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Individualism and conformism in the united states
In Individualism and Conformism in the United States, Sartre probes the paradox at the heart of American identity: a culture that claims to exalt the self even as it channels that self into mass movements, uniform mores, and ideological frameworks.
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Individualism, holism and the central dilemma of sociological theory
This book examines individualism and holism, the two interpretive perspectives that have divided sociological theory into two camps, examines attempts to overcome this antinomy and sets out a new approach to resolving this dilemma via ‘critical reconfigurationism’.
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Inequality and mobility
This book investigates the erosion of capabilities and aspirations in post-revolutionary Tunisia
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Inertia
This book demonstrates how long-standing social relationships within the investing world contribute to a state of inertia, which prevents substantive change to the status quo.
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Insecurity and the eclipse of enlightenment
This century has been characterized by changes in the structure and functioning of global capitalism, transmuted from neoliberalism into varieties of neoauthoritarianism. This volume explores whether these shifts represent fundamental and transformational or adaptive, superficial changes in relat...
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Insecurity politics
The everyday realities of financial and work insecurity that drive right- and left-wing populismIn Insecurity Politics, Lorenza Antonucci examines the lived, everyday experiences that underpin political disaffection. Countering the reductive portrayals of populist voters as left-behind outsiders,...
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Inside data science
Inside Data Science examines how data scientists defined their professional role and identity, offering an empirically rich and theoretically grounded account of the emergence of a new field.
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Inside the critics’ circle
An inside look at the politics of book reviewing, from the assignment and writing of reviews to why critics think we should listen to what they have to sayTaking readers behind the scenes in the world of fiction reviewing, Inside the Critics’ Circle explores the ways critics evaluate books despit...
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Insider and outsider cultures in web3
Alexia Maddox provides a critical sociological study of insider-outsider tensions that influence the adoption of blockchain technologies and impact the Web3 ecosystem; the tensions between the Web3 community, the platforms and the users.
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Intellectual radicalism after 1989
Left-wing intellectuals in Britain and the US had long repudiated the Soviet regime. Why was the collapse of the Eastern Bloc experienced as a shock that destabilised their identities and political allegiances then? What happened to a collective project that had started out to formulate a sociali...
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Intellectuals, inequalities and transitions
A landmark examination of the work of acclaimed sociologist Iván Szelényi, and its enduring relevance.
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Interaction ritual chains
Sex, smoking, and social stratification are three very different social phenomena. And yet, argues sociologist Randall Collins, they and much else in our social lives are driven by a common force: interaction rituals. Interaction Ritual Chains is a major work of sociological theory that attempts ...
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Interdisciplinary exhibitions and the production of knowledge
Henriette Pleiger identifies different ways of producing knowledge during the exhibition-making process, as well as the mechanisms that are necessary for an exhibition to be considered interdisciplinary.
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Interpreting contentious memory
Memory is at the center of a diverse array of political conflicts, moral disputes, and power dynamics. This book illustrates how scholars use different interpretive lenses to study and explain profound conflicts rooted in the past. Addressing issues of racism, genocide, trauma, war, nationalism,...
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Interpreting religion
This edited collection harnesses a diversity of interpretivist perspectives to provide a panoramic view of the production, experiences, contexts, and meanings of religion. Scholars from the US, South Asia and Europe explore religious phenomena using ethnographic, comparative historical, psychoso...
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Interpreting the body
Written by leading social scientists working in and across a variety of analytic traditions, this ambitious, insightful volume explores interpretation as a focal metaphor for understanding the body’s influence, meaning, and matter in society. Interpreting body and embodiment in social movements,...
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Interpretive sociology and the semiotic imagination
Semiotics provides key analytical tools to understand the creation and reproduction of meaning in social life. Although some fields have productively incorporated semiotic models, sociology still needs to engage with semiotic mediation. Written by a diverse group of authors in interpretive socio...
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Interrogating datafication
What constitutes a data practice and how do contemporary digital media technologies reconfigure our understanding of practices in general? This volume collects theoretical, empirical, and historiographical contributions from a range of international scholars to shed light on the current shift fro...
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Interrupting the legal person
This special issue is part one of a two-part edited collection on interrupting the legal person, and what this means. The chapters in this volume interrogate the role of the person and personhood in different contexts, jurisdictions, and legal traditions.
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Introduction to convict criminology
Convict criminology (CC) is based on the belief that the convict’s voice has been traditionally ignored or marginalized in scholarship and policy debates, and that its inclusion can positively impact the fields of corrections, criminology, criminal justice, and policy making. Designed for student...
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Introduction to mathematical sociology
A comprehensive textbook on the tools of mathematical sociology and their applicationsMathematical models and computer simulations of complex social systems have become everyday tools in sociology. Yet until now, students had no up-to-date textbook from which to learn these techniques. Introducti...
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Investigating families
How our reliance on Child Protective Services makes motherhood precarious for those already marginalizedIt’s the knock on the door that many mothers fear: a visit from Child Protective Services (CPS), the state agency with the power to take their children away. Over the last half-century, these e...
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Is democracy doomed?
In an era marked by political polarization, institutional strain, and global uncertainty, Is Democracy Doomed? gathers leading scholars from law, political science, and sociology to dissect the fragility and resilience of democratic systems in the 21st century.
