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Transgression

By Chris Jenks

Transgression is truly a key idea for our time. Society is created by constraint and boundaries, but as our culture is increasingly subject to uncertainty…

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2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-25758-9 (Routledge)

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Media Spectacle

By Douglas Kellner

During the mid-1990s, the O.J. Simpson murder trial dominated the media in the United States and were circulated throughout the world via global communications networks.…

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2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-26829-5 (Routledge)

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The Virtual

By Rob Shields

This book looks at the origins and the many contemporary meanings of the virtual. Rob Shields shows how the construction of virtual worlds has a…

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2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-28181-2 (Routledge)

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Key Thinkers for the Information Society

Volume One

Edited by Christopher May

Key Thinkers for the Information Society provides an introduction to some important social theorists whose work has considerable relevance to today's 'brave new world' of…

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2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-29673-1 (Routledge)

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Marx and Marxism

By Peter Worsley

Karl Marx probably had more influence on the political course of the last century than any other social thinker. There are many different kinds of…

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2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-28537-7 (Routledge)

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Pierre Bourdieu

By Richard Jenkins

This short critical introduction to Pierre Bourdieu's thought is a model of clarity and insight. Where Bourdieu's own writings are often complex, even ambiguous, Richard…

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2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-28526-1 (Routledge)

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Max Weber

By Frank Parkin

This study of Weber's sociology, written by an eminent authority, is a clear and illuminating discussion of the most important elements of Weber's thinking. The…

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2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-28528-5 (Routledge)

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Adorno on Popular Culture

By Robert W. Witkin

Robert W. Witkin unpacks Adorno's notoriously difficult critique of popular culture in an engaging and accessible style, looking first at the development of the overarching…

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2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-26825-7 (Routledge)

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Pierre Bourdieu

By Richard Jenkins

This short critical introduction to Pierre Bourdieu's thought is a model of clarity and insight. Where Bourdieu's own writings are often complex, even ambiguous, Richard…

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2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-28527-8 (Routledge)

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Michel Foucault

By Barry Smart

In investigating the major works of Michel Foucault, Barry Smart focuses on the analysis of the relations of power and knowledge and modes of objectification…

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2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-28533-9 (Routledge)

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Forthcoming Titles:

Contexts of Social Capital: Social Networks in Markets, Communities and Families
Edited by Ray-May Hsung, Nan Lin, Ronald L. Breiger
To be published December 9th 2008

Contemporary Social Theory: An introduction
By Anthony Elliott
To be published December 11th 2008

Globalizing Dissent: Essays on Arundhati Roy
Edited by Ranjan Ghosh, Antonia Navarro-Tejero
To be published December 17th 2008

Aeromobilities
Edited by Saulo Cwerner, Sven Kesselring, John Urry
To be published December 17th 2008

Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation
By Roy Bhaskar
To be published January 20th 2009

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