Sociology Books
Cambridge University Press Social Reproduction and History in Melanesia Mortuary Ritual Gift Exchange and Custom in the Tanga Islands 96 Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology Series Number 96
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£41.79
Cambridge University Press Transitions from School to Work
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£104.50
Cambridge University Press Lengthening the Arm of the Law Enhancing Police Resources in the TwentyFirst Century Cambridge Studies in Criminology
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£39.90
Cambridge University Press ceremoniesofpossessionineuropesconquestofthenewworld14921640
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£18.99
Cambridge University Press New Frontiers in Resilient Aging
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£65.55
Cambridge University Press Virtual Selves Real Persons
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£95.00
Cambridge University Press Contemporary Capitalism and its Crises Social Structure of Accumulation Theory for the 21st Century
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£59.85
Cambridge University Press States Against Migrants Deportation in Germany and the United States
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£69.17
Cambridge University Press The Forgotten Kin
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£57.95
Cambridge University Press Party Position Change in American Politics Coalition Management
Book SynopsisDavid Karol views parties as coalitions of groups with intense preferences on particular issues managed by politicians. He explains important variations in party position change: the speed of shifts, the stability of new positions, and the extent to which change occurs via adaptation by incumbents.Trade Review'We often think of the long-term stability in the positions that the parties take on major issues. Changes, when they come, are supposed to be associated with major events, perhaps realignments. And yet, as Karol shows, there is more change than that. Not only that, but, as he shows, there are three different paths, with different dynamics and speeds of adjustment, the latter largely due to the role of 'interest coalitions'. Karol demonstrates his claims through careful study of a number of particular issues, showing, inter alia, that what we think of as left and as right, as Democrat and Republican is a function of parties, leaders, and interests, all of which change over time. And, in this, we learn not only much about American politics but about the limits of our scholarly understandings and the theories that lie behind them.' John Aldrich, Duke University'David Karol's new book tackles the thorny issue of why and how parties change positions on issues. This is a topic we know far too little about. Karol corrects this situation by gathering an impressive array of evidence and thinking through many of the difficult theoretical issues that confront this tricky subject. By so doing, he advances our understanding of interest groups, political parties, and representation. It is a book I recommend to anyone interested in the study of party politics.' John G. Geer, Vanderbilt University'Karol's insightful book begins by reminding us that the two U.S. political parties have completely reversed their positions over time on such weighty issues as civil rights, trade, and fiscal policy. His original explanation emphasizes coalitional negotiations between organizations, voters, politicians, and party leaders. Not only do those negotiations require shifts in party policy, they require leading politicians to change their own policy positions in response. Karol's account of the timely and dramatic conversions of leading politicians on abortion and civil rights makes for fascinating reading.' Gary Miller, Washington University, St. LouisTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Explaining party position change: theory and method; 2. Coalition maintenance: the politics of trade policy; 3. Coalition group incorporation: the politics of abortion and gun control; 4. The politics of race: coalition maintenance in the North, coalition group incorporation in the South; 5. Coalition expansion: the politics of national defense and fiscal policy; 6. Conclusions; Appendix.
£38.95
Cambridge University Press The Political Uses of Expert Knowledge
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£85.50
Cambridge University Press Transnational Communities
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£65.55
Cambridge University Press Baptism and Change in the Early Middle Ages c.200c.1150
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£40.84
Cambridge University Press From Madrid to Purgatory
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£36.09
Cambridge University Press A Question of Trust The BBC Reith Lectures 2002
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£23.74
Cambridge University Press European Sexualities 14001800 38 New Approaches to European History Series Number 38
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£22.99
Cambridge University Press The Agency of Children
Book SynopsisDavid Oswell uses the idea of children's agency to survey the main issues in childhood studies, including family, schooling, crime, health, consumer culture, work and human rights. He traces the transformation of children and childhood across two centuries and places children's agency in the context of leading theoretical approaches.Trade Review'This book offers a lucid and authoritative reconceptualisation of agency and probes crucial issues surrounding contemporary childhood and childhood studies. A text to think with - and act on.' Kirsten Drotner, University of Southern Denmark'An insightful and very welcome addition to the field, The Agency of Children offers a fresh and distinctive approach to childhood studies. Harmonising past and present with his own clear voice, Oswell develops an original commentary that is a must-read for all who seek to understand children and childhood in contemporary times.' Mary Jane Kehily, The Open University'A hugely significant reworking of the concept of agency with respect to children and childhood. Essential reading for all involved in the field.' Valerie Walkerdine, Distinguished Research Professor, Cardiff UniversityTable of ContentsPart I. Introduction: 1. Introduction; 2. Agency after Ariès: sentiments, natures and spaces; Part II. Social Theories of Children and Childhood: 3. Modern social theories: agency and structure; 4. Partial and situated agency; 5. Subjectivity, experience and post-social assemblages; Part III. Spaces of Experience, Experimentation and Power: 6. Family and household; 7. School and education; 8. Crime and criminality; 9. Health and medicine; 10. Play and consumer culture; 11. Political economies of labour; 12. Rights and political participation; Part IV. Conclusions: 13. Conclusions.
