European culture” are materialized and challenged in the cities analyzed, as well as ways to decolonially rethink them. It should be especially emphasized that each chapter and each author has his own methodology, which is rare for most modern books. The book is intended for a wide audience, as it provides an analysis of the various opinions about European cities.'Mirzokhid Askarov, Ethnic and Racial Studies -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: rethinking the European urban – Noa K. Ha and Giovanni PickerPart I: Provincialising historicism 1 Parochial imaginations: the ‘European city’ as a territorialised entity – Anke Schwarz 2 Countermapping colonial amnesia in Parisian landscapes – Tania Mancheno 3 Provincialising industry: hyperreal urban modernity in nineteenth-century Buenos Aires – Antonio Carbone Part II: Provincialising (urban) geography 4 Provincialising conviviality: convivial boundary-making in post-Ottoman, socialist and divided Mitrovica – Pieter Troch 5 Urban infrastructures, migration and the reproduction of colonial forms of difference – Aidan Mosselson 6 Decolonising Cottbus: unmasking coloniality/modernity and ‘imperial difference’ in urban sites of remembrance – Miriam Friz Trzeciak and Manuel Peters Part III: Provincialising the (urban) political7 Decolonial migrant claims to the metropole: views from two Mediterranean cities – Mahdis Azarmandi and Piro Rexhepi 8 Portuguese Urban Studies: between race and the absence of racism – Ana Rita Alves 9 Between hope and despair: how racism and anti-racism produce Madrid – Stoyanka Eneva10 Theorising Hamburg from the South: racialisation and the development of Wilhelmsburg – Julie ChamberlainCoda: toward urban provisioning – AbdouMaliq Simone
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Manchester University Press Performing the Jumbled City: Subversive
Book SynopsisPerforming the jumbled city is a complex artefact beyond its own materiality. Linked to a dedicated website hosting additional audio-visual materials, the book acts as a connecting device allowing an exchange between texts, audio-visual materials, and original artworks, situating it in the emerging field of multi-modal ethnography. From this stance, and as an edited collection co-authored with urban indigenous artists and activists, it interrogates the ways in which knowledge is built and shared. The book is constructed as a particular kind of edited collection, shifting between different authorships. The resulting interaction between individual and collective essays draws together scholars’ and activists’ perspectives in a rich exchange between textual, visual and dramatic sections, for the book is organised around the original script of the site-specific performance Santiago Waria, and the related exhibition MapsUrbe.Making a claim for creation, rather than recuperation, the essays contained in the book put forward alternative imaginations that disrupt the social and material landscape of the (post)colonial city, defying the spatialities usually assigned to colonised bodies and subjects. As such, and actively engaging with current debates through collective writing by indigenous people raising questions in terms of decolonisation, the book stands as both an academic and a political project, interrogating the relationship between activism and academia, and issues of representation, authorship, and knowledge production.Table of ContentsPrologue – Enrique Antileo BaezaAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Ethnographic scenario, emplaced imaginations and a political aesthetic – Olivia CasagrandePart I Santiago Waria: the (post)colonial cityProsceniumIncipit1 Act 1 – Beginnings: the Quinta Normal Park – MapsUrbe Collective2 Act 2 – Colonial recursivity: Plaza de Armas – MapsUrbe Collective3 Act 3 – Racialised trajectories: Providencia – MapsUrbe Collective4 Act 4 – Welcome to the future: the Santa Lucía/Welen Hill – MapsUrbe CollectivePart II Interventions: Champurria poetics5 (Dance) steps to return your side: Mapuche migration and joy – Martín Llancaman6 Memory and pain: Santiago Waria, Pueblo Grande de Wigka – Rodrigo Huenchun Pardo7 Voices beneath the concrete: an imaginary for urban Mapuche jewellery – Cynthia Niko Salgado Silva8 A minimal cartography for a place of impossible memory: an ephemeral Indian stain on privileged areas of Santiago – Claudio Alvarado Lincopi9 The Indian’s head – Antil 10 La Indià: the right to imagine Mapuche pop – PuelpanEpilogueNütxam / A conversation – Olivia Casagrande, Claudio Alvarado Lincopi, Roberto Cayuqueo MartínezAfterword – Claudio Alvarado LincopiMapsUrbe GlossaryReferencesIndex
