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From Aristotle to contemporary soap operas, friendship has always been a subject of fascination. This book describes the varied nature of personal relationships, and also locates friendship in contemporary debates about individualization and the supposed "collapse of community."

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Revolutionary Social Transformation focuses on the visions and analysis culled from the writings of Karl Marx, Paulo Freire, and Antonio Gramsci. Marx's theory of critical praxis and his dialectical conceptualization of capitalism are discussed together with Freire's and Gramsci's ideas. The author

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A former White House director of economic policy makes the outrageous argument that we don't really want to relax--we want to compete.

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This work analyzes the phases of general theoretical sociology using a process philosophical approach in an effort to integrate and unify the field. The author studies general theoretical sociology as a time-extended tradition with three phases: classical, postclassical and recent.

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The idea that radical adult educators should build civil society through social movements is the dominant paradigm within the adult education left today.

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This bibliography is a companion volume to International Law and the Social Sciences. One of the aims of the earlier work by Wesley L. Gould and Michael Barkun was to show how social science concepts could be employed in research in international law. With the support and encouragement of the American Society of international Law, they have now com

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Illuminating key themes of classical sociological texts, this book shows how the ideas of Marx, Durkheim or Weber can be explored by listening to music, reading about celebrities, or watching award-winning films. Providing a fresh way to explore social theory, the text clearly shows the continued relevance of classic ideas in the modern world.

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This title analyses one of the core concerns of both classical and contemporary social theory: the concept of social structure. It does so through an analysis of the language of social theory.

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This book provides insight into the lives and contributions of eigth master sociologists as perceived by their outstanding students.

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This book provides insight into the lives and contributions of eigth master sociologists as perceived by their outstanding students.

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Moving from first hand interviews with dancers and others, this book broadens into an accessible examination of the popularity of "striptease culture," with sex-saturated media imagery, and stripper aerobics at your local gym. It aims to scrutinize the truth of a industry whose norms are increasingly at the center of contemporary society.

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Moving from first hand interviews with dancers and others, this book broadens into an accessible examination of the popularity of "striptease culture," with sex-saturated media imagery, and stripper aerobics at your local gym. It aims to scrutinize the truth of a industry whose norms are increasingly at the center of contemporary society.

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This book is an introduction to the philosophical ideas of Plato, Rene Descartes, Baruch Spinoza, and Immanuel Kant on the role of reason which have contributed to the evolution of sociological thought.

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This edited volume provides a comprehensive survey of the life and work of David Ricardo (17721823), a major contributor to the British classical school of political economy.

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The purpose of the volume is to provide a comprehensive overview of Erving Goffmans continued importance within the field of sociology and related social science disciplines.

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The Anthem Companion to Harold Garfinkel brings together leading scholars and upcoming researchers in contemporary ethnomethodology to bring out the experimental character of Garfinkels legacy in the social sciences and beyond.

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The Anthem Companion to Immanuel Wallerstein explores many of the topics central to Wallersteins understanding of the modern world-system and offers a comprehensive guide to the full range of his work.

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The Anthem Companion to mile Durkheim intends to offer different practical attempts to build on Durkheims legacy and investigate the issues and controversies that characterise contemporary societies and thus contribute to develop further this path of critical enquiry into classical sociology.

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The Anthem Companion to Niklas Luhmann is a major contribution to analysing the work of one of the greatest social theorists of the twentieth century. This companion provides the latest scholarly interpretations of a thinker who revolutionised the theoretical foundation of the discipline of sociology.

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The Anthem Companion to Philip Selznick is a collection of essays by renowned authors on the preeminent sociologist.