Catálogo de libros: Teoría social

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  • Rhythmanalysis
    Dawn Lyon
    This collection brings together new and original research on the concept and practice of ’rhythmanalysis’ in urban sociology as a means to analyse the relationship between the time and space of the city. ...
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    178,45 €

  • Richer, the Poorer
    Stewart Lansley
    For 200 years, Britain’s most powerful elites have been allowed to enrich themselves at the expense of surging inequality and mass poverty. This landmark book charts the roller coaster history of both rich and poor, and the mechanisms that link wealth and impoverishment. Stewart Lansley traces the way financiers and executives have ruthlessly exploited their power to extract ex...
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    38,83 €

  • Richer, the Poorer
    Stewart Lansley
    For 200 years, Britain’s most powerful elites have been allowed to enrich themselves at the expense of surging inequality and mass poverty. This landmark book charts the roller coaster history of both rich and poor, and the mechanisms that link wealth and impoverishment. Stewart Lansley traces the way financiers and executives have ruthlessly exploited their power to extract ex...
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    135,52 €

  • Co-Creation and Smart Cities
    Le Anh Nguyen Long / Shenja van der Graaf
    Co-creation and Smart Cities: Looking Beyond Technology highlights a more robust value-based perspective on public service development and delivery, helping structure co-creation processes that foster responsible innovation and a systemic, value-based approach to sustainable urban development. ...
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    87,91 €

  • Studies in Symbolic Interaction
    Norman K. Denzin
    Volume 53 of Studies in Symbolic Interaction is divided into three parts, providing contemporary readings of social situations, including interpreting translational science, an analysis of the ’Phantasmal in Qualitative Research’ and ’Miami’s Sea-level Rise Committee’. ...
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    158,28 €

  • De-centering queer theory
    Bogdan Popa
    This book historicises Anglo-American queer theory by excavating a rival epistemology that advanced a communist sexuality during the Cold War. It proposes a new dialectical theory that inserts socialist ideas and films in the epistemology of queer studies. ...
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    145,05 €

  • Surrogacy in Russia
    Christina Weis
    Surrogacy in Russia focuses on commercial surrogacy workers in Russia and other countries of the former Soviet Union. Examining workers’ reproductive migrations, the study presents insights into cross-border reproductive treatment and travels for assisted reproduction, and links to ethnicity, feminism, women’s and gender studies. ...
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    136,10 €

  • Crises and Popular Dissent
    Mike O’Donnell
    The main focus of Crises and Popular Dissent is on liberalism and populism in the United States, Europe and Britain, arguing for an internationalist rather than nationalist perspective and response to turmoil. O’Donnell provides an informed, integrated and distinctive approach to the recent evolution of popular dissent. ...
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    142,89 €

  • The Social Life of Busyness
    Clare Holdsworth
    The Social Life of Busyness engages with the assumption that busyness is taking over everyday life by exploring busyness at work, at home and during leisure time. In a world where the notion of being busy is commonly experienced, and even expected, how should we understand the reasons for busyness? ...
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    136,07 €

  • The Anthem Companion to Philip Selznick
    Paul van Seters
    The Anthem Companion to Philip Selznick is a collection of essays by renowned authors on the preeminent sociologist. ...
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    282,48 €

  • Kid Power, Inequalities and Intergenerational Relations
    Clara Rübner Jørgensen / Michael Wyness
    This book combines theories of power with empirical material on children’s lives across the world to propose a novel framework for understanding kid power. It explores the nature of power relations between children and adults and provides a critical analysis of kid power, considering inequalities and inter-generational relations. ...
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    180,33 €

  • Towards a Civic Theatre
    Dan Hutton
    Full of ideas and provocations from a range of theatre practitioners, and drawing on examples from inside and outside of the performing arts, Towards a Civic Theatre makes the case for a new kind of theatre fit for purpose in an already tumultuous twenty-first century. ...
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    14,50 €

  • Mastering Bolshevism
    Joseph Stalin
    Stalin’s fight against wreckers and Trotskyists comes to the fore in 'Mastering Bolshevism'. First published in 1937, this book documents struggles in the USSR and its Communist Party in the run up to World War II. Also includes Stalin’s speech to voters. ...
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    9,21 €

  • Rigged
    Anna Killick
    Most people find it hard to define ’the economy’ beyond saying it is ’to do with money’. Through ethnographic research in a city on the South coast of England, this book explores what ’the economy’ means to people’s lives and what goes through their minds when they hear politicians talking about it. ...
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    37,33 €

  • Omar Khayyam’s Secret
    Mohammad H. Tamdgidi
    Omar Khayyam’s Secret: Hermeneutics of the Robaiyat in Quantum Sociological Imagination is a twelve-book series of which this book, subtitled New Khayyami Studies: Quantumizing the Newtonian Structures of C. Wright Mills’s Sociological Imagination for A New Hermeneutic Method, is the first volume. Each book is independently readable, although it will be best understood as a par...
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    116,63 €

