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  • The New Power Elite

    Inequality, Politics and Greed

    by Alan Shipman, June Edmunds, Bryan Turner ...
    Series series Key Issues in Modern Sociology
    The key questions about today’s elites are easy to ask. How did a few spectacularly wealthy bankers and fund managers, whose magic money-tree crumbled to sawdust in 2008, get themselves bailed out with public funds that no health service or infrastructure commission could dream of? Why did democratically elected governments allow the ‘1%’, and those at even more exquisite decimal places, to flee ... Read more

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  • The New Power Elite

    Inequality, Politics and Greed

    by Alan Shipman, June Edmunds, Bryan Turner ...
    Series series Key Issues in Modern Sociology
    The key questions about today’s elites are easy to ask. How did a few spectacularly wealthy bankers and fund managers, whose magic money-tree crumbled to sawdust in 2008, get themselves bailed out with public funds that no health service or infrastructure commission could dream of? Why did democratically elected governments allow the ‘1%’, and those at even more exquisite decimal places, to flee ... Read more

    $21.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The New Power Elite

    Inequality, Politics and Greed

    by Alan Shipman, June Edmunds, Bryan Turner ...
    Series series Key Issues in Modern Sociology
    Elites have always ruled – wielding inordinate power and wealth, taking decisions that shape life for the rest. In good times the ‘1%’ can hide their privilege, or use growing social mobility and economic prosperity as a justification. When times get tougher there’s a backlash. So the first years of the twenty-first century – a time of financial crashes, oligarchy and corruption in the West; ... Read more

    $27.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Max Weber on Economy and Society (Routledge Revivals)

    by Robert Holton, Bryan Turner ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1989, this re-issue concerns itself with the relevance of Max Weber's sociology for the understanding of modern times. The book outlines key tenets of Weber's sociology and points to the valuable legacy of Weber's thought in contemporary intellectual debate, particularly with regard to secularization and rationalization of global cultures, the crisis of Marxism, the rise of the ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Legal Pluralism and Shari’a Law

    Edited by Adam Possamai, James T. Richardson, Bryan Turner ...
    Legal pluralism has often been associated with post-colonial legal developments especially where common law survived alongside tribal and customary laws. Focusing on Sharī‘a, this book examines the legal policies and experiences of various societies with different traditions of citizenship, secularism and common law. Where large diasporic communities of migrants develop, there will be some demand ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Routledge International Handbook of Globalization Studies

    Second edition

    Edited by Bryan Turner, Robert Holton ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    The second edition of the Routledge International Handbook of Globalization Studies offers students clear and informed chapters on the history of globalization and key theories that have considered the causes and consequences of the globalization process. There are substantive sections looking at demographic, economic, technological, social and cultural changes in globalization. The handbook ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • The Transformation of Citizenship, Volume 1

    Political Economy

    Edited by Juergen Mackert, Bryan Turner ...
    The Transformation of Citizenship addresses the basic question of how we can make sense of citizenship in the twenty-first century. These volumes make a strong plea for a reorientation of the sociology of citizenship and address serious threats of an ongoing erosion of citizenship rights. Arguing from different scientific perspectives, rather than offering new conceptions of citizenship as ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Religions in Asia

    Edited by Oscar Salemink, Bryan Turner ...
    The Routledge Handbook of Religions in Asia provides a contemporary and comprehensive overview of religion in contemporary Asia. Compiled and introduced by Bryan S. Turner and Oscar Salemink, the Handbook contains specially written chapters by experts in their respective fields.The wide-ranging introduction discusses issues surrounding Orientalism and the historical development of the discipline ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Transformation of Citizenship, Volume 2

    Boundaries of Inclusion and Exclusion

    Edited by Jürgen Mackert, Bryan Turner ...
    This volume Boundaries of Inclusion and Exclusion examines the many different and newly emerging ways in which citizenship refers to spatial, symbolic and social boundaries. Today, in the context of citizenship we face processes of inclusion and exclusion on national and supranational level but no less on the level of groups and individuals. The book addresses these different levels and discusses ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Populism and the Crisis of Democracy

    Volume 3: Migration, Gender and Religion

    Edited by Gregor Fitzi, Juergen Mackert, Bryan Turner ...
    The contributions to this volume Migration, Gender and Religion bring together empirically grounded and theoretically sophisticated case studies of populist responses to what are perceived to be the threats to national survival and sovereignty from ‘uncontrolled’ immigration. The demographic context – declining fertility rates and ageing populations – promotes the belief that high Muslim fertility ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Transformation of Citizenship, Volume 3

    Struggle, Resistance and Violence

    Edited by Juergen Mackert, Bryan Turner ...
    This volume Struggle, Resistance and Violence examines the fact that all over the world the rights of citizens have come under enormous pressure and addresses the many ways in which people are ‘making claims’ against both autocratic and democratic authority. Without any doubt rule-breaking, riots and violent upheavals have become an aspect of political struggles for citizenship. The book takes up ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Populism and the Crisis of Democracy

    Volume 1: Concepts and Theory

    Edited by Gregor Fitzi, Juergen Mackert, Bryan Turner ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    There is no threat to Western democracies today comparable to the rise of right-wing populism. While it has played an increasing role at least since the 1990s, only the social consequences of the global financial crises in 2008 have given it its break that led to UK’s ‘Brexit’ and the election of Donald Trump as US President in 2016, as well as promoting what has been called left populism in ... Read more

    $62.99 USD