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Sociology and Liturgy - Re-presentations of the Holy (Hardcover): K Flanagan Sociology and Liturgy - Re-presentations of the Holy (Hardcover)
K Flanagan
R4,394 Discovery Miles 43 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is a study of the social construction and the impression management of the public forms of worship of Catholicism and Anglicanism. Interest centres on the dilemmas of the liturgical actors in handling a transaction riddled with ambiguities and potential misunderstandings. Simmel, Berger and Goffman are used in an original manner to understand these rites which pose as much of a problem for sociology as for their practitioners.;These rites are treated as forms of play and hermeneutics is linked to a negative theology to understand their performative basis. The study is an effort to link sociology to theology in a way that serves to focus on an issue of social praxis.

Science, Technology and the Military (Hardcover, 1988 ed.): E Mendelsohn, Merritt Roe Smith, P. Weingart Science, Technology and the Military (Hardcover, 1988 ed.)
E Mendelsohn, Merritt Roe Smith, P. Weingart
R3,038 Discovery Miles 30 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Indigenous Tourism - Cases from Australia and New Zealand (Hardcover): Michelle Whitford, Lisa Ruhanen, Anna Carr Indigenous Tourism - Cases from Australia and New Zealand (Hardcover)
Michelle Whitford, Lisa Ruhanen, Anna Carr
R3,320 Discovery Miles 33 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Australia and New Zealand are arguably two of the world's leading Indigenous tourism destinations. This volume presents a collection of unique case studies focusing on issues pertaining to Indigenous tourism planning and development. Issues covered include: * Strategies for sustainable development; * Diversifying economies through Indigenous tourism; * Preparing for tourism and developing capacity ; * Successful Indigenous tourism entrepreneurship The research papers in this volume introduce some of the most interesting entrepreneurial Indigenous tourism ventures and associated research in the world, providing inspiration and information to readers (i.e., students, researchers and industry) around the world. With contributions from experts in the field Indigenous Tourism: cases from Australia and New Zealand is the first edited volume to specifically focus on the Indigenous tourism sector in Australia and New Zealand. This collection represents the first volume to specifically highlight the culture, traditions, and knowledges of the First Peoples of Australia and New Zealand and provides important reading for researchers, students and practitioners around the globe as awareness of, and interest in the diversity of Indigenous cultures, traditions, histories and knowledges continues to grow.

Beyond Conformity (Hardcover): Winston White Beyond Conformity (Hardcover)
Winston White
R1,940 Discovery Miles 19 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The author attempts to redefine the problems that the individual in American society is facing. He posits that increasing social complexity through structural differentiation can result in greater mobilization of resources, increased capacity to pursue desirable goals, greater freedom of choice for more individuals.

Food and the Self - Consumption, Production and Material Culture (Hardcover, New): Isabelle De Solier Food and the Self - Consumption, Production and Material Culture (Hardcover, New)
Isabelle De Solier
R3,892 Discovery Miles 38 920 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

We often hear that selves are no longer formed through producing material things at work, but by consuming them in leisure, leading to 'meaningless' modern lives. This important book reveals the cultural shift to be more complex, demonstrating how people in postindustrial societies strive to form meaningful and moral selves through both the consumption and production of material culture in leisure. Focusing on the material culture of food, the book explores these theoretical questions through an ethnography of those individuals for whom food is central to their self: 'foodies'. It examines what foodies do, and why they do it, through an in-depth study of their lived experiences. The book uncovers how food offers a means of shaping the self not as a consumer but as an amateur who engages in both the production and consumption of material culture and adopts a professional approach which reveals the new moralities of productive leisure in self-formation. The chapters examine a variety of practices, from fine dining and shopping to cooking and blogging, and include rare data on how people use media such as cookbooks, food television, and digital food media in their everyday life. This book is ideal for students, scholars, and anyone interested in the meaning of food in modern life.

Martin Heidegger on Technology, Ecology, and the Arts (Hardcover): A. Lack Martin Heidegger on Technology, Ecology, and the Arts (Hardcover)
A. Lack
R1,492 Discovery Miles 14 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Lack begins with a discussion of Max Weber's analysis of the disenchantment of the world and proceeds to develop Heidegger's philosophy in a way that suggests a "re-enchantment" of the world that faces the modern condition squarely, without nostalgia.

