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  • Kindness Wars
    Noel A. Cazenave
    Using a conflict theoretical perspective, The Kindness Wars examines the history of the kindness concept; its many struggles with opposing notions of our true nature and possibilities; and what the lessons of that history and those battles offer us toward the development of a large, robust, and politically-engaged conceptualization of kindness. ...
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    65,06 €

  • Habit’s Pathways
    Tony Bennett
    Habit has long preoccupied a wide range of theologians, philosophers, sociologists, psychologists, and neuroscientists. In Habit’s Pathways Tony Bennett explores the political consequences of the varied ways in which habit’s repetitions have been acted on to guide or direct conduct. Bennett considers habit’s uses and effects across the monastic regimens of medieval Europe, in p...
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    35,50 €

  • Habit’s Pathways
    Tony Bennett
    Habit has long preoccupied a wide range of theologians, philosophers, sociologists, psychologists, and neuroscientists. In Habit’s Pathways Tony Bennett explores the political consequences of the varied ways in which habit’s repetitions have been acted on to guide or direct conduct. Bennett considers habit’s uses and effects across the monastic regimens of medieval Europe, in p...
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    134,73 €

  • A Sociological Examination of the Gift Economy
    Vjeran Katunarić
    On the whole, this book presents gift-giving as an intuitive path toward a viable economy, society, and culture here on Earth, and even toward an amiable engagement with our cosmic surroundings in the future. ...
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    143,11 €

  • The Invention of Mikhail Lomonosov
    Steven Usitalo / Mihail Tarasov
    This study explores the evolution of Lomonosov’s imposing stature in Russian thought from the middle of the eighteenth century to the closing years of the Soviet period. It reveals much about the intersection in Russian culture of attitudes towards the meaning and significance of science, as well as about the rise of a Russian national identity, of which Lomonosov became an out...
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    41,08 €

  • Recontextualising and Recontesting Bourdieu in Chinese Education
    For more than 40 years, researchers have explored the utility of Bourdieu’s sociology for settings beyond the French and Algerian contexts of its origin. This edited collection has a focus on China, applying Bourdieu’s analysis of practice as Chinese education gains relevance and attention around the globe. Grounded in empirical research, Recontextualising and Recontesting Bour...
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    241,12 €

  • Left Theory and the Alt-Right
    The alt-right movement in the US has actively been endorsing the use of left theory to achieve its ends. This book asks if the alt-right’s reference of left theory is just bad reading, in addition to drawing on the history of right-wing readings of left theory to unpack recent developments and consider their impact on future theory. ...
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    244,09 €

  • Left Theory and the Alt-Right
    The alt-right movement in the US has actively been endorsing the use of left theory to achieve its ends. This book asks if the alt-right’s reference of left theory is just bad reading, in addition to drawing on the history of right-wing readings of left theory to unpack recent developments and consider their impact on future theory. ...
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    66,36 €

  • Exploring Emotions in Social Life
    Michael Hviid Jacobsen
    Bringing together scholars from across disciplines, this volume presents a broad range of studies on a variety of emotions, considering the ways in which they are manifested and folded into our cultural and social lives. ...
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    240,91 €

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Macrophenomenology and Social Theory
    This Palgrave Handbook showcases how the phenomenological approach, especially but not only as developed by Alfred Schutz, can make important contributions to the theoretical analysis of macro-social phenomena such as the state, history, culture and interculturality, class relations and struggles, social movements and protests, capitalism, democracy, and digitalization processe...
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    47,06 €

  • Lives of Circumcised and Veiled Women
    Debangana Chatterjee
    The book unravels the politics of representation and the process of exoticizing women’s bodies through the prism of external gaze and knowledge production. ...
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    241,00 €

  • Lives of Circumcised and Veiled Women
    Debangana Chatterjee
    The book unravels the politics of representation and the process of exoticizing women’s bodies through the prism of external gaze and knowledge production. ...
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    66,51 €

  • Athletic Activism
    Stanley Thangaraj
    Rooted in a global, transnational perspective, Athletic Activism: Global Perspectives on Social Transformation demonstrates how athletic activism can not only impact global discourse about inequity across various social location, but foster institutional change that advances social justice. ...
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    180,20 €

  • Aspirational Chinese in Competitive Social Repositionings
    Jia Gao
    Drawing upon a new perspective of competitive social repositioning and numerous new sources, this book fills the analytical gap caused by the research focus on either macro- or micro-level issues through analysing how everyday Chinese had reacted to and influenced the numerous changes in China from 1964 to 2000. ...
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    158,29 €

