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“dave elder vass”

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  • Inventing Value

    The Social Construction of Monetary Worth

    by Dave Elder-Vass ...
    Value is central to the market sectors of the contemporary economy, yet the best-established theories of value fail to expose how it operates and how it is manipulated for profit. This book begins to reconstruct the theory of value. In one sense, it argues, value is a personal assessment of worth, but those assessments draw deeply on normative standards. The book examines those standards and how ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Profit and Gift in the Digital Economy

    by Dave Elder-Vass ...
    Our economy is neither overwhelmingly capitalist, as Marxist political economists argue, nor overwhelmingly a market economy, as mainstream economists assume. Both approaches ignore vast swathes of the economy, including the gift, collaborative and hybrid forms that coexist with more conventional capitalism in the new digital economy. Drawing on economic sociology, anthropology of the gift and ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The Reality of Social Construction

    by Dave Elder-Vass ...
    'Social construction' is a central metaphor in contemporary social science, yet it is used and understood in widely divergent and indeed conflicting ways by different thinkers. Most commonly, it is seen as radically opposed to realist social theory. Dave Elder-Vass argues that social scientists should be both realists and social constructionists and that coherent versions of these ways of thinking ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • The Causal Power of Social Structures

    Emergence, Structure and Agency

    by Dave Elder-Vass ...
    The problem of structure and agency has been the subject of intense debate in the social sciences for over 100 years. This book offers a solution. Using a critical realist version of the theory of emergence, Dave Elder-Vass argues that, instead of ascribing causal significance to an abstract notion of social structure or a monolithic concept of society, we must recognise that it is specific groups ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

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  • Economics and Reality

    by Tony Lawson ...
    Series series Economics as Social Theory
    'No reality please. We're economists'. There is a wide spread belief that modern economics is irrelevant to the understanding of the real world. In a controversial and original study, Tony Lawson argues that the root of this irrelevance is in the failure of economists to find methods and tools which are appropriate for the social world it addresses ... Read more

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  • Logics of Critical Explanation in Social and Political Theory

    by Jason Glynos, David Howarth ...
    Series series Routledge Innovations in Political Theory
    This book proposes a novel approach to practising social and political analysis based on the role of logics. The authors articulate a distinctive perspective on social science explanation that avoids the problems of scientism and subjectivism by steering a careful course between lawlike explanations and thick descriptions. Drawing upon hermeneutics, poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, and post ... Read more

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  • Interrogating Incest

    Feminism, Foucault and the Law

    by Vikki Bell ...
    Series series Sociology of Law and Crime
    Winner of British Sociological Association Philip Abrams Memorial Prize 1993 Within feminism incest has often been subsumed under a discussion of sexual violence and abuse. Yet, important as this is, there has been little account of how feminist work itself relates to other ways of talking about and understanding incest.In Interrogating Incest Vikki Bell focuses on the issue of incest and its ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Intersubjectivity

    The Fabric of Social Becoming

    by Nick Crossley ...
    Series series Philosophy and Social Criticism series
    This clearly written and broad-ranging text introduces and explains the notion of intersubjectivity as a central concern of philosophy, sociology, psychology and politics. The main purpose of the book is to provide a coherent framework for this important concept against which the various and contrasting debates can be more clearly understood. Beyond this, Nick Crossley provides a critical ... Read more

    $113.39 USD

  • Popper and Economic Methodology

    Contemporary Challenges

    Edited by Thomas Boylan, Paschal O'Gorman ...
    Series series Routledge INEM Advances in Economic Methodology
    This new book, under the impressive editorship of Thomas Boylan and Paschal O'Gorman, explores a number of major themes central to the work of Karl Popper.The tensions that have resulted from Popperian thought are well documented. How can mainstream orthodox economics be falsifiable while privileging its core of rationality as unquestionable? This ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Realism Discourse and Deconstruction

    Edited by Jonathan Joseph, John Michael Roberts ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Critical Realism
    Theories of discourse bring to realism new ideas about how knowledge develops and how representations of reality are influenced. We gain an understanding of the conceptual aspect of social life and the processes by which meaning is produced. This collection reflects the growing interest realist critics have shown towards forms of discourse theory and deconstruction. The diverse range of ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Understanding Social Theory

    by Derek Layder ...
    "This is a robust text - challenging and provocative and one which students will benefit from reading. Layder guides the reader through a large body of relevant literature. He draws attention to the strengths and weaknesses of particular approaches as he sees them and he is not afraid to offer his own judgements on the issues and problems he addresses."- Professor John Eldridge, University of ... Read more

    $93.59 USD