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Bonfires of the american dream in american rhetoric, literature and film
In Bonfires of the American Dream, through close cultural studies of classic novels and films – Atlas Shrugged, The Great Gatsby, It’s a Wonderful Life, and The Wolf of Wall Street – Daniel Shaviro helps to provide a better understanding of what went wrong culturally in America.
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The anthem companion to harold garfinkel
The Anthem Companion to Harold Garfinkel brings together leading scholars and upcoming researchers in contemporary ethnomethodology to bring out the experimental character of Garfinkel’s legacy in the social sciences and beyond.
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An introduction to changing india
This book provides a comprehensive view on rapidly changing India. It covers Indian culture, politics, economy and technology, as well as population and environmental issues.
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The metahistory of western knowledge in the modern era
The book is a study of the evolving history of knowledge in the arts and sciences in the modern era –from 1648 through the present. Modernism is treated as an epoch with evolving disciplines whose articulated problems of a time and the inquiry methods to address them develop in a coordinated mann...
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The politics of swidden farming
‘The Politics of Swidden farming’ is an ethnography of swidden farming practised – a characteristically remote, inaccessible and under-researched region of South Asia. The research ties on both archival-historical and contemporary ethnographic discourses on swidden farming and agrarian developmen...
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Discourse on applied sociology: volume 2
This engaging and wide-ranging two-volume study urges a balance between theoretical and practical sociology.
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The smoke and mirrors game of global csr reporting
This book examines the reporting systems for corporate social responsibility. It finds an array of flaws that prevent any clear and objective evaluation of corporate behavior, impeding the possibilities for activist investors to make ethical choices.
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Men and masculinities in south india
An anthropological examination of masculinity within South Asian societies.
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The new power elite
‘Greedy Elites’ explains why today’s revolt against the ‘rich and powerful’ is led by billionaires and political insiders, sidelining elites’ traditional enemies. It links social, economic and political theory and evidence to show how rivalries within an elite always eclipse (and co-opt) popular ...
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Rethinking cultural resource management in southeast asia
‘Rethinking Cultural Resource Management in Southeast Asia’ explores the challenges facing efforts to protect the cultural assets of Southeast Asia from the ravages of tourism and economic development.
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Caste, entrepreneurship and the illusions of tradition
This ethnographic study is an empirical exploration of caste through the story of Indian potters who have transformed caste into a marketable brand in the business of selling sculptures. To these contemporary potters, caste is in their blood, caste is about being a creative and independent artist...
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Causes and consequences of global migration
The book summarizes scholarly knowledge on why people migrate to western countries, and how this impacts on the receiving economies and societies.
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The anthem companion to robert n. bellah
‘The Anthem Companion to Robert Bellah’ is the first major collection of writings on the life and work of one of the foremost twentieth-century sociologists of religion.
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Women, gender and everyday social transformation in india
‘Women, Gender and Everyday Social Transformation in India’ explores key processes of gendered change in contemporary India. Through ethnographically grounded case studies, the volume foregrounds the contradictory and contested co-existence of discrepant gendered norms, values and visions in a so...
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Reflective laughter
A witty overview of humour in Russian culture.
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Teaching palestine on an israeli university campus
The word “occupation” is not heard in classrooms on the Hebrew University campus, at the heart of Palestinian East Jerusalem. The “war outside” is not spoken of. Israeli and Palestinian students unsettle this denial for the first time in a practice-led course on human rights in the reality around...
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Navigating social exclusion and inclusion in contemporary india and beyond
This book contains a collection of lucid, empirically grounded articles that explore and analyse the structures, agents and practices of social inclusion and exclusion in contemporary India and beyond.
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W. e. b. du bois’ africa
W. E. B. Du Bois was one of the leading figures of Pan-African thought and activism in the twentieth century. This book delivers for the first time a comprehensive Afrocentric investigation and critique of Du Bois’s writings on Africa and Pan-Africanism.
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The politics of time and youth in brand india
A study of the profound preoccupation with time, youth and the relationship between generations in contemporary popular Indian media culture, this book suggests that the politics of time is a manifestation of the radicalised war between labour and capital inherent in India’s shift to neoliberalis...
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The anthem companion to robert k. merton
Robert K. Merton (RKM) was an important figure in the mid-nineteenth development of sociology in terms of social theory, methodology and several substantive areas key to understanding modern societies – the sociologies of science, media, professions and bureaucracy. This book reveals the differen...
