A Player's Guide to the Post-Truth Condition

Steve Fuller

• Hardcover | Engels | Key Issues in Modern Sociology
• A Player's Guide to the Post-Truth Condition: The Name of the Game presents sixteen short, readable chapters designed to leverage our post-truth condi... Lees meer

Philosophy and Anthropology

• Paperback | Engels | Key Issues in Modern Sociology
• Anthropology and philosophy have long been intellectual companions; the borders between the two disciplines have always been permeable. For example, a... Lees meer

Karl Marx's 'Capital': A Guide to Volumes I-III

Kenneth Smith

• Paperback | Engels | Key Issues in Modern Sociology
• This book provides a comprehensive guide to all three volumes of Karl Marx's Capital , with advice on further reading and points for further discussio... Lees meer

Discourse on Applied Sociology: Volume 2

• Hardcover | Engels | Key Issues in Modern Sociology
• This engaging two-volume study pursues a balance between theoretical and practical sociology. The authors are aware of the impasse often deliberately ... Lees meer

The Art and Science of Sociology

• Hardcover | Engels | Key Issues in Modern Sociology
• The book consists of a volume of essays in honor of the outstanding sociologist, Edward A. Tiryakian; whose work has spanned a considerable number of ... Lees meer

Organising Neoliberalism

• Paperback | Engels | Key Issues in Modern Sociology
• This collection of essays incorporates the insight of an international group of experts to explore the impact of neoliberal ideology upon political, s... Lees meer

Fighting Scholars

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• 'Fighting Scholars' brings to the fore the ethnographic study of combat sports and martial arts as a means of exploring embodied human existence. The ... Lees meer

Structure, Agency and Biotechnology

Aristeidis Panagiotou

• Hardcover | Engels | Key Issues in Modern Sociology
• The overarching aim of "Structure, Agency, Biotechnology: The Case of the Rothamsted GM Wheat Trials" is to propose a way of filling the analytical ga... Lees meer

Media Sociology and Journalism

Greg Nielsen

• Hardcover | Engels | Key Issues in Modern Sociology
• Media Sociology and Journalism is a dialogue on the kind of society we find ourselves in as defined through news media and politics, and as seen in co... Lees meer

Overseas Chinese Christian Entrepreneurs in Modern China

Joy Kooi-Chin Tong

• Paperback | Engels | Key Issues in Modern Sociology
• Inspired by Max Weber's thesis on the Protestant ethic, 'Overseas Chinese Christian Entrepreneurs in Modern China' sets out to understand the role and... Lees meer

The Legacy of Pierre Bourdieu

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• Pierre Bourdieu is widely regarded as one of the most influential sociologists of his generation, and yet the reception of his work in different cultu... Lees meer

Consumption, Cities and States

Ann Brooks, Lionel Wee

• Hardcover | Engels | Key Issues in Modern Sociology | nr. 1
• In 'Consumption, Cities and States: Comparing Singapore with Asian and Western Cities', Ann Brooks and Lionel Wee focus on the interrelationship of co... Lees meer

Overseas Chinese Christian Entrepreneurs in Modern China

Joy Kooi-Chin Tong

• Hardcover | Engels | Key Issues in Modern Sociology
• Inspired by Max Weber's thesis on the Protestant ethic, 'Overseas Chinese Christian Entrepreneurs in Modern China' sets out to understand the role and... Lees meer

Regimes of Happiness

• Hardcover | Engels | Key Issues in Modern Sociology
• 'Regimes of Happiness' is a comparative and historical analysis of how human societies have articulated and enacted distinctive notions of human fulfi... Lees meer

Transnational Return and Social Change

• Hardcover | Engels | Key Issues in Modern Sociology
• In the past years, in a general context featured by anti-migration discourses in immigration countries, sustained economic growth in countries of orig... Lees meer

Sixties Radicalism and Social Movement Activism

• Paperback | Engels | Key Issues in Modern Sociology | nr. 1
• Unlike many partisan accounts of the nineteen sixties this book aims to give a considered explanation of the context in which the sixties radical move... Lees meer

Émile Durkheim and the Collective Consciousness of Society

Kenneth Smith

• Paperback | Engels | Key Issues in Modern Sociology | nr. 1
• 'Émile Durkheim and the Collective Consciousness of Society: A Study in Criminology' challenges conventional thinking on the use of Durkheim's key con... Lees meer

Knowledge and Human Liberation

Ananta Kumar Giri

• Paperback | Engels | Key Issues in Modern Sociology
• Human liberation has become an epochal challenge in today's world, requiring not only emancipation from oppressive structures but also from the oppres... Lees meer

Rethinking the Social Through Durkheim, Marx, Weber and Whitehead

Michael Halewood

• Hardcover | Engels | Key Issues in Modern Sociology
• Sociologists and social theorists use the term 'social' frequently. We talk of social relations, social media, social networks, social factors, and so... Lees meer

The New Power Elite

Alan Shipman, June Edmunds, Bryan Turner

• Hardcover | Engels | Key Issues in Modern Sociology
• The key questions about today's elites are easy to ask. How did a few spectacularly wealthy bankers and fund managers, whose magic money-tree crumbled... Lees meer

Organising Neoliberalism

• Hardcover | Engels | Key Issues in Modern Sociology
• This collection of essays incorporates the insight of an international group of experts to explore the impact of neoliberal ideology upon political, s... Lees meer

Toward Leader Democracy

Jan Pakulski, András Körösényi

• Paperback | Engels | Key Issues in Modern Sociology
• In today's liberal democracies, does the political process focus on the people, or on the political leaders representing them? In 'Toward Leader Democ... Lees meer

Religion and the State

• Hardcover | Engels | Key Issues in Modern Sociology
• This volume addresses a central problem of contemporary states, namely how to manage the eruption of public religions. While the liberal framework for... Lees meer

Ernst Cassirer and the Critical Science of Germany, 1899-1919

Gregory B Moynahan

• Paperback | Engels | Key Issues in Modern Sociology
• Recovering a lost world of the politics of science in Imperial Germany, Gregory B. Moynahan revisits the work of the philosopher and historian Ernst C... Lees meer