Catálogo de libros: Teoría social

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  • Sociological Foundations of Computational Social Science
    This book provides solid sociological foundations to computational social science (CSS). CSS is an emerging research field, and many books with those words in the title are on the market. However, CSS has not become mainstream in sociology, for which there are two reasons. First, CSS does not necessarily solve major research questions in sociology. Second, its sociological foun...
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    157,88 €

  • Introduction to Sociology Through Comedy
    Julie Morris
    Introduction to Sociology Through Comedy teaches foundational sociological concepts using comedy, first considering the history of sociology before employing examples from comedians - including standalone comedy bits, sketches, characters, and scenes - to illustrate a specific theory, concept, or social phenomenon. ...
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    66,19 €

  • Between Care and Justice
    Elena Pulcini / Antonio Calcagno / Silvia Benso
    Proposes a form of moral education that joins care and justice to nurture and develop the desirable moral sentiments for a more just world at the interpersonal, social, political economic, and environmental levels.Elena Pulcini (1950-2021), an internationally renowned philosopher of care, was at the forefront of thinking and creating a new ethical framework to respond efficacio...
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    127,13 €

  • Conviviality in Burgaz
    Deniz N. Duru
    This open access book tells stories of conviviality, solidarity, and everyday management of conflicts and tensions, by building on original, long-term ethnographic research (fourteen months in 2009-2010, followed by fieldwork trips until now) on Burgaz, an island home to more than twenty ethnic and religious groups from different socio-economic backgrounds. The island provides ...
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    70,78 €

  • Alfred Schutz, Phenomenology, and the Renewal of Interpretive Social Science
    Besnik Pula
    This book calls attention to the continued relevance of Alfred Schutz’s social thought and his efforts to bring phenomenology to bear on social theory and the epistemology of social research, arguing that his social theory offers a robust framework for the critical analysis of power and knowledge in modern society. ...
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    241,06 €

  • Physis, Biopower, and Biothermodynamics
    Enrique Leff
    Positing that the ’environmental question’ arises from the history of metaphysics, this book reinterprets Heraclitus’ notion of physis as the fundamental, emergent potency of life, thus deconstructing the interpretation offered by Heidegger and stressing the struggle between the creative force of life and its subjection to the human Logos. ...
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    254,29 €

  • The Interloper
    Michel Anteby
    A practical and theoretical guide for field researchers struggling with accessResistance is the bane of all field researchers, who are often viewed as interlopers when they enter a community and start asking questions. People obstruct investigations and hide evidence. They shelve complaints, silence dissent, and even forget their own past and deny having done so. How can we lea...
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    33,74 €

  • Revisiting Social Theory
    D.V. Kumar
    This book revisits social theory to highlight features of ’good’ social theory. With particular attention to issues of nationalism, democracy, civil society, state, feminism, neoliberalism, minority rights, environment and Indian society, it considers whether new questions need to be asked. ...
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    241,09 €

  • The Politics of Orientation
    Hannah Richter
    Interlinks Gilles Deleuze’s critical philosophy with Niklas Luhmann’s systems theory to unpack contemporary democratic politics as a contest for complexity-reducing orientation in sense.The Politics of Orientation provides the first substantial exploration of a surprising theoretical kinship and its rich political implications, between Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy and the sociol...
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    44,76 €

  • José Ingenieros
    Maximiliano E. Korstanje
    Maximiliano Korstanje presents an overview and analysis of the work of the Argentinian Sociologist and physician, José Ingenieros (1877-1925). Korstanje takes in turn the key areas of Ingenieros’s work and examines how his thinking can be brought to bear on the social challenges of today. ...
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    241,52 €

  • Magic and the Will to Science
    Agnes Horvath
    This book offers a political anthropological perspective on the problematic character of science, showing how science grew out of magic and its variations, whilst demonstrating that the desire to use science to solve various problems of human existence has created a permanent liminal crisis. ...
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    241,12 €

  • Developing Africa?
    Lehasa Moloi
    The book depicts an Afrocentric thinker grounded in the theory of Afrocentricity in the interrogation of an African development discourse in pursuit of cognitive justice. ...
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    141,78 €

  • Rethinking untouchability
    Jesús F. Cháirez-Garza
    This book explores the political thought of B.R. Ambedkar, one of the most important thinkers of modern India. Ambedkar’s ideas transformed untouchability, often considered a millenary religious issue, into a political problem by linking it to larger ideas in the twentieth century such as liberty, slavery, race, and the creation of Pakistan. ...
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    157,36 €

  • What is Sexualized Violence?
    Jana Schäfer
    This book uses an intersectional, queer and subject-oriented approach to examine how societies constitute subjects as abilized and vulnerabilized with respect to sexualized violence. ...
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    241,05 €

