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Serie: Key issues in modern sociology
PaperbackEngels9781783080564
1-10-2013
Inspired by Max Weber’s thesis on the Protestant ethic, this volume examines the influence of Christianity on overseas Chinese entrepreneurs working in China during its transition from a centrally-planned economy toward a market economy under Communist rule. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781783080663
1-11-2013
This volume explores key issues in the modern tensions between state and religions by exploring a number of case studies from around the world. Meer
GebondenEngels9781783085644
6-7-2016
A festschrift honoring the work of Edward A. Tiryakian, consisting of a large number of essays. Meer
GebondenEngels9781783086443
1-2-2017
Brexit traces the implications of the UK’s projected withdrawal from the EU, placing short-term political fluctuations in a broader historical and social context of the transformation of European and global society. Meer
GebondenEngels9781783086931
25-5-2018
‘Post-truth’, Oxford Dictionary’s 2016 word of the year, appears to cover only the turn away from reason in contemporary politics. In fact the truth behind ‘post-truth’ is historically and philosophically more complex. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781783080458
15-10-2013
‘Responsible Citizens’ reveals how rising emphasis on the individual has gone hand in hand with an increase in subtle authoritarianism – particularly within public services – such that a kind of ‘governance through responsibility’ is today being enforced upon the population. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781783080649
1-12-2013
‘Toward Leader Democracy’ investigates how today’s liberal democratic regimes are increasingly moving toward a pronounced focus on political leaders and their image, and explores the mechanics, evolution and implications of this phenomenon. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781783080724
1-12-2013
This volume explores the sociological legacy of the late Pierre Bourdieu through an examination of the intellectual division between his reception in the world of French social sciences and his reception in the Anglophone world. Meer
GebondenEngels9781783082278
1-8-2014
This volume presents the first ever book-length treatment of Émile Durkheim’s concept of the ‘collective consciousness of society’. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781783082285
1-8-2014
This volume presents the first ever book-length treatment of Émile Durkheim’s concept of the ‘collective consciousness of society’. Meer
GebondenEngels9781783085002
2-1-2017
This major new contribution forms a constructive comparison of the social theories of Jürgen Habermas and Anthony Giddens that focuses on their approaches to modernity, their endeavours to develop new perspectives, and their critical rethinking of the modernist vision of an autonomous society. Meer
GebondenEngels9781783087037
3-7-2017
“Structure, Agency, Biotechnology” argues for the significance of sociological theory and highlights the insights that it can offer into the study of agricultural biotechnology. Meer
GebondenEngels9781783088850
15-3-2019
‘Regimes of Happiness’ is a comparative and historical analysis of how human societies have articulated and enacted distinctive notions of human fulfillment. Meer
GebondenEngels9780857283535
1-2-2012
Inspired by Max Weber’s thesis on the Protestant ethic, this volume examines the influence of Christianity on overseas Chinese entrepreneurs working in China during its transition from a centrally-planned economy toward a market economy under Communist rule. Meer
GebondenEngels9780857283887
15-1-2012
‘Toward Leader Democracy’ investigates how today’s liberal democratic regimes are increasingly moving toward a pronounced focus on political leaders and their image, and explores the mechanics, evolution and implications of this phenomenon. Meer
GebondenEngels9780857284525
15-2-2013
Human liberation has become an epochal challenge in today’s world, requiring not only emancipation from oppressive structures but also from the oppressive self. Meer
GebondenEngels9780857285065
15-11-2012
This book provides a comprehensive guide to all three volumes of Karl Marx’s ‘Capital’, with advice on further reading and points for further discussion. Meer
GebondenEngels9780857285126
15-12-2013
‘Philosophy and Anthropology: Border Crossings and Transformations’ is an innovative and original collection of essays exploring the relationships between philosophy and anthropology – historically and presently – and the theoretical and practical issues concerning their dialogue. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780857289957
1-1-2011
‘Nationalizing the Body’ examines the different meanings of ‘modern medicine’ that were employed in colonial South Asia, and explores the different discourses that were constructed around ‘modernity’. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780857289964
1-1-2011
‘Psychoanalytic Mythologies’ presents a collection of essays on the theme of what it is to be a human subject in a culture permeated by psychoanalytic imagery. Meer