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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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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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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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Islands of order
Two pioneering anthropologists reveal how complexity science can help us better understand how societies change over timeOver the past two decades, anthropologist J. Stephen Lansing and geneticist Murray Cox have explored dozens of villages on the islands of the Malay Archipelago, combining ethno...
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Key concepts and contemporary approaches to structured inequality
This book provides a basic but comprehensive text on the topic of social stratification.
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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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Leisure lifestyles
Acknowledging that the challenge facing social science is how to inject some order into the common-sense notion of leisure lifestyles, this book, written by a major player in the field of leisure, considers how to turn the study of both serious and casual leisure into a useful concept for guiding...
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Levels of organic life and the human
A modern classic, this powerful and sophisticated account of embodiment was first published in German in 1928 and now appears in English for the first time. With reference simultaneously to science, social theory, and philosophy, Plessner shows how life can be seen on its own terms to establish i...
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Liberty and equality
An invaluable reflection on the essence of liberal democracy—and an ideal introduction to the work of political philosopher Raymond AronLiberty and Equality is the first English translation of the last lecture delivered at the Collège de France by Raymond Aron, one of the most influential politic...
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Listen!
An examination on how listening shapes who we are, weaves the world and grounds our movements for justice and liberation.
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Lived realities of solo motherhood, donor conception and medically assisted reproduction
This book explores the empirical manifestations of the paradoxical features of reproductive technologies and provides in-depth understandings of solo motherhood through assisted reproduction and by recognising the complex experiences and the lived realities of forming donor-conceived families.
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Mad hazard
Revealing an academic career not dependent on prestige and academic power, but also not untouched by hierarchy and academic politics, Mad Hazard is appealing for readers interested in the field of social theory, and beyond that, those interested in the evolution of intellectual life in the presen...
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Marxism and sociology
An essential volume making available in English for the first time the key works of Polish Marxist Sociologist Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz
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Marxist class theory for a skeptical world
A persuasive and thorough response to those fashionable social theorists who challenge both the explanatory and emancipatory power of ‘class.’
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Marxist thought in south asia
Forging an anti-imperialist Marxism through dialectical and historical approaches, this volume of Political Power and Social Theory demonstrates how the South Asian facet of this revolutionary tradition can contribute to and even reenergize global Marxist theory.
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Measuring culture
Written collectively by a team of leading qualitative and quantitative sociologists of culture, Measuring Culture provides both the definitive introduction to the sociological literature on culture as well as a critical set of case studies for methods courses across the social sciences.
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Media sociology and journalism
While the alt right and post-truth attitudes render democracy fragile, so does professional journalism when it reports on the most vulnerable subjects in society but rarely addresses them as the imagined audience. A dialogical critique of divisions in news media, politics, and contemporary sociol...
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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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Migration, reproduction and society
This volume theorises the contradiction between the need of many societies in the Global North for large scale migration and the rejection of this change through racism and xenophobia
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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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Modeling social behavior
A comprehensive introduction to mathematical and agent-based modeling of social behaviorThis book provides a unified, theory-driven introduction to key mathematical and agent-based models of social dynamics and cultural evolution, teaching readers how to build their own models, analyze them, and ...
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Moving spaces and places
Moving Spaces and Places is a cross-disciplinary collection about movement as a transformative experience, showing how movement changes affect and percept of spaces and place and solidifies space into meaningful places.
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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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Murderous consent
Murderous Consent details our implication in violence that we do not directly inflict but in which we are structurally complicit. Marc Crépon invites the reader to resist that implication by arguing for an ethicosmopolitics grounded in our receptivity to the pleas for assistance that the vulnerab...
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Mutant neoliberalism
This interdisciplinary collection, featuring some of today’s most prominent political theorists, sociologists, philosophers, and historians, challenges narratives of neoliberalism’s demise. The book queries whether contemporary political ruptures—including the rise of far-right forces—will challe...
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My tax dollars
When the mundane reality of paying taxes takes on moral significanceIn My Tax Dollars, Ruth Braunstein maps the contested moral landscape in which Americans experience and make sense of the tax system. Braunstein tells the stories of Americans who view taxpaying as more than a mundane chore: anti...
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Nascar, sturgis, and the new economy of spectacle
A brilliant and compelling application of the analytic tools of Critical Theory to NASCAR and Motor Cycle rallies.