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Manchester University Press Trust in the System: Research Ethics Committees
Book SynopsisEvery month, groups of people from all over the United Kingdom decide what kind of research should be carried out on patients within the NHS. These groups – Research Ethics Committees (RECs) – made up of doctors, nurses, researchers, and members of the general public – help shape the future of medicine, and play a crucial role in the regulation of a wide range of research from social science to epidemiology, vaccine and drugs trials to surgery. Based on extensive observations, interviews, and archival research, this book provides an in-depth insight into RECs, one of the most crucial forms of regulation around medical research. In providing one of the first empirical examinations of this kind of regulation, this book challenges the impersonal, de-socialised, and mechanical models of REC decision-making.Table of ContentsIntroduction – On the margins of a trusting system1 Paper promises or written applications as trust warrants2 Trust, local knowledge, and distributed centralisation3 Facework, interaction, and the performance of trustworthiness4 Reviewing science, trusting the reviewersConclusion – Regulatory giraffes?Index
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Bristol University Press Decolonizing Development: Food, Heritage and
Book SynopsisPost-Soviet Latvia and post-apartheid South Africa are far apart geographically and yet have endured a similar history of colonial and authoritarian rule before transitioning to democracy at the end of the 20th century. This book examines these two nations in an unusual comparative study of post-authoritarian efforts to decolonize production and trade. The book combines an analysis of political economy and ecocultural heritage to unpack alternative trade formations. It also connects world systems thinking with Indigenous knowledge to articulate a decolonial theory of development and change over the longue durée. Conclusions and insights drawn are timely and important for a planet confronted by crises such as authoritarianism, laissez-faire capitalism, climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic.Trade Review“This book advocates development in a disarming way by postulating a theory that enables economic and social growth in a context of environmental harmony and cultural integrity.” George K. Danns, University of North Georgia“[This innovative book provides] a rich and broad-ranging comparative analysis of the histories and indigenous worldviews shaping engagements in alternative food networks in distant yet connected places. [Jennifer] Keahey’s unique and incisive vision sheds light on the challenges of decolonizing development and inspiring possibilities for emboldening more ‘egalitarian ecocultures’. Laura T. Raynolds, Colorado State UniversityTable of Contents1. Transformative Societies 2. A Comparative History of Latvia and South Africa 3. Indigenous Baltic Knowledge: Daina Philosophy 4. Indigenous African Knowledge: Ubuntu Philosophy 5. Organic Farming and Slow Food in Post-Soviet Latvia 6. Fair Trade and Rooibos Terroir in Post-Apartheid South Africa 7. Decolonizing Development
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SAGE Publications Inc Perspectives on Deviance and Social Control
Book SynopsisPerspectives on Deviance and Social Control provides a sociological examination of deviance and social control in society. Derived from the same author team’s successful text/reader version, this concise and student-friendly resource uses sociological theories to illuminate a variety of issues related to deviant behavior and societal reactions to deviance. The authors briefly explain the development of major sociological theoretical perspectives and use current research and examples to demonstrate how those theories are used to think about and study the causes of deviant behavior and the reactions to it. Focusing on the application—rather than just the understanding—of theory, the Second Edition offers a practical and fascinating exploration of deviance in our society.Trade