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  • Sociological Interpretations of Education

    by David Blackledge, Barry Hunt ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Sociology of Education
    This book, first published in 1985, provides a clear readable account of the principal sociological approaches to education. It is organised around the three main sociological perspectives on education: the Durkheimian and Functionalist, the Marxist and the Interpretative. It concentrates on the most important and interesting writers within each ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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  • Sociology: The Key Concepts

    Edited by John Scott ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    An essential A-Z guide to the full range of sociological thought, Sociology: The Key Concepts is an important addition to the established and successful Key Concepts series.Fully cross-referenced with an extensive glossary, this accessible text also includes:alphabetical listings of key concepts for ease of usesuggestions for further reading to enhance understanding of areas coveredentries on ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Men In The Public Eye

    by Jeff Hearn ...
    Men in the Public Eye reveals why men's domination in and of the public sphere is a vital feature of gender relations in patriarchy. It also shows how public domains dominate private domains, contributing to the intensification of public patriarchies. Jeff Hearn explores these important issues by focusing on the period 1870-1920, when there was massive growth and transformation in the power of the ... Read more

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  • From Economics Imperialism to Freakonomics

    The Shifting Boundaries between Economics and other Social Sciences

    by Ben Fine, Dimitris Milonakis ...
    Series series Economics as Social Theory
    Is or has economics ever been the imperial social science? Could or should it ever be so? These are the central concerns of this book. It involves a critical reflection on the process of how economics became the way it is, in terms of a narrow and intolerant orthodoxy, that has, nonetheless, increasingly directed its attention to appropriating the subject matter of other social sciences through ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Introducing Social Theory

    by Pip Jones, Liz Bradbury, Shaun LeBoutillier ...
    This revised edition of Pip Jones's extremely popular introduction to social theory, now benefiting from the collaboration of Shaun Le Boutillier and Liz Bradbury, has been carefully and thoroughly updated with the latest developments in this continually changing field. Written in a refreshingly lucid and engaging style, Introducing Social Theory provides readers with a wide-ranging, well ... Read more

    $26.00 USD

  • Critical Perspectives On Educational Leadership

    Edited by John Smyth ...
    This book is an edited collection of original papers which challenge in a very direct manner the dominant behviourist and functionalist views that have come to entrap those who live, work and conduct research in the areas of educational leadership, and focusing instead on the structures and processes within schools as organisations that frustrate, distort and ultimately stifle educative ... Read more

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  • Key Concepts in Classical Social Theory

    by Alex Law ...
    Series series SAGE Key Concepts series
    This book's individual entries introduce, explain and contextualise the key topics within classical social theory. Definitions, summaries and key words are developed throughout with careful cross-referencing allowing students to move effortlessly between core ideas and themes.</p... ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Social Work and Social Theory

    Making Connections

    by Paul Michael Garrett ...
    Drawing on a range of theorists and competing perspectives, this substantially updated and expanded second edition places social theory at the heart of social work pedagogy.This book imaginatively explores ways in which practitioners and social work educators might develop more critical and radical ways of theorising and working. It is an invaluable resource for students and contains features, ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Thinking About Criminology

    Edited by Simon Holdaway, Paul Rock ...
    First published in 1998. Thinking about criminology draws together the expertise of respected criminologists from the principle contemporary schools of thought. The book aims to provide a clear analysis of the relationship between sociological theory and contemporary empirical criminological research, discussing the ways in which theoretical perspectives have contributed to the understanding of ... Read more

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  • Democracy, Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society

    Active Citizenship in a Late Modern Age

    by Peter Jarvis ...
    Series series Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society
    This is a book with a difference: it produces a completely new perspective on lifelong learning and the learning society and locates them within humanity itself. Five themes run through this book:Humankind has always been aware of the imperfections of human society: as a consequence, it has looked back to a mythological past and forward to a utopian future that might be religious, political, ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • International Political Economy

    Debating the Past, Present and Future

    Edited by Nicola Phillips, Catherine Weaver ...
    The book gathers together a set of lively, provocative essays by leading voices in International Political Economy to debate the evolution of the field, its current state and its future directions.Prompted by recent commentaries on the existence of a ‘transatlantic divide’ in IPE between an ‘American school’ and a ‘British school’, the essays provide a wide-ranging discussion of whether it is ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Introducing Social Theory

    by Pip Jones, Liz Bradbury ...
    This revised edition of this extremely popular introduction to social theory has been carefully and thoroughly updated with the latest developments in this continually changing field. Written in a refreshingly lucid and engaging style, Introducing Social Theory provides readers with a wide-ranging, well organized and thematic introduction to all the major thinkers, issues and debates in classical ... Read more

    $23.00 USD