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  • The Promise of Sociology

    Classical Approaches to Contemporary Society, Second Edition

    by Rob Beamish ...
    Unlike most introductory texts that take a topical approach to studying sociology, this smart, challenging, and accessibly written text looks at the core principles of the discipline, making links to a contemporary context.The second edition of this award-winning book has been substantially revised, making more direct connections between Generation Z, Mills’s concept of the sociological ... Read more

    $45.89 USD

  • The Promise of Sociology

    The Classical Tradition and Contemporary Sociological Thinking

    by Rob Beamish ...
    Unlike most introductory texts that take a topical approach to studying sociology, this smart, challenging, and accessibly written text looks at the core principles of the discipline, making links to a contemporary context.Both students and instructors will find in these pages a fresh and original approach to teaching sociology. Beamish begins by providing a sociological profile of today's ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Fastest, Highest, Strongest

    A Critique of High-Performance Sport

    by Rob Beamish, Ian Ritchie ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Sport
    Fastest, Highest, Strongest presents a comprehensive challenge to the dominant orthodoxy concerning the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport.Examining the political and economic transformation of the Olympic Movement during the twentieth century, the authors argue that the realities of modern sport require a serious reassessment of current policies, in particular the ban on the use of ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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  • Ideology

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Michael Freeden ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Ideology is one of the most controversial terms in the political vocabulary, exciting both revulsion and inspiration. This book examines the reasons for those views, and explains why ideologies deserve respect as a major form of political thinking. It investigates the centrality of ideology both as a political phenomenon and as an organizing framework of political thought and action. It explores ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • A Crooked Line

    From Cultural History to the History of Society

    by Geoff Eley ...
    "Eley brilliantly probes transformations in the historians' craft over the past four decades. I found A Crooked Line engrossing, insightful, and inspiring."--Lizabeth Cohen, author of A Consumers' Republic"A Crooked Line brilliantly captures the most significant shifts in the landscape of historical scholarship that have occurred in the last four decades. Part personal history, part insightful ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Politics and Sociology in the Thought of Max Weber

    by Anthony Giddens ...
    This book provides an interpretation of one of the key aspects of Max Weber’s work: the relationship between his political and sociological writings. Weber’s sociological studies have often been treated as if they were completely separate from his political attitudes and interests, and in general his political writings have remained less well-known than his sociological work.The book contains ... Read more

    $12.00 USD

  • Social Theory: Ideas in Profile

    Ideas in Profile

    by William Outhwaite ...
    Series series Ideas in Profile - small books, big ideas
    Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big TopicsIn a world that is constantly changing, understanding the world has never been more important. But by thinking in neat segments, we miss the big picture. When economists think about globalisation, they often see trade; politicians see institutions and power; artists see a new global aesthetic. Social theory is what sees them all together.Renowned ... Read more

    $8.59 USD

  • An Analysis of Max Weber's Politics as a Vocation

    by Tom McClean, Jason Xidias, William Brett ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    German sociologist Max Weber’s 1919 lecture Politics as a Vocation is widely regarded as a masterpiece of political theory and sociology. Its central strength lies in Weber’s deployment of masterful interpretative skills to power his discussion of modern politics.Interpretation involves understanding both the meaning of evidence and the meaning of terms – questioning definitions, clarifying terms ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

  • Politics and the Concept of the Political

    The Political Imagination

    by James Wiley ...
    A recent trend in contemporary western political theory is to criticize it for implicitly trying to "conquer," "displace" or "moralize" politics. James Wiley’s book takes the "next step," from criticizing contemporary political theory, to showing what a more "politics-centered" political theory would look like by exploring the meaning and value of politics in the writings of Max Weber, Carl ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Critical Communication Studies

    Essays on Communication, History and Theory in America

    by Hanno Hardt ...
    Series series Communication and Society
    The development of communication studies has been a lively process of adoption and integration of theoretical constructs from Pragmatism, Critical Theory and Cultural Studies. Critical Communication Studies describes the intellectual and professional forces that have shaped research interests and formed alliances in the pursuit of particular goals.Hanno Hardt reflects on the need to come to terms ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Anarchist Roots of Geography

    Toward Spatial Emancipation

    by Simon Springer ...
    The Anarchist Roots of Geography sets the stage for a radical politics of possibility and freedom through a discussion of the insurrectionary geographies that suffuse our daily experiences. By embracing anarchist geographies as kaleidoscopic spatialities that allow for nonhierarchical connections between autonomous entities, Simon Springer configures a new political imagination.Experimentation in ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Sociological Theory

    by Bert N. Adams, R. A. Sydie ...
    This book connects theorists and their work to larger themes and ideas. All too often, in the opinion of the authors, theory texts focus too much on individual theorists and insufficiently on the relationship between their theories, and how these have contributed, in turn, to the evolution of ideas concerning social life. Treatment of individual theories and theorists is balanced with the ... Read more

    $141.29 USD