After 1945 it was not just Europe's parliamentary buildings that promised to house democracy: hotels in Turkey and Dutch shopping malls proposed new democratic attitudes and feelings.
How ordinary urban objects influence our behavior, exacerbate inequality, and encourage social changeAssumptions about human behavior lie hidden in plain sight all around us, programmed into the design and regulation of the material objects we encounter on a daily basis.
This expanded and updated edition of Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences: The State of the Art revisits the use of complexity theory across the social sciences and demonstrates how complexity informs approaches to various contemporary issues in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, widening social inequality, and impending social and ecological catastrophe wrought by global warming.
A Restorative Approach to Family Violence looks back at an early and successful demonstration of a family and culturally based model to stop severe family violence.
The Handbook on Prisons and Jails brings together some of the brightest scholars and thinkers in the field to offer a wide range of perspectives for understanding the experiences of persons incarcerated or working/volunteering within carceral institutions.
Foucault continues on the theme of his 1978 course by focusing on the study of liberal and neo-liberal forms of government and concentrating in particular on two forms of neo-liberalism: German post-war liberalism and the liberalism of the Chicago School.
Through analyses of three eventful years in Nazi Germany's history - the Kristallnacht pogrom, the invasion of Poland and the invasion of Soviet Russia - this book explores the violence of states.
This book advances the "e;strong"e; programme that sociology and anthropology provide a scientific foundation for arguing that God and the gods are human creations.
This book explores and explains the reasons why the idea of universal history, a form of teleological history which holds that all peoples are travelling along the same path and destined to end at the same point, persists in political thought.
This is the first concise study to give full credit to the collaboration of works between French nobleman, writer and politician Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) and his travel companion and friend Gustave de Beaumont (1802-66), and puts this collaboration into its social, historical and theoretical context.
This book stages a provocative dialogue between social work, health and social care and contemporary philosophy in order to inform theory and practice in a complex and challenging world.
Examining the mimetic theory of Rene Girard, this book investigates the development of society as a result of an original crime (a murder) that shaped the way the earliest humans organized the social structures we live with today - an analysis that reveals the dangerous structure of the most basic social relationships.
Ugandan Asians in Great Britain (1975) examines the impact of the 1972 immigration of 28,000 Asians expelled from Uganda, looking at the impact on both the immigrants themselves and the British host community.
The Global Repositioning of Japanese Religions: An Integrated Approach explores how Japanese religions respond to the relativizing effects of globalization, thereby repositioning themselves as global players.
Critical Social Theory and the End of Work examines the development and sociological significance of the idea that work is being eliminated through the use of advanced production technology.
First published in 1997, this study is an attempt to read and critique answers to that question, answers offered in policy and provision, and answers to those answers, in talk and texts, and in classroom performances, an often fraught 'conversation' which goes on in spirals.
First published in 1976, this A Theory of Group Structures is a study of the aggregation of individuals into groups, which cuts across many different social sciences.
Whilst Foucault's work has become a major strand of postmodern theology, the wider relevance of his work for theology still remains largely unexamined.
This is the first collection to bring together leading scholars from diverse disciplines to offer a variety of perspectives on ideology and its analysis, emphasizing the input of different intellectual and scholarly traditions to the meaning of ideology.
La teoría de Sistemas Complejos, de Rolando García, pone en evidencia la necesaria articulación entre una sólida fundamentación epistemológica y un marco teórico-conceptual capaz de orientar el estudio de cualquier problemática concebida como un sistema complejo.
Gerhard Preyer und Reuß-Markus Krauße geben einen Einblick in die chinesische Modernisierung und ihren selbstreferenziellen kulturellen Hintergrund seit den 1990er Jahren.
La investigación en Ciencias Sociales: estrategias de investigación presenta de forma comprensiva las aproximaciones metodológicas más comunes de las que se valen los investigadores de las ciencias sociales para aproximarse a sus preguntas de investigación y desarrollar sus proyectos.
Gerhard Preyer und Reuß-Markus Krauße geben einen Einblick in die chinesische Modernisierung und ihren selbstreferenziellen kulturellen Hintergrund seit den 1990er Jahren.
Die grassierenden Verschwörungstheorien, ein durch Soziale Medien und das Internet gespeister Postfaktizismus und die politische Radikalisierung, wie sie sich in der Pandemie, aber auch in der Entsolidarisierung mit der Ukraine oder bei der Leugnung des Klimawandels beobachten lassen, können als Symptome einer krisenhaften Modernisierung der Industriegesellschaften verstanden werden.
All the great ideals that gave life meaning in earlier societies - God, the nation, revolution, freedom, democracy - are in disarray today, questioned by many and rejected by those who have lost faith in them.
Dieses essential stellt einen systematischen und philosophischen Lektürevorschlag zur Diskussion: Systematisch werden Foucaults Schriften von seiner methodologischen Perspektive her als nihilistische, nominalistische und historizistische Analyse von Praktiken und den in ihnen produzierten Wirklichkeiten entlang der drei Achsen des Wissens, der Macht und der Selbstverhältnisse gedeutet.
Ethnologe und Soziologe vom Beruf war Marcel Mauss (1872-1950) Philosoph, Philologe, Spezialist von alten Gesellschaften und der Neffe von Emile Durkheim, dem Gründervater der akademischen französischen Soziologie.
Dieses essential stellt einen systematischen und philosophischen Lektürevorschlag zur Diskussion: Systematisch werden Foucaults Schriften von seiner methodologischen Perspektive her als nihilistische, nominalistische und historizistische Analyse von Praktiken und den in ihnen produzierten Wirklichkeiten entlang der drei Achsen des Wissens, der Macht und der Selbstverhältnisse gedeutet.
Born Liquid is the last work by the great sociologist and social theorist Zygmunt Bauman, whose brilliant analyses of liquid modernity changed the way we think about our world today.
In his 1932 classic dystopian novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley depicted a future society in thrall to science and regulated by sophisticated methods of social control.
Ethnologe und Soziologe vom Beruf war Marcel Mauss (1872-1950) Philosoph, Philologe, Spezialist von alten Gesellschaften und der Neffe von Emile Durkheim, dem Gründervater der akademischen französischen Soziologie.
EINER DER WICHTIGSTEN BEITRÄGE ZUR PROGRAMMDEBATTE DER CDU IN DEN LETZTEN JAHREN"Christen in der Politik sind dem Gemeinwohl verpflichtet, nicht den Lobbyinteressen.
Andrew Abbott, einer der wichtigsten Sozialtheoretiker der Gegenwart, unterzieht Texte von Karl Marx und Max Weber einer kritischen Re-Lektüre – mit überraschenden Einsichten.
