Sociology category: 22581 books
Towards a Critical Sociology (Routledge Revivals)
An Essay on Commonsense and Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2010
For the better part of its history sociology shared with commonsense its assumption of the ‘nature-like’ character of society – and consequently developed as the science of unfreedom. In this powerful and engaging work, first published in 1976, Professor Bauman outlines the historical roots...
Music Sociology
Examining the Role of Music in Social Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Music Sociology explores 16 different genres to demonstrate that music everywhere reflects social values, organisational processes, meanings and individual identity. Presenting original ethnographic research, the contributors use descriptions of subcultures to explain the concepts of music sociology,...
by Phillip Bonacich, Philip Lu
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Mathematical models and computer simulations of complex social systems have become everyday tools in sociology. Yet until now, students had no up-to-date textbook from which to learn these techniques. Introduction to Mathematical Sociology fills this gap, providing undergraduates with a comprehensive,...
Sociology and Empire
The Imperial Entanglements of a Discipline
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
The revelation that the U.S. Department of Defense had hired anthropologists for its Human Terrain System project—assisting its operations in Afghanistan and Iraq—caused an uproar that has obscured the participation of sociologists in similar Pentagon-funded projects. As the contributors to Sociology...
MCAT Psychology and Sociology Review
New for MCAT 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
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by Andrew Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
For the past twenty years, noted sociologist Andrew Abbott has been developing what he calls a processual ontology for social life. In this view, the social world is constantly changing—making, remaking, and unmaking itself, instant by instant. He argues that even the units of the social world—both...
by K. Peggs
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Animals and Sociology challenges traditional assumptions about the nature of sociology. Sociology often centres on humans; however, other animals are everywhere in society. Kay Peggs explores the significant contribution that sociology can make to our understanding of human relations with other animals.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2010
Sports coaching is a social activity. At its heart lies a complex interaction between coach and athlete played out within the context of sport, itself a socio-culturally defined set of practices. In this ground-breaking book, leading international coaching scholars and coaches argue that an understanding...
Getting Sociology Right
A Half-Century of Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2014
Neil J. Smelser, one of the most important and influential American sociologists, traces the discipline of sociology from 1969 to the early twenty-first century in Getting Sociology Right: A Half-Century of Reflections. Examining sociology as a vocation and building on the work of Talcott Parsons,...
The Dialogical Turn
New Roles for Sociology in the Postdisciplinary Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2003
The discipline of sociology was born-and has been recurrently reconstituted-in response to the fragmentation of ideas about the social world. For two centuries, sociologists have sought refuge in 'synthesis:' programs designed to integrate multiple perspectives within a unifying framework. Yet even...
Public Sociology
From Social Facts to Literary Acts
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
Public Sociology, 2nd edition offers a fundamental enriching of method far beyond the scope of research methodology textbooks. It looks at sociology as a social act-as writing-in arguing for a public sociology that can more fully embrace and address crucial public issues. Building on the philosophy...
Sociology in Poland
To Be Continued?
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
This ground-breaking book provides a compelling account of the social sciences in post-war Central and Eastern Europe. The first English-language monograph to analyse the history of sociology in Poland up to the present day, it maps transformations in the discipline against political and social change....
The Dynamics and Evolution of Social Systems
New Foundations of a Mathematical Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
When I started with this book several years ago I originally intended to write an introduction to mathematical systems theory for social scientists. Yet the more I thought about systems theory on the one side and theoretical sociology on the other the more I became convinced that the classical mathematical...
A Sociology of Japanese Youth
From Returnees to NEETs
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Over the past thirty years, whilst Japan has produced a diverse set of youth cultures which have had a major impact on popular culture across the globe, it has also developed a succession of youth problems which have led to major concerns within the country itself. Drawing on detailed empirical fieldwork,...