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The Principles of Representative Government
Av Bernard Manin, Jack Goody m. fl.
Häftad, 1997
716 kr
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The thesis of this original and provocative book is that representative government should be understood as a combination of democratic and undemocratic, aristocratic elements. Professor Manin challenges the conventional view that representative democracy is no more than an indirect form of …
Population and Development
High and Low Fertility in Poorer Countries
Inbunden, 2010
2504 kr
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First published in 1978, this book explores the vital global issue of high and low fertility in poorer countries through a series of case studies by contemporary experts in the fields of development and demography. These studies examine such issues as: the relations between fertility rates and …
Leninism: A Sociological Interpretation
Av David Lane, Jack Goody m. fl.
Häftad, 1981
569 kr
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It is now well over a hundred years since the birth of Lenin. If his writings are to have the relevance for contemporary political action, it is necessary that they be understood within the specific historical context in which they arose. It is such an understanding that David Lane provides in this …
Culture and Communication
The Logic by which Symbols Are Connected. An Introduction to the Use of Structuralist Analysis in Social Anthropology
Av Edmund Leach, Jack Goody m. fl.
Häftad, 1976
373 kr
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Edmund Leach's book investigates the writings of 'structuralists,' and their different theories: the general incest theory and of animal sacrifice. This book is designed for the use of teaching undergraduates in anthropology, linguistics, literary studies, philosophy and related disciplines faced …
Families in Former Times
Av Jean Louis Flandrin, Jack Goody m. fl.
Häftad, 1979
538 kr
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In this book, the author provides a detailed analysis of kinship, household and family relations in early modern France. He discusses the strength of kinship and family ties, the structure of households, the rights and duties of husband and wife, their authority over their children, the role of the …
Naturalism and Social Science
A Post-Empiricist Philosophy of Social Science
Av David Thomas, Jack Goody m. fl.
Häftad, 1980
536 kr
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This 1979 text addresses the ways in which the dominant theories in large areas of Western social science have been subject to strong criticisms, particularly of their supposed philosophical deficiencies. In the philosophy of science, this resulted in empiricist views being replaced by an emphasis …
Enlightenment and Despair
A History of Social Theory
Häftad, 1987
671 kr
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Geoffrey Hawthorn has written a substantial conclusion for the second edition of his widely acclaimed critical history of social theory in England, France, Germany and the USA from the eighteenth century onwards. Hawthorn begins with the 'prehistory' of the subject and traces, particularly in the …
Individuals, Relationships and Culture
Links between Ethology and the Social Sciences
Av Robert A. Hinde, Jack Goody m. fl.
Häftad, 1987
553 kr
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Both biologists and social scientists have much to say about human behaviour. Yet attempts to combine their approaches to provide a deeper understanding of human nature have not so far been generally successful. First published in 1987, this book offered an original way of bridging the gap between …
The Standard of Living
Av Amartya Sen, Geoffrey Hawthorn
Häftad, 1988
586 kr
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Amartya Sen reconsiders the idea of 'the standard of living'. He rejects the more conventional economic interpretations in terms of 'unity' and of wealth or 'opulence', and suggests an interpretation in terms of the 'capabilities and freedoms' that states of affairs do or do not allow. His argument …
Plausible Worlds
Possibility and Understanding in History and the Social Sciences
Häftad, 1993
732 kr
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Possibilities haunt history. The force of our explanations of events turns on the alternative possibilities these explanations suggest. It is these possible worlds which give us our understanding; and in human affairs we decide them by practical rather than theoretical judgement. In his widely …
A Pack of Lies
Towards a Sociology of Lying
Av J. A. Barnes, Jack Goody m. fl.
Häftad, 1994
797 kr
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Defining lies as statements that are intended to deceive, this book considers the contexts in which people tell lies, how they are detected and sometimes exposed, and the consequences for the liars themselves, their dupes, and the wider society. The author provides examples from a number of …
In the Beginning Was the Deed
Realism and Moralism in Political Argument
Av Bernard Williams, Geoffrey Hawthorn
Häftad, 2007
325 kr
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Bernard Williams is remembered as one of the most brilliant and original philosophers of the past fifty years. Widely respected as a moral philosopher, Williams began to write about politics in a sustained way in the early 1980s. There followed a stream of articles, lectures, and other major …
Thucydides on Politics
Back to the Present
Inbunden, 2014
1286 kr
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Thucydides famously declared his work to be 'a possession for all time', and so it has proved to be, as each age and generation has seen new things to admire in it and take from it. In the last hundred years, Thucydides has been interpreted and invoked in support of many different positions in …
Thucydides on Politics
Back to the Present
Häftad, 2014
487 kr
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Thucydides famously declared his work to be 'a possession for all time', and so it has proved to be, as each age and generation has seen new things to admire in it and take from it. In the last hundred years, Thucydides has been interpreted and invoked in support of many different positions in …
Population and Development
High and Low Fertility in Poorer Countries
E-bok, 2013
855 kr
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First published in 1978, this book explores the vital global issue of high and low fertility in poorer countries through a series of case studies by contemporary experts in the fields of development and demography. These studies examine such issues as: the relations between fertility rates and …
Population and Development
High and Low Fertility in Poorer Countries
E-bok, 2013
883 kr
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First published in 1978, this book explores the vital global issue of high and low fertility in poorer countries through a series of case studies by contemporary experts in the fields of development and demography. These studies examine such issues as: the relations between fertility rates and …
Population and Development
High and Low Fertility in Poorer Countries
Häftad, 2015
752 kr
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First published in 1978, this book explores the vital global issue of high and low fertility in poorer countries through a series of case studies by contemporary experts in the fields of development and demography. These studies examine such issues as: the relations between fertility rates and …
Thucydides on Politics
Back to the Present
E-bok, 2014
473 kr
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Thucydides famously declared his work to be ''a possession for all time'', and so it has proved to be, as each age and generation has seen new things to admire in it and take from it. In the last hundred years, Thucydides has been interpreted and invoked in support of many different positions in …
Thucydides on Politics
Back to the Present
E-bok, 2014
459 kr
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Thucydides famously declared his work to be ''a possession for all time'', and so it has proved to be, as each age and generation has seen new things to admire in it and take from it. In the last hundred years, Thucydides has been interpreted and invoked in support of many different positions in …
In the Beginning Was the Deed
Realism and Moralism in Political Argument
Av Bernard Williams, Geoffrey Hawthorn
E-bok, 2009
428 kr
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Bernard Williams is remembered as one of the most brilliant and original philosophers of the past fifty years. Widely respected as a moral philosopher, Williams began to write about politics in a sustained way in the early 1980s. There followed a stream of articles, lectures, and other major …
