"Contemporary China and India have been powerfully shaped by trans- and subnational forces. This volume approaches China and India via a strategy of "convergent comparison," exploring local and global influences through a focus on labor relations; legal reform and rights protest…
"Market Society" provides a review of changing conceptions of the market in modern social thought. This text is aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students in sociology, economic theory and history, politics, social and political theory, anthropology and cultural studies.
Buddhism was a fact of life and death during the Tokugawa period (1600-1868): every household was expected to be affiliated with a Buddhist temple, and every citizen had to be given a Buddhist funeral. The enduring relationship between temples and their affiliated households gav…
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…
This work provides a systematic sociological discussion of one of the most important of modern institutions: money. The author demonstrates the immense significance of monetary systems in modern societies and considers why social theory has been so slow to address this issue.
