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In this book the author moves beyond the time of clocks and calendars in order to study time as embedded in social interactions, structures, practices and knowledge, in artefacts, in the body, and in the environment. Adam suggests ways not merely to deconstruct but to...
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Polity
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2013-05-29
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In this path-breaking work, Mark Poster highlights the nature of the newly emerging forms of social life, in the current era. The flexibility of language which the computer allows makes the written word less certain and less concrete. The result of these changes, Poster...
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Polity
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2013-05-29
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In this book Paul Willis, a renowned sociologist and ethnographer, aims to renew and develop the ethnographic craft across the disciplines. Drawing from numerous examples of his own past and current work, he shows that ethnographic practice and the ethnographic...
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Polity
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2013-05-28
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This book provides an interpretation of one of the key aspects of Max Weber’s work: the relationship between his political and sociological writings. Weber’s sociological studies have often been treated as if they were completely separate from his political attitudes...
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Polity
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2013-05-28
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In this book Jorge Larrain discusses three of the most important concepts in the social sciences: ideology, reason and cultural identity.
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-05-28
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After the success of the hardback, students and academics will welcome the publication of this book in paperback. The aim of the book is to explore the connection between two perspectives that have had a profound effect upon contemporary thought: post-modernism and...
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Polity
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2013-05-28
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This book provides a critical assessment of contemporary social theory for students in the social sciences. Delanty examines the writings of a number of key contemporary thinkers, including Habermas, Foucault, Bauman, Touraine, Giddens and Beck, and provides a clear...
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Polity
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2013-05-28
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Representations of Youth examines the various constructions of 'youth' and 'adolescence' in recent British and North American research. Mainstream and radical approaches have presented a series of 'crises' about young people in relation to, among other things,...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-05-28
Collection :
Feminist Perspectives
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This book is an original interpretation of the professions and the role of the professional in Western industrial societies today.
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-05-28
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This book establishes whether contemporary social theory can help us understand the structural origins of environmental degradation and environmental politics.
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-05-28
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This major study develops a new account of modernity and its relation to the self. Building upon the ideas set out in The Consequences of Modernity, Giddens argues that 'high' or 'late' modernity is a post traditional order characterised by a developed institutional...
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Polity
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2013-05-23
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Se è vero che la Forma Vrbis Marmorea di età severiana (inizio III sec.) continua ad essere la « forma » per eccellenza, ciò è dovuto, soprattutto, alla sua consistenza fisica (centinaia di frammenti che definiscono buona parte della topografia urbana) ; ma non è meno...
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Publications de l'École française de Rome
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2013-05-22
Collection :
Collection de l'École française de Rome
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Bardwell L. Smith offers a fresh perspective on c, the Japanese ceremony performed to bring solace to those who have experienced miscarriage, stillbirth, or abortion. Showing how old and new forms of myth, symbol, doctrine, praxis, and organization combine and overlap...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-05-22
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Few of us have been spared the agonies of intimate relationships. They come in many shapes: loving a man or a woman who will not commit to us, being heartbroken when we're abandoned by a lover, engaging in Sisyphean internet searches, coming back lonely from bars,...
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Polity
Parution :
2013-05-20
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Few of us have been spared the agonies of intimate relationships. They come in many shapes: loving a man or a woman who will not commit to us, being heartbroken when we're abandoned by a lover, engaging in Sisyphean internet searches, coming back lonely from bars,...
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Polity
Parution :
2013-05-20
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This book examines the changing lifestyles in transforming societies, focusing on the interplay of lifestyle choices, social status and the society as a whole. When individuals choose their careers, mates or networks to belong to and to identify with, they are...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-05-17
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“This is the book parents have been waiting for”—Michael Thompson, coauthor of Raising Cain. The book that is “helpful, hopeful, and engaging”—Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Ph.D., Columbia University. It is the book that addresses the new reality for parents of kids in their 20s...
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Workman Publishing Company
Parution :
2013-05-14
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The way people think and act politically is not set in stone. People can and do change the fundamental cultural contours of their political situation. Their political culture does not only restrict imagination and action - it is also a resource for political creativity...
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Polity
Parution :
2013-05-09
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This topical new book by Zygmunt Bauman explores the notion of identity in the modern world. As we grapple with the insecurity and uncertainty of liquid modernity, Bauman argues that our socio-political, cultural, professional, religious and sexual identities are...
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Polity
Parution :
2013-05-08
Collection :
Themes for the 21st Century
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Should governments be involved in economic affairs? Challenging prevailing wisdom about the benefits of self-regulating markets, Nina Bandelj and Elizabeth Sowers offer a uniquely sociological perspective to emphasize that states can never be divorced from economy. From...
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Polity
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2013-05-08
Collection :
Economy and Society
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