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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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The author contends that sociology, the science of social reform, is tied to the modern project of creating normalcy. This project is not viable in post-normal times brought on by Covid-19 and climate change. Thorpe argues that sociology must be left behind in order to create a new global humanity.

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In Sociology of Waiting, Paul Christopher Price investigates how people wait and analyzes what individuals do while waiting. Shining the light on waiting permits a far superior understanding of order, first come-first serve, and how society organizes itself around taking turns. Waiting gets at our ability or inability to pause and consider others.

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The 2008 Olympic Games will be held in Beijing, but many human rights activists support a boycott. They liken the circumstances to previous governments that used the games to glorify their regimes - most notoriously the Nazis in 1936.

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The 2008 Olympic Games will be held in Beijing, but many human rights activists support a boycott. They liken the circumstances to previous governments that used the games to glorify their regimes - most notoriously the Nazis in 1936.

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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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This collection of articles by an international group of leading experts has its special focus on the relevance of Karl Jaspers's philosophy for the social sciences. It also includes classical evaluations of Jaspers's thinking by renowned authors Talcott Parsons and Jrgen Habermas.

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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.

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'The Anthem Companion to Pierre Bourdieu' provides an introduction to the French sociologist's thought and an evaluation of the international significance of his work from a range of national perspectives.

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Robert K. Merton (RKM) was an important figure in the mid-nineteenth development of sociology in terms of social theory, methodology and several substantive areas key to understanding modern societies the sociologies of science, media, professions and bureaucracy. This book reveals the different components of RKMs work and how each relates to the other.

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In the social sciences today, students are taught theory by reading and analyzing the works of Karl Marx, Max Weber, and other foundational figures of the discipline. What they rarely learn, however, is how to actually theorize. The Art of Social Theory is a practical guide to doing just that. In this one-of-a-kind user's manual for social theoris

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Edward Shils was a major intellectual and social thinker of the mid-twentieth century. This collection captures the major facets the thought of this complex and controversial figure. -- .