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Looking for America
Looking for America
Looking for America: The Visual Production of Nation and People is a groundbreaking collection that explores the “visual” in defining the kaleidoscope…
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Stratification and Power
Stratification and Power
This volume presents a systematic discussion of the leading theoretical approaches to social stratification. It is both an accessible overview and a d…
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Eurostars and Eurocities
Eurostars and Eurocities
Eurostars and Eurocities: Free Movement and Mobility in an Integrating Europe examines intra-European Union migration in the cities of Amsterdam, Lond…
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Forms of Power
Forms of Power
Political power is often viewed as the sole embodiment of 'social power', even while we recognize that social power manifests itself in different form…
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Representations of Youth
Representations of Youth
Representations of Youth examines the various constructions of `youth' and `adolescence' in recent British and North American research. Mainstream and…
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Media, Communication, Culture
Media, Communication, Culture
Media, Communication, Culture offers a bold and comprehensive analysis of developments in the field amidst the effects of postmodernism and globalizat…
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Making Sexual History
Making Sexual History
Jeffrey Weeks has established an international reputation as one of the most original and influential writers on the social history of sexuality.
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Contemporary Urban Japan
Contemporary Urban Japan
This volume demonstrates a fresh approach to urban studies as well as a new way of looking at contemporary Japan which links economy and society in an…
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Ecology and Society
Ecology and Society
This book introduces green ideas to students of the social sciences, showing how society affects and is affected by nature and assessing the future of…
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Violence and Civilization
Violence and Civilization
This book provides an introduction to the work of Norbert Elias. It is the first systematic appraisal of two central themes of his thought – violence …
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Media and Morality
Media and Morality
Roger Silverstone's compelling new book places the global media at the heart of the moral future of civilisation. It argues that the media (the press,…
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Prostitution and Feminism
Prostitution and Feminism
Feminists have long differed in their view of prostitution. While some regard it as a classic form of exploitation and degradation, others offer a mor…
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Cities After Socialism
Cities After Socialism
Cities After Socialism is the first substantial and authoritative analysis of the role of cities in the transition to capitalism that is occurring in …
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Worlds of Talk
Worlds of Talk
This book is about how we present our selves in everyday talk and interaction. Selves and conversations are skilful accomplishments requiring trust, d…
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G.H. Mead
G.H. Mead
G. H. Mead is rightly considered to be one of sociology's founding fathers, yet to date there have been surprisingly few books devoted to his life and…
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Making Social Worlds
Making Social Worlds
Making Social Worlds: A Communication Perspective offers the most accessible introduction to the tools and concepts of CMM – Coordinated Management of…
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Gender and Agency
Gender and Agency
This book reassesses theories of agency and gender identity against the backdrop of changing relations between men and women in contemporary societies…
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Cities of Europe
Cities of Europe
Cities of Europe is a unique combination of book and CD-ROM examining the effects of recent socio-economic transformations on western European cities.…
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The Information Society
The Information Society
This book provides an overview of debates about whether we are entering into a phase of social existence without precedent – the 'information society'…
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Society under Siege
Society under Siege
Society is under siege – under attack on two fronts: from the global frontier-land where old structures and rules do not hold and new ones are slow to…
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Culture-on-Demand
Culture-on-Demand
This highly original, thought-provoking book – written by a pioneer of communication studies – is the first to analyze the post 9/11 world in terms of…
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Surviving Sexual Violence
Surviving Sexual Violence
Women's awareness of the threat and reality of sexual violence is now perhaps more than ever publicly acknowledged. Yet this fact continues to be almo…
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Inventing Popular Culture
Inventing Popular Culture
John Storey, a leading figure in the field of Cultural Studies, offers an illuminating and vibrant account of the development of popular culture. Addr…
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Theories of Development
Theories of Development
This is a new introductory text providing an up-to-date account of leading theories of development. The book includes a discussion of classical accoun…
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Media and Modernity
Media and Modernity
This wide-ranging and innovative book develops an original theory of the media and their impact on the modern world, from the emergence of printing to…
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Spiritualities of Life
Spiritualities of Life
This insightful and provocative journey through spiritual landscapes explores the ways in which spiritualities of life have been experienced and under…
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Feminism Confronts Technology
Feminism Confronts Technology
Feminism Confronts Technology provides a lively and engaging exploration of the impact of technology on women's lives from word processors to food pro…
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World at Risk
World at Risk
Twenty years ago Ulrich Beck published Risk Society, a book that called our attention to the dangers of environmental catastrophes and changed the way…
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Conversation and Technology
Conversation and Technology
We live in a world where social interaction is increasingly mediated by technological devices. In this book, Ian Hutchby explores the impact these tec…
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Search Engine Society
Search Engine Society
Search engines have become a key part of our everyday lives. Yet while much has been written about how to use search engines and how they can be impro…
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Jesus in Disneyland
Jesus in Disneyland
In this lively and accessible study, David Lyon explores the relationship between religion and postmodernity, through the central metaphor of 'Jesus i…
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Ways of Aging
Ways of Aging
Written and edited by social gerontologists, and focusing on everyday experiences, these essays draw from original case studies to look at the diverse…
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The Ethnographic Imagination
The Ethnographic Imagination
In this book Paul Willis, a renowned sociologist and ethnographer, aims to renew and develop the ethnographic craft across the disciplines. Drawing fr…
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Garfinkel and Ethnomethodology
Garfinkel and Ethnomethodology
The writings of Harold Garfinkel have had a major impact on the social sciences and linguistics. This book offers a systematic and innovative analysis…
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Governing the Present
Governing the Present
The literature on governmentality has had a major impact across the social sciences over the past decade, and much of this has drawn upon the pioneeri…
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Gothic and Gender
Gothic and Gender
Gothic novels tell terrifying stories of patriarchal societies that thrive on the oppression or even outright sacrifice of women and others. Donna Hei…
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Cities and Society
Cities and Society
This distinctive anthology contains classic and first-rate contemporary writings that have had a major impact on the field of urban studies. The exper…
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Patriarchy at Work
Patriarchy at Work
The concept of 'patriarchy' is one which signals a sharp divide between traditions of feminist thought. Sylvia Walby attempts to conceptualize 'patria…
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Gender and Knowledge
Gender and Knowledge
After the success of the hardback, students and academics will welcome the publication of this book in paperback. The aim of the book is to explore th…
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Islam Under Siege
Islam Under Siege
In this groundbreaking book, Akbar Ahmed, one of the world's leading authorities on Islam, who has worked in the Muslim world but lives in the West, e…
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Masculinities in Theory
Masculinities in Theory
Masculinities in Theory is a clear, concise, and comprehensive introduction to the field of masculinity studies from a humanities perspective. Serves …
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Myth and Metropolis
Myth and Metropolis
This is a lucid study of Walter Benjamin's lifelong fascination with the city and forms of metropolitan experience, highlighting the relevance of Benj…
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Understanding Chinese Society
Understanding Chinese Society
This new book provides an accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the main features of Chinese society. Drawing on a wealth of material, the autho…
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Coercion and Consent
Coercion and Consent
This book examines the key institutional structures and processes of modernity. Combining historical insight with sustained political and social analy…
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Modernity and Ambivalence
Modernity and Ambivalence
Modern civilization, Bauman argues, promised to make our lives understandable and open to our control. This has not happened and today we no longer be…
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