социология
Thinking Sociologically
Zygmunt Bauman
Widely acclaimed insight on the human condition, updated to view modern issues through a sociological lens Now in its third edition, Thinking Sociologically continues to offer a stimulating exploration of the underlying assumptions and tacit...
Habermas and the Media
Hartmut Wessler
J?rgen Habermas is arguably the most influential social theorist and philosopher of the twentieth century, and his imprint on media and communication studies extends well into the twenty-first. This book lucidly unpacks Habermas’s sophisticated...
The Handbook of Social Control
Mathieu Deflem
An essential resource that contains a contemporary overview of the concept of social control and its main approaches The Handbook of Social Control offers a comprehensive review of the concepts of social control in today’s environment and...
Eruptions of Memory. The Critique of Memory in Chile, 1990-2015
Nelly Richard
In this important book, one of Latin America’s foremost critical theorists examines the use and abuse of memory in the wake of the social and political trauma of Pinochet’s Chile. Focusing on the period 1990–2015, Nelly Richard denounces the...
Социология массовой коммуникации. (Бакалавриат, Магистратура). Учебник.
Васильевна Науменкотамара
На основании применения деятельностного подхода как объяснительного принципа рассматривается массовая коммуникация как социальный процесс в многообразии всех составляющих ее сторон. Вследствие глубокого методологического анализа вскрывается...
How your gadgets are turning you in to an addict
Damian Thompson
Collins Shorts – insight in an instant.This is an extract taken from the full version of THE FIX by Damian Thompson.When does your casual habit become an addictive obsession? Damian Thompson, who has himself struggled with a range of addictions,...
What You Can Learn From 10,000 Ants
Peter Miller
Collins Shorts – insight in an instant.The swarm behaviour of ant colonies has inspired computer programs for streamlining factory processes, telephone networks, and truck routes – find out how in this enlightening short that introduces a new...
Философия войны
Антон Антонович Керсновский
Представленный труд отечественного мыслителя А. А. Керсновского, бывшего монархистом по убеждению и воевавшего в Добровольческой Армии во время Гражданской войны, рассматривает множество аспектов как ведения войны, так и устройства армии, но...
Политические аспекты парникового эффекта
Евгений Алексеевич Тихомиров
Книга написана ещё до вступления в силу Киотского договора, который просуществовал недолго и был отменён из-за неприятия его Соединёнными Штатами Америки. Но книга не потеряла актуальности, так как панические разговоры о росте содержания...
Королевская семья и церемониальное пространство раннестюартовской монархии
С. Е. Федоров
Издание рассматривает церемониальное пространство английского королевского двора при Якове I в контексте династического строительства первых Стюартов и становления композитарной монархии. Анализ структуры церемониального взаимодействия между...
Самоубийство. Социологический этюд
Эмиль Дюркгейм
Эмиль Дюркгейм (1858—1917) – классик западной социологии, профессор университетов Бордо и Сорбонны. В своем творчестве обосновывал идею общественной солидарности, зависимости людей друг от друга. Данная работа написана на обширном фактическом...
Возникновение ценностей
Ханс Йоас
И широкая общественная дискуссия об изменении и утрате ценностей, и научные дебаты о либерализме и коммунитаризме не могут обойти вниманием вопрос о том, как вообще возникает приверженность тем или иным ценностям и каким образом эту...
Новые медиа. Социальная теория и методология исследований
Коллектив авторов
В книге представлены сведения о ключевых авторах, теориях и методах, которые относятся к научному направлению социальных исследований новых медиа. Форма словаря позволяет получить концентрированную информацию о том, кто и как, с опорой на какие...
Социология управления. (Бакалавриат). Учебник.
Альберт Иванович Кравченко
Рассматривает историю теоретической мысли и практики управления в лицах, теориях, моделях и перспективах, характеризует предметную сферу социологии управления, освещает не только методы эмпирических и прикладных исследований в управлении, но...
