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Sociological Theory From Comte to Postcolonialism
This textbook analyses the work of classical and contemporary sociological theorists. The first part is dedicated to Comte, Spencer, Marx, Durkheim,...
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Sociological Foundations of Computational Social Science
This book provides solid sociological foundations to computational social science (CSS). CSS is an emerging research field, and many books with those...
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Unravelling Anti-Aging A Critical Sociological Assessment
In a society where youthfulness and vitality are highly valued, the quest for anti-aging solutions has become increasingly popularized in bio-medical...
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A City Cannot Be a Work of Art Learning Economics and Social Theory From Jane Jacobs
This open access book connects Jane Jacobs's celebrated urban analysis to her ideas on economics and social theory. While Jacobs is a legend in the...
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Multidimensional Aspects of Occupational Segregation Time Series and Cross-National Comparisons
One of the strengths of this book is that it expresses occupational segregation from multidimensional viewpoints using correspondence analysis....
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Soziologie leiblicher Kopräsenz Praxistheoretische Zugänge
Das Buch stellt die sozialtheoretische Frage nach der besonderen Qualität leiblicher Kopräsenz, verstanden als Urszene des Sozialen, und beantwortet...
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Using Social Theory in Higher Education
This open access book offers a unique and refreshing view on working with social theory in higher education. Using engaging first-person accounts...
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Conviviality in Burgaz Living, Loving and Fighting on a Diverse Island of Istanbul
This open access book tells stories of conviviality, solidarity, and everyday management of conflicts and tensions, by building on original,...
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Evolutionäre Sozialwissenschaften Ein Rundgang
In vielen sozialwissenschaftlichen Disziplinen wurde mittlerweile das Potential der Darwinischen Evolutionstheorie erkannt und nicht selten hat diese...
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Football Fandom in Europe and Latin America Culture, Politics, and Violence in the 21st Century
This book combines pieces of work on Europe and Latin America, the two continents where football arouses the most ardent passions among its...
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Pandemics as Matter of a System Crisis Precarity of Society
Pandemics — it seems that it had been the beginning of a new era, after a first shock wave a new normality commenced trying to, repress the complex...
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Birthing in Unprecedented Times Geographies of Risk in Birth Stories
This book shines a light on the way in which risk – in and beyond childbirth – is highly contextual, and the way in which risk-management strategies...
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The Sociology of Shari’a Case Studies from Around the World
This edited collection focuses on the comparative analysis of the application of Shari’a in countries with Muslim minorities (e.g. USA, Australia,...
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Global Handbook of Inequality
This handbook provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive review of the literature on inequality. It provides comprehensive overviews of the main...
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Meeting the Alien An Introduction to Exosociology
Is mankind alone in the universe? Will we ever encounter intelligent life beyond Earth? These questions have been asked for centuries. Recent...
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Zur Theorie sozialer Systeme Herausgegeben, eingeleitet und kommentiert von Helmut Staubmann und Paul Reinbacher
Dieser Band vereinigt grundlegende Texte von Talcott Parsons zur Theorie sozialer Systeme. Sie bilden den Ausgangspunkt der systemtheoretisch...
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Tuomela on Sociality
Raimo Tuomela, late Professor Emeritus at the Centre for Philosophy of Social Sciences (TINT), University of Helsinki, is widely regarded as one of...
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Philosophical and Political Consequences of the Critique of Political Economy Recognizing Capital
This book extends the approach that Murray and Schuler develop in their companion volume, False Moves in Philosophy and Social Theory: Losing Public...
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From One Child to Two Children Opportunities and Challenges for the One-child Generation Cohort in China
This book dissects the reproductive intentions and behaviours of the one-child generation cohort in China, situated in the wider context of changing...
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The Palgrave Handbook of Macrophenomenology and Social Theory
This Palgrave Handbook showcases how the phenomenological approach, especially but not only as developed by Alfred Schutz, can make important...