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  • The Dictionary Of Critical Social Sciences

    by T. R. Young, Bruce Arrigo ...
    This book is a teaching dictionary with the goal of de-mystifying current social science theory in a comprehensive, accessible format. It focuses on important terminology in progressive, radical, critical Marxist, feminist, left-liberal, postmodern, and semiotic contexts. ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Drama of Social Life

    Essays in Post-modern Social Psychology

    by T. R. Young ...
    These essays explore the many ways theater and dramaturgy are used to shape the everyday experience of people in mass societies. Young argues that technologies combine with the world of art, music, and cinema to shape consciousness as a commodity and to fragment social relations in the market as well as in religion and politics. He sees the central problem of post-modern society as how to live in ... Read more

    $66.99 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

    $15.19 USD

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  • Unruly Voices

    Essays on Democracy, Civility and the Human Imagination

    by Mark Kingwell ...
    Accessible, entertaining, anecdotal. A good introduction to issues in contemporary civics as well as a measured and thoughtful response to major themes and figures in cultural studies.Civility in politics is a subject throughout, and analyses of both Obama's rhetoric and the use of lowest-common-denominator insults in public debate will be well-timed going into the 2012 election campaignNot just ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Hegemony How-To

    A Roadmap for Radicals

    by Jonathan Smucker ...
    A guide to political struggle for a generation that is deeply ambivalent about power. While many activists gravitate toward mere self-expression and identity-affirming rituals at the expense of serious political intervention, Smucker provides an apologia for leadership, organization, and collective power, a moral argument for its cultivation, and a discussion of dilemmas that movements must ... Read more

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  • A Good Book, In Theory

    Making Sense Through Inquiry, Second Edition

    by Alan Sears, James Cairns ...
    This brief and engagingly written book provides a unique introduction to the process of social inquiry and the theoretical and methodological frameworks that support that inquiry, offering a strong foundation in critical thinking that is rooted in the social sciences but maintains relevance across the disciplines. ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The One and the Many

    Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context

    by Grant H. Kester ...
    Collaborative and collective art practices have proliferated around the world over the past fifteen years. In The One and the Many, Grant H. Kester provides an overview of the broader continuum of collaborative art, ranging from the work of artists and groups widely celebrated in the mainstream art world, such as Thomas Hirschhorn, Superflex, Francis Alÿs, and Santiago Sierra, to the less ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Urban Politics Now / Reflect 6

    re-Imagining Democracy in the Neoliberal City

    Edited by nai010 uitgevers/publishers ...
    The form and future of cities is increasingly regarded as the product of inescapable processes: the strategic decisions of businesses, consumer preferences, deeply rooted cultural reflexes. Specifically, with the rise of a neoliberal and neo-conservative view of society, fundamental decisions about the everyday environment are increasingly determined by the laws of supply and demand or the clash ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Post-Postmodernism

    or, The Cultural Logic of Just-in-Time Capitalism

    by Jeffrey Nealon ...
    Post-Postmodernism begins with a simple premise: we no longer live in the world of "postmodernism," famously dubbed "the cultural logic of late capitalism" by Fredric Jameson in 1984. Far from charting any simple move "beyond" postmodernism since the 1980s, though, this book argues that we've experienced an intensification of postmodern capitalism over the past decades, an increasing saturation of ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Capitalism and Desire

    The Psychic Cost of Free Markets

    by Todd McGowan ...
    Despite creating vast inequalities and propping up reactionary world regimes, capitalism has many passionate defenders—but not because of what it withholds from some and gives to others. Capitalism dominates, Todd McGowan argues, because it mimics the structure of our desire while hiding the trauma that the system inflicts upon it. People from all backgrounds enjoy what capitalism provides, but at ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Critical Education in the New Information Age

    by Manuel Castells, Ramón Flecha, Paulo Freire, Henry A. Giroux, Donaldo Macedo, Paul Willis ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives Series: A Book Series Dedicated to Paulo Freire
    Essays by some of the world's leading educators provide a revolutionary portrait of new ideas and developments in education that can influence the possibility of social and political change.The authors take into account such diverse terrain as feminism, ecology, media, and individual liberty in their pursuit of new ideas that can inform the fundamental practice of education and promote a more ... Read more

    $43.79 USD

  • The Theory Toolbox

    Critical Concepts for the Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences

    by Jeffrey T. Nealon, Susan Searls Giroux ...
    Series series Culture and Politics Series
    This text involves students in understanding and using the "tools" of critical social and literary theory from the first day of class. It is an ideal first introduction before students encounter more difficult readings from critical and postmodern perspectives.Nealon and Searls Giroux describe key concepts and illuminate each with an engaging inquiry that asks students to consider deeper and ... Read more

    $42.09 USD