Review"This is a comprehensive textbook that covers many of today’s theories used to explain deviance. It is easy to read and understand. A well written textbook." -- Egbert Zavala"This text is both student friendly and instructor friendly. It is current, comprehensive, and application based. Though this text is also a sociological examination of deviance and social control, it is organized in a way that compliments criminal justice courses. I very much like the application proposed in this text." -- Dorinda L. Dowis"In lieu of spending specific chapters on specific deviant behaviors, the supplementary pedagogical materials embedded in the book fulfil this aspect without taking up room for the theoretical coverage, which is the primary purpose of the book. In other words, the book is grounded in theory and uses innovative pedagogies to illustrate the practicality of the theories. It is very well and clearly written, includes uniquely well illustrated content, the chapters are short but comprehensive, and it includes a critical and analytical approach to theories of deviance." -- Joachim Kibirige"…written in a lively, readable style. The textbook also integrates how theory and research are used to develop each other and how that can lead to social policies." -- Michael J. O’ConnorTable of ContentsForeword Preface Acknowledgments About the Authors Chapter 1. Introduction to Deviance Introduction Conceptions of Deviance The Sociological Imagination The Importance of Theory and Its Relationship to Research Global Perspectives on Deviance Explaining Deviance in the Streets and Deviance in the Suites Ideas in Action Conclusion: Organization of the Book Exercises and Discussion Questions Key Terms Recommended Resources Chapter 2. The Diversity of Deviance Introduction Deviance and Its Varied Forms Physical Deviance and Appearance: Ideals of Beauty, Self-Harm, and Body Modification Relationships and Deviance Deviance in Cyberspace: Making Up the Norms as We Go Subcultural Deviance Elite Deviance, Corporate Deviance, and Workplace Misconduct Positive Deviance Global Perspectives on Types of Deviance Explaining Deviance in the Streets and Deviance in the Suites: The Cases of Addiction, Prostitution, and Graffiti Ideas in Action: Guerrilla Gardening in Low-Income Areas Question: So Who Are the Deviants? Answer: It Depends on Whom You Ask Conclusion Exercises and Discussion Questions Key Terms Chapter 3. Researching Deviance Introduction Methodological Approaches to Studying Deviance Content Analysis Secondary Data Sources Ethical Considerations in Studying Deviance Global Perspectives on Trials and Tribulations Involved in Researching Deviance Across the Globe Explaining Deviance in the Streets and Deviance in the Suites: Using Content Analysis to Study Deviants Among the Business Elite and Street Bikers Ideas in Action: Evaluating Programs and Policy Conclusion Endnote Exercises and Discussion Questions Key Terms Chapter 4. Anomie/Strain Theory Introduction Development of Anomie/Strain Theory Robert Merton and Adaptations to Anomie/Strain Richard Cloward and Lloyd Ohlin, Differential Opportunity Albert Cohen, Delinquent Boys Robert Agnew, General Strain Theory Messner and Rosenfeld, Crime and the American Dream— Institutional Anomie Theory Application of Anomie and Strain Theories Critiques of Anomie and Strain Theories Global Perspectives on Anomie/Strain Theory Explaining Deviance in the Streets and Deviance in the Suites: The Occupy Wall Street Movement Ideas in Action: Transforming Innovation Into Conformity and Legitimate Success Conclusion Exercises and Discussion Questions Key Terms Chapter 5. Social Disorganization Theory Introduction Development of Social Disorganization Theory Shaw and McKay’s Study of Juvenile Delinquency and Urban Areas Critiques of Social Disorganization Theory Rebirth of Social Disorganization Theory Empirical Tests of Social Disorganization Theory Global Perspectives on Social Disorganization Theory Tests of Social Disorganization in Cities Outside the United States More Theoretical and Empirical Advances and Divergences: Social and Physical Disorder Explaining Deviance in the Streets and Deviance in the Suites With Social Disorganization Theory Ideas in Action: Programs and Policy From Social Disorganization and Broken Windows Perspectives Conclusion Exercises and Discussion Questions Key Term Chapter 6. Differential