The SAGE companion to the city
"This book pulls together an exceptional range of literature in addressing the complexity of contemporary patterns and processes of urbanization. It offers a rich array of concepts and theories and is studded with fascinating examples that illustrate the changing nature of citie…
This edited collection of essays exploring the achievements and limitations of a Bourdieusian approach to cultural analysis and the implications for future research.
The project of twentieth-century sociology and political science - to create predictive scientific theory - resulted in few full-scale theories that can be taken off the shelf and successfully applied to empirical puzzles. Yet focused 'theory frames' that formulate problems and …
Pierre Bourdieu: key Concepts
Power is a central concept in many disciplines in the social sciences, including political science, sociology, social-psychology, organization studies, urban politics and planning. Where the term is less often used, such as in economics, it has been reduced to other concepts. De…
Provides clear advice on how to plan, conduct and analyse social surveys. It emphasises the links between theory and research, the logic and interpretation of statistics and the practices of social research. Author is from La Trobe University, Melbourne
Provides an account of the British welfare state since 1940. This book re-examines some of the commonly held assumptions about the post-war welfare state and reignites the debate about its role and purpose. It provides a guide to the changing role of the state in the provision o…
Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: he shows that before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell g…
