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Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge
Paperback,
28/03/1991,
£10.99
£9.89
Offers an account of the role of knowledge in society aimed to stimulate both discussion and investigations. This book presents an analysis of knowledge in everyday life in the context of a theory of society as a dialectical process between objective and subjective reality.
Diversity in family life
Paperback,
03/12/2014,
£24.99
£22.49
The book aims to show that, in the 21st century, it is possible to live, love, form a family without sex, without children, without a shared home, without a partner, without a working husband, without a heterosexual orientation or without a "biological" sexual body.
Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
Hardback,
14/01/2021,
£14.99
£13.49
It is a creeping part of modern culture, shaped by deep-rooted political, historical and economic forces, and it is affecting how we work, parent, socialise and inhabit the world.
Anne Helen Petersen identifies burnout with moving clarity - what it feels like and how it manifests across communities.
Myth of Generational Conflict: The Family and State in Ageing Societies
Paperback,
01/12/2007,
£38.99
£35.09
Addresses theoretical and policy issues connecting age and generation with the family and social policy. This collection focuses both on cross-cultural comparison within societies and analysis based on a range of societies.
Symbolic Construction of Community
Paperback,
27/06/1985,
£29.99
£26.99
Anthony Cohen explores the concept of community in social theory.
Youth and Generation: Rethinking change and inequality in the lives of young people
Paperback,
04/12/2014,
£29.99
£26.99
A thought provoking and engaging exploration of contemporary youth studuies, with a focus on change and inequality in young lives in the emerging Asian century.
How to be a Sociologist: An Introduction to A Level Sociology
Paperback,
01/06/2021,
£12.99
£11.69
Learn how to think like a sociologist with this short, up-to-date and accessible introduction to studying A Level Sociology or starting Sociology at university. Find out how sociology works and what it can do, as well as where it can take you.
The Awokening: Clarity, Culture and Identity in the Web of Chaos
Hardback,
11/11/2021,
£16.99
£15.29
A timely and inspiring manifesto that argues the need for curiosity and intellectual humility in becoming truly socially aware - and aware of each other
Generational Encounters with Higher Education: The Academic-Student Relationship and the University Experience
Paperback,
17/03/2021,
£26.99
£24.29
Employing a generational analysis, this book offers an original approach to the study of Higher Education and documents the changing nature of the relationship between academics and students. Examining wider issues of culture and socialisation, this is a timely contribution to current debates about the University around higher education.
Nostalgia and Auto/Biography: Considering the Past in the Present
Paperback,
20/07/2016,
£25.00
£22.50
Coming to Narrative: A Personal History of Paradigm Change in the Human Sciences
Paperback,
15/04/2014,
£34.99
£31.49
Weaving autoethnography, theoretical exposition, and a close examination of social trends, distinguished scholar Arthur P. Bochner shows how the theoretical paradigms in the human sciences have developed and changed over the past four decades.
Muslim Minorities and Social Cohesion: Cultural Fragmentation in the West
Hardback,
23/09/2020,
£120.00
£108.00
Plotting the Reading Experience: Theory / Practice / Politics
Hardback,
01/04/2016,
£66.95
£60.26
Essays from international contributors on the experiences of reading: what reading feels like, how it makes people feel, how people read, under what kinds of conditions, what drives people to read, and conversely, what gets individual and groups of readers stopped in their pursuit of the rewards of reading.
Rubbish Theory: The Creation and Destruction of Value
Hardback,
05/06/2017,
£85.00
£76.50
New edition of this classic work which asks: How do objects that are of little worth or worth nothing become valuable?
Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fate of Human Societies
Paperback,
04/07/2017,
£6.50
£5.85
Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer, Guns, Germs, and Steel attempts to answer why human history unfolded differently on different continents. Drawing on evidence from a diverse range of disciplines, Diamond argues that the varying rates of human development over the past 13,000 years have had little to do with genetic superiority.
Foucault's History of Sexuality
Paperback,
05/07/2017,
£6.50
£5.85
Like Foucault's earlier works, The History of Sexuality (1976) is ground-breaking and controversial. His claim that sexuality is more a social concept than the product of biological instincts challenges the accepted idea that it was the rise of modernity and capitalism that resulted in repression of sexualities.
