Institutional ethnography: a sociology for people
Printed Physics is the first volume documenting the Metalithikum Klausuren which we organize in collaboration with Werner Oechslin Foundation Library in Einsiedeln, Switzerland, since 2010. It begins with the discussion of recent developments in information technology that make …
Dress is everywhere imbued with symbols that reflect different meanings in different contexts. This book demonstrates how clothing is analogous to a working language and is similarly underpinned by deeper meanings and philosophies.
The meso-level realm of social reality is structured by corporate and categoric units, along with their respective cultures. Unlike the macro and micro realms of social reality, the meso-level does not reveal its own unique forces. Rather, the dynamics of meso-structures and cul…
"Quantitative Narrative Analysis" focuses on the following issues: the fundamental features of narrative (as a specific type of text genre with certain invariant linguistic properties); how the invariant properties of narrative can be used to structure narrative information in w…
Radkau brings out, in a way that no one has ever done before, the intimate interrelations between Weber's thought and his life experience. He presents detailed revelations about the great enigmas of Weber's life: his suffering and erotic experiences, his fears and his desires, h…
Radkau brings out, in a way that no one has ever done before, the intimate interrelations between Weber's thought and his life experience. He presents detailed revelations about the great enigmas of Weber's life: his suffering and erotic experiences, his fears and his desires, h…
"This is the first book to provide a detailed critical assessment of Bauman's liquid turn in sociology. Anthony Elliott has selected representative extracts from Bauman's recent path-making work, ensuring The Contemporary Bauman provides critical appraisals of the theory of liqu…
