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Wiley Blackwell Companions to Sociology: Blackwell Companion to Major Social (Hardcover)

The Companion to Major Social Theorists offers a broad-ranging survey of classical and contemporary social theory. In original essays especially commissioned for this volume leading experts and practitioners examine the life and work of 25 major... more

Contributions in Economics and Economic Work and Welfare: The Social Costs of Labor in the History of Economic Thought (Hardcover)

This interesting work presents a unique perspective on the history of economic thought by showing that classical economists from Adam Smith to Alfred Marshall had sympathy for workers - for example the theory of the subsistence wage echoed the... more

Living Theory : The Application of Classical Social Theory to Contemporary Life 9780205452231 Used / Pre-owned

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Pre-Owned Living Theory: The Application of Classical Social Theory to Contemporary Life (Paperback) 0205277756 9780205277759

Living Theory: The Application of Classical Social Theory to Contemporary Life 2nd edition analyzes major features of modern society from the classical theory point of view and suggests how modern life might be explained from this viewpoint. The author... more

Pre-Owned Living Theory: The Application of Classical Social Theory to Contemporary Life (Paperback 9780205452231) by Charles Hurst

9780205452231. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. 2nd ed. Language: English. Pages: 192. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 192 p. Living Theory: The Application of Classical Social Theory to Contemporary Life 2nd edition analyzes major... more

Pre-Owned Classical Social Theory: Investigation and Application (Paperback 9780131109001) by Tim W Delaney

9780131109001. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 360. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 360 p. Contains: Illustrations. For upper-level undergraduate/graduate courses in Social Theory. Offering an excellent... more

Pre-Owned Classical Social Theory P: A Contemporary Approach (21st Century Sociology) Paperback

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Pre-Owned Classical Social Theory and Modern Society: Marx Durkheim Weber (Hardcover 9781442243224) by Edward Royce

9781442243224. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 356. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 356 p. Karl Marx Emile Durkheim and Max Weber are indispensable for understanding the sociological enterprise. They are among the... more

Pre-Owned Classical Social Theory P: A Contemporary Approach (21st Century Sociology) Paperback - USED

9780631211655. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 288. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 288 p. 21st Century Sociology. This accessible original book is an exploration of the relevance of classical social theory in... more

Thinking the Unthinkable: The Riddles of Classical Social Theories (Paperback)

In the eloquent style for which he has become famous Charles Lemert writes of social theory as no one else. Thinking the Unthinkable is offered as text for instruction yet it defies the prevailing assumption that social theory is a method for... more

Pre-Owned Classical Social Theory (Paperback) 0631211659 9780631211655

This accessible original book is an exploration of the relevance of classical social theory in the contemporary world. It examines the work of Marx Weber and Durkheim through the lens of new theoretical issues such as the role of Empire the problem of... more

Classical Social Theory in Use: Interpretation and Application for Educators and Other Non-Specialists (Hc) (Hardcover)

This book provides an introduction to classical social theory through discussion application and synthesis of the work of Karl Marx Emile Durkheim and George Herbert Mead. Rather than merely summarizing and evaluating their continuing influence their... more

Classical Social Theory (Paperback)

Ian Craib compellingly shows the value of studying classic thinkers such as Marx Weber Durkheim and Simmel alongside the more popular contemporary questions. Providing an account of the key ideas of classical social theory Dr Craib establishes their... more

Classical and Contemporary Social Theory: Utopia: Social Theory and the Future (Hardcover)

In the light of globalization s failure provide the universal panacea expected by some of its more enthusiastic proponents and the current status of neo-liberalism in Europe a search has begun for alternative visions of the future; alternatives to the... more

Classical and Contemporary Social Theory: Violence Society and Radical Theory: Bataille Baudrillard and Contemporary Society (Hardcover)

Shedding light on the relationship between violence and contemporary society this volume explores the distinctive but little-known theories of violence in the work of Georges Bataille and Jean Baudrillard applying these to a range of violent events -... more

Classical and Contemporary Social Theory: The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization (Hardcover)

The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization explores the nature of contemporary malaises diseases illnesses and psychosomatic syndromes examining the manner in which they are related to cultural pathologies of the social body.... more

Classical and Contemporary Social Theory: A Genealogy of Social Violence (Hardcover)

Examining the mimetic theory of René Girard this book investigates the development of society as a result of an original crime (a murder) that shaped the way the earliest humans organized the social structures we live with today - an analysis that... more

Classical and Contemporary Social Theory: Investigation and Application (Hardcover)

The second edition of Classical and Contemporary Social Theory provides wraparound coverage of the classical social theorists and influential sociological schools of thought in the contemporary period. more

Classical and Contemporary Social Theory Revisiting Modernity and the Holocaust: Heritage Dilemmas Extensions (Paperback)