C. Wright Mills' The Sociological Imagination
Paperback,
15/07/2017,
£6.50
£5.85
The Sociological Imagination provoked hostile reaction when it appeared for its hard-hitting attack on how sociology was practiced, and on several leading sociologists.
Durkheim's On Suicide
Paperback,
05/07/2017,
£6.50
£5.85
Durkheim's 1897 work is a powerful evidence-based study of why people take their own lives. In the late nineteenth century, it was generally accepted that each suicide was an individual phenomenon, caused by such personal factors as grief, loss, and financial problems.
Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks
Paperback,
05/07/2017,
£6.50
£5.85
"Black Skin, White Masks offers a radical analysis of the psychological effects of colonization on the colonized. Fanon witnessed the effects of colonization first hand both in his birthplace, Martinique, and again later in life when he worked as a psychiatrist in another French colony, Algeria.
W. Chan Kim & Renee Mauborgne's Blue Ocean Strategy
Paperback,
15/07/2017,
£6.50
£5.85
Competitors have always existed in business, but what if it were possible to render your competition irrelevant? This is the critical question posed in Blue Ocean Strategy, which argues that the path to success of any company lies not in taking on potential competitors, but in the creation of "blue oceans" in uncontested market space.
Frantz Fanon The Wretched of the Earth
Paperback,
15/07/2017,
£6.50
£5.85
Frantz Fanon's 1961 masterpiece is both a powerful analysis of the psychological effects of colonization and a rallying cry for violent uprising and independence.
Jay MacLeod's Ain't No Makin' it: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low Income Neighbourhood
Paperback,
15/07/2017,
£6.50
£5.85
MacLeod's 1987 work, ground-breaking for the way it combines field research with theory, follows the lives of two groups of young men from a low-income housing project in the Boston area to show how poor people who aspire to live the American Dream face many more obstacles than their middle-class counterparts.
Betty Friedam's The Feminine Mystique
Paperback,
04/07/2017,
£6.50
£5.85
In 1963's The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan challenged the vision 1950s America had of itself as a nation of happy housewives and contented families. After World War II, society had fostered the idea that women wanted to run a home and live through the achievements of a husband and children.
Mythomania: Tales of Our Times, From Apple to Isis
Paperback,
03/08/2017,
£9.99
£8.99
[An] entertaining rejoinder, [a] look at the hidden structures and unacknowledged tendencies of our day. --Kirkus Reviews
Marx Durkheim Weber
Paperback,
06/07/2006,
£38.99
£35.09
A guide to the three pivotal figures in the classical tradition. It explains the key ideas of these thinkers and situates them in their historical and philosophical contexts. It helps the student gain an immediate understanding of what is distinctive and relevant about these giants of sociology.
Ways of Social Change: Making Sense of Modern Times
Paperback,
04/08/2015,
£49.99
£44.99
A new edition of this popular student exploration of contemporary social change.
Introduction To Sociology
Paperback,
13/09/2012,
£58.00
£52.20
A long awaited introductory textbook from one of the biggest names in world sociology.
Sociology exploring the architecture of everyday
7,
09/03/2006,
£25.99
£23.39
Provides several examples of the practice of sociology. This anthology also includes short articles, chapters, and excerpts that examine common everyday experiences, important social issues, or distinct historical events that illustrate the relationship between the individual and society.
In Search of the English Eccentric
Paperback,
01/03/2009,
£11.99
£10.79
A witty anthropological journey in search of the quintessential English eccentric.
Together: How small groups achieve big things
Paperback,
01/08/2011,
£10.99
£9.89
From druids to flash-mobbers, historical re-enactors to super-fans, Henry Hemming uncovers the extraordinary groups powering modern Britain
Rethinking Modernity: Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination
Paperback,
11/04/2007,
£24.99
£22.49
Winner of the 2008 BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize this book presents a radical challenge to ideas of modernity in contemporary sociology. Critiquing Eurocentric accounts of modernity, this study provides a postcolonial analysis of the Renaissance, the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution.
Connected Sociologies
Paperback,
23/10/2014,
£23.99
£21.59
Bhambra outlines what 'Theory for a Global Age' might look like, offering this outline as a statement for consideration, contestation and discussion. Bhambra sets the agenda for a new social theory which not only engages with global intellectual currents, but is fundamentally reshaped by them.
