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  • A Critical Theory Of Public Life

    Knowledge, Discourse And Politics In An Age Of Decline

    by Ben Agger ...
    This text collects together Ben Agger's essays on the origins, significance and applications of critical theory - a perspective associated with the Frankfurt School. The essays address a variety of topics including the viability of Marxist theory and new social movements. ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Cultural Studies As Critical Theory

    by Ben Agger ...
    Examines the field of cultural studies and argues for its relevance in addressing the enormous impact of popular culture and mass media today. Among the perspectives analysed are the Marxist sociology of culture and poststructural/postmodern analysis ... Read more

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  • There is a Gunman on Campus

    Tragedy and Terror at Virginia Tech

    In our media-saturated culture, momentous events occur quickly, as news and images are broadcast around the country and the world. We are often riveted by the news and our everyday reality is suddenly changed. Yet, almost as quickly, that critical event is replaced by a new story. The old event fades from memory, and we move on to the next thing before understanding why it commanded our attention ... Read more

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  • Body Problems

    Running and Living Long in a Fast-Food Society

    by Ben Agger ...
    Series series Framing 21st Century Social Issues
    Body Problems addresses the relationship betweenthe body and society in a fast-food culture. Agger focuses on issues of food, exercise, work, dieting and eating disorders, fashion, bariatric and cosmetic surgery, and health. He addresses a growing, fundamental dilemma that we have ample access to abundant calories yet lead lifestyles and have jobs that for the most part do not enable us to expend ... Read more

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  • Oversharing: Presentations of Self in the Internet Age

    by Ben Agger ...
    Series series Framing 21st Century Social Issues
    People ‘overshare’ when they interact with others through the screens of computers and smartphones. Oversharing means to divulge more of their inner feelings, opinions and sexuality than they would in person, or even over the phone. Text messaging, Facebooking, tweeting, camming, blogging, online dating, and internet porn are vehicles of this oversharing, which blurs the boundary between public ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Gun Violence and Public Life

    Schools, theatres and malls used to be safe havens. Marathons were triumphal, not tragic. Today, public life is risky. Citizens are on edge, either calling for gun control or purchasing personal weapons of self-defense. In this timely book, prominent US and international authors examine gun violence in public life. They offer the latest data and analysis on topics such as comparative gun homicide ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Texting Toward Utopia

    Kids, Writing, and Resistance

    by Ben Agger ...
    This book examines the contemporary era where parents complain that children today don't do their homework because they are distracted by the Internet, texting, and video games. Texting Toward Utopia presents the writings of todays children and develops the argument that this is actually a time of mass literary, in which young people write furiously, albeit often below the adult radar. Agger ... Read more

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  • Sixties at 40

    Leaders and Activists Remember and Look Forward

    by Ben Agger ...
    Based on recent interviews, this unique sixties book brings together the voices of the Left leaders who spawned the sixties movements. Many remain activists today, and experience and the passage of time allow them to transcend nostalgia to form more realistic perspectives on past, present, and future. They discuss the civil rights and antiwar movements, the political outcome of the sixties, ... Read more

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  • Fast Families, Virtual Children

    A Critical Sociology of Families and Schooling

    The Internet, cell phones, and other technologies have changed the ways in which people conduct their family lives, raise children, and navigate the blurry boundary between work and home. Private life is colonized by employers, teachers, corporations; family time is taken up by work, homework, and shopping. What it means to be parents and children has changed dramatically. This book shows how the ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Speeding Up Fast Capitalism

    Cultures, Jobs, Families, Schools, Bodies

    by Ben Agger ...
    In his 1989 book, Fast Capitalism, Ben Agger presented a framework for understanding late-20th century social problems. Speeding Up Fast Capitalism, a sequel to his earlier book, assesses social changes since the end of the 1980s brought about by information technologies like the Internet, which have quickened the pace of everyday life. In Speeding Up Fast Capitalism, Agger assesses the impact of ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Public Sociology

    From Social Facts to Literary Acts

    by Ben Agger ...
    Public Sociology, 2nd edition offers a fundamental enriching of method far beyond the scope of research methodology textbooks. It looks at sociology as a social act-as writing-in arguing for a public sociology that can more fully embrace and address crucial public issues. Building on the philosophy of science and recent postmodernist critiques, Agger shows how the social science text reproduces ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

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    A Very Short Introduction

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    This book gives a clear and readable overview of the philosophical work of Jürgen Habermas, the most influential German philosopher alive today, who has commented widely on subjects such as Marxism, the importance and effectiveness of communication, the reunification of Germany, and the European Union. Gordon Finlayson provides readers with a clear and readable overview of Habermas's forbiddingly ... Read more

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