Association and Social Learning Theories Introduction Development of Differential Association Theory Development of Akers’s Social Learning Theory Social Structure and Social Learning Application of Differential Association and Social Learning Critiques of Differential Association and Social Learning Theories Cultural Deviance Theory and Subcultural Explanations of Deviance Explaining Deviance in the Streets and Deviance in the Suites: Dating Violence Ideas in Action: Programs and Policy From a Social Learning Perspective Global Perspectives on Testing Differential Association and Social Learning Theories Outside the United States Conclusion Exercises and Discussion Questions Key Terms Chapter 7. Social Control Theories of Deviance Introduction Development of Social Control Theory Contemporary Additions to Social Control Theory Application of Social Control Theories Critiques of Social Control Theories Global Perspectives on Deviance and Social Control Theories Explaining Deviance in the Streets and Deviance in the Suites: The Cases of Teenage Homelessness and Medical Deviance by Doctors Ideas in Action: Homeboy Industries Conclusion Exercises and Discussion Questions Key Terms Chapter 8. Labeling Theory Introduction Development of Labeling Theory How the Labeling Process Works Labeling and Mental Illness Labeling and Delinquency Application of Labeling Theory Impact of Labeling Theory Critiques of Labeling Theory Global Perspectives on Labeling Theory Explaining Deviance in the Streets and Deviance in the Suites: Considering Drinking—and Not Drinking—on College Campuses Ideas in Action: The “I Have a Dream” Foundation—Instilling Positive Labels Conclusion Exercises and Discussion Questions Key Terms Chapter 9. Marxist and Conflict Theories of Deviance Introduction Development of Marxist Theory Development of Conflict Theory Applications of Marxist and Conflict Theories Critiques of Marxist and Conflict Theories Global Perspectives on Deviance and Marxist/Conflict Theories Explaining Deviance in the Streets and Deviance in the Suites: Human Trafficking: Crossing Boundaries and Borders Ideas in Action: What Can Be Done About Human Trafficking? Conclusion Exercises and Discussion Questions Key Terms Chapter 10. Critical Theories of Deviance Introduction Development of Feminist Criminology Development of Critical Race Theory Development of Peacemaking Critiques of Critical Theories Global Perspectives on Deviance and Critical Theories Explaining Deviance in the Streets and Deviance in the Suites: The Cases of Pornography and Illegal Governmental Surveillance Ideas in Action: Navajo Peacemaking and Domestic Violence Conclusion Exercises and Discussion Questions Key Terms Chapter 11. Societal Responses to Deviance Introduction Medicalization of Deviant Behavior Policing, Supervision, and the Impact of Incarceration on Disadvantaged Populations and Communities Total Institutions Correctional Facilities and the Purposes of Punishment Gresham Sykes and the Pains of Imprisonment Juvenile Correctional Facilities Reentry: Challenges in Returning to the Community After Time in an Institution Public Fear and Social Control: The Case of Sex Offenders Collateral Consequences: Effects on Communities and Families Global Perspectives on the Social Control of Deviance Explaining Deviance in the Streets and Deviance in the Suites: Considering How Money Can Matter in Local Jails Ideas in Action: College Programs in Prisons Conclusion Exercises and Discussion Questions Key Terms Chapter 12. Deviant Careers and Career Deviance Introduction Development of a Deviant Career and Career Deviance Approach Getting Into Deviance: Onset of a Deviant Career Risk and Protective Factors for Onset Escalation, Persistence, and Specialization in Deviance Sex Offenders: Generalists or Specialists? The Case of Drinking and Driving Summary of Career Deviance: Specialists or Generalists? Getting Out of the Game: Desistance From Career Deviance Explaining Deviance in the Streets and Deviance in the Suites: Street Prostitutes Versus Elite Prostitutes Global Perspectives on Cross-Cultural Interest in Deviant Careers and Career Deviance Ideas in Action: Programs and Policy From a Career Deviance and Deviant Career Perspective Conclusion Exercises and Discussion Questions Key Terms Glossary References and Additional Reading Index
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