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The central question in Work, Consumption and Culture is whether consumption has now displaced production as the defining factor in the lives of those in the industrialized West. This book offers a comprehensive review of the key issues in the production/consumption...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2005-01-19
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About this book The most significant French sociologist since Durkheim, Pierre Bourdieu's influence on intellectual life shows no sign of abating. He was a prolific and......
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Kluwer Academic Publishers
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2005
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About this book Against the background of colonial and postcolonial experiences, this volume shows that power relations and stereotypes embedded in the original Western idea......
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Kluwer Academic Publishers
Parution :
2005
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About this book It is a notorious fact that the evolution of civil-military relations and the security sector reform in South-East Europe has to deal with post-totalitarian......
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Physica-Verlag
Parution :
2005
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In Policy Challenges and Political Responses, leading public choice scholars confront the most significant problems facing democratic...
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Kluwer Academic Publishers
Parution :
2005
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September 11, 2001 in the U.S., March 11, 2004 in Madrid ? just two examples of a series of major terror
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Springer-Verlag
Parution :
2005
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Archaeological theory has gone through a great upheaval in the last 50 years ? from the processual theory, which wanted to make archaeology more...
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Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers
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2005
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Clear and accessible, Key Concepts in Critical Social Theory makes difficult ideas available to an undergraduate audience. - Larry Ray, Professor of Sociology, University of Kent The SAGE Key Concepts series provides students with accessible and authoritative...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2004-12-09
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'Once in a while a manuscript stops you in your tracks... What we are offered here is no recovering of old ground but a step change in perspectives on "body matters" that is both innovative and of fundamental importance to anyone working on this sociological...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2004-12-02
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Despite the many social changes of the last half-century, many Americans still "pass": black for white, gay for straight, and now in many new ways as well. We tend to think of passing in negative terms--as deceitful, cowardly, a betrayal of one's self. But this...
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PublicAffairs
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2004-12-01
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`In this excellent and thought-provoking book. Hutchinson has taken the debate about nations and nationalism a significant step forward. His view of nations as zones of conflict is a useful and appropriate way of approaching this subject, making an important...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2004-11-16
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Media and Violence pays equal attention to the production, content and reception involved in any representation of violence.
This book offers a framework for understanding how violence is represented and consumed.
It examines:
- The relationship of media, gender and...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2004-11-16
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`Fluid, readable and accessible ... I found the overall quality of the book to be excellent. It provides an overview of major (and preceding) developments in the field of science studies. It examines landmark works, authors, concepts and approaches ... I will certainly...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2004-11-11
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'Globalization and Belonging's headline message - that place matters, that locality remains vital to people, is arresting' - Frank Webster, Professor of Sociology, City University, London
Drawing on long-term empirical research into cultural practices, lifestyles and...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2004-11-09
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Analysis of variance (ANOVA) constitutes the main set of statistical methods used by students and researchers to analyse data from experiments. This expertly written textbook adopts a pioneering approach to ANOVA with an emphasis on confidence intervals rather than...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2004-11-02
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'This book traverses an impressive array of topics and problems central to law and criminal justice. Its accessibility, contemporary themes and sensitivity to issues of inequality make it a perfect text for students and teachers of sociology, law, criminology, legal...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2004-10-20
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'In quite a profound, high-modernist way, this succinct but comprehensive book deems its subject worthy of careful scholarly analysis. I applaud and recommend it for taking much of the nonsense out of McLuhan' - Topia Journal
'Feted and reviled in his own lifetime,...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2004-10-20
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`A polished piece of work which takes a cool and dispassionate look at subculture... Meticulous and insightful' - Jim McGuigan, Professor of Cultural Analysis, University of Loughborough
This illuminating book, which explores the idea of subcultures, traces the...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2004-10-20
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`Philip Mellor's ambition is to save sociology from itself…or to save society from the sociologists. He has written a brilliant polemic and theoretically rich argument against the many fashionable contemporary social theories that provide acquiescent 'post-societal'...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2004-09-29
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`This is a highly original and in many ways brilliant text. It is a model of how historical/process sociological research ought to be conducted and written-up. The author's subtle blending of theory and data is outstanding' - Eric Dunning, Professor of Sociology,...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2004-09-16
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