Social theory as science
by Urry, John,, socioloog, Keat, Russell
fromInternational library of sociology
This book addresses the issues in competences, skills and knowledge which now form the basis of all social work courses in the U.K. It covers topics such as community care and social work with children, families, adults and offenders.
This book addresses the issues in competences, skills and knowledge which now form the basis of all social work courses in the U.K. It covers topics such as community care and social work with children, families, adults and offenders.
This book discusses the challenge to realism which proponents of international political economy and critical theory have mounted in the last few years, and examines the changing relationship between realism and Marxism. It is aimed at students of approaches to international rel…
Nicholas Garnham argues against the advocates of post-modernity and the Information Society that we are not entering new historical era, but that underlying debates about the media are a set of old cultural and political questions.
"The book argues that the media are important because they raise a set of questions that have been central to social and political theory since the Enlightenment. In a series of probes into different sets of questions raised by the media, the argument of the book focuses on the …
Political realism, as a coherent tradition of explaining political behaviour, has focused on an understanding of politics as a permanent struggle for power and security. The essays here examine realism as it affects international relations.