Distracted: Erosion Of Attention and the Coming Dark Age
Paperback,
22/09/2009,
£16.99
£15.29
Distracted is a gripping expos of this hyper-mobile, cyber-centric, attention-deficient life. Day by day, we are eroding our capacity for deep attention the building block of intimacy, wisdom, and cultural progress.
Student Revolt: Voices of the Austerity Generation
Paperback,
15/10/2017,
£10.00
£9.00
A lively oral history of the British student protests of 2010, bringing together activists, students, politicians and workers
Death of Homo Economicus: Work, Debt and the Myth of Endless Accumulation
Paperback,
15/08/2017,
£12.00
£10.80
A sharp analysis of the nature of work under late capitalism, revealing the dark side of aspiration and utility
Migration: Economic Change, Social Challenge
Paperback,
20/07/2017,
£25.99
£23.39
This book addresses some of the many social challenges created by migration flows over the past decades. The volume brings together research from three different fields: economics, sociology and political science.
Reinventing Couples: Tradition, Agency and Bricolage
Hardback,
23/11/2017,
£79.99
£38.00
Centrally the authors emphasise the re-traditionalisation involved in de-traditionalisation and the connectedness involved in individualised processes of relationship change. Reinventing Couples will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines including sociology, social work and social policy.
Sociology in Pictures - Theories and Concepts
Paperback,
02/09/2013,
£8.99
£8.09
Sociology in Pictures: Theories and Concepts is a fresh and exciting publication based on styles from graphic novels and comics. It introduces theories and concepts using entertaining and informative pictures drawn by a leading comic illustrator.
Personal Life: New Directions in Sociological Thinking
Paperback,
31/08/2007,
£17.99
£16.19
For more than a decade, Carol Smart has been at the forefront of debates about the sociology of the family. Yet she has become frustrated by the fixation of many commentators with the supposed decline of commitment, and even the decline of the possibility of family life.
Miseducation: Inequality, education and the working classes
Paperback,
11/10/2017,
£13.99
£12.59
This book brings Brian Jackson and Dennis Marsden's pioneering Education and the Working Class from 1962 up to date for the 21st century and reveals what we can do to achieve a fairer education system.
Transparency Society
Paperback,
19/08/2015,
£10.99
£9.89
In this manifesto, German-Korean philosopher Byung-Chul Han denounces transparency as a false ideal, the strongest of our contemporary mythologies, and the most pernicious.
After Empire: Melancholia or Convivial Culture?
Paperback,
23/09/2004,
£34.99
£31.49
From the writings of Fanon and W.E.B. DuBois to Ali G. and The Office, After Empire explores the plight of beleaguered multi-culture and defends it against the accusation of failure.
History of Sociology in Britain: Science, Literature, and Society
Paperback,
18/03/2004,
£61.00
£54.90
A critical history of sociology in Britain. The book examines the literary and scientific contributions to the origin of the discipline, and the challenges faced by the discipline at the dawn of a new century.
Predictive Postcode: The Geodemographic Classification of British Society
Paperback,
07/04/2018,
£26.99
£24.29
This book is a detailed, empirical investigation into the question of whether academic social research can compete with the commercial sector, with its new technologies and big data, in order to classify, profile, and understand us.
Facing An Unequal World: Challenges for Global Sociology
Paperback,
07/04/2018,
£9.99
£8.99
This edited volume explores significant themes in modern, global sociology, including inequality, structures of power, conceptions of justice and sustainable futures.
Selfies: Why We Love (and Hate) Them
Paperback,
30/04/2018,
£17.99
£16.19
This book presents a rich and nuanced analysis of selfie culture. It shows how selfies gain their meanings, illustrates different selfie practices, explores how selfies make us feel and why they have the power to make us feel anything, and unpacks how selfie practices and selfie related norms have changed or might change in the future.
Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology
Paperback,
08/06/2004,
£10.00
£9.00
Everywhere anarchism is on the upswing as a political philosophy - everywhere, that is, except the academy. Anarchists repeatedly appeal to anthropologists for ideas about how society might be reorganized on a more egalitarian, less alienating basis. Anthropologists, terrified of being accused of romanticism, respond with silence...
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