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96 produkter
Rethinking Comparative Cultural Sociology
Repertoires of Evaluation in France and the United States
Av Michèle Lamont, Laurent Thévenot
Häftad, 2000
761 kr
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This book provides a powerful theoretical framework for understanding cross-national cultural differences. Focusing on France and America, it analyses how the people of these two different cultures mobilise national 'repertoires of evaluation' to make judgements about politics, economics, morals …
French Revolutionary Syndicalism and the Public Sphere
Häftad, 2005
699 kr
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This study explores the evolution of the Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT), and its interaction with the French public sphere, between 1900 and 1920. Kenneth Tucker examines the triumph of this productivism and instrumental rationality, in contrast with other visions of society and the …
The Unfinished Revolution
Social Movement Theory and the Gay and Lesbian Movement
Av Stephen M. Engel, Steven Seidman m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
667 kr
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The Unfinished Revolution compares the post-Second World War histories of the American and British gay and lesbian movements with an eye toward understanding how distinct political institutional environments affect the development, strategies, goals, and outcomes of a social movement. Stephen M. …
Cultural Trauma
Slavery and the Formation of African American Identity
Av Ron Eyerman, Steven Seidman m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
445 kr
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In this book, Ron Eyerman explores the formation of the African-American identity through the theory of cultural trauma. The trauma in question is slavery, not as an institution or as personal experience, but as collective memory: a pervasive remembrance that grounded a people's sense of itself. …
Virtuosity, Charisma and Social Order
A Comparative Sociological Study of Monasticism in Theravada Buddhism and Medieval Catholicism
Av Ilana Friedrich Silber, Jeffrey C. Alexander
Häftad, 2005
895 kr
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This book is a comparative macrosociological study of the interaction between religious virtuosi and society in two civilizations: traditional Theravada Buddhism and Medieval Catholicism. Merging Weberian sociology with the Maussian tradition of gift-analysis, and criticizing the neglect of meaning …
Identity, Interest and Action
A Cultural Explanation of Sweden's Intervention in the Thirty Years War
Av Erik Ringmar, Jeffrey C. Alexander m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
699 kr
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This book offers an original combination of cultural and narrative theory with an empirical study of identity and political action. It is at once a powerful critique of rational choice theories of action and a solution to the historiographical puzzle of why Sweden went to war in 1630. Erik Ringmar …
Arab Soccer in a Jewish State
The Integrative Enclave
Av Tamir Sorek
Häftad, 2010
569 kr
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Over the last two decades soccer has become a major institution within the popular culture of the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel. They have attained disproportionate success in this field. Given their marginalisation from many areas of Israeli society as well as the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian …
Virtuosity, Charisma and Social Order
A Comparative Sociological Study of Monasticism in Theravada Buddhism and Medieval Catholicism
Inbunden, 1995
1954 kr
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This book is a comparative macrosociological study of the interaction between religious virtuosi and society in two civilizations: traditional Theravada Buddhism and Medieval Catholicism. Merging Weberian sociology with the Maussian tradition of gift-analysis, and criticizing the neglect of meaning …
To Rule Jerusalem
Av Roger Friedland, Richard Hecht m. fl.
Inbunden, 1996
806 kr
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Compelling historical and ethnographic account of the twentieth-century struggle for Jerusalem. The volume examines how Jerusalem is doubly divided, on the one hand between Israelis and Palestinians, each of whom ground their national identities in the city, as well as within each nation between …
The Religious and Romantic Origins of Psychoanalysis
Individuation and Integration in Post-Freudian Theory
Inbunden, 1996
1503 kr
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In this book, Suzanne Kirschner traces the origins of contemporary psychoanalysis back to the foundations of Judaeo-Christian culture, and challenges the prevailing view that modern theories of the self mark a radical break with religious and cultural tradition. Instead, she argues, they offer an …
Social Postmodernism
Beyond Identity Politics
Av Linda Nicholson, Steven Seidman m. fl.
Häftad, 1995
549 kr
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Social Postmodernism defends a postmodern perspective anchored in the politics of the new social movements. The volume preserves the focus on the politics of the body, race, gender, and sexuality as elaborated in postmodern approaches. But these essays push postmodern analysis in a particular …
The New Public
Professional Communication and the Means of Social Influence
Av Leon H. Mayhew, Steven Seidman m. fl.
Inbunden, 1997
1856 kr
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Professional specialists, using market research and promotional campaigns, have come to dominate public communication. The modern public of the Enlightenment, based on free discussion, has, in Leon Mayhew's terms, been replaced by a 'New Public,' subject to mass persuasion through systematic …
Colonial Fantasies
Towards a Feminist Reading of Orientalism
Inbunden, 1998
1726 kr
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In this 1998 book, Meyda Yegenoglu investigates the intersection between post-colonial and feminist criticism, focusing on the Western fascination with the veiled women of the Orient. She examines the veil as a site of fantasy and of nationalist ideologies and discourses of gender identity, …
The Search for Political Community
American Activists Reinventing Commitment
Inbunden, 1996
1563 kr
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This book challenges the myth that Americans' emphasis on personal fulfilment necessarily weakens commitment to the common good. Drawing on extensive participant-observation with a variety of environmentalist groups, Paul Lichterman argues that individualism sometimes enhances public, political …
The Search for Political Community
American Activists Reinventing Commitment
Av Paul Lichterman, Steven Seidman m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
699 kr
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This book challenges the myth that Americans' emphasis on personal fulfilment necessarily weakens commitment to the common good. Drawing on extensive participant-observation with a variety of environmentalist groups, Paul Lichterman argues that individualism sometimes enhances public, political …
The New Public
Professional Communication and the Means of Social Influence
Häftad, 1997
495 kr
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Professional specialists, using market research and promotional campaigns, have come to dominate public communication. The modern public of the Enlightenment, based on free discussion, has, in Leon Mayhew's terms, been replaced by a 'New Public,' subject to mass persuasion through systematic …
Territorial Ambitions and the Gardens of Versailles
Av Chandra Mukerji, Steven Seidman m. fl.