£25.64
Cambridge University Press Emergent Economies Divergent Paths Economic Organization and International Trade in South Korea and Taiwan 29 Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences Series Number 29
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£77.90
Cambridge University Press Cannibalism and the Colonial World By Francis Barker published June 2004
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£37.04
Cambridge University Press Carnival Canboulay and Calypso Traditions in the Making
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£37.99
Cambridge University Press Coping with Minority Status
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£32.32
Cambridge University Press Sex and the Family in Colonial India
Book SynopsisAn original contribution to scholarship on colonialism, gender and sexuality in India. By following the stories of a number of mixed-race families, at all levels of the social scale, Durba Ghosh offers a fascinating account of how gender, class and race affected the cultural and social mores of the period.Trade Review'Ghosh's book will be immensely valuable to scholars of gender, race, and empire …' Journal of Asian Studies'… Sex and the Family makes an important contribution to the investigation of racial and gender relations in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century India by reminding us of the anxiety Englishmen felt and by recovering some of the Indian women's voices.' Eighteenth-Century StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Colonial companions; 2. Residing with begums: William Palmer, James Achilles Kirkpatrick and their 'wives'; 3. Good patriarchs, uncommon families; 4. Native women, native lives; 5. Household order and colonial justice; 6. Servicing military families: family labour, pensions and orphans; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
£25.99
Cambridge University Press A Union of Diversity
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£31.90
Cambridge University Press Desire for Race
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£35.14
Cambridge University Press Language and Emotion An Introduction 25 Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language Series Number 25
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£35.14
Cambridge University Press Gender and Sexuality in Modern Chinese History 9 New Approaches to Asian History Series Number 9
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£22.99
Cambridge University Press The Refugee in International Society Between Sovereigns 106 Cambridge Studies in International Relations
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£25.64
Cambridge University Press Sexuality in Europe A TwentiethCentury History 45 New Approaches to European History Series Number 45
Book SynopsisThis original book brings a fascinating and accessible account of the tumultuous history of sexuality in Europe from the waning of Victorianism to the collapse of Communism and the rise of European Islam. Although the twentieth century is often called 'the century of sex' and seen as an era of increasing liberalization, Dagmar Herzog instead emphasizes the complexities and contradictions in sexual desires and behaviours, the ambivalences surrounding sexual freedom, and the difficulties encountered in securing sexual rights. Incorporating the most recent scholarship on a broad range of conceptual problems and national contexts, the book investigates the shifting fortunes of marriage and prostitution, contraception and abortion, queer and straight existence. It analyzes sexual violence in war and peace, the promotion of sexual satisfaction in fascist and democratic societies, the role of eugenics and disability, the politicization and commercialization of sex, and processes of secularizaTrade Review'Everything you always wanted to know about the 'century of sex' - here it is, beautifully written, admirably strong in its analysis, compelling in its plea for different narratives that add ambivalences, conflicts and shadow lines to what at first sight appears as a clear-cut story of liberalisation.' Ute Fervet, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin'A masterly synthesis of sexuality's most extreme century. This virtuoso account always links sex to politics, but its real merit is to give emotions, bodies, and pleasures a history.' Philipp Sarasin, Professor of Modern History, University of Zurich'There is not [a] better comparativist than Herzog to illuminate the unexpected twists and turns of this composite history - a landmark in European synthesis and a must-read for all historians of sexuality.' Nancy F. Cott, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History, Harvard University'Herzog develops a sweeping analysis of the central role of sexual practices, cultures, politics, and violence in a century of war, mass mobilization, and wrenching social conflict and change.' George Chauncey, Professor of History, Yale UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Reconceiving sexuality, 1900–14; 2. State interventions, 1914–45; 3. Cold War cultures, 1945–65; 4. Pleasure and rebellion, 1965–80; 5. Partnerships and practices, 1980–2010; Epilogue.
£22.99
Cambridge University Press Boundaries of Obligation in American Politics
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£24.99
Cambridge University Press Global Accountabilities
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£36.87
Cambridge University Press Origins of Political Extremism
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£29.44
Cambridge University Press Left and Right in Global Politics
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£25.99
Cambridge University Press European Identity Contemporary European Politics
Book SynopsisEuropean economic integration has advanced faster and further than anyone could have predicted, yet hopes are fading for a single European identity. This ambitious study analyses the complex mosaic of competing visions and aspirations, and explores a Europe where concepts of community are multiplying and disintegrating simultaneously.Trade Review'This is the kind of volume that will fascinate scholars of European politics - and beyond. It demonstrates the multiplicity of European identities, the combination of the hopes and fears that have been braided around these identities, and the different kinds of politics that have defined and redefined its possibilities and perils as viewed from different European spaces. European Identity is less a summary of what we think we know and more of a road map for future scholarship.' Michael Barnett, University of Minnesota'This timely book advances two significant claims. First, European identity has become inevitably politicized and contested. Second, next to the modern, enlightened vision of Europe, a much more xenophobic and populist identity construction has emerged, with 'Europe to the Europeans' as its rallying cry. Checkel and Katzenstein have collected an impressive group of authors. Their book serves as a huge question mark to the conventional wisdom that the Europeanization of identities is a benign and uncontested process of post-modern nation-building.' Thomas Risse, co-ordinator, Research Center 'Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood' and Director, Center for Transnational Relations, Foreign and Security Policy, Freie Universität BerlinTable of Contents1. The politicization of European identities Jeffrey T. Checkel and Peter J. Katzenstein; Part I. European Identity as Project: 2. Political identity in a community of strangers Dario Castiglione; 3. Experimental identities (after Maastricht) Douglas R. Holmes; 4. The public sphere and the European Union's political identity Juan Díez Medrano; Part II. European Identity as Process: 5. Being European: East and West Holly Case; 6. Who are the Europeans and how does this matter for politics? Neil Fligstein; 7. Immigration, migration, and free movement in the making of Europe Adrian Favell; Part III. European Identity in Context: 8. Identification with Europe and politicization of the EU since the 1980s Hartmut Kaelble; 9. Conclusion - European identity in context Peter J. Katzenstein and Jeffrey T. Checkel.
