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Divided into two parts, this book examines the train of social theory from the 19th century, through to the 'organization of modernity', in relation to ideas of social planning, and as contributors to the 'rationalistic revolution' of the 'golden age' of capitalism in...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2001-07-17
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'An extremely accessible, well structured and imaginative reading of market and social theory in terms of the myth of the Wild West frontier'
New Formations
This book, written by the author of the celebrated volume Six Guns and Society, explains why the myth of the...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2001-06-18
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This penetrating book re-examines `the project of modernity'. It seeks to oppose the abstract, idealized vision of modernity with an alternative `ethnographic' understanding. The book defends an approach to modernity that situates it as embedded in particular and...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2001-06-15
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Based on over thirty years of conversations and interactions with Americans and Asians, Korean American Eun Kim presents American virtues and vices from an Asian perspective, using the ancient Asian concepts of yin and yang, which coexist in everything and complete each...
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Quercus
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2001-06-01
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`[A] useful and informative book. ...I would recommend it to students wanting a good introduction to the current issues in criminal justice and probation' - Vista: Perspectives on Probation
`The three chapters on treatment in practice are all excellent; the treatment...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2001-05-28
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`The great strength of this book is that it provides a clear and well-structured overview of some of the diverse approaches that are currently available within the qualitative tradition' - British Journal of Educational Psychology
Although most undergraduates are able...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2001-05-23
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This comprehensive book provides an indispensable introduction to the most significant figures in contemporary social theory. Grounded strongly in the European tradition, the profiles include Michel Foucault, J[um]urgen Habermas, Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, Pierre...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2001-05-18
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`The quite extraordinary phenomenon of mass imprisonment in the USA needs, above all, to be identified.
David Garland and his excellent range of criminological contributors go well beyond this by showing how to start thinking (and arguing) about what these...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2001-05-15
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`Wengraf provides a comprehensive theoretical and practical guide to the planning, conduct, and interpretative analysis of data by semi-structured interviewing methods. Forthright and frank in his comments about the limitations and practical implications of varying...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2001-05-09
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Social Theory in the Real World is concerned with illustrating the practical benefits of social theory. Many students find it hard to relate the real insights provided by social theory to their real life experiences, and many lecturers struggle to demonstrate the...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2001-05-09
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In this book, one of the leading social theorists and cultural commentators of modern times, turns his gaze on consumption. George Ritzer, author of the famous McDonaldization Thesis, demonstrates the irrational consequences of the rational desire to consume and...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2001-04-11
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Society and Culture reclaims the classical heritage, provides a clear-eyed assessment of the promise of sociology in the 21st century and asks whether the `cultural turn' has made the study of society redundant.
Sociologists have objected to the rise of cultural...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2001-04-11
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Introduction to Quantitative Research Methods is a student-friendly introduction to quantitative research methods and basic statistics. It uses a detective theme throughout the text to show how quantitative methods have been used to solve real-life problems. The...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2001-04-10
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George Ritzer is one of the leading social and cultural commentators of the present day. In this essential new book he considers some of the main tendencies in contemporary social theory. Included here are Ritzer's latest reflections on the uses and misuses of...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2001-04-10
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Radical Feminism Today offers a timely and engaging account of exactly what feminism is, and what it is not. Denise Thompson questions much of what has come to be taken for granted as `feminism' and points to the limitations of implicitly defining feminism in terms of...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2001-04-06
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The 1996 discovery, near Kennewick, Washington, of a 9,000-year-old Caucasoid skeleton brought more to the surface than bones.The explosive controversy and resulting lawsuit also raised a far more fundamental question: Who owns history? Many Indians see archeologists as...
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Basic Books
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2001-04-05
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Understanding Culture offers an accessible and comprehensive overview of the field of cultural studies whilst also proposing a different way of `doing' cultural studies. It focuses on the ways in which cultural objects and practices serve as both a means of ordering...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2001-03-29
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`Fred Powell argues for social work as civic engagement, promoting inclusion and justice through dialogue and trust. His book is an impressive combination of deep scholarship and fresh, up-to-date analysis of current issues'- Bill Jordan, University of Exeter
`An...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2001-03-28
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Sport is the most universal feature of popular culture. It crosses language barriers and slices through national boundaries, attracting both spectators and participants, to a common lingua franca of passions, obsessions and desires.
This book brings to light the...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2001-03-19
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Jean Baudrillard is generally recognized as one of the most important and provocative contemporary social theorists. But in the English speaking world, his reputation is largely based on books published after the 1960s, as he moved towards becoming the premier...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2001-03-15
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