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Taking responsibility for the life of complex human ecosystems
Moving towards, not away from, the vexing array of discouraging crises of our time and drawing on a number of innovative but congruent concepts, this short book offers to focus our path towards deep accountability for the life of complex human ecosystems.
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Brexit
Brexit traces the implications of the UK’s projected withdrawal from the EU, placing short-term political fluctuations in a broader historical and social context of the transformation of European and global society.
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A genealogy of method
This volume considers the meaning of culture and anthropology’s role in defining it. Taking up the history of the discipline and the method of ethnography in turn, the book asks if the concept of culture might be productively reclaimed within a context that acknowledges history, change, and diver...
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The creativity hoax
We often hear that creativity is the key to economic regeneration in the west, yet those who pursue creative skills/ambitions typically experience low incomes and poor career prospects. ‘The Creativity Hoax’ argues that the ‘call to creativity’ is designed to make workers more labile, agile and m...
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Ageing, corporeality and embodiment
This book investigates the emergence of a ‘new ageing’ and its realisation through the body. The work explores new forms of embodiment concerned with identity and care of the self, which have seen the body become a site for ageing differently – for ageing without becoming old.
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The anthem companion to erving goffman
The purpose of the volume is to provide a comprehensive overview of Erving Goffman’s continued importance within the field of sociology and related social science disciplines.
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Habermas and giddens on praxis and modernity
This major new contribution forms a constructive comparison of the social theories of Jürgen Habermas and Anthony Giddens that focuses on their approaches to modernity, their endeavours to develop new perspectives, and their critical rethinking of the modernist vision of an autonomous society.
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The anthem companion to émile durkheim
The Anthem Companion to Émile Durkheim intends to offer different practical attempts to build on Durkheim’s legacy and investigate the issues and controversies that characterise contemporary societies and thus contribute to develop further this path of critical enquiry into ‘classical sociology’.
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Developing africa?
The book depicts an Afrocentric thinker grounded in the theory of Afrocentricity in the interrogation of an African development discourse in pursuit of cognitive justice.
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The anthem companion to maurice halbwachs
This book seeks to place Louis Maurice Halbwachs in his historical and intellectual context, showing that his work was sensitive to the events of his time, and that the development of his analysis could be influenced by happenstance.
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The anthem companion to robert park
Not making a case for or against Robert Park, ‘The Anthem Companion to Robert Park’ encourages readers to consider the virtue of rethinking—and rereading—this major figure in American sociology.
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The anthem companion to auguste comte
A collection of new essays on Auguste Comte by leading Comte scholars, social theorists, philosophers and intellectual historians. The collection aims to further the critical re-examination of Auguste Comte, an important but long neglected figure, while also providing a multi-faceted introduction...
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The anthem companion to raymond aron
Raymond Aron is an exceptional figure among twentieth-century sociological and political thinkers. The book focuses on the sociological work of this author of the century, who analyzed his age both in its grand-scale political and socio-economic traits and in the complex social and political rami...
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Managing coral reefs
‘Managing Coral Reefs’ compares reef management in Indonesia, which takes a decentralized approach, and in Malaysia, which takes a centralized approach.
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Toward a politics of the (im)possible
This book presents a philosophical discussion on the issues of the body and knowledge from a feminist perspective.
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The anthem companion to ernst troeltsch
‘The Anthem Companion to Ernst Troeltsch’ is a collection of eight essays by well-regarded Troeltsch specialists covering a wide range of topics of his thinking.
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Statistics and the quest for quality journalism
This book looks at how numbers and statistics have been used to underpin quality in news reporting. In doing so, the aim is to challenge some common assumptions about how journalists engage and use statistics in their quest for quality news. It seeks to improve our understanding about the usage o...
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Living across connectivity
This volume looks at the role of digital media platforms in shaping migrants’ practices of connectivity and mobility. Focusing on migration within and beyond East Asia, it explores the pervasive use of smartphones as an everyday reality for intimacy, entrepreneurship, and care for East Asian migr...
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Rethinking the social through durkheim, marx, weber and whitehead
This is the first book to systematically analyse the different concepts of the social developed by Durkheim, Marx and Weber, suggesting that debates surrounding this concept are still very much alive.
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Regimes of happiness
‘Regimes of Happiness’ is a comparative and historical analysis of how human societies have articulated and enacted distinctive notions of human fulfillment.