  • Reintroducing Gabriel Tarde
    Sergio Tonkonoff
    This book offers a new introduction to the thought of Gabriel Tarde, highlighting the continuing relevance, and even the novelty, of his thought, and showing that the micro-sociology offered to us by Tarde provides a framework through which we can understand a whole range of social phenomena. ...
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    241,45 €

  • Reintroducing Gabriel Tarde
    Sergio Tonkonoff
    This book offers a new introduction to the thought of Gabriel Tarde, highlighting the continuing relevance, and even the novelty, of his thought, and showing that the micro-sociology offered to us by Tarde provides a framework through which we can understand a whole range of social phenomena. ...
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    69,65 €

  • Better?
    Brian Martin
    Over the past fifty years, have things been getting better or worse? Brian Martin sets out to address this big question by looking at a range of topics, from climate to feminism, from happiness to war, from deschooling to death. Along the way, he offers personal stories and assessments of key studies. This is an invitation to avoid excessive gloom and unwarranted optimism by th...
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    26,83 €

  • An Invitation to the Sociology of Emotions
    Scott Harris
    Unique in its approach, Invitation to the Sociology of Emotions gives students a brief, but thorough, introduction to the sociology of emotions. In this new edition, the author updates the volume with recent research on emotion management, emotional labor, and emotions in social media. ...
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    61,58 €

  • The Early Austrian School of Economics
    Christopher Adair-Toteff
    This book explores the thought of the three ’founding’ members of the Austrian School of economics: Carl Menger, Friedrich von Wieser and Eugen Böhm-Bawerk, considering the overlapping and specialisation of their work on money, value and capital. ...
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    36,03 €

  • The Routledge International Handbook of Goffman Studies
    Bringing together the work of leading scholars, this book explores the fertility and enigma of Erving Goffman’s sociological reasoning and its capacity to shed fresh light on the fundamental features of human sociality. ...
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    84,90 €

  • Communication Against Domination
    Max Hänska
    This book bridges a philosophical gap between normative questions and empirical research into communication and information technology. It is an essential guide for scholars as well as graduate and advanced undergraduate students of research and theory in communication, philosophy, political science, and the social sciences. ...
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    73,65 €

  • Contours of South Asian Social Anthropology
    Swatahsiddha Sarkar
    This book presents a conceptual and methodological framework to understand South Asia by engaging with the practices of sociology and social anthropology in India and Nepal. It provides a new imagination of South Asia by connecting historical, political, religious, and cultural divides of the region. ...
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    73,72 €

  • Nationalism and Hegemony
    Michaelangelo Anastasiou
    This book develops a contemporary theory of nationalism that addresses 21st century political challenges, exploring theoretical and empirical understandings of the concepts of ’the nation’ and ’nationalism’ and the failure of theoretical accounts to decipher the ways nationalism comes to be embedded in our social and political world. ...
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    73,33 €

  • City, Environment, and Transnationalism in the Philippines
    Koki Seki
    Seki presents an ethnography of uncertainty and precarity experienced by people in urban, rural, and transnational, communities in the Philippines as a case study of social protection without the possibility of a robust welfare state. He deals with topics including urban poverty, environmental degradation, and transnational migration. ...
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    73,20 €

  • Heidegger in the Face of the Environmental Question
    Enrique Leff
    This volume engages with the work of Heidegger to argue that the environmental crisis stems from the symbolic codification of the world from the Logos of Greek philosophy to the rationality of the modern world and resulting in a metaphysics that privileged a concern with ontological ’being’ over material conditions. ...
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    254,21 €

  • Literary and Cultural Representations of the Hinterlands
    This collection explores the diverse relationships between the concept of hinterlands and its manifestations in literature and culture. These essays seek to reconceptualize hinterlands and highlight their semiotic complexity. ...
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    267,86 €

  • The Meaning of the Twentieth Century
    Kenneth Boulding
    Originally published in 1965 this book traces the forces which have brought the 20th century ’post-civilisation’ into being: the ever-increasing power of science and the scientific attitude, the global communication network, the high efficiency of industrial societies. ...
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    57,17 €

  • Class and Conflict in an Industrial Society
    Ralf Dahrendorf
    Originally published in England in 1959, this book evolves a new theory of conflict in industrial society. By way of illustrating and testing this theory, the book provides detailed analyses of various social phenomena. ...
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    59,23 €

  • Essays in the Theory of Society
    Ralf Dahrendorf
    Originally published in 1968, these ten essays by one of Europe’s leading sociological theorists deal with important issues on the borderline between sociology and social philosophy and demonstrate the author’s deep insight into history and political analysis. ...
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    59,42 €

  • Homo Sociologicus
    Ralf Dahrendorf
    First published in English as part of the Essays in the Theory of Society, this volume reissues the stand-alone Homo Sociologicus for which the author wrote a new introduction when it was originally published in 1973. ...
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    57,66 €


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