What is political sociology

What is Political Sociology?

With an entire discipline devoted to political science, what is distinctive about political sociology? This concise book explains what a sociological

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What is Cultural Sociology?

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What is Digital Sociology?

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What is Environmental Sociology?

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Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology

With contributions from an international, interdisciplinary group of leading scholars, The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology is a com

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Phenomenological Sociology

What is phenomenological sociology? Why is it significant? This book argues that phenomenology was the most significant, wide-ranging and influential

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Sociology Book

Part of the popular Big Ideas series, this book introduces you to the subject that tells you all about what society is and what makes it tick. It incl

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Is Political Authority an Illusion?

What gives some people the right to issue commands to everyone else and force everyone else to obey them? And why should people obey the commands of t

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What Is Antiracism?

This scintillating intellectual and political history provides a new understanding of racism, and a better way to fight it

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What Is Cybersecurity For?

Cybersecurity is one of the key practical and political challenges of our time. This book explains the complexities of global information systems, th

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What World Is This?

Judith Butler shows how COVID-19 and all its consequences—political, social, ecological, economic—challenge us to develop a new account of interdepe

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What is Nature?

* An exploration of one of the thorniest, and most important, questions of contemporary social and political thought* Written in lively and accessbile

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What is Digital Journalism Studies?

This insightful book traces the development of journalism and celebrity and their relationship to and influence on political and social spheres from t

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Introduction to the Sociology of Religion

Is it true that religion is weakening in modern times or are we facing religious resurgence? What is fundamentalism? This book addresses such question

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The Sociology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

The Sociology Book takes on some of humankind's biggest questions: What is society? What makes it tick? Why do we interact in the way that we do with our friends, coworkers, and rivals?The Sociology Book profiles the world's most renowned

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What If…

Beloved actress and bestselling author Shirley MacLaine contemplates a wealth of subjects from the mundane to the esoteric in this all-new collection of musings that begin with two simple words: What if...What if hope is the most dangerous emotion? What if a frog had wings? (Answer: He wouldn't bump his ass so much.) What if our political leaders actually led? What if Do...

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The Political Durkheim Taylor & Francis Ltd

Through a series of studies, this book presents Durkheim as an important political sociologist. Looking beyond the conservative elements of Durkheim’s thought, it argues that a radical sociology can be found in Durkheim’s normative vision, shaped by what we might call libertarian socialism....

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Political Leadership in an Era of Decolonisation

What is leadership and why is it so important? In what ways does it look very different in different contexts, and in what ways does it look the same?

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Covid-19 and the Global Political Economy

Covid-19 and the Global Political Economy investigates and explores how far and in what ways the Covid-19 pandemic is challenging, restructuring, and

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Race, Racism and Political Correctness in Comedy

In what ways is comedy subversive? By viewing comedy as both a constitutive feature of social interaction and as a necessary requirement in the apprai

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What If... - Shirley MacLaine

Anotace: Beloved actress and bestselling author Shirley MacLaine contemplates a wealth of subjects from the mundane to the esoteric in this all-new collection of musings that begin with two simple words: What if... What if hope is the most dangerous emotion? What if a frog had wings? (Answer: He wouldn't bump his ass so much.) What if our political leaders actually le...

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Political Identity and the Metaphysics of Polities Taylor & Francis Ltd

What is a political community? This question lies at the intersection between three fields: metaphysics, philosophy of action, and political philosophy. This book investigates how different metanormative views affect the possible answers to this metaphysical question. It explores the role that the individual identities of agents play in grounding common practices that und...

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What If… - Mac Shirley Laine

<p>Beloved actress and bestselling author Shirley MacLaine contemplates a wealth of subjects from the mundane to the esoteric in this all-new collection of musings that begin with two simple words: What if… What if hope is the most dangerous emotion? What if a frog had wings? (Answer: He wouldn't bump his ass so much.) What if our political leaders actually led? Wh...