Взаимная помощь среди животных и людей как двигатель прогресса
Пётр Кропоткин
Предлагаемая читателям книга, написанная выдающимся отечественным философом и общественным деятелем, теоретиком анархизма П. А. Кропоткиным, является одним из наиболее известных его произведений. Свои идеи П. А. Кропоткин черпал как из биологии...
Умственные эпидемии. Историко-психиатрические очерки
Поль Реньяр
В книге анализируются различные формы умственных эпидемий, имевших место с XV по XIX век. П. Реньяр описывает исследуемые явления и доказывает связь между исторической эпохой и формой, которую принимает та или иная эпидемия. Для психологов,...
A Companion to the Anthropology of Africa
Christopher Steiner B.
Anthropology conducted in Africa has been central to the methodological and theoretical development of the discipline since it was first institutionalized in the late 19th century. Written and edited by a team of leading cultural anthropologists...
Advances in Comparative Survey Methods
Beth-Ellen Pennell
Covers the latest methodologies and research on international comparative surveys with contributions from noted experts in the field Advances in Comparative Survey Methodology examines the most recent advances in methodology and operations as...
The Social Structures of the Economy
Pierre Bourdieu
Much orthodox economic theory is based on assumptions which are treated as self-evident: supply and demand are regarded as independent entities, the individual is assumed to be a rational agent who knows his interests and how to make decisions...
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Social Movements
Hanspeter Kriesi
The most up-to-date and thorough compendium of scholarship on social movements This second edition of The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Social Movements features forty original essays from the field. With contributions from both established and...
Demanding the Impossible
Slavoj Ziek
Where are we today and what is to be done? Slavoj ?i?ek ponders these questions in this unique and timely book. Based on live interviews, the book captures ?i?ek at his irrepressible best, elucidating such topics as the uprisings of the Arab...
Feminism and Ecology
Mary Mellor
The relationship between feminism and ecology has grown in importance in recent years. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the ecofeminist movement and its history, as well as an extended analysis of the main perspectives within...
Feminism and Criminology
Ngaire Naffine
This much-needed book is a concise and accessible account of the contribution of feminist thinking to the study of crime. Tracing the intellectual history of criminology from its scientific foundations in the nineteenth century to its recent...
Figures of History
Julie Rose
In this important new book the leading philosopher Jacques Ranci?re continues his reflections on the representative power of works of art. How does art render events that have spanned an era? What roles does it assign to those who enacted them...
Engendering Democracy
Anne Phillips
Democracy is the central political issue of our age, yet debates over its nature and goals rarely engage with feminist concerns. Now that women have the right to vote, they are thought to present no special problems of their own. But despite the...
Feminine Sentences
Janet Wolff
This new book integrates material drawn from a variety of sources – feminist theory, cultural and literary analysis, sociology and art history – in an original discussion of women's relationship to modern and post-modern culture. The essays in...
Club Cultures
Sarah Thornton
This is an innovative contribution to the study of popular culture, focusing on the youth cultures that revolve around dance clubs and raves.
Borderlands
Michel Agier
The images of migrants and refugees arriving in precarious boats on the shores of southern Europe, and of the makeshift camps that have sprung up in Lesbos, Lampedusa, Calais and elsewhere, have become familiar sights on television screens...
Progress
Peter Wagner
The idea of progress guided human expectations and actions for over two centuries. From the Enlightenment onwards, it was widely believed that the condition of humankind could be radically improved. History had embarked on an unstoppable forward...
The Nature of Heritage
Lynn Meskell
The Nature of Heritage: The New South Africa is unique in revealing the conflicts inherent in preserving both natural and cultural heritage, by examining the archaeological, ethnographic and economic evidence of a nation's attempts to master its...
A Short History of Migration
Massimo Bacci Livi
Translated by Carl Ipsen. This short book provides a succinct and masterly overview of the history of migration, from the earliest movements of human beings out of Africa into Asia and Europe to the present day, exploring along the way those...
The Spirit of Revolution
Drucilla Cornell
In recent years, feminist and queer theory have effectively disavowed both “the human” and revolutionary politics. In the face of massive geopolitical crisis, posthumanists have called for us to reconsider fundamentally the superiority and...
