Sociology category: 22581 books
The Rules of Sociological Method
And Selected Texts on Sociology and its Method
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Revised for the first time in over thirty years, this edition of Emile Durkheim’s masterful work on the nature and scope of sociology is updated with a new introduction and improved translation by leading scholar Steven Lukes that puts Durkheim’s work into context for the twenty-first century...
Kurt Blaukopf on Music Sociology an Anthology
2nd Unrevised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
This anthology contains seven texts by Kurt Blaukopf (1914–1999) that exemplify the sociological and epistemological position of this pioneer of Austrian music sociology. Blaukopf’s efforts were aimed at a comprehensive, interdisciplinary approach and analysis of music as a cultural phenomenon...
by Dr Carol Wolkowitz
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2006
'After reading this book it will be more difficult to "do" the sociology of work and the sociology of the body in the absence of the other. In some quite exquisite ways it throws down a challenge which practitioners in both fields will find difficult to ignore' - Paul Stewart, former editor...
by Irving Louis Horowitz
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
When initially published in 1972, Foundations of Political Sociology was acknowledged to be the first unified study of the field. It still provides a cross-fertilization of knowledge concerning the interrelation of social class and political power. Taking into account new specializations in social...
by Peretz Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
When first published, The Sociological Tradition had a profound and positive impact on sociology, providing a rich sense of intellectual background to a relatively new discipline in America. Robert Nisbet describes what he considers the golden age of sociology, 1830-1900, outlining five major themes...
Relational Sociology
A New Paradigm for the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2010
‘Simultaneous invention’ has become commonplace in the natural sciences, but is still virtually unknown within the sphere of social science. The convergence of two highly compatible versions of Critical Realism from two independent sources is a striking exception. Pierpaolo Donati’s Relational...
The Sociology of Belief (Routledge Revivals)
Fallacy and Foundation
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
First published in 1980, this book presents a study of knowledge and the patterns of social and scientific thought. Keith Dixon argues that traditional and contemporary formulations of the sociology of knowledge involve a series of fallacies, and the claim to reduce knowledge to ideology devalues...
Restoring the Classic in Sociology
Traditions, Texts and the Canon
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
This book demonstrates that classical sociology is essential to cutting-edge debates in the contemporary social sciences. It has become fashionable to play down the importance of the classic text in sociology and critique the ideas of Weber, Marx and Durkheim as ideologically outdated. The author...
Sociology and the Environment
A Critical Introduction to Society, Nature and Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
Can sociology help us to tackle environmental problems? What can sociology tell us about the nature of the environment and about the origins and consequences of environmental risks, hazards and change? In this important new book Alan Irwin maps out this emerging field of knowledge, teaching and research....
by William A. Johnson Jr., Gregory M. Scott, Emeritus Professor
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
The Sociology Student Writer's Manual 7/E is a practical guide to research, reading, and writing in sociology.
The Sociology Student Writer’s Manual and Reader’s Guide, Seventh Edition, is a set of instructions and exercises that sequentially develop citizenship, academic, and professional...
The Sociology of Howard S. Becker
Theory with a Wide Horizon
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Howard S. Becker is a name to conjure with on two continents —in the United States and in France. He has enjoyed renown in France for his work in sociology, which in the United States goes back more than fifty years to pathbreaking studies of deviance, professions, sociology of the arts, and a steady...
Readings in Indian Sociology
Volume X: Pioneers of Sociology in India
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
It is through the contributions of the pioneering scholars that not only a particular discipline derives its name but also the foundations on which a particular discipline is built and grows. G.S. Ghurye (1893–1983), Radhakamal Mukerjee (1889–1968), D.P. Mukerji (1894–1961) and M.N. Srinivas...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Micro-Macro Links and Microfoundations in Sociology focuses on two main issues in sociology. Firstly, how macro-conditions can explain macro-outcomes mediated by actor behaviour at the micro-level (micro-macro links). Secondly, how alternative micro-models affect macro-outcomes (microfoundations)....
The New Evolutionary Sociology
Recent and Revitalized Theoretical and Methodological Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
For decades, evolutionary analysis was overlooked or altogether ignored by sociologists. Fears and biases persisted nearly a century after Auguste Comte gave the discipline its name, as did concerns that its effect would only reduce sociology to another discipline – whether biology, psychology,...