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  • The Methodology of Political Economy

    Studying the Global Rural–Urban Matrix

    by J.I. Bakker, William Ashton, Kenneth Bessant, Alessandro Bonanno, Douglas H. Constance, Gervan Fearon, Anthony M. Fuller, Archibald Orben Haller, William J. Haller, Robert Kleiner0, William Alex McIntosh1, Sonya Salamon2, Andreas Peder Sørensen3, Tom Sørensen4, Alexander I. Stingl5, Carol A. Jenkins6 ...
    The importance of the global rural-urban matrix is often overlooked due to urban-normativity. But sometimes agrarian populism and a pastoral rural imaginary result in the equally fallacy of a rural-normativity, as in Jeffersonian nostalgia for a lost way of life that never existed. The nature of rurality in North America is important to study, but as Alessandro Bonanno makes clear, we cannot limit ... Read more

    $109.39 USD

  • Society, History, and the Global Human Condition

    Essays in Honor of Irving M. Zeitlin

    by Zaheer Baber, Robert J. Brym, Guang Xia, Maurice Zeitlin, Nedim Karakayali, Parvin Ghorayshi, Randall Collins, Rod Nelson, Meir Amor0, Andrew Eungi Kim1, Irving M. Zeitlin2, J.I. Bakker3, John Keane4, Professor Lord Anthony Giddens5, Michael Zeitlin6, Elijah Anderson7 ...
    This Festschrift for Irving M. Zeitlin honors a scholar whose work has influenced and continues to influence sociology, particularly classical sociological theory, sociology of religion, and historical sociology. Irving M. Zeitlin's scholarship and mentoring has also influenced and inspired a new generation of sociologists. The essays presented here address a wide range of topics that include ... Read more

    $129.59 USD

  • Interpretive Sociology and the Semiotic Imagination

    by J.I. Hans Bakker, Wayne Brekhus, Todd Madigan, Paul McLean, Rein Raud, Eunkyung Song, Elizabeth Wissinger ...
    Series series Interpretive Lenses in Sociology
    Semiotics provides key analytical tools to understand the creation and reproduction of meaning in social life. Although some fields have productively incorporated semiotic models, sociology still needs to engage with semiotic mediation.Written by a diverse group of authors in interpretive sociology, this ambitious volume asks what the relationship between meaning systems and action is, how we can ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

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    by Francis Fukuyama ...
    A landmark New York Times bestseller and one of the most influential works of political thought of the modern era.First published in 1992, Francis Fukuyama’s The End of History and the Last Man made a provocative argument: that liberal democracy might represent the culmination of humanity’s long political evolution. In the decades since, that idea has been challenged, debated, and reconsidered as ... Read more

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  • Left Is Not Woke

    by Susan Neiman ...
    If you’re woke, you’re left. If you’re left, you’re woke. We blur the terms, assuming that if you’re one you must be the other. That, Susan Neiman argues, is a dangerous mistake.The confusion arises because woke is fuelled by traditionally leftwing emotions: the wish to stand with the oppressed and marginalized, to address historic crimes. But those emotions are undermined by widespread ... Read more

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  • Literacy

    An Introduction to the Ecology of Written Language

    by David Barton ...
    This introduction to the expanding field of literacy studies has been fully revised for the second edition. It explores recent developments and new research that has contributed to our understanding of literacy practices, reflecting on the interdisciplinary growth of the study of reading and writing over the past decade.An introductory textbook on the growing field of literacy studies, fully ... Read more

    $51.00 USD

  • Reflexive Methodology

    New Vistas for Qualitative Research

    by Mats Alvesson, Kaj Skoldberg ...
    Praise for the Second Edition:"In opposition to most literature on how to conduct good social science research which is either empirically oriented or gives priority to theoretical and philosophical considerations, which tends to make empirical research look odd or irrelevant, this volume on ′Reflexive Methodology′ explicitly turns towards a consideration of the perceptual, cognitive, theoretical, ... Read more

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  • First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

    by Slavoj Zizek ...
    The leading philosopher of our time tracks the demise of liberalism through landmark events of the 21st century—from 9/11 to the farce of the financial meltdownBillions of dollars were hastily poured into the global banking system in a frantic attempt at financial stabilization. So why has it not been possible to bring the same forces to bear in addressing world poverty and environmental crisis?In ... Read more

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  • Discovery of Grounded Theory

    Strategies for Qualitative Research

    by Barney Glaser, Anselm Strauss ...
    Most writing on sociological method has been concerned with how accurate facts can be obtained and how theory can thereby be more rigorously tested. In The Discovery of Grounded Theory, Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss address the equally Important enterprise of how the discovery of theory from data—systematically obtained and analyzed in social research—can be furthered. The discovery of theory ... Read more

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  • Nationalism

    Theory, Ideology, History

    by Anthony D. Smith ...
    Series series Key Concepts
    For the last two centuries, nationalism has been a central feature of society and politics. Few ideologies can match its power and resonance, and no other political movement and symbolic language has such worldwide appeal and resilience. But nationalism is also a form of public culture and political religion, which draws on much older cultural and symbolic forms.Seeking to do justice to these ... Read more

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  • Living Language

    An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology

    by Laura M. Ahearn ...
    Series Book 7 - Primers in Anthropology
    Accessible and clearly written, Living Language: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology introduces readers to the study of language in real-life social contexts around the world through the contemporary theory and practice of linguistic anthropology.A highly accessible introduction to the study of language in real-life social contexts around the worldCombines classic studies on language and ... Read more

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  • An Analysis of Hans J. Morgenthau's Politics Among Nations

    by Ramon Pacheco Pardo ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Hans Morgenthau’s Politics Among Nations is a classic of political science, built on the firm foundation of Morgenthau’s watertight reasoning skills.The central aim of reasoning is to construct a logical and persuasive argument that carefully organizes and supports its conclusions – often around a central concept or scheme of argumentation. Morgenthau’s subject was international relations – the ... Read more

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