  • Omar Khayyam’s Secret
    Mohammad H. Tamdgidi
    Omar Khayyam’s Secret: Hermeneutics of the Robaiyat in Quantum Sociological Imagination is a twelve-book series of which this book, subtitled New Khayyami Studies: Quantumizing the Newtonian Structures of C. Wright Mills’s Sociological Imagination for A New Hermeneutic Method, is the first volume. Each book is independently readable, although it will be best understood as a par...
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    89,78 €

  • Critical theory and sociological theory
    Darrow Schecter
    Rearticulating critical theory with a contemporary focus, this book investigates how the conditions of democratic statehood have changed at key historical intervals since 1945. It argues that a sociological approach is needed to address conceptual deficits and explain how the mechanisms of democratic statehood can be updated today. ...
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    35,67 €

  • Conversations About Language & Culture
    Howard Burton
    Conversations About Language & Culture includes the following 5 in-depth Ideas Roadshow Conversations featuring leading researchers. This collection includes a detailed preface highlighting the connections between the different books. Each book is broken into chapters with a detailed introduction and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter: 1.Babbling Barbarians: Ho...
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    24,91 €

  • Work That Body
    Jamie Hakim
    This book explores the recent rise in different types of men using digital media to sexualise their bodies. Using four different case studies - the celebrity male nude leak, the 'spornosexual', RuPaul's Drag Race and chemsex - it argues that they do this to live out, negotiate or resist neoliberalism during the post-2008 conjuncture. ...
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    54,55 €

  • The Souls of Black Folk (Royal Collector’s Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
    W.E.B. Du Bois
    The Souls of Black Folk is a 1903 work of American literature by W. E. B. Du Bois. It is a seminal work in the history of sociology and a cornerstone of African-American literature. The book contains several essays on race. To develop this work, Du Bois drew from his own experiences as an African American in American society. Outside of its notable relevance in African-American...
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    53,98 €

  • Paul Ricoeur and the Hope of Higher Education
    The stresses of the twenty-first century have exposed the fault lines in Higher Education, both as an instructional space that facilitates student growth and as a social space that shapes our economic, political, and religious institutions. This book uses Paul Ricoeur’s rigorous writings to envision a Just University necessary for the years ahead. ...
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    163,28 €

  • Non-Work Obligations
    Robert A. Stebbins
    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 guide to finding contentment in discontentment. ...
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    88,20 €

  • Redefining Theory and Practice to Guide Social Transformation
    Beth Fisher-Yoshida / Joan Camilo Lopez
    The application of theory to practice in addressing social transformation still has a lot of room for growth and improvement. This is also true of theory being informed by practice. Too often, there are gaps between what is studied in the academy and what is needed in the field. The academy develops theories in isolation from the everyday lives of people, especially in post-con...
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    281,64 €

  • Theoretical and Practical Approaches to Social Innovation
    Adela McMurray / Chamindika Weerakoon
    Social innovation is identified as a mechanism response to burning social challenges and the evolution of hybrid organizations such as social enterprises. As a result, there is an overwhelming growing interest among researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to know more about the significant concept of social innovation. Despite this significance, it is often argued that the...
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    281,83 €

  • The Souls of Black Folk (Deluxe Library Edition)
    W.E.B. Du Bois
    The Souls of Black Folk is a 1903 work of American literature by W. E. B. Du Bois. It is a seminal work in the history of sociology and a cornerstone of African-American literature. The book contains several essays on race. To develop this work, Du Bois drew from his own experiences as an African American in American society. Outside of its notable relevance in African-American...
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    41,75 €

  • The Critical Phenomenology of Intergroup Life
    Evandro Camara
    This study addresses race and ethnic relations from the standpoint of Schutzian phenomenological social psychology. It shows how this approach, by focusing on intersubjectivity and the construction of self and identity, both yields an intimate look at race and reveals the critical thrust, hence, political relevance, of phenomenology. ...
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    142,88 €

  • Health and Illness in the Neoliberal Era in Europe
    Health and illness in the Neoliberal Era in Europe discusses the impact of neoliberalism on public health and the social construction of health and illness in Europe, analysing case studies at a European and national level. ...
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    152,57 €

  • Theoretical and Practical Approaches to Social Innovation, 1 volume
    Adela McMurray / Chamindika Weerakoon
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    215,98 €

  • Redefining Theory and Practice to Guide Social Transformation
    Beth Fisher-Yoshida / Joan Camilo Lopez
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    215,79 €

  • Critical theory and demagogic populism
    Paul Jones / Paul K. Jones
    This is the first study to make a detail case for the Frankfurt School’s relevance to understanding contemporary populism. It reconstructs their analysis of ’modern demagogy’ and demonstrates its advantages over orthodox ’populism studies’ and the work of Laclau. The book also extends the Institute’s analysis to assess ’counter-demagogic’ forces. ...
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    157,15 €


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