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At the heart of Karl Jaspers on Truth and Dialogue is the question of the possibilities and limits of global communication. Anton Hgli shows how disastrous it is for the individual, for society, and for the destiny of humanity when the will to communicate is lacking.

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Explores the thoughts, values and opinions of home cooks, their practices and experiences, and the skills and knowledge they use to prepare and provide food. This book offers new ways of thinking about cooking, examining and often contesting commonly-held beliefs and theories about the role of practical cookery lessons.

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Explores the thoughts, values and opinions of home cooks, their practices and experiences, and the skills and knowledge they use to prepare and provide food. This book offers new ways of thinking about cooking, examining and often contesting commonly-held beliefs and theories about the role of practical cookery lessons.

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This book explores how racism lives and how racism is lived. Earlier chapters provide the theoretical foundation for the later chapters on contemporary racial issues. Collectively they show change, continuity, and diversity of racial thinking and outcomes.

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This book explores how racism lives and how racism is lived. Earlier chapters provide the theoretical foundation for the later chapters on contemporary racial issues. Collectively they show change, continuity, and diversity of racial thinking and outcomes.

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Fernandez examines the lives and ideas of sociologists who shaped the main contours of the discipline. Weber, Marx, Durkheim, and Simmel fashioned the early ideas and approaches of sociology, and their ideas are still central to the discipline. Veblen, Mead, Goffman, and Berger added crucial conceptual approaches;

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As America experiences the growing pains associated with the rapid social changes in the economy, technology, and culture, various groups must develop coping mechanisms to help them deal with the anxiety that is brought on by such changes.

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Three major social theories - mass society, pluralism and bureaucracy - are often employed to interpret and explain modern societies. This text seeks to clarify the background, context and major arguments of the theories, and assess the claims and validity of each.

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This collection of essays focuses on Weber's political ideology as well as his political sociology. In the first section on ideology, scholars question whether Weber's political predictions were based on a realistic appraisal of social development or if his objectivity was compromised by events in Weimar Germany.

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Lewis A. Coser takes readers from the coffeehouses of 18th-century London to the mass-culture industries of today in search of a definition for "the intellectual". Describing the settings where intellectuals thrive and exploring the nature and contributions of various well-known groups, he discusses the various roles intellectuals play in society and why they matter.

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Few thinkers have left such an influence across such a diverse range of studies as Michel Foucault has. This book pays homage to that diversity by presenting a multidisciplinary series of analyses dedicated to the question of power today.

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A leading economist and a top economic journalist show that contrary to conventional wisdom, America is at the peak of its economic well-being, with more opportunity for more people than at any other time in our history.

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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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Anas Karzais timely book emphasizes how modern progressive sociological and political thought including the work of Weber, Adorno, and Foucault, is based on an often unacknowledged debt to Nietzsche. Karzais book highlights how Nietzsches observation of the human condition in modernity is to be read as an affirmative critique.

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"This new edition of this highly regarded text introduces students to the philosophical underpinnings of the social sciences. With a new introduction and two new chapters addressing the latest challenges facing social sciences researchers today, this is an ideal introduction for students of any social sciences subject"--

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Provides a penetrating examination of how political rhetoric from public officials creates tensions via microaggression cues due to changing demographics, campaign rhetoric, and the use of social media.

What are microaggression cues, and what are examples of those cues in political rhetoric

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Under present social conditions, neither social theorists nor political scientists can afford to ignore one another. This book is a clear, structured account of the relationship between politics and social theory, examining both the political content of social theory, and how social theory has illuminated our understanding of politics.

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Argues that placing politics in time can enrich our understanding of complex social dynamics, and improve the theories and methods that we use to explain them. This book explores a range of features and implications of evolving social processes. It is intended for students in fields from political science, history, and sociology.

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Positive Prejudice as Interpersonal Ethics examines prejudice not merely as a negative attitude toward others but as a general orientation that enables perception and understanding.

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Positive Prejudice as Interpersonal Ethics examines prejudice not only as a negative attitude toward others that should be eliminated but also as an orientation that enables perception and understanding.

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Traces the origins of post-modernism in the humanities and describes how its key concepts are being applied to, and are restructuring, the social sciences. This book shows how the post-modern challenge to reason and rational organization radiates across academic fields.

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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.