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British entanglement with brazilian slavery
This book looks beyond the British Empire and the Slavery Abolition Act to focus on Brazil as the final frontier of Britain’s centuries-long involvement with transatlantic slavery.
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Indian and chinese immigrant communities
This interdisciplinary collection of essays offers a window onto the overseas Indian and Chinese communities in Asia. Contributions give insight on the interactive role of the cultural and religious ‘other’, the diasporic absorption of local beliefs and customs, and the practical business network...
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The development of a theory of social structure and personality
Melvin Kohn, a pioneer in the cross-national, comparative and collaborative study of social structure and personality, examines his sociological research spanning a six-decade career to articulate a theory of social structure and personality.
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Festivals, affect and identity
This book offers an illustration of the explanatory power of continental philosophy in relation to the ethnographic study of Siena’s Palio and other community festivals of the Siena Province in central Italy.
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The anthem companion to thorstein veblen
“The Anthem Companion to Thorstein Veblen” offers a collection of original essays by leading scholars in the field of Veblen studies. Contributions span a wide range of Veblen’s concerns, with a special emphasis on Veblen’s significance for contemporary debates about epistemology, social evolutio...
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The drivers and outcomes of global health diplomacy
This book investigates the Brazilian health cooperation in Mozambique through the implementation of a pharmaceutical factory in Maputo.
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Chinese television and soft power communication in australia
‘Chinese Television and Soft Power Communication in Australia’ provides a systemic test of how successful/unsuccessful China’s soft power message projection is in terms of congruence between projected and received frames in Australia.
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Kid power, inequalities and intergenerational relations
This book combines theories of power with empirical material on children’s lives across the world to propose a novel framework for understanding kid power. It explores the nature of power relations between children and adults and provides a critical analysis of kid power, considering inequalities...
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Emerging dynamics in audiences' consumption of trans-media products
The book investigates the new forms of agency possessed by national audiences with reference to two television texts: Mad Men (AMC, 2007–2015) and Game of Thrones (HBO, 2011–2019). Structured as a comparative study between two countries, Italy and New Zealand, the research aims to provide insight...
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Unmapped countries
An enlightening, multi-disciplinary investigation into the fascinating and courageous scientific explorations of the nineteenth century.
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Legacies of forced removals in south africa
This book focuses on experiences of six children from various backgrounds who lived in temporary relocation areas in Cape Town, South Africa. Themes identified examined the effects of forced removals, displacement, and marginality on the lifeworld’s of children.
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Male homosexuality in 21st-century thailand
This book explores the experiences, meanings and identities of young same-sex attracted men in rural Thailand. It is based on a study of 25 young rural Thai men who were each interviewed three times within a two-year period while they were aged 18–20, uncovering significant fluidity, variety and ...
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Cultural processes of inequality
Cultural Processes of Inequality: A Sociological Perspective show how systemic inequality is produced and reproduced through mundane, routine actions based on taken-for-granted assumptions. The book ties such cultural assumptions to personal and institutional behavior, drawing connections between...
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Islamic ethos and the specter of modernity
Drawing on the work of Hegel, this book proposes a framework for understanding modernity in the Muslim world and analyzes the discourse of prominent Muslim thinkers and political leaders with reference to some of the most significant markers of modernity.
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Aspirational chinese in competitive social repositionings
Drawing upon a new perspective of competitive social repositioning and numerous new sources, this book fills the analytical gap caused by the research focus on either macro- or micro-level issues through analysing how everyday Chinese had reacted to and influenced the numerous changes in China fr...
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Life chances, education and social movements
‘Life Chances, Education and Social Movements’ dwells on the necessity of education and social movements for enhancing the life chances of individuals and disadvantaged groups respectively. Ralf Dahrendorf’s work on life chances and social conflict is used to support the theoretical and empirical...
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The anthem companion to hannah arendt
The Anthem Companion to Hannah Arendt describes and appraises Hannah Arendt’s principal works and their bearing on sociology, social thought and the predicaments of modern society.
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Challenging misrepresentations of black womanhood
"Challenging Misrepresentations of Black Womanhood" investigates the stereotyping of Black womanhood and the larger sociological impact on Black women. The text details the historical and contemporary use of stereotypes against Black women and how Black women work to challenge and dispel false pe...
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The city as fulcrum of global sustainability
This book finds short- and long-term solutions to twenty-first century global woes by looking to the city as the fulcrum for introducing sustainability around the world.
