Sociology

This comprehensive introduction to the study of war and genocide presents a disturbing case that the potential for slaughter is deeply rooted in the political, economic, social and ideological relations of the modern world.

Political Theology II is Carl Schmitt's last book.

The Sociology of Consumption: A Global Approach offers college students, scholars, and interested readers a state-of-the-art overview of consumption the desire for, purchase, use, display, exchange, and disposal of goods and services.

Immigrant Families aims to capture the richness, complexity, and diversity that characterize contemporary immigrant families in the United States.

Thinking about the future is essential for almost all organizations and societies.

Digital technologies are a key feature of contemporary education.

This book provides a reasoned, unflinching description of how race and paid work are linked in U.

Social semiotics reveals language's social meaning its structures, processes, conditions and effects in all social contexts, across all media and modes of discourse.

In this engaging dialogue, Zygmunt Bauman, sociologist and philosopher, and Stanislaw Obirek, theologian and cultural historian, explore the place of spirituality and religion in the world today and in the everyday lives of individuals.

This book is a radical plea for the centrality of experience in the social and human sciences.

'My dears: this is but a brief note to welcome you to the new world, where you are now no longer all too far away from us.

As an exile in America during the War, Theodor Adorno grew acquainted with the fundamentals of empirical social research, something which would shape the work he undertook in the early 1950s as co-director of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research.

In his major investigation into the nature of humans, Peter Sloterdijk presents a critique of myth - the myth of the return of religion.

Love seems like the most personal experience, one that touches each of us in a unique way that is more personal than social, and hence it is not surprising that it has been largely neglected by sociologists and social theorists.

In this new book, Ulrich Beck and the journalist Johannes Willms engage in a series of accessible conversations that reveal and explore the key elements in Beck s thought.

This study offers a systematic reconstruction of the theoretical foundations and framework of critical social theory.

The core of this book is a set of five lectures delivered by Habermas at Princeton in 1971 under the title 'Reflections on the Linguistic Foundation of Sociology'.

In this important book, Ulrich Beck - one of the leading social thinkers in Europe today - examines how work has become unstable in the modern world and presents a new vision for the future.

In this book Axel Honneth re-examines arguments put forward by Hegel and claims that the 'struggle for recognition' should be at the centre of social conflicts.

Here, for the first time in English, is volume one of Jurgen Habermas's long-awaited magnum opus: The Theory of Communicative Action.

How are we to live with the wide varieties of sexuality and gender found across the rapidly changing global order?

With an entire discipline devoted to political science, what is distinctive about political sociology?

It is well known that the world is transitioning to an irrevocable urban future whose epicentre has moved into the cities of Asia and Africa.

Throughout human history, religion and politics have entertained the most intimate of connections as systems of authority regulating individuals and society.

At a time when social inequalities are increasing at an alarming rate, this new edition of Mel Bartley's popular book is a vital resource for understanding the extent of health inequalities and why they are proving to be persistent despite decades of growing knowledge and policies on the issue.

The idea of progress guided human expectations and actions for over two centuries.

One of the major characteristics of our contemporary culture is a positive, almost banal, view of the transgression and disruption of cultural boundaries.

On the global stage, China is often seen to be a homogenous nation when, in fact, it is a diverse multi-ethnic society, with 55 minority nationality groups recognized by the government.

The majority of immigrants settle in cities when they arrive, and few can deny the dynamic influence migration has on cities.

The new edition of this accessible and wide-ranging book demonstrates the distinctive insights that sociology has to bring to the study of globalization.

At a time when significant social status, economic resources, and political opportunities seem to become ever more unequally distributed and only available to a few, this book represents the first systematic effort in recent years to develop a sociological model of elites and non-elites.

This major new book offers a much-needed introduction to the work of Siegfried Kracauer, one of the main intellectual figures in the orbit of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory.

Immigration is the primary cause of population change in developed countries and a major component of population change in many developing countries.

In 1988, the renowned sociologist Pierre Bourdieu and the leading historian Roger Chartier met for a series of lively discussions that were broadcast on French public radio.

China is home to a fifth of the world's inhabitants.

This textbook aims to give an introduction to the use of documentary sources in social research.

Uncertainty is interwoven into human existence.

Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015More than three decades of economic growth have led to significant social change in the People's Republic of China.

Every day around the world there are dozens of protests both large and small.

Long the arena of philosophers, legal scholars, and political scientists, the interdisciplinary study of human rights has recently seen an influx of sociologists.

Fully revised and updated, the second edition of this popular text provides students with a comprehensive introduction to Latino participation in US politics.

Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015Sex in China introduces readers to some of the dramatic shifts that have taken place in Chinese sexual behaviours and attitudes, and public discussions of sex, since the 1980s.

In turn creative thinker and street fl neur, careful planner and adventurer, empathic listener and distant voyeur, recluse writer and active participant: the ethnographer is a multifaceted researcher of social worlds and social life.

The family has long been viewed as both a microcosm of the state and a barometer of social change in China.

White identity is in ferment.

Today we hear much talk of crisis and comparisons are often made with the Great Depression of the 1930s, but there is a crucial difference that sets our current malaise apart from the 1930s: today we no longer trust in the capacity of the state to resolve the crisis and to chart a new way forward.

Class is not only amongst the oldest and most controversial of all concepts in social science, but a topic which has fascinated, amused, incensed and galvanized the general public, too.

In the social sciences and in everyday speech we often talk about groups as if they behaved in the same way as individuals, thinking and acting as a singular being.

This provocative new introduction to the field of digital sociology offers a critical overview of interdisciplinary debates about new ways of knowing society that are emerging today at the interface of computing, media, social research and social life.

From Pakistan to Chechnya, Sri Lanka to Canada, pioneering women are taking their places in formal and informal military structures previously reserved for, and assumed appropriate only for men.