Philosopher, sociologist and urban theorist, Henri Lefebvre (19011991) was one of the great social theorists of the twentieth century and pioneered the theorization of everyday life and space.In this fascinating book, which became a...Lasīt vairāk
Eros and Civilization is a classic of activist and radical thinking that continues to fire debate and controversy today. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Douglas Kellner. Hailed as the Guru of the N...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 14-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478032625)
In Pierre Bourdieus Political Economy of Being, Ghassan Hage explores the great French social theorists work and revitalizes conventional and undertheorized aspects of his thinking. Hage focuses on Bourdieus concern with social being and...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 14-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478029267)
In Pierre Bourdieus Political Economy of Being, Ghassan Hage explores the great French social theorists work and revitalizes conventional and undertheorized aspects of his thinking. Hage focuses on Bourdieus concern with social being and...Lasīt vairāk
Everyday Life and Urban Studies revisits the ordinary routines that shape urban life during the crises-ridden last century and early new millennium. Vast parts of Henri Lefebvres intellectual work on everyday life however remain underappre...Lasīt vairāk
Everyday Life and Urban Studies revisits the ordinary routines that shape urban life during the crises-ridden last century and early new millennium. Vast parts of Henri Lefebvres intellectual work on everyday life however remain underappre...Lasīt vairāk
Why do humans produce the things they do, in the way they do it? As this book shows, the classical political economics approach to value and prices has fundamental implications for analyzing the historical trajectory of capitalism.It demon...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 09-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Simon & Schuster, ISBN-13: 9781668001875)
Exploring the hidden force of social status, this analysis reveals how invisible hierarchies shape our decisions, behaviors and opportunities and amplify inequality through small advantages while influencing everything from health and careers to inno...Lasīt vairāk
Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis have made major inroads into the disciplines that make up the social sciences. Although commonly run together under the title of EMCA, what their relationship is to one another remains as elusive as the r...Lasīt vairāk
This book offers a diagnosis of the current epoch marked by globalization, de-globalization and re-globalization. The author shows how Constructivist ideas reveal four new conceptualisations of global trends: upgrading the rationality of organizat...Lasīt vairāk
Libertarianism: The Basics is an up to date and accessible introduction to libertarianism, that breaks down abstract philosophical ideas in a fresh way. Appropriate for students at all levels, this book will be the go-to for anyone interest...Lasīt vairāk
Libertarianism: The Basics is an up to date and accessible introduction to libertarianism, that breaks down abstract philosophical ideas in a fresh way.Flanigan and Freiman interweave a wide-ranging survey of different libertarian ph...Lasīt vairāk
Hartmut Rosa is a leading social theorist and his books on social acceleration and resonance have become milestones in discussions about the problems and promises of late modern societies. Rosa not only presents a critical diagnosis of our times bu...Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1994, this original analysis shows how the British as a people are constantly defined and redefined through their interactions with several frontiers of identity, namely Celts, expatriates, Americans, Europeans, citizens of t...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores the crisis of democracy and the rise of populist and authoritarian politics in the West. With attention to the Brexit referendum in the UK and the election of President Trump in the US events that reflected wider movements acr...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores the crisis of democracy and the rise of populist and authoritarian politics in the West. This book explores the crisis of democracy and the rise of populist and authoritarian politics in the West. With attention...Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1972, this book is an important introduction to the analytical aspects of sociology. It analyses the various strands in 20th Century sociological thought, illustrating the richness as much as the poverty of any p...Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1974, this book evaluates and compares three important styles of sociological research: positivism, symbolic interactionism and critique. Originally published in 1974, this book evaluates and compares three...Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1973, this book examines the difficulties which sociologists have in providing useful scientific definitions of terms like prejudice and discrimination. The author argues that such notions are essentially dependent on t...Lasīt vairāk
The British welfare state has been a political and ideological battleground since its inception, yet many of the voices in the crucial debates have been lost in orthodox histories. First published in 1987, Ideologies of Welfare (now with a...Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1987, and now reissued with a substantial new introduction by Robin Cohen, this work argues that a major engine of capitals growth lies in its ability to find successive cohorts of quasi-free workers to deploy in the farms, m...Lasīt vairāk