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Is the body the temple of the soul?
This book interprets the social significance of yoga in a world that emphasizes corporeality and the body. Immersing himself in the social world of hatha yoga participants, from an urban studio to a mountain retreat, the author's personal experience with positions and techniques, group meditation...
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Is this ‘azaadi’?
This study of the living conditions of Dalit agricultural laborers in Muktidih Village in southwest Bihar throws light on the problems they face in accessing the basic necessities of existence, including food, clothing, shelter, health care, and education. Their tribulations are conveyed through ...
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It’s all been there before
Since the beginning of the coronavirus crisis, our lives have completely changed, yet these scenes are also strangely familiar. Science fiction films and series have always speculated on possible futures. Denis Newiak reconsiders pandemic movies and series to bring out ideas for how to cope with ...
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Jahrbuch migration und gesellschaft / yearbook migration and society 2022/2023
The 2022/2023 edition of the Yearbook Migration and Society focuses on the topic Climate.
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Jane austen, game theorist
How the works of Jane Austen show that game theory is present in all human behaviorGame theory—the study of how people make choices while interacting with others—is one of the most popular technical approaches in social science today. But as Michael Chwe reveals in his insightful new book, Jane A...
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Judge thy neighbor
From the Spanish Inquisition to Nazi Germany to the United States today, ordinary people have often chosen to turn in their neighbors to the authorities. In Judge Thy Neighbor, Patrick Bergemann provides a theoretical framework for understanding the motives for denunciations in terms of instituti...
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Just like us
Just Like Us is a pathbreaking exploration of what foreignness has meant across American history. Thomas Borstelmann traces American ambivalence about non-Americans, identifying a paradoxical perception of foreigners as suspiciously different yet fundamentally sharing American values at heart ben...
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Just ›a machine for doing business‹?
Katja Schönian analyses internal communication and branding strategies in connection with the implementation of a new company intranet. Based on qualitative data, the study contrasts managerial expectations and everyday usage of the intranet in distinct work settings.
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Justice for trans athletes
Bringing insights from sociology, philosophy, science and law, contributors present cogent analyses of these developments and explore the way forward, providing thoughtful and original recommendations for changes to policies and practices that are inclusive, innovative and democratic.
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Justice required
A groundbreaking quantitative and qualitative investigation of police violence, Justice Required argues that while police shootings are typically treated as a criminal justice issue, they should be understood as a public health problem.
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Karl polanyi
Karl Polanyi was one of the twentieth century’s most original interpreters of the market economy. His writing still serves as an effective counterargument to free market fundamentalism. Gareth Dale shows how the major personal and historical events of Polanyi’s life transformed him from a bourgeo...
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Kill it to save it
How have powerful Americans convinced their fellow citizens to support policies beneficial only to the wealthy? Why have so many given up on public education, safe food and safe streets, living wages – even on democracy itself? Kill it to Save it lays bare the hypocrisy of US political discours...
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Knowledge matters
Higher education can be a vital public good, providing opportunities for students, informed citizens for democracy, and knowledge to improve the human condition. Yet public investment in universities is widely being cut, often because public purposes are neglected while private benefits dominate....
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La chance
Providing an explorative experience to the reader, this study accounts for the elusiveness of la chance in the Bamako context and beyond.
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Labor turnover in ethiopia's textile industry
Michaela Fink investigates why the Ethiopian textile industry is particularly affected by high labor turnover, focusing primarily on the voices of the (female) workforce.
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Land grabbing and home country development
Between 2000 and 2016, China and the UK acquired large areas of land through investment projects in sub-Saharan Africa. Ariane Goetz explains the global phenomenon of land grabbing from the perspective of these two investor countries, offering insights into the political economies that enable the...
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Large housing estates under socialism
This book argues that harnessing large urban housing estates in former socialist countries as a resource for the future housing supply requires innovative and practicable strategies and concepts.
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Law and culture in japan
Volume 30 of Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance brings together scholars from various disciplinary backgrounds to discuss a variety of aspects and developments related to law and culture in contemporary Japan.
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Law, politics and family in ‘the americans’
Interpreting The Americans through a socially charged lens, this special issue offers a compelling insight into the legal and cultural undertones of family dynamics, as well as those at the heart of conservative American politics.
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Lead us into temptation
Coke adds life. Just do it. Yo quiero Taco Bell. We live in a commercial age, awash in a sea of brand names, logos, and advertising jingles—not to mention commodities themselves. Are shoppers merely the unwitting stooges of the greedy producers who will stop at nothing to sell their wares? Are th...
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Learning allowed
Considering what this means for the way we think about learning and how we see ourselves as learners, Learning Allowed builds a foundation for strengthening learner ‘connectivity’ whoever and wherever we are.
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Learning and sustainability in dangerous times
Stephen Sterling is a pioneer in sustainability education. This collection of his essential writings is freshly curated by the author and offers a new overview and chapter by chapter introductions that link together his thinking to inform the growing and urgent debate on the role and nature of ed...
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Learning to hear
Sarah Maslen uncovers tricks of the trade and forms of communal assistance for crafting largely unconscious practices to hone hearing.
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