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Mental states
Based on more than a year of in-depth fieldwork in France, Mental States shows that, beneath the chaotic trajectories of people with mental illness and the fragmented agencies and professionals serving them, there is an underlying order to the ways societies classify, treat, and control madness.
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Merchants of the right
An eye-opening portrait of the gun sellers who navigated the social turmoil leading up to the January 6 Capitol attackGun sellers sell more than just guns. They also sell politics. Merchants of the Right sheds light on the unparalleled surge in gun purchasing during one of the most dire moments i...
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Messages from george simmel
Simmel's influence on Sociology has been immense. This volume aims to re-examine that legacy and draw lessons for today's scholars.
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Methodological advances in research on social movements, conflict, and change
Now that we are almost a quarter of the way into the 21st century, the field of sociology is in need of research like this which explores methods for studying contentious politics in the context of broader social changes to peacebuilding, armed conflicts, and social movements.
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Methods of exhibition analysis
A tool kit for exhibition analysis packed with a diversity of methods to critically examine exhibitions from various angles.
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Metrics at work
The starkly different ways that American and French online news companies respond to audience analytics and what this means for the future of newsWhen the news moved online, journalists suddenly learned what their audiences actually liked, through algorithmic technologies that scrutinize web traf...
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Microfoundations of institutions
The notion of microfoundations has received growing interest in neo-institutional theory along with an increasing interest in microfoundational research in disciplines such as strategic management and organizational economics.
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Midlife creativity and identity
This book explores the artistic routines and inspirations of amateur and professional musicians, fine artists and literary authors experiencing midlife. Based on ethnographic insight, it argues that creativity is driven by the pursuit of a 'mezzanine' in-between state where the anarchy of possibi...
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Migration and (im)mobility
In her endeavour to overcome the established methodological, conceptual, and empirical dualism of mobility and migration, Anna Xymena Wieczorek develops a "mobilities perspective" by combining migration studies theories with approaches of the mobility studies. With the help of rich empirical data...
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Migration, health, and inequalities
Drawing from an activist research project spanning Loja, Santo Domingo, New York, New Jersey, and Barcelona, this book offers a feminist intersectional analysis of the impact of migration on health and well-being. It assesses how social inequalities and migration and health policies, in Ecuador...
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Migrations and diasporas
Advocating for a more welcoming world involves respecting the human dignity and fundamental rights of all individuals, regardless of their place of origin or immigration status. This perspective offers a powerful insight into the dynamics of social justice across borders.
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Mining and energy – handbook of the anthropocene in latin america v
Highlighting the genealogy of the Anthropocene in Latin America: uncovering the struggles of Latin American societies with mining and extractive processes pertaining to energy production over the long term, from colonial contact to the Great Acceleration.
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Misguided
Why are people inclined to believe misinformation? This wide-ranging and comprehensive book shines a light on how false beliefs take root and spread, exploring the cognitive, emotional, and social factors that make us susceptible.
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Mobilizing public sociology
Mobilizing Public Sociology combines theory and scholarly perspectives with a grassroots approach to challenges that Latin@ immigrants face in the U.S.
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Modernity's corruption
Nicholas Hoover Wilson develops a new account of the changing category of corruption by examining the English East India Company and its transformation from a largely commercial enterprise to a militarized offshoot of British empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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Money
What does money mean? Where does it come from and how does it work? In this highly topical book, Mary Mellor, an expert on money, examines money’s social, political and commercial histories to debunk longstanding myths such as money being in short supply and needing to come from somewhere. Arguin...
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Money talks
The world of money is being transformed as households and organizations face changing economies, and new currencies and payment systems like Bitcoin and Apple Pay gain ground. What is money, and how do we make sense of it? Money Talks is the first book to offer a wide range of alternative and une...
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Monospace and multiverse
Using the example of such one-room-architectures, this book explores the potential of an actor-network-theory approach to space in the field of architecture. Sabine Hansmann focuses on the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in Norwich, England by Foster Associates (1978) to investigate the mutual e...
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Morals and markets
First published in 1979, Morals and Markets Is a pathbreaking study exploring the development of life insurance in the United States. Viviana A. Rotman Zelizer combines economic history and a sociological perspective to advance a novel interpretation of the life insurance industry.
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More than just a ‘home’
Considering the ways in which a family socially constructs a home, this is a much-needed investigation into how the house, its architecture, spatial arrangements and internal and external divisions shape and reshape family relationships in the face of constant challenges and change.
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More than machines?
We know that robots are just machines. Why then do we often talk about them as if they were alive? Laura Voss explores this phenomenon from science-fiction to robotics R&D, from science communication to media discourse, and from the theoretical perspectives of STS to the cognitive sciences.
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Multimodality, meaning, and institutions
This volume focuses on the relationship between different modes in the emergence, diffusion, maintenance, and/or challenge of social meanings and institutions. The contributions demonstrate the potential of multimodal approaches to advance the design of rigorous methods of analysis for the study ...