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Aging within transnational families
‘Aging within Transnational Families’ focuses on the often overlooked role of older people as active agents within transnational families.
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The anthem companion to talcott parsons
The Anthem Companion to Talcott Parsons offers the best contemporary work on Talcott Parsons, written by the best scholars currently working in this field. Original, authoritative and wide-ranging, the critical assessments of this volume will make it ideal for Parsons’s students and scholars alike.
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Mediating multiculturalism
This book addresses a historical problem—multiculturalism—using contemporary phenomena: digital storytelling. ‘Mediating Multiculturalism’ offers an innovative model for reconceptualising cultural difference in a highly mobile and contradictory global moment.
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China’s digital presence in the asia-pacific
This book examines China’s digital economy and its presence in the Asia-Pacific region. Drawing on the political economy of the media, industry analysis, platform studies and cultural policy studies, the book shows that China's commercial digital platforms are increasingly recognized outside Chin...
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Explorations of a mind-traveling sociologist
“Explorations of a Mind-Traveling Sociologist” is a book of thematically interconnected ethnographic essays by the internationally esteemed sociologist Renée C. Fox, who employs a participant observer outlook to provide insight on enduring––and pressing––issues of geopolitics, epidemics, aging, f...
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The anthem companion to georg simmel
'The Anthem Companion to Georg Simmel' brings together new interpretations of the work of this sociologist and philosopher.
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Refugee support and moral practice in slovakia
This ethnography accompanies people who support refugees in Slovakia—outlining the personal and political dilemmas that complicate refugee care in Central Eastern Europe and beyond.
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The art and science of sociology
A festschrift honoring the work of Edward A. Tiryakian, consisting of a large number of essays.
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A new india?
This volume critically examines the notion of a ‘new’ India by recognizing that India is changing remarkably and by exposing the many economic, social, and political contradictions that are integral to contemporary India.
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The anthem companion to philip selznick
The Anthem Companion to Philip Selznick is a collection of essays by renowned authors on the preeminent sociologist.
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The anthem companion to zygmunt bauman
Bauman’s ideas – his research topic, his hundreds of concepts and his imaginative approach to doing research – remain a source of inspiration for many scholars and researchers working within a variety of different fields and sub-fields, appealing equally to empirical work and theoretical elaborat...
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The cultural dimensions of peacebuilding
The Cultural Dimensions of Peacebuilding details aspects of cultures, including language, films, journalism, political economics, museums, education, parenting, gender, artistic activism, and spirituality, which can contribute to either more violent societies or more peaceful ones. Solutions-orie...
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Doing gender in heavy metal
This book offers a sociological study of gender regarding women in the heavy metal subculture. Relying on interviews with fans, women have made progress in the metal world, although gendered conditions also continue to exist. Heavy metal feminism is a process in becoming, but not yet an accomplis...
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The technocene
Hermínio Martins was a distinguished Portuguese sociologist. ‘The Technocene’ is a selection of some of the most important philosophical essays – a few unpublished – that he wrote following retirement from the University of Oxford. The essays address the ethical and societal consequences of the c...
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Victorian sensation
A captivating look at the origins of our own tabloid culture in the salacious and titillating media of the Victorian era.
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China and sustainable development in latin america
China and Sustainable Development in Latin America documents the social and environmental impacts of the China-led commodity boom in Latin America. It also highlights important areas of innovation where governments, communities and investors have worked together to harness the commodity boom for ...
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Radical human centricity
This book is a call to action. It is a critique of the poor state of commercial research and an articulation of the shifts and changes in thinking needed to fulfil the empty promises of human-centered research.
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The poverty of television
Based on an ethnographic study of television and audiences in class-divided Philippines, this is the first book to take a bottom-up approach in considering how people respond to images and narratives of suffering and poverty on television.
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War and peace
The book explores the role of religion in war and peace through nine original contributions that examine a range of case studies from different historical periods. Religion, the volume suggests, is typically not the cause of human conflict, but rather the product of actions by the state and the l...
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Conflict and sustainability in a changing environment
‘Conflict and Sustainability in a Changing Environment’ presents the idea that local communities can develop sustainably under changing environmental conditions when the discrepancy are sufficiently addressed between community views and the views of organizations responsible for implementing deve...
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The anthem companion to immanuel wallerstein
The Anthem Companion to Immanuel Wallerstein explores many of the topics central to Wallerstein’s understanding of the modern world-system and offers a comprehensive guide to the full range of his work.
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