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Paperback. This Timely volume represents an attempt by leading practitioners in the field to think reflexively about the present state of social theory and its historical analogues, and to consider new directions opposed to the "classical" social theorists, as well as new uses of the classics. Editor(s): Turner, Stephen P. Num Pages: 320 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631191933
- ISBN
- 9780631191933
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.85
€ 63.85
Hardcover. Talcott Parsons has been one of the most influential postwar American sociologists, but he has also been criticized for, among other things, the alleged conservatism of his structural functionalist theory. The author's selections from Parsons' work gives an overview of his contributions. Series: Blackwell Readers. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; BG; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 255 x 177 x 30. Weight in Grams: 794.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Basil Blackwell Inc, US United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557865434
- ISBN
- 9781557865434
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 157.52
€ 157.52
Paperback. aeo Most comprehensive collection of Parsonsa work available in one volume. aeo Provides a balanced perspective on Parsonsa work, organized topically. aeo Editorial features include introduction to Parsonsa thought, extensive bibliography and chronology of his life and work. Series: Blackwell Readers. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; BG; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 180 x 20. Weight in Grams: 660.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Basil Blackwell Inc, US United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557865441
- ISBN
- 9781557865441
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.78
€ 58.78
Hardcover. Editor(s): Turner, Jan M.; Mitchell, Andrew D. Num Pages: 161 pages. BIC Classification: JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 162 x 14. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781620811429
- ISBN
- 9781620811429
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 168.13€ 115.21
€ 168.13
€ 115.21
Hardback. Continues on-going presentation of highly engaging anthropological research. This title contains a range of broad based and localized topics economic anthropologists that explore from various critical perspectives. It addresses questions of how political economy is articulated through processes of consumption, production, and evolution. Editor(s): Matejowsky, Ty; Wood, Donald C. Series Editor(s): Wood, Donald C. Series: Research in Economic Anthropology. Num Pages: 300 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KL; JH; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 300
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781900581
- ISBN
- 9781781900581
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 136.28
€ 136.28
Paperback. A story of how gender, culture, class, and personality intersect as a group of indigenous Hawaiian men work to overcome the dislocations of colonial history. It analyzes how middle-aged, middle-class, and mixed-race members assert a warrior masculinity through practices including martial arts, wood-carving, and cultural ceremonies. Num Pages: 296 pages, 25 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MKPH; JFSJ2; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822343219
- ISBN
- 9780822343219
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.73
€ 32.99
€ 29.73
Paperback. Charting the rise and fall of an experimental biomedical facility at a North American university, Culturing Bioscience offers a fascinating glimpse into scientific culture and the social and political context in which that culture operates. Series: Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC; PDR. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 154 x 228 x 13. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442604629
- ISBN
- 9781442604629
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.96
€ 34.99
€ 31.96
Editor(s): Koscharsky, Halyna. Num Pages: 134 pages. BIC Classification: 1MBF; GTF; JHMP; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 262 x 184 x 17. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 134
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781560727828
- ISBN
- 9781560727828
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 100.64€ 77.11
€ 100.64
€ 77.11
Hardcover. How does smallness shape a country and its relations with other countries? In comparative case studies that cover a diverse set of regions, Small Countries describes a number of similar problems with which small countries must cope, on domestic levels as well as in their transnational and global encounters. Editor(s): Hannerz, Ulf; Gingrich, Andre. Num Pages: 352 pages, 5 illus. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812248937
- ISBN
- 9780812248937
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.34
€ 86.34
Paperback. "Foreign News" gives a fascinating behind-the-scenes look into the practices of the global tribe we call foreign correspondents. Ulf Hannerz also compares the way correspondents and anthropologists report from one part of the world to another. Series: The Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture Series. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226315751
- ISBN
- 9780226315751
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 28.67
€ 35.99
€ 28.67
Paperback. Volume 2, The Social Reproduction of Organization and Culture, is concerned with the sociology of organization, culture, social reproduction and communication. Editor(s): Himmelstrand, Ulf. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 150. . Good clean copy with some wear to mylar wrapping. Former library book with usual labels to inside cover
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KMK0001731
- ISBN
- 9780803980266
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Underpinning this examination of Western societies is the notion of the 'risk society'. The changing nature of society's relation to production and distribution is related to the environmental impact as a totalizing, globalizing economy based on scientific and technical knowledge becomes more central to social organization and social conflict. Translator(s): Ritter, Mark. Series: Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 234 x 15. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Ltd
- Number of pages
- 268
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803983465
- ISBN
- 9780803983465
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 60.65
€ 60.65
Paperback. Twenty years ago Ulrich Beck published Risk Society , a book that called our attention to the dangers of environmental catastrophes and changed the way we think about contemporary societies. During the last two decades, the dangers highlighted by Beck have taken on new forms and assumed ever greater significance. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JHBA. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745642017
- ISBN
- 9780745642017
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.14
€ 25.14
Paperback. * Before his sudden death in January 2015, Ulrich Beck was one of the world s foremost sociologists. This new book is the last book he wrote before his death; it was completed in December 2014 * In this book Beck introduces a new concept 'metamorphosis' to describe what is happening in our world today. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JH; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Publisher
- Polity Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745690223
- ISBN
- 9780745690223
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.16
€ 25.16
Paperback. aeo Brings together recent work of one of Europea s leading social and political theorists. aeo Addresses some of the criticisms provoked by his earlier work on the ecological and technological questions of risk. aeo3. Proposes a a Cosmopolitan Manifestoa as a way to develop a global political response to the challenges of risk society. Num Pages: 194 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPS; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Publisher
- Polity Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745622217
- ISBN
- 9780745622217
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.82
€ 25.82
Paperback. aeo Concerns debates now at the core of social and political theory -- particularly the debate about the nature of modernity. aeo Provides an accessible introduction to the basic ideas of the theory of reflexive modernization. aeo Each of the three contributors is very well--known at an international level. Num Pages: 240 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745612782
- ISBN
- 9780745612782
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 24.98
€ 24.99
€ 24.98
Hardback. This brilliant new book by one of Europe's leading social thinkers throws light on the global power games being played out between global business, nation states and movements rooted in civil society. Num Pages: 388 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFS; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 153 x 32. Weight in Grams: 694.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 388
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745632308
- ISBN
- 9780745632308
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.10
€ 79.10
Paperback. This is a topical and saleable theme, and should attract a wide general audience. Ulrich Beck is one of today's leading European sociologists, he is best known for his work The Risk Sociey (Sage 1992). This book will have a wide cross-disciplinary appeal. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSJ; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745613826
- ISBN
- 9780745613826
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.89
€ 25.89
Paperback. * Ulrich Beck, one of the most important and influential contemporary social thinkers, reveals and expands his work in a series of conversations with journalist Johannes Willms. Translator(s): Pollack, Michael. Series: Polity Conversations Series. Num Pages: 242 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 144 x 16. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745628240
- ISBN
- 9780745628240
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.93
€ 25.93
Paperback. Love and family life in the global age: grandparents in Salonika and their grandson in London speak together every evening via Skype. A U.S. citizen and her Swiss husband fret over large telephone bills and high travel costs. A European couple can finally have a baby with the help of an Indian surrogate mother. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 17. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745661810
- ISBN
- 9780745661810
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.66
€ 24.66