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Sociology
Recognition Theory as Social Research: Investigating the Dynamics of S...
O´neill, Shane, Smith, Nicholas H.
Hardcover. Presents the case for an exciting new research program in the social sciences based on the theory of recognition developed by Axel Honneth and others in recent years. The theory provides a frame for revealing new insights about conflicts and the potential of recognition theory to guide just resolutions of these conflicts is also explored. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTJ; JFF; JHBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230296558
- ISBN
- 9780230296558
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Gender, Migration and Domestic Work: Masculinities, Male Labour and Fa...
Kilkey, Majella, Perrons, Diane, Plomien, Ani...
Hardcover. Based on studies conducted in the UK and USA, this book investigates the experiences of suppliers and consumers of masculinized domestic services, exploring issues such as increasing inequality, migration, the rise of commoditized domestic services, contemporary masculinities and the gendering of paid work. Series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFN; JFSJ2; JHBK; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230297203
- ISBN
- 9780230297203
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.64
€ 66.64
Same Sex Marriages: New Generations, New Relationships (Genders and Se...
Heaphy, Brian, Smart, Carol, Einarsdottir, An...
Hardcover. Based on extensive couple and individual interviews with young same sex couples who have legally formalized their relationships, this book argues that same sex marriages as they are lived need to be understood in terms of interlinked developments in lesbian and gay life, heterosexual relationships and in personal life. Series: Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFSJ; JFSK; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230300231
- ISBN
- 9780230300231
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.49
€ 66.49
Hardcover. Drawing on children's narratives about their everyday life this book explores how children come to understand the process of socialization at home, at school and in the neighbourhood as an embodied and biographical experience. Series: Studies in Childhood and Youth. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JFSP1; JHBK; JMC; JNLB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230300330
- ISBN
- 9780230300330
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.64
€ 66.64
Hardcover. The analysis of social distinction cannot indefinitely remain confined to logics of reasoning that are markedly ethnocentric. Rather than just applying the consecrated schemes of Veblen or Bourdieu, Daloz provides new foundations in this book for understanding 21st Century Dubai, China, Russia and settings of the past. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFT; JFSC; JHBA; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230300354
- ISBN
- 9780230300354
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.09
€ 67.09
Hardcover. Through in-depth analysis of interviews from across Europe, this book explores how European citizens identify themselves with Europe and the development of a 'European mental space.' Series: Identities and Modernities in Europe. Num Pages: 307 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; JFFN; JFS; JHBC; JPB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 136 x 23. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230302563
- ISBN
- 9780230302563
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.48
€ 67.48
Frigidity: An Intellectual History (Genders and Sexualities in History...
Cryle, Peter, Moore, Alison
Hardcover. This first major study of a curiously neglected term in the history of sexuality will intrigue students, scholars and enthusiasts alike. The authors take us through a journey across four centuries, showing how notions of sexual coldness and frigidity have been thought about by legal, medical, psychiatric, psychoanalytic and literary writers. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 323 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; JHBK5; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 144 x 24. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230303454
- ISBN
- 9780230303454
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Condition: New
€ 128.81
€ 128.81
Hardcover. This book explores the significance of sport in the understanding of past and current societal dynamics in the Arab world. It examines sport in relation to cultural, political and economic changes in the Arab World, including nation-state building, the formation of national identity and international relations in post-colonial context. Series: Communications & Culture. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FB; JHBS; JP; WS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230307926
- ISBN
- 9780230307926
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.90
€ 66.90
Hardcover. While the historical development of symbolic power has benefitted humanity enormously, there is an insidious and seldom recognised price that goes beyond environmental degradation and cultural disintegration. With insights from both social and natural sciences, this book explores the changing character of subjectivity in contemporary life. Num Pages: 336 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBA; JMH; RNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 157 x 25. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 338
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230308480
- ISBN
- 9780230308480
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.39
€ 128.39
Hardcover. Rather than physiological health only, complementary and alternative medicines aim at the production of wellbeing. This book explores how the increasing proliferation of holistic health methods are intimately connected with changing configurations of selfhood, gender and class. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; MX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 220 x 12. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230309319
