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17 produkter
Explanation and Social Theory
Av John Holmwood, Alexander Stewart
Inbunden, 1991
1084 kr
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The book ranges widely over modern social theory, giving detailed treatments of major sources to identify common themes and deficiencies in apparently disparate schools of thought. The object is to lay bare negative assumptions forming methodologies in modern social theory in order to redirect the …
Founding Sociology? Talcott Parsons and the Idea of General Theory.
Häftad, 1996
848 kr
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The theories of Talcott Parsons' are enjoying a revival in the world of sociology. Rather than following closely the complex original prose in an effort to explain the theory in its minutiae, Holmwood presents a highly readable non-technical critique of several of the strongest underlying …
Founding Sociology? Talcott Parsons and the Idea of General Theory.
Inbunden, 2017
3052 kr
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The theories of Talcott Parsons' are enjoying a revival in the world of sociology. Rather than following closely the complex original prose in an effort to explain the theory in its minutiae, Holmwood presents a highly readable non-technical critique of several of the strongest underlying …
Founding Sociology? Talcott Parsons and the Idea of General Theory.
E-bok, 2014
1004 kr
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The theories of Talcott Parsons'' are enjoying a revival in the world of sociology. Rather than following closely the complex original prose in an effort to explain the theory in its minutiae, Holmwood presents a highly readable non-technical critique of several of the strongest underlying …
Founding Sociology? Talcott Parsons and the Idea of General Theory.
E-bok, 2014
975 kr
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The theories of Talcott Parsons'' are enjoying a revival in the world of sociology. Rather than following closely the complex original prose in an effort to explain the theory in its minutiae, Holmwood presents a highly readable non-technical critique of several of the strongest underlying …
Explanation and Social Theory
E-bok, 1993
295 kr
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Modern social science is largely pessimistic about social life and inquiry and this text traces the reasons for this. It argues for a creative and progressive social science to tackle the real problems of society and to find a solution which would expand human competence and practical resources.
Explanation and Social Theory
Av Alexander Stewart, John Holmwood
E-bok, 2016
1550 kr
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The book ranges widely over modern social theory, giving detailed treatments of major sources to identify common themes and deficiencies in apparently disparate schools of thought. The object is to lay bare negative assumptions forming methodologies in modern social theory in order to redirect the …
Constructing the New Consumer Society
Av Pekka Sulkunen, Gerhard Schulze m. fl.
E-bok, 1997
379 kr
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This book argues that the coming of the ''a new consumerism'' in the affluent societies marks a distinct phase of modernity. Limits of production no longer confine consumption to what is necessary or instrumental. Demands for increasing production no longer shape ideology and culture as they did …
Countering Extremism in British Schools?
The Truth about the Birmingham Trojan Horse Affair
Av John Holmwood, Therese O'Toole
Häftad, 2017
226 kr
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In 2014 an investigation into an alleged plot to ‘Islamify’ several state schools in Birmingham began. Known as the ‘Trojan Horse’ affair, this caused a previously highly successful school to be vilified.Holmwood, an expert witness in the professional misconduct cases brought against the teachers, …
Colonialism and Modern Social Theory
Av Gurminder K. Bhambra, John Holmwood
Inbunden, 2021
741 kr
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Modern society emerged in the context of European colonialism and empire. So, too, did a distinctively modern social theory, laying the basis for most social theorising ever since. Yet colonialism and empire are absent from the conceptual understandings of modern society, which are organised …
Colonialism and Modern Social Theory
Av Gurminder K. Bhambra, John Holmwood
Häftad, 2021
274 kr
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Modern society emerged in the context of European colonialism and empire. So, too, did a distinctively modern social theory, laying the basis for most social theorising ever since. Yet colonialism and empire are absent from the conceptual understandings of modern society, which are organised …
Colonialism and Modern Social Theory
Av John Holmwood, Gurminder K. Bhambra
E-bok, 2021
310 kr
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Modern society emerged in the context of European colonialism and empire. So, too, did a distinctively modern social theory, laying the basis for most social theorising ever since. Yet colonialism and empire are absent from the conceptual understandings of modern society, which are organised …
Empire and Subject Peoples
Herbert Adolphus Miller and the Political Sociology of Domination
Inbunden, 2025
1182 kr
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The book outlines the sociological arguments and political activities of the US pragmatist sociologist, Herbert Adolphus Miller (1875-1951). Miller was part of the milieu of Chicago sociology and involved in its studies of race and immigration. He took a distinctly more radical approach and …
Sociology’s Moments
Universities, Democracy, Markets
Inbunden, 2027
1192 kr
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What is the role of sociology when universities are under increasing political criticism? This book explores how sociology has developed through different moments of social and political change.The author traces the discipline through early ideas of social reform and the social self, the rise of …
Crescent and the Commons
Inside the New British Muslim Politics
Häftad, 2027
232 kr
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Featuring interviews from across the political spectrum, a groundbreaking exploration of how British Muslims embrace national identity and assert their political views against establishment smears.British politics and media today are dominated by the narrative that multiculturalism has failed, …
Manifesto for the Public University
Häftad, 2011
472 kr
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This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.The Browne report advocates, in effect, the privatisation of higher education in England. With the proposed removal of the current cap on student fees and the removal …
Social Stratification
Inbunden, 1996
16060 kr
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This major new three volume reference collection includes both classic and contemporary papers and covers the main issues of stratification -- status, class, occupation, gender, race and ethnicity. Each article represents a distinctive theoretical contribution which sets research agendas in its …
