American Families

A Multicultural Reader

Edited by Stephanie Coontz

With its clear conceptual focus, well-chosen essays exploring the interactions between race-ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality in shaping family life by leading names from across...

March 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-95821-9 (Routledge)

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Education Policy and Realist Social Theory

Primary Teachers, Child-Centred Philosophy and the New Managerialism

By Robert Wilmott

In Europe welfare state provision has been subjected to 'market forces'. Over the last two decades, the framework of economic competitiveness has become the defining...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46433-8 (Routledge)

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(Mis)recognition, Social Inequality and Social Justice

Nancy Fraser and Pierre Bourdieu

Edited by Terry Lovell

Nancy Fraser’s work provides a theory of justice from multiple perspectives which has created a powerful frame for the analysis of political, moral and pragmatic...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46494-9 (Routledge)

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Revitalizing Causality

Realism about Causality in Philosophy and Social Science

Edited by Ruth Groff

This cutting edge collection of new and previously published articles by philosophers and social scientists addresses just what it means to invoke causal mechanisms, or powers,...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-37218-3 (Routledge)

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Frankfurt School Perspectives on Globalization, Democracy, and the Law

By William E. Scheuerman

Frankfurt School Perspectives on Globalization, Democracy, and the Law makes use of the work of first-generation Frankfurt School theorist Franz L. Neumann, in conjunction with...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-70183-9 (Routledge)

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Latin America and Contemporary Modernity

A Sociological Interpretation

By José Maurício Domingues

In this book, renowned author José Maurício Domingues places Latin America within the third phase of global modern civilization and offers a general theoretical approach...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96467-8 (Routledge)

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Jean Baudrillard

Against Banality

By William Pawlett

This uniquely engaging introduction to Jean Baudrillard’s controversial writings covers his entire career focusing on Baudrillard’s central, but little understood, notion of symbolic exchange. Through...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-38645-6 (Routledge)

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Gambling, Freedom and Democracy

By Peter J. Adams

As a consequence of the rapid proliferation of commercial gambling in Western-style democracies, governments and communities are encountering a complex array of economic, social and...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-95762-5 (Routledge)

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Cosmic Society

Towards a Sociology of the Universe

By Peter Dickens, James Ormrod

An original vision and a pedagogical text on a major issue of our time and, even more, of our childen´s.

Göran Therborn is University Professor of...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-37432-3 (Routledge)

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Norbert Elias

Post-Philosophical Sociology

By Richard Kilminster

Few sociologists of the first rank have scandalized the academic world to the extent that Elias did. Developed out of the German sociology of knowledge...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-43706-6 (Routledge)

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