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  • The Future of Sociology

    Ideology or Objective Social Science?

    Edited by Robert Leroux, Thierry Martin, Stephen Turner ...
    Series series Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
    This book explores the shift in sociology away from the shared aspiration of the classical transition, of transcending partiality through the construction of a "science of society", in the face of challenges to the notion of objectivity.With the increasing subjugation of sociology to political ideologies and a growing emphasis on "policy", which casts sociology in the role of a provider of ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Making Democratic Theory Democratic

    Democracy, Law, and Administration after Weber and Kelsen

    by Stephen Turner, George Mazur ...
    This book addressees a timely and fundamental problematic: the gap between the aims that people attempt to realize democratically and the law and administrative practices that actually result.The chapters explain the realities that administration poses for democratic theory. Topics include the political value of accountability, the antinomic character of political values, the relation between ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Other People's Country

    Law, Water and Entitlement in Settler Colonial Sites

    Edited by Timothy Neale, Stephen Turner ...
    Other People’s Country thinks through the entangled objects of law – legislation, policies, institutions, treaties and so on – that ‘govern’ waters and that make bodies of water ‘lawful’ within settler colonial sites today. Informed by the theoretical interventions of cosmopolitics and political ecology, each opening up new approaches to questions of politics and ‘the political’, the chapters in ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • The calling of social thought

    Rediscovering the work of Edward Shils

    Edited by Stephen Turner, Christopher Adair-Toteff ...
    Edward Shils was a central figure in twentieth century social thought. He held appointments both at Chicago and Cambridge and was a crucial link between British and American intellectual life. This volume collects essays by distinguished contributors which deal with the major facets of Shils’ thought, including his relations with Michael Polanyi, his parallels with Michael Oakeshott, his defense ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • Sociological Theory in Transition (RLE Social Theory)

    Edited by Mark Wardell, Stephen Turner ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory
    Current sociological theories appear to have lost their general persuasiveness in part because, unlike the theories of the ‘classical era’, they fail to maintain an integrated stance toward society, and the practical role that sociology plays in society. The authors explore various facets of this failure and possibilities for reconstructing sociological theories as integrated wholes capable of ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • A Global Environmental Right

    by Stephen Turner ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
    The development of an international substantive environmental right on a global level has long been a contested issue. To a limited extent environmental rights have developed in a fragmented way through different legal regimes. This book examines the potential for the development of a global environmental right that would create legal duties for all types of decision-makers and provide the bedrock ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Mad Hazard

    A Life in Social Theory

    by Stephen Turner ...
    Series Book 38 - Current Perspectives in Social Theory
    Mad Hazard is a memoir of the career and life of Stephen Turner, chronicling a life in social theory. Showcasing how Turner’s later work on expertise, tacit knowledge, cognitive science, leadership, and liberal democracy developed out of his early interests, this volume describes the institutional and personal constraints and pressures, as well as the personal relationships, that facilitated and ... Read more

    $107.49 USD

  • Emile Durkheim

    Sociologist and Moralist

    Edited by Stephen Turner ...
    International scholarship over the last twenty years has produced a new understanding of Emile Durkheim as a thinker. It has contributed to reassembling what, for Durkheim, was always a whole: a sociological selection on morals and moral activism. This volume presents an overview of Durkheim's thought and is representative of the best of contemporary Durkheim scholarship. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Sociology Responds to Fascism

    Edited by Dirk Kasler, Stephen Turner ...
    We know a lot about the sociology of fascism, but how have sociologists responded to fascism when confronted with it in their own lives? How courageous or compromising have they been? And why has this history been shrouded in silence for so long? In this major work of historical scholarship sociologists from around the world describe and evaluate the reactions of sociologists to the rise and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Weber

    Edited by Stephen Turner ...
    Max Weber is indubitably one of the very greatest figures in the history of the social sciences, the source of seminal concepts like 'the Protestant Ethic', 'charisma' and the idea of historical processes of 'rationalization'. But, like his great forebears Adam Smith and Karl Marx, Weber's work always resists easy categorisation. Prominent as a founding father of sociology, Weber has been a major ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Rights Resources and Rural Development

    Community-based Natural Resource Management in Southern Africa

    Edited by Christo Fabricius, Eddie Koch, Stephen Turner, Hector Magome ...
    Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) is an approach that offers multiple related benefits: securing rural livelihoods; ensuring careful conservation and management of biodiversity and other resources; and empowering communities to manage these resources sustainably. Recently, however, the CBNRM concept has attracted criticism for failing in its promise of delivering significant ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • Historiography in the Twentieth Century

    From Scientific Objectivity to the Postmodern Challenge

    by Georg G. Iggers ...
    "No one looking for a well-informed introduction to . . the key views of history adopted by professional historians . . could find a better one than this." ―Richard J. Evans, author of In Defence of HistoryA broad perspective on historical thought and writing, with a new epilogue.In this book, now published in ten languages, a preeminent intellectual historian examines the profound changes in ... Read more

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