Violence: A Reader
ISBN: 9780333947760 / Angielski / Miękka / 323 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The essays in this book address the inter-relationship of power, politics, and violence, examining why the political process of managing power within states sometimes becomes physically violent. This volume brings together some of the classic writings on the relationship between states and violence within some of the best new work on political violence in local settings. The essays address state-backed violence against citizens and subjects, and violence by citizens against the state and between citizens for control of the state.
The essays in this book address the inter-relationship of power, politics, and violence, examining why the political process of managing power within ...
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249,99 zł |
Social Theory in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
ISBN: 9780745639802 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This revised edition of Patrick Baert's widely acclaimed Social Theory in the Twentieth Century, now benefitting from the collaboration of Filipe Carreira da Silva has been brought right up-to-date with cutting-edge developments in social theory today. It offers an easy-to-read but provocative account of the development of social theory, covering a range of key figures and classic schools of thought. The authors bridge the gap between philosophy and social theory, locating the theoretical views of individuals such as Michel Foucault, Anthony Giddens and Jurgen Habermas within wider...
This revised edition of Patrick Baert's widely acclaimed Social Theory in the Twentieth Century, now benefitting from the collaboration of Fili...
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318,78 zł |
A Companion to Life Course Studies: The Social and Historical Context of the British Birth Cohort Studies
ISBN: 9780415495400 / Angielski / Twarda / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Course research contributes to policy, showing the effects of interaction of individual development & the socio-economic context. This book shows how policy innovation influenced development, ageing & well-being, differently in each generation, over half a century, & how those differences offer opportunities for research.
Course research contributes to policy, showing the effects of interaction of individual development & the socio-economic context. This book shows how ...
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731,87 zł |
Theorizing Intersectionality and Sexuality
ISBN: 9780230229303 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book re-examines political, conceptual and methodological concerns of 'intersectionality', bringing these into conversation with sexuality studies. It explores sexual identifications, politics and inequalities as these (dis)connect across time and place, and are re-constituted in relation to class, disability, ethnicity, gender and age.
This book re-examines political, conceptual and methodological concerns of 'intersectionality', bringing these into conversation with sexuality studie...
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384,63 zł |
Soziologie als Beruf
ISBN: 9783110130058 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 315 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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472,70 zł |
Social Theory in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
ISBN: 9780745639819 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This revised edition of Patrick Baert's widely acclaimed Social Theory in the Twentieth Century, now benefitting from the collaboration of Filipe Carreira da Silva has been brought right up-to-date with cutting-edge developments in social theory today. It offers an easy-to-read but provocative account of the development of social theory, covering a range of key figures and classic schools of thought. The authors bridge the gap between philosophy and social theory, locating the theoretical views of individuals such as Michel Foucault, Anthony Giddens and Jurgen Habermas within wider...
This revised edition of Patrick Baert's widely acclaimed Social Theory in the Twentieth Century, now benefitting from the collaboration of Fili...
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122,15 zł |
Soziologie Des Risikos
ISBN: 9783110178043 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In seiner Soziologie des Risikos entwickelt Niklas Luhmann ein theoretisches Programm fur die soziologische Forschung und geht davon aus, dass der Begriff des Risikos wesentliche Aspekte der Zukunftsbeschreibung der heutigen Gesellschaft in die Gegenwart projiziert. Risiko ist danach die Moglichkeit der Auflosung unerwarteter, unwahrscheinlicher schadlicher Folgen durch eine Entscheidung, die einem Entscheider zugerechnet werden kann. Die Prominenz des Themas Risiko hat es daher wesentlich mit der Annahme zu tun, dass unsere Zukunft von gegenwartig zu treffenden Entscheidungen... In seiner Soziologie des Risikos entwickelt Niklas Luhmann ein theoretisches Programm fur die soziologische Forschung und geht davon aus, ... |
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A Social and Economic Theory of Consumption
ISBN: 9780230244108 / Angielski / Twarda / 237 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Kaj Ilmonen was a pioneer in the third wave of the sociology of consumption. This book provides a balanced overview of the sociology of consumption, arguing that the enthusiasm of 'the third wave' exaggerated the role of the symbolic and imaginary at the expense of the materiality of human societies.
Kaj Ilmonen was a pioneer in the third wave of the sociology of consumption. This book provides a balanced overview of the sociology of consumption, a...
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307,69 zł |
The Challenges of Vulnerability: In Search of Strategies for a Less Vulnerable Social Life
ISBN: 9780230222748 / Angielski / Twarda / 263 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Proposing an aggregative conception of vulnerability, this book provides a new framework for understanding individual experience of, and resilience to, vulnerability and promotes the need to find remedies for exposure to involuntary dependence, the unsecured future and the painful past.