  • The Anthem Companion to Norbert Elias
    The book brings together authoritative chapters by leading experts in the sociology of Elias. It charts Elias’s ambition to create an integrative sociological framework across a wide range of studies and assesses its continuing relevance for addressing significant issues facing sociology today. ...
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    238,51 €

  • Analyzing New Forms of Social Disorders in Modern Virtual Environments
    Individuals exist in both the real and the virtual worlds, and it is not always clear which sphere is more important to them. Cyberspace provides many opportunities, challenges, and risks. Virtual worlds create chances for many people to revive and carry out dangerous or malicious intentions, frustrations, or vices. While vices like gambling impact the individual seeking a risk...
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    294,98 €

  • Analyzing New Forms of Social Disorders in Modern Virtual Environments
    Individuals exist in both the real and the virtual worlds, and it is not always clear which sphere is more important to them. Cyberspace provides many opportunities, challenges, and risks. Virtual worlds create chances for many people to revive and carry out dangerous or malicious intentions, frustrations, or vices. While vices like gambling impact the individual seeking a risk...
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    222,59 €

  • The Not So Outrageous Idea of a Christian Sociology
    Joseph A. Scimecca
    Developing a history of the origins of sociology that recognizes the centrality of Christianity to the discipline’s development, this book provides a rationale for a Christian sociology, challenging the paradigms of contemporary sociology, which provide only a limited understanding of social behavior. ...
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    241,39 €

  • The Not So Outrageous Idea of a Christian Sociology
    Joseph A. Scimecca
    Developing a history of the origins of sociology that recognizes the centrality of Christianity to the discipline’s development, this book provides a rationale for a Christian sociology, challenging the paradigms of contemporary sociology, which provide only a limited understanding of social behavior. ...
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    66,90 €

  • The Anthem Companion to Immanuel Wallerstein
    The Anthem Companion to Immanuel Wallerstein explores many of the topics central to Wallerstein’s understanding of the modern world-system and offers a comprehensive guide to the full range of his work. ...
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    238,72 €

  • Post-Philosophical Sociology
    Richard Kilminster
    In a hyper-individualistic age and in the face of narrowly focused, policy-oriented research, this book revisits the humanistic world-view that is integral to Norbert Elias’s preeminent figurational-process sociology, with its aim of increasing the fund of sociological knowledge that has the human condition as its horizon. ...
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    241,02 €

  • The Journey of Caste in India
    This book provides a comprehensive overview of caste in contemporary India.This volume will be of importance to scholars and researchers of Dalit studies, social justice, exclusion studies, caste studies, affirmative action, political studies, sociology, social anthropology, and South Asian politics. ...
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    241,11 €

  • The Great Good Place
    Karen Christensen / Ray Oldenburg
    Embark on a journey that will change your perspective on community and individual well-being. In The Great Good Place, Ray Oldenburg gave the term 'third places,' where people gather for the pleasure of good company and conversation, and explained just how important they are. Discover the benefits of informal public and civic life and how it contributes to community health and ...
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    45,53 €

  • Disabilities and the Life Course
    Featuring a framework rarely applied in the field of disability studies, this book explores not only a range of disabilities and impairments but also a diverse array of life course experiences, deepening knowledge across both fields for the widest possible impact. ...
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    180,20 €

  • Law, Registration, and the State
    Jess Smith
    This book provides an original and compelling analysis of registration as a dynamic process which makes and unmakes legal identities. ...
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    241,51 €

  • Long Lives Are for the Rich
    Jan Baars
    Long Lives are for the Rich is the title of a silent ominous program that affects the lives of millions of people. In all developed countries disadvantaged and, especially, poor people die much earlier than the most advantaged. ...
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    240,39 €

  • Long Lives Are for the Rich
    Jan Baars
    Long Lives are for the Rich is the title of a silent ominous program that affects the lives of millions of people. In all developed countries disadvantaged and, especially, poor people die much earlier than the most advantaged. ...
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    64,54 €

  • The Anthem Companion to Harold Garfinkel
    The Anthem Companion to Harold Garfinkel brings together leading scholars and upcoming researchers in contemporary ethnomethodology to bring out the experimental character of Garfinkel’s legacy in the social sciences and beyond. ...
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    282,37 €

  • Organizational Wrongdoing as the 'Foundational' Grand Challenge
    Organizational Wrongdoing as the 'Foundational' Grand Challenge: Consequences and Impact focuses on the consequences of organizational wrongdoing, the role of whistleblowing, and methodological issues. ...
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    169,37 €

  • Dying for Capitalism
    Charles Derber / Suren Moodliar
    Dying for Capitalism analyzes the 'triangle of extinction' that links capitalism, environmental destruction, and militarism as a system that cannot sustain life on the planet. ...
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    240,93 €


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