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Enjoying What We Don't Have

Although there have been many attempts to apply the ideas of psychoanalysis to political thought, this book is the first to identify the political pro

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Britain Is Better Than This

An exploration of a British political system in peril and what we must do to save it.

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Social Governance and Political Order in Contemporary China Taylor & Francis Ltd

Focusing on the conflict and coordination between social development and political order in social governance, this book investigates the causes, evolution and manifestations of such tensions in contemporary China, combining both qualitative and quantitative analysis. The title is essential reading for scholars and students studying sociology and political science, especi...

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Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism - Yanis Varoufakis

‘What an amazing piece of work this is. Ground-breaking, thought-provoking and highly accessible. Everyone should read it.The dark, scary, exciting song of our age. 100 out of 100’ IRVINE WELSHCapitalism is dead. Welcome to technofeudalism.In his boldest and most far-reaching book, the visionary economist and number-one bestselling author Yanis Varoufakis shows how the ow...

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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media - Noam Chomsky

<p>A detailed and compelling political study of how elite forces shape mass media.Edward S Herman and Noam Chomsky investigate how an underlying elite consensus structures mainstream media. Here they skilfully dissect the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing significantly shape the news.This book reveals how issues are framed and topics chose...

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Now That's What I Call a History of the 1980s

Now that's what I call a history of the 1980s is a political and cultural History of Britain in the long 1980s in ten objects or moments. Neither a to

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Free and Equal: What Would a Fair Society Look Like? - Daniel Chandler

<p>Imagine: you are designing a society, but you don't know who you'll be within it - rich or poor, man or woman, gay or straight. What would you want that society to look like?This is the revolutionary thought experiment proposed by the twentieth century's greatest political philosopher, John Rawls. As economist and philosopher Daniel Chandler argues in this hugely...

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This Book Is Feminist: An intersectional primer for feminists in training (071125639X)

Kniha - 160 stran, anglicky, Brožovaná bez přebalu matná - autor Jamia Wilson, 160 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná A vibrantly illustrated introduction to intersectional feminism for next-generation changemakers, this book is a must-read guide for young people seeking to understand the world around them. "Wilson’s optimistic view of feminism is based on t...

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Cultural Study of Music

What is the relationship between music and culture? Including contributions from scholars of music, cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, and psy

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Radicals

What was once considered extreme is now the mainstream. But what is life like on the political fringes? What is the real power of radicals? This book

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Politics of Inequality

For its breadth and depth of research, this volume of Research in Political Sociology is essential reading for researchers and students of Politics, S

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We've Got to Try

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Poses of the World

The book explains why not everything is political and what this means for our world.

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Second Treatise of Government

Features the central principles of what is broadly known as political liberalism.

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An Introduction to Pablo González Casanova Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book is an introduction to Pablo González Casanova, giant of Latin American sociology. It examines his work across history, sociology, political science, and anthropology, exploring in depth his writings on the university, democracy, the new sciences, alternatives to capitalism, the humanities, equity with social justice, patriarchal domination, and the struggle for ...

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Internet Left

This book defines what political social media is and then takes a morphological approach to investigate political ideologies and reveal the ways in wh

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Complicating Articulation in Art Cinema

What is film criticism for? This book aims to answer this question It argues that art cinema's political effect is the result of indeterminacy and not

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Psychology of Democracy

Democracy around the world is in crisis. Can political psychology shed light on what is going on? Using an accessible and attractive format, this book

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Connected Capitalism

Applying the classic teachings of Judaism, Connected Capitalism is an empowering call to fix what is currently broken in our social, political, and ec

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Global Corpse Politics

What makes a photograph of a dead body obscene? Auchter offers a genealogy of obscenity that argues this process is highly political. She explores how

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Dynamics of Public Opinion

A central question in political representation is whether government responds to the people. To understand that, we need to know what the government i

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Global Corpse Politics

What makes a photograph of a dead body obscene? Auchter offers a genealogy of obscenity that argues this process is highly political. She explores how

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Modernization, Cultural Change, and Democracy

What people want out of life is changing - their political goals, religious values, sexual norms, and economic motivations are being changed in roughl

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Horn of Africa

What distinguishes the Horn of Africa from the rest of the continent and explains its political fragility? This is the book to read.