Zygmunt Bauman s Modernity and the Holocaust is a decisive text of intellectual reflection after Auschwitz in which Bauman rejected the idea that the Holocaust represented the polar opposite of modernity and saw it instead as its dark potentiality.... more

Classical and Contemporary Social Theory Revisiting Modernity and the Holocaust: Heritage Dilemmas Extensions (Hardcover)

Zygmunt Bauman s Modernity and the Holocaust is a decisive text of intellectual reflection after Auschwitz in which Bauman rejected the idea that the Holocaust represented the polar opposite of modernity and saw it instead as its dark potentiality.... more

Classical and Contemporary Social Theory: Investigation and Application (Paperback)

Classical and Contemporary Social Theory: Investigation and Application 1/e is the most comprehensive informative social theory book on the market. The title covers multiple schools of thought and applies their ideas to society today. Readers will... more

Classical and Contemporary Social Theory Liquid Sociology: Metaphor in Zygmunt Bauman s Analysis of Modernity (Hardcover)

Zygmunt Bauman s liquid sociology confronts the awesome task of reminding individual men and women that an alternative way of living together is within our eminent capabilities if only we start to think differently about our world. The metaphor of... more

Classical and Contemporary Social Theory The New Narcissus in the Age of Reality Television (Paperback)

This book explores the emergence and encouragement of the new narcissus in our society and the ways in which this is portrayed in reality television. Through studies of well-known reality shows including Toddlers and Tiaras Hoarders Sister Wives... more

Classical and Contemporary Social Theory Sociological Amnesia: Cross-currents in Disciplinary History (Paperback)

The history of sociology overwhelmingly focuses on the winners from the classical canon - Marx Durkheim and Weber - to today s most celebrated sociologists. This book strikingly demonstrates that restricting sociology in this way impoverishes it as a... more

Classical and Contemporary Social Theory The Puritan Culture of America s Military (Hardcover)

This book explores Puritanism and its continuing influence on U.S. and military law in the Global War on Terror exploring connections between Puritanism and notions of responsibility in relation to military crimes superstitious practices within the... more

Classical and Contemporary Social Theory: The New Narcissus in the Age of Reality Television (Hardcover)

This book explores the encouragement of the false self in our society and the ways in which this is portrayed in reality television. Through studies of well-known shows the author examines the effects of narcissism and consumerism shedding light on the... more

Classical and Contemporary Social Theory Existence Meaning Excellence: Aristotelian Reflections on the Meaning of Life (Paperback)

This book addresses the perennial question of the meaning of life from the point of view of a novel interpretation of Aristotle s teleology. Beginning with the premise that at the core of modernity and modern moral imagination are the entropy of... more

Pre-Owned The Religious Experience: Classical Philosophical and Social Theories (Paperback) 0130982393 9780130982391

Providing a full exposition of the classical philosophical and sociological theories of religion this book covers the major thinkers from the time of the 18th century Enlightenment through the 20th century. It discusses virtually all classical works... more

Classical and Contemporary Social Theory Simmel and Beyond: The Contemporary Relevance of Simmel s Thought (Hardcover)

Bringing together the work of scholars from across Europe this book shows how Simmel s categories can be used to explore contemporary issues and further shed light on trends characteristic of global modernity. Thematically organised around the major... more

Pre-Owned Explorations in Classical Sociological Theory: Seeing the Social World (Paperback 9781412992435) by Kenneth Allan

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Pre-Owned Explorations in Classical Sociological Theory: Seeing the Social World (Paperback) 1412992435 9781412992435

Continually praised for its conversational tone personal examples and helpful pedagogical tools the Fourth Edition of Explorations in Classical Sociological Theory: Seeing the Social World is organized around the modern ideas of progress knowledge and... more

Politics Sociology and Social Theory : Encounters with Classical and Contemporary Social Thought (Paperback)

A series of critical engagements with major figures in classical and present-day social and political thought that offers not only a challenging critique of major traditions of social and political analysis but also unique insights into the ideas that... more

Pre-Owned Understanding Social Movements: Theories from the Classical Era to the Present Paperback

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Pre-owned Social Theory : Continuity and Confrontation: From Classical to Modern Theory Paperback by Garner Roberta (EDT); Hancock Black Hawk (EDT) ISBN 1442607351 ISBN-13 9781442607354

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Pre-Owned Social Theory Re-Wired: New Connections to Classical and Contemporary Perspectives (Paperback) by Wesley Longhofer Daniel Winchester

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Pre-Owned Social Theory Re-Wired: New Connections to Classical and Contemporary Perspectives (Paperback 9781032341118) by Wesley Longhofer Daniel Winchester

9781032341118. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. 3rd ed. Language: English. Pages: 514. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 514 p. Contains: Illustrations black & white Halftones black & white Line drawings black & white Tables black &... more

Pre-Owned Social Theory Re-Wired: New Connections to Classical and Contemporary Perspectives (Sociology Re-Wired) Paperback -

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