Proposing an aggregative conception of vulnerability, this book provides a new framework for understanding individual experience of, and resilience to...
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384,63 zł |
Soziologische Theorie und soziale Struktur
ISBN: 9783110130218 / Angielski / Twarda / 468 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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429,71 zł |
Nature and Experience in the Culture of Delusion: How Industrial Society Lost Touch with Reality
ISBN: 9780230308480 / Angielski / Twarda / 327 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While the historical development of symbolic power has benefitted humanity enormously, there is an insidious and seldom recognised price that goes beyond environmental degradation and cultural disintegration. With insights from both social and natural sciences, this book explores the changing character of subjectivity in contemporary life.
While the historical development of symbolic power has benefitted humanity enormously, there is an insidious and seldom recognised price that goes bey...
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384,63 zł |
Forming a Culture of Peace: Reframing Narratives of Intergroup Relations, Equity, and Justice
ISBN: 9780230340138 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book challenges the discourses, narrative frames, and systems of beliefs that support and promote violence and conflict, it defines new comprehensive approaches to human security as preventative and empowering to individuals, and it provides conceptual frameworks and methodological tools for enhancing the processes of communicating peace.
This book challenges the discourses, narrative frames, and systems of beliefs that support and promote violence and conflict, it defines new comprehen...
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192,30 zł |
The Concept of the New: Framing Production and Value in Contemporary Performing Arts
ISBN: 9783863887377 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Which concepts of the new can be identified within contemporary performing arts? Livia Andrea Piazza addresses art production in neoliberal capitalism as well as its discourse. She builds a reconceptualization of the new outside the framework of innovation, in order to rethink the relationship between performance and politics at large. Combining theoretical research based on sociology, economics, art theory, and philosophy with a field study in the scene of European contemporary theater and dance, she offers a working definition of the new as a ground to envision the poetics and politics of...
Which concepts of the new can be identified within contemporary performing arts? Livia Andrea Piazza addresses art production in neoliberal capitalism...
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143,19 zł |
The Death Café Movement: Exploring the Horizons of Mortality
ISBN: 9783319542553 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This sociological work examines the phenomenon of the Death Cafe, a regular gathering of strangers from all walks of life who engage in "death talk" over coffee, tea, and desserts. Using insightful theoretical frameworks, Fong explores the common themes that constitute a "death identity" and reveals how Cafe attendees are inspired to live in light of death because of death. Fong examines how the participants' embrace of self-sovereignty and confrontation of mortality revive their awareness of and appreciation for shared humanity. While divisive identity politics continue to foster...
This sociological work examines the phenomenon of the Death Cafe, a regular gathering of strangers from all walks of life who engage in "death talk" o...
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423,10 zł |
God, Guns, Gold and Glory: American Character and Its Discontents
ISBN: 9781608468362 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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185,96 zł |
Theory in Action: Theoretical Constructionism
ISBN: 9781608468348 / Angielski / Miękka / 203 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An invaluable guide for scholars and researchers looking to develop and practically apply critical social theory
An invaluable guide for scholars and researchers looking to develop and practically apply critical social theory
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159,39 zł |
Disability and Social Theory: New Developments and Directions
ISBN: 9780230243255 / Angielski / Twarda / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This comprehensive, interdisciplinary collection, examines disability from a theoretical perspective, challenging views of disability that dominate mainstream thinking. Throughout, social theories of disability intersect with ideas associated with sex/gender, race/ethnicity, class and nation.
This comprehensive, interdisciplinary collection, examines disability from a theoretical perspective, challenging views of disability that dominate ma...
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384,63 zł |
Navigating Environmental Attitudes
ISBN: 9780199773336 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The environment, and how humans affect it, is more of a concern now than ever. We are constantly told that halting climate change requires raising awareness, changing attitudes, and finally altering behaviors among the general public-and fast. New information, attitudes, and actions, it is conventionally assumed, will necessarily follow one from the other. But this approach ignores much of what is known about attitudes in general and environmental attitudes specifically-there is a huge gap between what we say and what we do. Solving environmental problems requires a scientific...
The environment, and how humans affect it, is more of a concern now than ever. We are constantly told that halting climate change requires raising awa...
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250,06 zł |
Short Introduction to Social Theory
ISBN: 9781621009283 / Angielski / Miękka / 77 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Provides a critical introduction to social theory in terms of its engagement with modernity and to a lesser extent, with post-modernity. This book covers the emergence of modern society and the diagnoses of social change and social order through Marx, Durkheim and Weber.
Provides a critical introduction to social theory in terms of its engagement with modernity and to a lesser extent, with post-modernity. This book cov...
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312,89 zł |
Moral Education
ISBN: 9780029083208 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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75,01 zł |