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Music and death
Music is often our companion when dealing with the incomprehensibility of loss. This edited collection speaks to the multifarious and complex ways in which music accompanies, supplements, and complements aspects of death and dying, whether this is the death of a loved one, or a celebrity from pop...
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Musical practice as a form of life
How is musical practice connected with everyday life? Eva-Maria Houben shows that performing music as an activity—indeed, as playing—allows meaning to unfold in specific situations, places, and relationships.
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Musicians on twitch
Musicians on Twitch examines the emergence of the ‘musician-streamer’, a new kind of cultural worker shaped by the conventions of live streaming. Drawing on interviews and longitudinal observation, it shows how Twitch is reshaping musical labour, monetising the bonds that form between musicians a...
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Namibia's children
Many children in Namibia find themselves facing a social crisis. For three years, Michaela Fink and Reimer Gronemeyer conducted interviews in Namibia with women who take care of vulnerable children. The book gives these children a voice in interviews and essays.
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Narratives and spaces
Nye analyzes the transformation of the Grand Canyon and Niagara Falls into tourist sites, the history of light shows at world's fairs, the New Deal programs designed to provide electricity to rural areas, and the Apollo 11 moon to reveal how the spaces we live in and the technology we use are int...
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Nation building
A new and comprehensive look at the reasons behind successful or failed nation buildingNation Building presents bold new answers to an age-old question. Why is national integration achieved in some diverse countries, while others are destabilized by political inequality between ethnic groups, con...
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Nationhood at work
Dave Poitras explores how nationhood and the idea of living in a world of nations are experienced in the cities of Montreal and Brussels. Drawing on ethnographic research, he identifies the typical ways of enacting nationhood, exploring marginalization in biethnonational milieus.
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Nautical media
Asher Boersma explores the mediatisation of navigation and nautical mobility.
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Navigating black joy for black women leaders in higher education
Through deeply personal narratives, critical storytelling, and intersectional analysis, Navigating Black Joy for Black Women Leaders in Higher Education explores how Black women cultivate, sustain, and embody joy as a transformative force in higher education and beyond.
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Necessity entrepreneurship
Necessity entrepreneurship is broadly understood as the identifying and seizing of business opportunities to address one’s basic needs such as food and shelter. This volume collectively proposes new ways of seeing, theorizing, and researching necessity entrepreneurship.
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Negotiations, 1972-1990
Negotiations traces the intellectual journey of a man widely acclaimed as one of the most important French philosphers. A provocative guide to Deleuze by Deleuze, the collection clarifies the key critical concepts in the work of this vital figure in contemporary philosphy, who has had a lasting i...
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Neoliberal subjectivities at work
Using the Indian Information Technology (IT) industry as the empirical context, Neoliberal Subjectivities at Work develops a comprehensive conceptual and analytical framework for studying contemporary employment relations governed by techno-neoliberalism.
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Neoliberalism and academic repression
A timely, necessary, and incisive look by a diverse array of scholars into the dire situation facing academia in the Trump era.
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No social science without critical theory
Highlights the problematic nature of mainstream perspectives, and the growing need to reaffirm how the specific kind of critique the early Frankfurt School theorists advocated is not less, but far more important today. This book also includes chapters that offer a broad and diverse look at social...
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Nonviolent conflict and civil resistance
This volume covers how regime changes, political movements and nonviolent unrest develop and then shape the political decisions of both civil society and the state. Chapter discussions include the civil rights movement in Northern Ireland, youth movements in Post-Communist states, and the efforts...
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Not your usual suspect
An important contribution to the criminological, gerontological, feminist and elder abuse fields, Not Your Usual Suspect expands existing research to consider the behaviour and drivers of older offenders, addressing the increasingly important issue of how the needs of this group can be addressed ...
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Nursing the spirit
Don Grant investigates the subtle ways that nurses at an academic medical center incorporate spirituality into their care work. Developing a new understanding of the social significance of religion, Nursing the Spirit recasts the intersection of science and spirituality by centering the perspecti...
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Offside
Soccer is the world's favorite pastime, a passion for billions around the globe. In the United States, however, the sport is a distant also-ran behind football, baseball, basketball, and hockey. Why is America an exception? And why, despite America's leading role in popular culture, does most of ...
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Older people in a digitalized society
With many older people lacking adequate digital competences to support their full participation in today’s digitalized society, Older People in a Digitalized Society asks how is the marginalisation of older people in digital society socially constructed? How can we promote older people’s digital ...
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On becoming a rock musician
In On Becoming a Rock Musician, the sociologist H. Stith Bennett observes what makes a rock musician and then persuades others to take him seriously.
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On justification
A vital and underappreciated dimension of social interaction is the way individuals justify their actions to others, instinctively drawing on their experience to appeal to principles they hope will command respect. Individuals, however, often misread situations, and many disagreements can be expl...
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On practice and institution
The concepts of practice and institution are of longstanding importance across the social sciences, that have been too disconnected. Bringing together novel theoretical statements and empirical studies that bridge these social worlds, these two volumes provide a major touchstone for scholars inte...
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On the cross road of polity, political elites and mobilization
This volume discusses the various interrelations that exist within and between social and political phenomena.
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