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"Learning from Franz Neumann" examines the political and legal thought of Franz Neumann in relation to the contemporary decline of the social welfare state and the rise of populism.

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While the alt right and post-truth attitudes render democracy fragile, so does professional journalism when it reports on the most vulnerable subjects in society but rarely addresses them as the imagined audience. A dialogical critique of divisions in news media, politics, and contemporary sociological theory can provide an alternative way forward.

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This book is a shorter, more accessible and updated follow-up to Post-Truth: Knowledge as a Power Game, which remains the only book that sheds a largely hopeful light on our post-truth condition across a wide range of intellectual fields and public affairs, including Brexit, Trump and the COVID-19 pandemic.

(Hardback)

This book is a shorter, more accessible and updated follow-up to Post-Truth: Knowledge as a Power Game, which remains the only book that sheds a largely hopeful light on our post-truth condition across a wide range of intellectual fields and public affairs, including Brexit, Trump and the COVID-19 pandemic.

(Hardback)

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.

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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.

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This major new contribution forms a constructive comparison of the social theories of Jrgen 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.

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This book provides a comprehensive guide to all three volumes of Karl Marxs Capital, with advice on further reading and points for further discussion.

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Life Chances, Education and Social Movements dwells on the necessity of education and social movements for enhancing the life chances of individuals and disadvantaged groups respectively. Ralf Dahrendorfs work on life chances and social conflict is used to support the theoretical and empirical arguments in the book.

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While the alt right and post-truth attitudes render democracy fragile, so does professional journalism when it reports on the most vulnerable subjects in society but rarely addresses them as the imagined audience. A dialogical critique of divisions in news media, politics, and contemporary sociological theory can provide an alternative way forward.

(Hardback)

This volume presents the first ever book-length treatment of Emile Durkheim's concept of the 'collective consciousness of society'.

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"Network Persistence and the Axis of Hierarchy" shows how networks, modestly redefined as a strong, yet imperfect tendency for pairings to recur day after day, that is, stickiness, imply a singular axis of stratification. This is contrary to the nearly universal insistence that stratification is multidimensional. Reanalysis of three central mobility data sets sustains the novel claim.

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In the current global social landscape, emotions have become important in peoples lives. Doyle McCarthy, in Culture and Our Emotions, explains in highly accessible terms how this came about and how our lives have been changed in the process.

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In the current global social landscape, emotions have become important in peoples lives. Doyle McCarthy, in Culture and Our Emotions, explains in highly accessible terms how this came about and how our lives have been changed in the process.

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'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.

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'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.

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'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. As Fuller shows in this book, it reaches into the nature of knowledge itself.

(Hardback)

'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. As Fuller shows in this book, it reaches into the nature of knowledge itself.

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Regimes of Happiness is a comparative and historical analysis of how human societies have articulated and enacted distinctive notions of human fulfillment.

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Structure, Agency, Biotechnology argues for the significance of sociological theory and highlights the insights that it can offer into the study of agricultural biotechnology.

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"Structure, Agency, Biotechnology" argues for the significance of sociological theory and highlights the insights that it can offer into the study of agricultural biotechnology.

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Honoring the work of Edward A. Tiryakian.

The book consists of a volume of essays in honor of the outstanding sociologist, Edward A. Tiryakian; whose work has spanned a considerable number of countries, regions and topics. He has been highly influential, particularly in American and French sociology.

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A festschrift honoring the work of Edward A. Tiryakian, consisting of a large number of essays.

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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.