Sociology
Titles in the subject of Sociology from Routledge Paperbacks Direct.
Education Policy and Realist Social Theory
Primary Teachers, Child-Centred Philosophy and the New Managerialism
In Europe welfare state provision has been subjected to 'market forces'. Over the last two decades, the framework of economic competitiveness has become the defining...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-46433-8
Published December 24th 2007 by Routledge.
more information about Education Policy and Realist Social TheoryOntology of Sex
Poststructuralism, particularly through the writings of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, has achieved remarkable success in challenging our belief in natural sex categories and instincts....
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Published December 24th 2007 by Routledge.
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Nancy Fraser and Pierre Bourdieu
Nancy Fraser’s work provides a theory of justice from multiple perspectives which has created a powerful frame for the analysis of political, moral and pragmatic...
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Published December 24th 2007 by Routledge.
more information about (Mis)recognition, Social Inequality and Social JusticeCritical Realism, Post-positivism and the Possibility of Knowledge
Groff defends 'realism about causality' through close discussions of Kant, Hilary Putnam, Brian Ellis and Charles Taylor, among others. In so doing she affirms critical...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-46435-2
Published December 4th 2007 by Routledge.
more information about Critical Realism, Post-positivism and the Possibility of KnowledgeGated Communities
International Perspectives
This informative volume gathers contemporary accounts of the growth, influences on, and impacts of so-called gated communities, developments with walls, gates, guards and other forms...
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Published December 4th 2007 by Routledge.
more information about Gated CommunitiesWomen, Islam and Modernity
Single Women, Sexuality and Reproductive Health in Contemporary Indonesia
In popular debates about reproductive and sexual rights, formal religions, especially Islam, are seen as barriers providing institutional and ideological resistance to women's realization of...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-44803-1
Published June 13th 2007 by Routledge.
more information about Women, Islam and ModernityContributions to Social Ontology
Recent years have seen a dramatic re-emergence of interest in ontology. From philosophy and social sciences to artificial intelligence and computer science, ontology is gaining...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-44238-1
Published May 8th 2007 by Routledge.
more information about Contributions to Social OntologyFamily: Socialization and Interaction Process
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Published March 31st 2007 by Routledge.
more information about Family: Socialization and Interaction ProcessMarxism and Realism
A Materialistic Application of Realism in the Social Sciences
This book rethinks Marx's sociology as a form of realist social theory, extending Roy Bhaskar's philosophical realism into the social sciences. By constructing historical materialism...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-43676-2
Published March 31st 2007 by Routledge.
more information about Marxism and RealismThe Sociology of Progress
Dr. Leslie Sklair is a Reader in Sociology at LSE. He took his BA (hons) in Sociology and Philosophy from Leeds University and his MA...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-43682-3
Published March 31st 2007 by Routledge.
more information about The Sociology of ProgressThe Social Problems of an Industrial Civilisation
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Published March 31st 2007 by Routledge.
more information about The Social Problems of an Industrial CivilisationComplexity and Social Movements
Multitudes at the Edge of Chaos
Fusing two key concerns of contemporary sociology: globalization and its discontents, and the 'complexity turn' in social theory, authors Chesters and Welsh utilize complexity theory...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-43974-9
Published March 22nd 2007 by Routledge.
more information about Complexity and Social MovementsHegemony
A Realist Analysis
Hegemony: A Realist Analysis is a new and original approach to this important concept. It presents a theoretical history of the use of hegemony...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-43668-7
Published March 18th 2007 by Routledge.
more information about HegemonyYouth Crime and Youth Culture in the Inner City
Youth Crime and Youth Culture in the Inner City offers an interpretive account of juvenile delinquency within the modern inner city, an environment which is...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-43975-6
Published March 15th 2007 by Routledge.
more information about Youth Crime and Youth Culture in the Inner CityESSAYS SOCIOLOGY KNOWLEDGE V 5
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Published March 6th 2007 by Routledge.
more information about ESSAYS SOCIOLOGY KNOWLEDGE V 5Cities of Pleasure
Sex and the Urban Socialscape
This book contains a collection of cutting-edge chapters that explore various connections between urban living, sexuality and sexual desire around the world. The key themes...
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Published March 6th 2007 by Routledge.
more information about Cities of PleasureAmerica - Ideal and Reality
The United States of 1776 in Contemporary Philosophy
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Published February 21st 2007 by Routledge.
more information about America - Ideal and RealityA Short History of Sociology
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Published February 21st 2007 by Routledge.
more information about A Short History of SociologyMAN & SOC AGE RECONSTRUCTN V 2
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Published February 15th 2007 by Routledge.
more information about MAN & SOC AGE RECONSTRUCTN V 2CONSERVATISM:INTRO SOCIOL V11
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Published February 15th 2007 by Routledge.
more information about CONSERVATISM:INTRO SOCIOL V11From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology
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Published February 15th 2007 by Routledge.
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Qualitative Complexity
Ecology, Cognitive Processes and the Re-Emergence of Structures in Post-Humanist Social Theory
Offering a critique of the humanist paradigm in contemporary social theory, Qualitative Complexity is the first comprehensive sociological analysis of complexity theory. Drawing from sources...
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Published February 13th 2007 by Routledge.
more information about Qualitative ComplexityRealism and Sociology
Anti-Foundationalism, Ontology and Social Research
In recent years, methodological debates in the social sciences have increasingly focused on issues relating to epistemology. Realism and Sociology makes an original contribution to...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-43685-4
Published January 24th 2007 by Routledge.
more information about Realism and SociologyGlobal Crime Today
The Changing Face of Organised Crime
Crime is recognized as a constant factor within human society, but in the twenty-first century organized crime is emerging as one of the distinctive security...
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Published January 24th 2007 by Routledge.
more information about Global Crime TodayCritical Realism
The Difference it Makes
This book introduces social scientists to the difference that critical realism can make to theorising and methodological problems within the contemporary social sciences. The chapters,...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-43444-7
Published January 24th 2007 by Routledge.
more information about Critical RealismFREEDOM POWER & DEMOC PLAN V 4
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Published March 31st 2006 by Routledge.
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Idea and Reality
Jerusalem, the holy city of three faiths, has been the focus of competing historical, religious, and political narratives from Biblical chronicles to today’s headlines. With...
Published May 12th 2008 by Routledge.
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Presenting a rare glimpse into the various laboratories that involve forensic anthropology, The Forensic Anthropology Laboratory reveals the ways in which anthropologists document, process, and...Published May 12th 2008 by CRC Press.
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