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Robert A. Nye places in historical context a medical concept of deviance that developed in France in the last half of the nineteenth century, when medical models of cultural crisis linked thinking about crime, mental illness, prostitution, alcoholism, suicide, and other pathologies to French national decline. Originally published in 1984. The Pri

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A thoroughly revised edition, providing full coverage of online sources, the techniques of electronic searching, and using the Internet, as well as traditional resources.

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Critical juncture theory seeks to understand how social orders are created, become entrenched, and change. In this book, leading practitioners offer the first coordinated effort to define this field, assess its theoretical and methodological foundations, and use a critical assessment of current practices as a basis for guiding its future.

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This is the first study to make a detail case for the Frankfurt Schools relevance to understanding contemporary populism. It reconstructs their analysis of modern demagogy and demonstrates its advantages over orthodox populism studies and the work of Laclau. The book also extends the Institutes analysis to assess counter-demagogic forces.

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This Critical Theory and Contemporary Society volume analyzes how cinema can help critical theory repoliticize culture and society.

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This Critical Theory and Contemporary Society volume analyzes how cinema can help critical theory repoliticize culture and society. >

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This book explores intersections between contemporary critical theory and the disabled people's Independent Living movement. The book helps strengthen critiques of the state, the market, and the family by grounding them in the struggles of disabled people for self-determination.

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Axel Honneths critical theory of recognition has failed the Frankfurt School. A new social-theoretical foundation is urgently needed. As this book argues, Herbert Marcuse and Erich Fromm are crucial allies in this task.

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He assesses their contribution to key areas of contemporary debate, including morality, interest, individual and collective identity and the analysis of authoritarian and democratic states.

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Despite the increased number of interracial marriages in recent years, Black/White couples still experience a host of problems in American society, particularly in the South.

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Despite the increased number of interracial marriages in recent years. Black/White couples still experience problems in American society, particularly in the South. This ethnographic study describes the issues and obstacles these couples have to face and documents their sense of social isolation.

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With medical science, health care, and healthy lifestyles extending our lifespans as never before, more and more midlife adults are finding themselves caring for their aging parents.

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Lyn MacCorkle brings together a wide-ranging body of English-language sources pertaining to Cuban American society in a compehensive research bibliography. Spanish-language bibliographies that contain English-language titles or related Spanish-language works are also cited.

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Explains how Americans' cultural forgetfulness is eating away at America's soul.

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The latest edition of a major literature guide provides citations and informative annotations on a wide range of reference sources, including manuals, bibliographies, indexes, databases, literature surveys and reviews, dissertations, book reviews, conference proceedings, awards, and employment and grant sources.

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"Unpicks the knotty problem of cultural appropriation in fashion and entertainment, using sociological analysis to explore international examples and engage with the passionate debates that surround them as well as the implications for designers, artists and consumers"--

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Clementine K. Fujimura and Simone Nommensen discuss the ethical treatment of animals and provide an overview of current and past uses of animals to enhance human well-being in Germany, the United States, Japan, and Russia.