£24.99
Cambridge University Press Prison State
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£31.34
Cambridge University Press Performing Qualitative CrossCultural Research
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£29.99
Cambridge University Press Contemporary Capitalism and its Crises Social Structure of Accumulation Theory for the 21st Century
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£31.34
Cambridge University Press Party Position Change in American Politics
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£28.99
Cambridge University Press Ethnicity and Electoral Politics
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£29.44
Cambridge University Press American Criminal Justice Policy
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£35.14
Cambridge University Press The Sexual Culture of the French Renaissance 14 Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories Series Number 14
Book SynopsisWhen the French invaded Italy in 1494, they were shocked by the frank sexuality expressed in Italian cities. By 1600, the French were widely considered to be the most highly sexualized nation in Christendom. What caused this transformation? This book examines how, as Renaissance textual practices and new forms of knowledge rippled outward from Italy, the sexual landscape and French notions of masculinity, sexual agency, and procreation were fundamentally changed. Exploring the use of astrology, the infusion of Neoplatonism, the critique of Petrarchan love poetry, and the monarchy's sexual reputation, the book reveals that the French encountered conflicting ideas from abroad and from antiquity about the meanings and implications of sexual behavior. Intensely interested in cultural self-definition, humanists, poets, and political figures all contributed to the rapid alteration of sexual ideas to suit French cultural needs. The result was the vibrant sexual reputation that marks French cuTrade Review'Beautifully written, lively, and original, Katherine Crawford's study of French Renaissance sexual culture makes a compelling case for reading sexuality through poetry, poetic theory, astrology, and philosophy in unusual ways. Providing an anatomy of some of the lesser-examined elements that contribute to the development of sexual ideology in a given culture, The Sexual Culture of the French Renaissance makes an important contribution, not only to the study of sexuality in Renaissance France, but to sexuality studies more generally.' Carla Freccero, University of California, Santa Cruz'The Sexual Culture of the French Renaissance fills an important gap in the history of sexuality. Before Crawford's book, the contribution of the sixteenth-century thinkers to the creation of modern, regulatory sexuality was unclear. Crawford shows how French writers, especially poets, refigured Italian neo-Platonism and Petrarch's verse to create a distinctly French, thoroughly heterosexual normativity. French historians, literary specialists, students of gay history and Renaissance scholars of all sorts should read The Sexual Culture of the French Renaissance.' Kathryn Norberg, University of California, Los Angeles'This is an unusual study, full of surprises. It is grounded in a deep and wide-ranging knowledge of primary sources, and an awareness of the many strands and prejudices of modern writing on sexual matters. Crawford revels in the contradictions that she handles so deftly, juggling with multiple flows of influence.' The Times Literary Supplement'This ambitious and convincing volume … has the merit of providing material for scholars and students in a variety of disciplines and, last but not least, is to be particularly commended for its strategic use of visual sources.' Sara F. Matthews-Grieco, European History QuarterlyTable of ContentsIntroduction: sexual culture? France? Renaissance?; 1. The renaissance of sex: Orpheus, mythography and making sexual meaning; 2. Heavens below: astrology, generation and sexual (un)certainty; 3. Neoplatonism and the making of heterosexuality; 4. Cupid makes you stupid: 'bad' poetry in the French Renaissance; 5. Politics, promiscuity and potency: managing the king's sexual reputation; Conclusion: dirty thoughts; Bibliography.
£31.90
Cambridge University Press Thinking Through Crisis
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£28.99
Cambridge University Press Sex Before the Sexual Revolution Intimate Life in England 19181963 16 Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories Series Number 16
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£76.00
Cambridge University Press Who Counts as an American The Boundaries of National Identity
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£43.70
Cambridge University Press Political Branding in Cities
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£57.95
Cambridge University Press Security Beyond the State
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£65.86
Cambridge University Press Dialogical Self Theory
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£104.50
Cambridge University Press Organizations and Unusual Routines A Systems Analysis of Dysfunctional Feedback Processes
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£90.99
Cambridge University Press Women and States
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£85.50