The Oxford handbook of Pierre Bourdieu
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Jurgen Habermas is one of the the most influential philosophers of our time. His diagnosis of contemporary society and concepts such as the public sphere, communicative rationality, and cosmopolitanism have influenced virtually all academic disciplines, spurred political debates…
The second edition of this remarkably lucid text, provides a wide-ranging historical introduction to social theory. The new edition preserves, and further enhances, the book's striking qualities -- its clarity, reliability, comprehensiveness and scholarship. The theorists treate…
In this comprehensive, stylish and accessible introduction to contemporary social theory, Anthony Elliott and Charles Lemert examine the major theoretical traditions from the Frankfurt School to globalisation and beyond.
The classical origins of social theory are examined in this sequel to the author's award-winning 'Classical Horizons'. McCarthy stresses the importance of Aristotle and kant in the creation of a new type of social science in the 19th century. This represented a critical reaction…
"Sociological Realism presents a clear and updated discussion of the main tenets and issues of social theory, written by some of the top scholars within the critical realist and relational approach."--Page i
This is a tightly argued yet accessible introduction to the philosophical foundations of the human sciences, including economics, anthropology, sociology, political scients, psychology, history, and the disciplines emerging at the intersections of these subjects with biology.
Robert K. Merton & contemporary sociology
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This text discusses a variety of approaches in visual sociology, including exemplars that connect visual sociology to the history of documentary, photojournalism and art photography.
Visual sociology has been part of the sociological vocabulary since the 1970s, but until now there has not been a comprehensive text that introduces this area. Written by one of the founding fathers in the field, Visual Sociology explores how the world that is seen, photographed…
Max Weber, widely considered a founder of sociology and the modern social sciences, visited the United States in 1904 with his wife Marianne. The trip was a turning point in Weber's life and it played a pivotal role in shaping his ideas, yet until now virtually our only source o…
"The Explanation of Social Action lays out a sustained critique of this understanding, pointing out that the root of the problem is an attempt to counterpose two radically different types of answers to the question of why someone did a certain thing--first person responses and t…