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House by the River

What this book reveals is that even in one house, this wealth fuelled an extraordinary range of political and cultural activity. Maristow House, as Ma

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Mohawk Interruptus

Combining political theory with ethnographic research among the Mohawks of Kahnawake, a reserve community in what is now southwestern Quebec, this boo

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Jesus and the Powers

What guidance does the bible offer for how Christians should respond to the current wave of political turmoil that is sweeping over the world?

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Finding George Orwell in Burma

A brilliant political travelogue that uses Burma to explain Orwell and Orwell to explain what life is really like under the authoritarian rule of the

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Representing Reality

'This is an admirable book which can be recommended to students with confidence, and is likely also to become an indispensable source of reference for those researching fact construction' - Discourse & Society How is reality manufactured? The idea of social construction has become a commonplace of much social research, yet precisely what is constructed, and how, and even ...

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Labour in the Suburbs Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book is the first comprehensive economic, social and political study of the London suburb of Croydon from 1900 up to the present day. Labour in the Suburbs will be of interest to the general reader as well as students of modern British history with special interests in electoral sociology, political representation and suburbanisation. It provides a template against ...

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New Feminist Research Ethics Taylor & Francis Ltd

New Feminist Research Ethics re-examines the place of the ethical in feminist research and identifies new ethical priorities for feminist researchers. As urgent social, political and environmental challenges demand new ethical sensibilities, contributors revisit the relationship between feminism and research to ask what it means to be an ethical feminist researcher now. T...

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Violence Taylor & Francis Ltd

Can political violence create freedom? What if the cost of violent liberation is too high? How does one even calculate that when the status quo is a condition of sustained violence? From reactionary movements globally to the everyday violence that makes the present moment so cruel, understanding political violence remains a difficult, multidimensional problem. This edited...

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The Pentecostal World Taylor & Francis Ltd

The Pentecostal World provides a comprehensive introduction toa vibrant and diverse expression of contemporary Christianity.Itexplores howglobal flows of Pentecostalism are grounded in local histories and expressions as well as the various modes of their worldwide reproduction.It is essential reading for students and researchers in anthropology, history, political science...

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Women in the Digital World Taylor & Francis Ltd

Women in the Digital World brings together the latest academic research on women online and includes chapters on political speech, gendered online violence, dealing with sexual assaults, marginalization of women politicians, and how women participate (or don’t) via online environments. The inter-disciplinary research in this volume brings together communications studies, ...

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Media Technology and Cultures of Memory Taylor & Francis Ltd

This volume studies narrative memories in India through oral, chirographic and digital cultures. It examinesoral cultures of memory culled out from diverse geographical and cultural landscapes of India and throws light on multiple aspects of remembering and registering the varied cultural tapestry of the country. Rich in case studies from across India, this interdisciplin...

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Creating Third Spaces of Learning for Post-Capitalism Taylor & Francis Ltd

In this book, the authors’ postcapitalist approach to change focuses less on what we need to dismantle, and more on what educators and activists are building in its place. Studying schools and other social organizations in the global north and south, the authors identify and examine some of the most interesting counterhegemonic spaces in both formal and informal education...

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Creating Third Spaces of Learning for Post-Capitalism Taylor & Francis Ltd

In this book, the authors’ postcapitalist approach to change focuses less on what we need to dismantle, and more on what educators and activists are building in its place. Studying schools and other social organizations in the global north and south, the authors identify and examine some of the most interesting counterhegemonic spaces in both formal and informal education...

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