Социология

Eliot Freidson has written the first systematic account of professionalism as a method of organizing work. In ideal-typical professionalism, specializ…

Beast. Monster. Savage. Psycho. The glowering menace of Mike Tyson has spooked us for almost two decades. And still we remain fascinated. Why? Ellis C…

In this new book Henrietta Moore examines the nature and limitations of the theoretical languages used by anthropologists and others to write about se…

Анализируются процессы, происходящие в мировой финансовой системе с момента возникновения глобального финансового кризиса в 2008 г. Особое внимание уд…

The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists fro…

The extensively revised and updated second edition combines carefully chosen primary quotes with wide-ranging discussion and everyday illustrative exa…

Hacking provides an introduction to the community of hackers and an analysis of the meaning of hacking in twenty-first century societies. On the one h…

An essential resource that contains a contemporary overview of the concept of social control and its main approaches The Handbook of Social Control of…

Bringing together 25 case studies from archaeological projects worldwide, Engaging Archaeology candidly explores personal experiences, successes, chal…

The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists fro…

Beethoven is a classic study of the composer's music, written by one of the most important thinkers of our time. Throughout his life, Adorno wrote ext…

A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology provides a series of in-depth explorations of key concepts and approaches by some of the scholars whose work co…

В монографии представлены материалы исследований языка для специальных целей в области экономики и бизнеса с точки зрения его лингвистических, культур…

The Virtual Self is an engaging and exciting text that addresses issues relating to our rapidly changing society, social structure, and communication …

We have long since lost our faith in the idea that human beings could achieve human happiness in some future ideal state—a state that Thomas More, wri…

Geomedia offers critical analysis of the new possibilities and power relations emerging in the public space of contemporary cities. As ubiquitous digi…

The idea of long-term European dominance is characteristic of most evolutionary theories of human culture and society in the nineteenth century. It wa…

This Reader brings together the exciting and innovative work that has appeared in the last 10 years in the growing field of cultural economy. Brings t…

Since 9/11, the American government has presumed to speak and act in the name of ‘civilization’. But isthat how the rest of the world sees it? And if …

This is a lively introduction to management, covering an array of management orthodoxies and demonstrating, through contemporary sociological theory, …

Winner of the Best Book of 2008 from The International Gender and Language Association In this ground-breaking ethnography of girls on a playground, G…

Drawing on his work in Iceland, Ireland, Scotland, North America, Ghana, and Fiji, linguistic anthropologist and folklorist Richard Bauman presents a …

Идея прогресса в значительной степени определила облик западной цивилизации. Человечество развивается, «движется вперед», причем это движение понимает…

We are spurred into action by our troubles and fears; but all too often our action fails to address the true causes of our worries. When trying to mak…

Contemporary privatization remakes nature-society as property and transforms people’s relationships to themselves, each other, and the natural world. …

The Blackwell Companion to Criminology provides a contemporary and global resource to scholarship in both classical and topical areas of criminology. …

This anthology provides a single-volume overview of the essential theoretical debates in the anthropology of art. Drawing together significant work in…

Instead of outsourcing tasks to providers using labor-intensive countries, libraries around the world increasingly appeal to the crowds of Internet us…

В пособии, посвященном современным аспектам теории и практики межкультурной коммуникации, изложены принципы системного подхода к культуре, рассмотрено…

This timely and engaging book argues that technoscientific advances are radically transforming the woman-machine relationship. However, it is feminist…

This dictionary provides those studying or working in archaeology with a complete reference to the field.

In this book leading cultural anthropologist Anton Blok sheds new light on the lives and achievements of pioneers who revolutionized science and art o…

В работе немецкого социолога Гельмута Шёка, ставшей классической, представлен всесторонний анализ зависти, как социально-психологического и социальног…

In this major theoretical statement, the author offers a new and provocative interpretation of the institutional transformations associated with moder…

The discussions about the ethical, political and human implications of the postmodernist condition have been raging for longer than most of us care to…

В данной работе представлены: теоретическое обобщение опыта исследований поведения домохозяйств в различных экономических условиях постсоветской Росси…

В монографии комплексно исследуются теоретические и практические вопросы правового регулирования отношений по обязательному социальному страхованию в …

“What is colour?”, “What is the precise meaning of the statement ‘the stock exchange closes at a 5% drop this evening’?”, “How are TV viewers defined?…

The prison is a recent invention, hardly more than two centuries old, yet it has become the universal system of punishment. How can we understand the …

The Islamic headscarf has become the subject of heated legal and political debate. France and Germany have legislated against it, and even the UK, lon…

In this ambitious new book, Henrietta Moore draws on anthropology, feminism and psychoanalysis to develop an original and provocative theory of gender…

Освещаются недостаточно исследованные российскими социологами вопросы социальной диагностики и социологической экспертизы. Автор книги полагает, что р…

Рассматривается ряд острых проблем институционального развития, определяющих долгосрочные перспективы экономического роста, в частности социокультурны…

Urbanisation and urban development issues are the focus of this comprehensive account which introduces readers to the far-reaching changes now taking …