The Heritage of Our Times
Ernst Bloch
Heritage of Our Times is a brilliant examination of modern culture and its legacy by one of the most important and deeply influential thinkers of the 20th century. Bloch argues that the key elements of a genuine cultural tradition are not just...
The End of Organized Capitalism
John Urry
In this thought-provoking new book, Anthony Smith analyses key debates between historians and social scientists on the role of nations and nationalism in history. In a wide-ranging analysis of the work of historians, sociologists, political...
Is Multiculturalism Dead?
Christian Joppke
Multiculturalism is controversial in the liberal state and has frequently been declared dead, even in countries that have never had a policy under that name. This authoritative book reviews the different meanings multiculturalism has acquired...
The Persistence of Modernity
Albrecht Wellmer
In this timely new book Wellmer intervenes in the highly topical debates on modernity and post-modernity. Discussing the work of Adorno, Habermas, Peter Burger and Jean-Fran?ois Lyotard, among others, he offers a penetrating analysis of the...
Time Pioneers
Anette Gerhardt
In this book the authors examine the relations between work and time and explore the possibilities of developing new and more flexible working patterns.
A Berlin Republic
Steven Rendall
A Berlin Republic brings together writings on the new, united Germany by one of their most original and trenchant commentators, J?rgen Habermas. Among other topics, he addresses the consequences of German history, the challenges and perils of...
The Invention of Creativity
Andreas Reckwitz
Contemporary society has seen an unprecedented rise in both the demand and the desire to be creative, to bring something new into the world. Once the reserve of artistic subcultures, creativity has now become a universal model for culture and an...
Cities in Global Capitalism
Ugo Rossi
In what ways are cities central to the evolution of contemporary global capitalism? And in what ways is global capitalism forged by the urban experience? This book provides a response to these questions, exploring the multifaceted dimensions of...
New Urban Worlds
AbdouMaliq Simone
It is well known that the world is transitioning to an irrevocable urban future whose epicentre has moved into the cities of Asia and Africa. What is less clear is how this will be managed and deployed as a multi-polar world system is being...
The Social Theory of Practices
Stephen Turner P.
This book presents the first analysis and critique of the idea of practice as it has developed in the various theoretical traditions of the social sciences and the humanities. The concept of a practice, understood broadly as a tacit possession...
The Sexual Contract
Carole Pateman
Carole Pateman is one of the foremost political theorists writing in English today. In this outstanding new work, she presents a major reinterpretation of modern political theory. She shows how standard discussions of social contract theory tell...
Gender and Peacebuilding
Claire Duncanson
Gender and Peacebuilding offers a comprehensive and up to date analysis of how and why gender matters in contemporary peace operations. It draws on a wide range of examples from across the world to offer a nuanced account of the UN's attempts to...
The Persistence of Gender Inequality
Mary Evans
Despite centuries of campaigning, women still earn less and have less power than men. Equality remains a goal not yet reached. In this incisive account of why this is the case, Mary Evans argues that optimistic narratives of progress and...
The Second Media Age
Mark Poster
This book examines the implications of new communication technologies in the light of the most recent work in social and cultural theory and argues that new developments in electronic media, such as the Internet and Virtual Reality, justify the...
Smartphones as Locative Media
Jordan Frith
Smartphone adoption has surpassed 50% of the population in more than 15 countries, and there are now more than one million mobile applications people can download to their phones. Many of these applications take advantage of smartphones as...
The Mediated Construction of Reality
Nick Couldry
Social theory needs to be completely rethought in a world of digital media and social media platforms driven by data processes. Fifty years after Berger and Luckmann published their classic text The Social Construction of Reality, two leading...
The Informal Media Economy
Julian Thomas
How are “grey market” imports changing media industries? What is the role of piracy in developing new markets for movies and TV shows? How do jailbroken iPhones drive innovation? The Informal Media Economy provides a vivid, original, and...