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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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Non-work obligations
Non-work obligations can undermine our well-being and lifestyles, but scholars of work and leisure alike have largely ignored this element of our lives. This book, written by an established authority in the field, shines a light on the significance of this ‘third space’ in our lives and offers a...
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Noncoercive threats to academic, political, and economic freedom
This book brings together a distinguished set of scholars to examine covert constraints on academic, political, and economic freedom from a variety of angles, developing surprising and timely new insights.
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Organizational wrongdoing as the “foundational” grand challenge
Organizational Wrongdoing as the “Foundational” Grand Challenge: Consequences and Impact focuses on the consequences of organizational wrongdoing, the role of whistleblowing, and methodological issues.
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Organizations and climate change
This volume contains an Open Access chapter. Organizations and Climate Change brings together new empirical papers that set an agenda for a more holistic theory of organizations and climate change, examining how various kinds of organizations respond to one of the most important challenges.
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Organizing for societal grand challenges
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Organizing for Societal Grand Challenges unpacks how diverse forms of organizing help tackle-or reinforce-grand challenges,while emphasizing the need for researchers to expand their methodological repertoire and r...
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Performing public confessions
It is widely thought that confessions from perpetrators of state violence promote accountability, reconciliation, and justice. Yeşim Yaprak Yıldız offers a challenge to this view through a critical examination of perpetrators’ narratives, analyzing them as performances that shape public perceptio...
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Planetary sociology
Including contributions from senior scholars in the field who do not rely on the paradigm of planetary Sociology, this volume of Current Perspectives in Social Theory illustrates the importance of scrutinizing links between individual identity and social structure, without employing the paradigm ...
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Politics of the gift
At the heart of capitalism lies the idea of ‘homo economicus’: an ever-rational human being motivated by self-interest which arguably leads societies to economic prosperity. Drawing on French sociologist Marcel Mauss' influential theory of ‘the gift’, Frank Adloff shatters this fallacy to show m...
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Postcolonial sociologies
How can postcolonial thought be most fruitfully translated and incorporated into sociology? This special volume brings together leading sociologists to offer some answers and examples. The chapters offer new postcolonial readings of canonical thinkers like Karl Marx, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim and...
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Practicing caste
Practicing Caste attempts a break from the tradition of caste studies, using versions of phenomenology, structuralism and post-structuralism; and gives a description of touchability and untouchability in terms of a rhetoric and semantics of touch.
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Proxemics and the architecture of social interaction
Founded by anthropologist Edward T. Hall, proxemics developed amid cold war political tensions and social and civil unrest. Proxemics and the Architecture of Social Interaction presents selections from Hall’s extensive archive of visual materials alongside a critical analysis that traces transfor...
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Public sociology as educational practice
Leading academics take a distinctive new approach to the understanding of public sociology education in this perceptive new resource. Through pedagogical case studies and inter-contributor dialogues, they develop and challenge thinking in the field. Divided into three sections on the publics, kno...
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Rational choice and political power
Featuring a substantial new introduction and two new chapters in the Postscript, this new edition makes one of the most significant works on power available in paperback and online for the first time. The author extensively engages with a body of new literature to elucidate and expand upon the or...
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Reconceptualizing state of exception
A glimpse into the complexities of governance during extraordinary times, this collection contributes to a nuanced understanding and exploration of state of exception and emergency rule in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Reconstructing social theory, history and practice
Taken from papers presented at the 2015 International Social Theory Consortium (ISTC), this volume focusses on “Reconstruction”, dedicated to taking account of and interrogating the possibility of picking up the pieces.
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Red dirt
How material conditions and social contradictions remake indigeneity Indigenous studies struggles to analyze class, yet class reshapes the cultural, political, and economic terrain of indigeneity. In Red Dirt, Ikaika Ramones goes beyond the usual conceptual frameworks of resistance and domination...
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Refugees, refuge, and human displacement
This volume studies the concept of refuge as well as historical forced displacement and statelessness, trying to provide potential lasting solutions to the many problems associated with this situation. It moves from the pressing crisis of refugees to the crisis of humanity that seeks to find refuge.
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Reproductive governance and bodily materiality
Reproductive Governance and Bodily Materiality explores the growing centrality and power of the medical professional and lay practices within the field of human reproduction as they entangle with political economic processes, providing examples from multiple countries.
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