- ISBN
- 9780230309319
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Paperback. Clumsy Solutions for a Complex World is a powerful and original statement on why well-intended attempts to alleviate pressing social ills too often derail, and how effective, efficient and broadly acceptable solutions to social problems can be found. Editor(s): Verweij, Marco; Thompson, Michael. Series: Global Issues. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBA; JPA; JPP; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230319516
- ISBN
- 9780230319516
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.25
€ 66.25
Hardcover. This book studies the sociology of health and medicine across three different countries, the USA, UK and Australia, examining the nature of disciplines and their specialties and posing sociological questions about the formation of intellectual fields and their social relations. Num Pages: 336 pages, 28 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 1MBF; JHBC; MBP; MBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 142 x 23. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230320444
- ISBN
- 9780230320444
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.57
€ 67.57
Hardcover. This volume addresses the relationship between childbearing, paid work and work-life balance policies across Europe in the 21st century, illuminating the uncertainty and risk related to insecure labour force attachment, the incoherence of women's and men's access to education and employment and the unequal share of domestic responsibilities. Editor(s): Olah, Livia Sz. Series: Work and Welfare in Europe. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; JFF; JFSJ1; JHBK; JKSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230320888
- ISBN
- 9780230320888
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.24
€ 67.24
Hardcover. Managing identity through biometric technology has become a routine and ubiquitous practice in recent years. This book interrogates what is at stake in the merging of the body and technology for surveillance and securitization purposes drawing on a number of critical theories and philosophies. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFFN; JFMG; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 141 x 19. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230321618
- ISBN
- 9780230321618
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Hardcover. Traces the movement from mutualism to individualism in the context of American family life. Families survived or even flourished during colonization, Revolution, slavery, immigration and economic upheaval. In the past century, prosperity created a culture devoted to pleasure and individual fulfilment. Num Pages: 211 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 151 x 17. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230337442
- ISBN
- 9780230337442
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Social Economies of Fear and Desire: Emotional Regulation, Emotion Man...
Valerie de Courville Nicol
Hardcover. All behaviours, indeed all forms of agency, are viewed as emotionally-driven. This book provides an approach to emotional experience and agency which drastically nuances the commonly held view that fear has predominantly irrational, morally, or ideologically suspect effects which thwart the exercise of autonomy. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBA; JHBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 142 x 20. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230338685
- ISBN
- 9780230338685
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
The Long Shadow of the British Empire: The Ongoing Legacies of Race an...
Juliette Bridgette Milner-Thornton
Hardcover. This book explores the lived experiences of formerly colonized people in the privacy of their homes, communities, workplaces, and classrooms, and the associations created from these social interactions. It examines the centrality of gender and social identity in the formation of non-western people in the British Empire. Num Pages: 304 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFMZ; HBJH; JHB; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 23. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340183
- ISBN
- 9780230340183
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.36
€ 128.36
Hardcover. This book explores the human geographies of skilled migration, specifically the practices, dispositions, relationships, and resources of professional women who participate in the global care industry. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFN; JFSJ1; JHBL; JKS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230342330
- ISBN
- 9780230342330
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.09
€ 67.09
Hardcover. Focusing on care workers for the elderly, this book examines the paradoxical position of irregular migrants in European society, who are often labelled as 'illegal' residents but who in fact provide much needed, essential support to welfare systems. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; JFFN; JHBL; JKSG; KJWX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230343160
- ISBN
- 9780230343160
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.66
€ 66.66
Hardcover. This book explores the adoption of 'active ageing' policies by EU15 nations and the impact on older peoples' work and retirement policy options. Policies examined include unemployment benefits, active labour market policies, partial pension receipt, pension principles, early retirement and incentives for deferral. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFE; JFSP31; JHB; JKSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230353701
- ISBN
- 9780230353701
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.24
€ 67.24