Inbunden, 1997
1872 kr
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In seventeenth-century France, land took on new importance for the practice of politics and rituals of court life. In her major new book, Chandra Mukerji highlights the connections between the two seemingly disparate activities of engineering and garden design. She shows how, at Versailles in …
Challenging Diversity
Rethinking Equality and the Value of Difference
Av Davina Cooper, Steven Seidman
Häftad, 2004
716 kr
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What challenges are presented by the claim that diversity should be celebrated? How should equality politics respond to controversial constituencies, such as smokers and sports hunters, when they position themselves as disadvantaged? Challenging Diversity brings a new and original approach to key …
Illiberal Politics in Neoliberal Times
Culture, Security and Populism in the New Europe
Häftad, 2009
569 kr
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The rise of rightwing populism has brought into question prevailing assumptions in social science about multicultural Europe. In this compelling study of populist politics, Mabel Berezin argues that the emergence of the movement in the 1990s was a historical surprise rather than an expected event. …
The Religious and Romantic Origins of Psychoanalysis
Individuation and Integration in Post-Freudian Theory
Av Suzanne R. Kirschner, Steven Seidman
Häftad, 1996
600 kr
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In this book, Suzanne Kirschner traces the origins of contemporary psychoanalysis back to the foundations of Judaeo-Christian culture, and challenges the prevailing view that modern theories of the self mark a radical break with religious and cultural tradition. Instead, she argues, they offer an …
The Simulation of Surveillance
Hypercontrol in Telematic Societies
Av William Bogard, Steven Seidman m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
557 kr
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This compelling book, first published in 1996, is an exploration of the imaginary of perceptual control technologies at the beginning of the twenty-first century. William Bogard constructs a 'social science fiction' of how the revolution in simulation technology reconfigures and intensifies the …
Identity, Interest and Action
A Cultural Explanation of Sweden's Intervention in the Thirty Years War
Av Erik Ringmar
Inbunden, 1996
1563 kr
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This book offers an original combination of cultural and narrative theory with an empirical study of identity and political action. It is at once a powerful critique of rational choice theories of action and a solution to the historiographical puzzle of why Sweden went to war in 1630. Erik Ringmar …
French Revolutionary Syndicalism and the Public Sphere
Inbunden, 1996
1563 kr
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This study explores the evolution of the Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT), and its interaction with the French public sphere, between 1900 and 1920. Kenneth Tucker examines the triumph of this productivism and instrumental rationality, in contrast with other visions of society and the …
The Playing Self
Person and Meaning in the Planetary Society
Inbunden, 1996
1424 kr
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The Playing Self is a groundbreaking new work from influential cultural sociologist and clinical psychologist Alberto Melucci, best known for his work on social movements and collective identities. In this book, he delves deeper into questions about the self as both a psychological and …
The Playing Self
Person and Meaning in the Planetary Society
Av Alberto Melucci, Jeffrey C. Alexander m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
716 kr
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The Playing Self is a groundbreaking new work from influential cultural sociologist and clinical psychologist Alberto Melucci, best known for his work on social movements and collective identities. In this book, he delves deeper into questions about the self as both a psychological and …
Nationalism and Literature
The Politics of Culture in Canada and the United States
Av Sarah M. Corse, Steven Seidman m. fl.
Inbunden, 1996
1481 kr
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Sarah Corse's analysis of nearly two hundred American and Canadian novels offers a theory of national literatures. Demonstrating that national canon formation occurs in tandem with nation-building, and that canonical novels play a symbolic role in this, this 1996 book accounts for cross-national …
Challenging Codes
Collective Action in the Information Age
Inbunden, 1996
1465 kr
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In Challenging Codes Melucci brings an original perspective to research on collective action which both emphasizes the role of culture and makes telling connections with the experience of the individual in postmodern society. The focus is on the role of information in an age which knows both …
Screening the Los Angeles 'Riots'
Race, Seeing, and Resistance
Inbunden, 1996
1628 kr
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On April 29 1992, the 'worst riots of the century' (Los Angeles Times) erupted. Television news-workers tried frantically to keep up with what was happening on the streets while, around the city, nation and globe, viewers watched intently as leaders, participants and fires flashed across their …
The Embryo Research Debate
Science and the Politics of Reproduction
Inbunden, 1997
1693 kr
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Scientific research involving human embryos was a major topic of public debate in Britain during the 1980s. Despite strong support from the scientific community, embryo research was initially condemned by many ordinary people as well as by special interest groups, and came close to being banned by …
Distant Suffering
Morality, Media and Politics
Av Luc Boltanski, Jeffrey C. Alexander m. fl.
Inbunden, 1999
1547 kr
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Distant Suffering, first published in 1999, examines the moral and political implications for a spectator of the distant suffering of others as presented through the media. What are the morally acceptable responses to the sight of suffering on television, for example, when the viewer cannot act …
