Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Top Series in United States

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “jeffrey alexander”
Skip side bar filters

  • INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY

    For High Schools and Colleges

    by Alexander Jeffrey ...
    This book is the culmination of years of exploration, research, and a profound fascination with the often-overlooked creatures that play a vital role in maintaining the delicate balance of our ecosystems. From the smallest arachnids to the largest echinoderms, each invertebrate holds a unique story waiting to be told. Unveiling the secrets of these often-overlooked beings, the book seamlessly ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • A Contemporary Introduction to Sociology

    Culture and Society in Transition

    by Jeffrey Alexander, Jeffrey C. Alexander, Kenneth Thompson, Laura Desfor Edles, Moshoula Capous-Desyllas ...
    The influential authors significantly update their popular introductory text that invites students to reflect on their lives in the context of the combustible leap from modern to postmodern life. The authors show how culture is central to understanding many world problems as they challenge readers to confront the problems and possibilities of an era in which the futures of the physical and social ... Read more

    $180.00 USD

  • Modern Reconstruction of Classical Thought

    Talcott Parsons

    by Jeffrey Alexander ...
    Series series Theoretical Logic in Sociology
    In this volume the author maintains that sociology must learn to combine the insights of both Durkheim and Marx and that it can only do so on the presuppositional ground that Weber set forth. Alexander maintains that the idealist and materialist traditions must be transformed into analytic dimensions of multidimensional and synthetic theory. This volume focusses on the writing of Talcott Parsons, ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • The Antinomies of Classical Thought: Marx and Durkheim (Theoretical Logic in Sociology)

    by Jeffrey Alexander ...
    Series series Theoretical Logic in Sociology
    This volume challenges prevailing understanding of the two great founders of sociological thought. In a detailed and systematic way the author demonstrates how Marx and Durkheim gradually developed the fundamental frameworks for sociological materialism and idealism. While most recent interpreters of Marx have placed alienation and subjectivity at the centre of his work, Professor Alexander ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Positivism, Presupposition and Current Controversies (Theoretical Logic in Sociology)

    by Jeffrey Alexander ...
    Series series Theoretical Logic in Sociology
    This volume begins by challenging the bases of the recent scientization of sociology. Then it challenges some of the ambitious claims of recent theoretical debate. The author not only reinterprets the most important classical and modern sociological theories but extracts from the debates the elements of a more satisfactory, inclusive approach to these general theoretical points. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Classical Attempt at Theoretical Synthesis

    Max Weber

    by Jeffrey Alexander ...
    Series series Theoretical Logic in Sociology
    The limits of one-dimensional theory are strikingly revealed in the schools that the founders of the major sociological traditions established. In this volume Max Weber is presented as the theorist who laid out new starting points and the author considers his work as a response, in part, to the idealist tradition which (in Volume 2), he maintains that Durkheim represents. As Weber was less able to ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Slaves to the Metal Horde (Unabridged)

    optional

    by STEPHEN MARLOWE ...
    Narrated by Jeffrey Alexander, Robert Jondle, Cody Ebert, Katherine Kreisher ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 50 min

    Johnny Hope knew the robot armies had been created to serve Man. But war and a plague had destroyed civilization, leaving humans as - slaves to the metal horde! ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • The Cambridge Companion to Habermas

    Edited by Stephen K. White ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    Jurgen Habermas is unquestionably one of the foremost philosophers writing today. His notions of communicative action and rationality have exerted a profound influence within philosophy and the social sciences. This volume examines the historical and intellectual contexts out of which Habermas' work emerged, and offers an overview of his main ideas, including those in his most recent publication. ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Mapping Ideology

    by Nicholas Abercrombie, Theodor Adorno, Louis Althusser, Michèle Barrett ...
    For a long time, the term “ideology” was in disrepute, having become associated with such unfashionable notions as fundamental truth and the eternal verities. The tide has turned, and recent years have seen a revival of interest in the questions that ideology poses to social and cultural theory and to political practice.Including Slavoj iek’s study of the development of the concept from Marx to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Social Theory

    Twenty Introductory Lectures

    by Hans Joas, Wolfgang Knöbl ...
    Translated by Alex Skinner ...
    Social theory is the theoretical core of the social sciences, clearly distinguishable from political theory and cultural analysis. This book offers a unique overview of the development of social theory from the end of the Second World War in 1945 to the present day. Spanning the literature in English, French and German, it provides an excellent background to the most important social theorists and ... Read more

    $52.49 USD

  • Problem of Order

    by Dennis Wrong ...
    At the end of the twentieth century, many fear that the bonds holding civil society together have come undone. Yet, as the noted scholar Dennis Wrong shows us, our generation is not alone in fearing a breakdown of social ties and a descent into violent conflict. ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Encyclopedia of Social Theory

    Edited by Austin Harrington, Barbara L. Marshall, Hans-Peter Müller ...
    The Encyclopedia of Social Theory contains over 500 entries varying from concise definitions of key terms and short biographies of key theorists to comprehensive surveys of leading concepts, debates, themes and schools. The object of the Encyclopedia has been to give thorough coverage of the central topics in theoretical sociology as well as terms ... Read more

    $65.99 USD