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  • Imagining Society

    The Case for Sociology

    by Daniel Nehring, Dylan Kerrigan ...
    Re-examining C.Wright Mills’s legacy as a jumping off point, this original introduction to sociology illuminates global concepts, themes and practices that are fundamental to the discipline. It makes a case for the importance of developing a sociological imagination and provides the steps for how readers can do that. The unique text:• Offers succinct and wide-ranging coverage of many of the most ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Affective Capitalism in Academia

    Revealing Public Secrets

    by Erika Andersson Cederholm, Carina Siöholm, Dianne Dredoe, Talia Esnard, Silvia Gherardi, Michela Cozza, Magnus Hoppe, Amir Hampel, Demetra Tzanaki, Juhana Venäläinen, Mark Vicars, Lewis Zipin, Marie Brennan, Kenneth Mølbjerg Jørgensen, Paola Valero ...
    Drawing on affect theory and research on academic capitalism, this book examines the contemporary crisis of universities. Moving through 11 international and comparative case studies, it explores diverse features of contemporary academic life, from the coloniality of academic capitalism to performance management and the experience of being performance-managed.Affect has emerged as a major ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • The Routledge International Handbook of Global Therapeutic Cultures

    Edited by Daniel Nehring, Ole Jacob Madsen, Edgar Cabanas, China Mills, Dylan Kerrigan ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    The Routledge International Handbook of Global Therapeutic Cultures explores central lines of enquiry and seminal scholarship on therapeutic cultures, popular psychology, and the happiness industry. Bringing together studies of therapeutic cultures from sociology, anthropology, psychology, education, politics, law, history, social work, cultural studies, development studies, and American Indian ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Intimacies and Cultural Change

    Perspectives on Contemporary Mexico

    by Daniel Nehring, Rosario Esteinou ...
    Exploring cultural transformations of intimacy in contemporary Mexico, Intimacies and Cultural Change examines the ways in which globalization and rapid cultural change have transformed the cultural meanings of couple relationships, sexuality, and personal life in Mexican society. Through a range of contemporary case studies, the book sheds light on the ways in which people draw on these cultural ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Therapeutic Worlds

    Popular Psychology and the Sociocultural Organisation of Intimate Life

    by Daniel Nehring, Dylan Kerrigan ...
    Series series Therapeutic Cultures
    This book builds a fresh perspective on therapeutic narratives of intimate life. Focusing on the question of how popular psychology organises everyday experiences of intimacy, its argument is grounded in qualitative research in Trinidad in the Anglophone Caribbean.Against the backdrop of Trinidad’s colonial and postcolonial history, the authors map the development of therapeutic institutions and ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • A Post-Neoliberal Era in Latin America?

    Revisiting cultural paradigms

    by Jungwon Park, Enrique del Percio, Armando Chaguaceda Noriega, Alexei Padilla Herrera, Adilson Silva Ferraz, Rafael Ponce-Cordero, Fabio Lopez de la Roche, Miguel Ángel Contreras Natera ...
    Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Ongoing conflicts between neoliberal and post-neoliberal politics have resulted in growing social instability in Latin America. This book explores the cultural dynamics of neoliberalism and anti-neoliberal resistance in Latin America as a complex set of interrelated cultural forms, examining the ways in which neoliberalism has transformed public ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Transnational Popular Psychology and the Global Self-Help Industry

    The Politics of Contemporary Social Change

    by Daniel Nehring, Emmanuel Alvarado, Dylan Kerrigan, Eric C. Hendriks ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    Self-help books aim to empower their readers and deliver happiness and personal fulfilment but do they really live up to this? This book offers a fresh perspective on self-help culture and popular psychology. Research on this subject matter has generally focused on the USA and the Global Northwest. In contrast, this book explores the production, circulation and consumption of self-help books from ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Sociology

    An Introductory Textbook and Reader

    by Daniel Nehring, Ken Plummer ...
    This groundbreaking new introduction to sociology is an innovative hybrid textbook and reader. Combining seminal scholarly works, contextual narrative and in-text didactic materials, it presents a rich, layered and comprehensive introduction to the discipline. Its unique approach will help inspire a creative, critical, and analytically sophisticated sociological imagination, making sense of ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

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  • The Sociological Imagination

    by C. Wright Mills ...
    C. Wright Mills is best remembered for his highly acclaimed work The Sociological Imagination, in which he set forth his views on how social science should be pursued. Hailed upon publication as a cogent and hard-hitting critique, The Sociological Imagination took issue with the ascendant schools of sociology in the United States, calling for a humanist sociology connecting the social, personal, ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

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  • Tackling Wicked Problems

    Through the Transdisciplinary Imagination

    Edited by John Harris, Valerie A Brown, Jacqueline Russell ...
    From climate change to GM foods, we are increasingly confronted with complex, interconnected social and environmental problems that span disciplines, knowledge bases and value systems. This book offers a transdisciplinary, open approach for those working towards resolving these 'wicked' problems and highlights the crucial role of this 'transdisciplinary imagination' in addressing the shift to ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • The Sociology Book

    Big Ideas Simply Explained

    by Sarah Tomley, Mitchell Hobbs, Megan Todd, Marcus Weeks, DK ...
    Series series DK Big Ideas
    Learn about how we organize our society in The Sociology Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Sociology in this overview guide to the subject, great for beginners looking to learn and experts wishing to refresh their knowledge alike! The Sociology Book brings a fresh and vibrant take on the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Globalization, Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society

    Sociological Perspectives

    by Peter Jarvis ...
    Series series Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society
    This book critically assesses the learning that is required and provided within a learning society and gives a detailed sociological analysis of the emerging role of lifelong learning with examples from around the globe. Divided into three clear parts the book:looks at the development of the knowledge economyprovides a critique of lifelong learning and the learning societyfocuses on the changing ... Read more

    $76.99 USD