Sociology

The concept of intersectionality has become a hot topic in academic and activist circles alike.

Where is sociology in contemporary media studies?

We make decisions every day.

The relationship between sociology and social critique has haunted the discipline since its origins.

The detective story, focused on inquiries, and in its wake the spy novel, built around conspiracies, developed as genres in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Max Weber (1864-1920) is recognized throughout the world as the most important classic thinker in the social sciences there is simply no one in the history of the social sciences who has been more influential.

To ordinary people, science used to seem infallible.

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Social movements play a central role in the scope and direction of social change.

We celebrate, talk about, and worry a great deal about transitions in life.

Paper is older than the printing press, and even in its unprinted state it was the great network medium behind the emergence of modern civilization.

Twenty years ago Ulrich Beck published Risk Society, a book that called our attention to the dangers of environmental catastrophes and changed the way we think about contemporary societies.

There has been a lively debate amongst political theorists about whether certain liberal concepts of democracy are so idealized that they lack relevance to real politics.

This text provides for the first time in book form an exploration of the communicative aspects of the darker side of family life, ranging from, for example, severe acts of violence to more subtle forms of conflict.

Marital Communication provides insight into healthy relationships for those who want to better understand key communication processes between long-term, committed, romantic partners.

Media are fundamental to our sense of living in a social world.

This book provides a critical overview of the myriad literatures on work, viewed not only as a product of the marketplace but also as a social and political construct.

The rise of digital media has been widely regarded as transforming the nature of our social experience in the twenty-first century.

Research consistently shows how through the years more of our time gets spent using media, how multitasking our media has become a regular feature of everyday life, and that consuming media for most people increasingly takes place alongside producing media.

This engaging new text uses a feminist lens to crack open the often hidden worlds of gender and work, addressing enduring questions about how structural inequalities are produced and why they persist.

What drives a person to take his or her own life?

Who makes our cities, and what part do everyday users have in the design of cities?

This book is the first major study of the history of environmentalism, from its origins in romanticism and the nature cults of the late 18th century to the global environmental movements of today.

Love and family life in the global age: grandparents in Salonika and their grandson in London speak together every evening via Skype.

Inequality is not just about the size of our wallets.

What's the use of sociology?

New media, development and globalization are the key terms through which the future is being imagined and performed in governance, development initiatives and public and political discourse.

Immigration has long shaped US society in fundamental ways.

It is commonly assumed that the best way to help the poor out of their misery is to allow the rich to get richer, that if the rich pay less taxes then all the rest of us will be better off, and that in the final analysis the richness of the few benefits us all.

Questions about who we are, who we can be, and who is like and unlike us underpin a vast range of contemporary social issues.

Michel Foucault is recognized as one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers, however the authors in this volume contend that more use can be made of Foucault than has yet been done and that some of the uses to which Foucault has so far been put run the risk of and occasionally simply amount to misuse.

It is commonly assumed that we live in an age of unbridled individualism, but in this important new book Montserrat Guibernau argues that the need to belong to a group or community - from peer groups and local communities to ethnic groups and nations - is a pervasive and enduring feature of modern social life.

Consumer capitalism dominates our economy, our politics and our culture.

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.

Bruno Latour s long term project is to compare the felicity and infelicity conditions of the different values dearest to the heart of those who have never been modern .

In this groundbreaking book, sociologist Andrew Perrin shows that rules and institutions, while important, are not the core of democracy.

This book provides an interpretation of one of the key aspects of Max Weber s work: the relationship between his political and sociological writings.

Few of us have been spared the agonies of intimate relationships.

Sociology began as a historical discipline, created by Marx, Weber and others, to explain the emergence and consequences of rational, capitalist society.

Social interaction lies at the heart of our everyday experience.

A tension between the desire to be respected as an equal and the desire to distinguish oneself as a unique person lies at the heart of the modern social order.

Family Conflict takes a life course approach as it provides an accessible discussion of family conflict issues, processes, and outcomes.

The Posthuman offers both an introduction and major contribution to contemporary debates on the posthuman.

The sexualization of girls has captured the attention of the media, advocacy groups and politicians in recent years.

Ageing populations represent a key global challenge for the twenty-first century.

In this lively and accessible study, David Lyon explores the relationship between religion and postmodernity, through the central metaphor of 'Jesus in Disneyland.

This highly topical book is a concise and accessible account of the relationship between technology and work.

In this book Paul Willis, a renowned sociologist and ethnographer, aims to renew and develop the ethnographic craft across the disciplines.

In this book Toner offers a new way of looking at Roman society at all levels, not just among the elite, by examining the imperial games and the baths as well as gambling, the taverns, theatre and carnivals.

In this book, Janet Todd, one of the leading authorities on seventeenth- and eighteenth century women writers, discusses gender issues from the Restoration to Romanticism investigating women authors and the fascination with culturally privileged art and with heroic death.