New Directions in the Sociology of Global Development (Hardcover): Frederick H. Buttel, Philip D. McMichael New Directions in the Sociology of Global Development (Hardcover)
Frederick H. Buttel, Philip D. McMichael
R3,759 Discovery Miles 37 590 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Why is global development so unequal in its social impact? How are global relations represented in local developments, and vice versa? What role do social movements play in shaping global development? These are some of the questions animating this state-of-the-art collection of essays. Subdivided into sections posing research, policy, and strategic questions regarding contemporary social change, this volume brings together scholars well-known for challenging conventional wisdoms in the sociology of global development.

In exploring development, these chapters range across the global North and South, economic sectors, policy scales, state/civil society relations, social models, and changing compositional and contextual dimensions of capitalism. Authors introduce conceptual innovations regarding the spatial boundaries of development, sovereignty and the politics of globalization, food regime analysis, recompositions of rural activity, the question of the national bourgeoisie??'s role in the developing world, the health dimensions of food and farming, and the salience of regional governance in sustainable development. Methodologically, this collection breaks new ground with essays reinterpreting commodity chain analysis, accounting for the impoverishing impact of resource extraction, incorporating social movements into the analysis of development, and historically specifying contemporary trends in global development.

All Bullshit and Lies? - Insincerity, Irresponsibility, and the Judgment of Untruthfulness (Hardcover): Chris Heffer All Bullshit and Lies? - Insincerity, Irresponsibility, and the Judgment of Untruthfulness (Hardcover)
Chris Heffer
R2,601 Discovery Miles 26 010 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In a postfactual world in which claims are often held to be true only to the extent that they confirm pre-existing or partisan beliefs, this book asks crucial questions: how can we identify the many forms of untruthfulness in discourse? How can we know when their use is ethically wrong? How can we judge untruthfulness in the messiness of situated discourse? Drawing on pragmatics, philosophy, psychology, and law, All Bullshit and Lies? develops a comprehensive framework for analyzing untruthful discourse in situated context. TRUST, or Trust-related Untruthfulness in Situated Text, sees untruthfulness as encompassing not only deliberate manipulations of what is believed to be true (the insincerity of withholding, misleading, and lying) but also the distortions that arise from an irresponsible attitude towards the truth (dogma, distortion, and bullshit). Chris Heffer discusses times when truth is not "in play," as in jokes or fiction, as well as instances when concealing the truth can achieve a greater good. The TRUST framework demonstrates that untruthfulness becomes unethical in discourse, though, when it unjustifiably breaches the trust an interlocutor invests in the speaker. In addition to the theoretical framework, this book provides a clear, practical heuristic for analyzing discursive untruthfulness and applies it to such cases of public discourse as the Brexit "battle bus," Trump's tweet about voter fraud, Blair and Bush's claims about weapons of mass destruction, and the multiple forms of untruthfulness associated with the Skripal poisoning case. In All Bullshit and Lies? Chris Heffer turns a critical eye to fundamental questions of truthfulness and trust in our society. This timely and interdisciplinary investigation of discourse provides readers a deeper theoretical understanding of untruthfulness in a postfactual world.

Norms, Values, and Society (Hardcover, 1994 ed.): Herlinde Pauer-Studer Norms, Values, and Society (Hardcover, 1994 ed.)
Herlinde Pauer-Studer
R4,556 Discovery Miles 45 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Norms, Values, and Society is the second Yearbook of the Vienna Circle Institute, which was founded in October 1991. The main part of the book contains original contributions to an international symposium the Institute held in October 1993 on ethics and social philosophy. The papers deal among others with questions of justice, equality, just social institutions, human rights, the connections between rationality and morality and the methodological problems of applied ethics. The Documentation section contains previously unpublished papers by Rudolf Carnap, Philipp Frank, Charles W. Morris and Edgar Zilsel, and the review section presents new publications on the Vienna Circle. The Vienna Circle Institute is devoted to the critical advancement of science and philosophy in the broad tradition of the Vienna Circle, as well as to the focusing of cross-disciplinary interest on the history and philosophy of science in a social context. The Institute's Yearbooks will, for the most part, document its activities and provide a forum for the discussion of exact philosophy, logical and empirical investigations, and analysis of language.

Social Movements and their Supporters - The Greenshirts in England (Hardcover): M. Drakeford Social Movements and their Supporters - The Greenshirts in England (Hardcover)
M. Drakeford
R2,876 Discovery Miles 28 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Why do people join social movements? What keeps them involved once they have joined? These central questions in the study of social movements are newly investigated in this study of the interwar Green Shirt Movement. The Green Shirts are the only example in Britain of an anti-war, mixed sex youth movement which became a uniformed, political organisation, marching the streets and mobilising amongst the unemployed. Half a century after the movement came to an end it remains, for surviving members, the most important experience of their lives. This book uses their experiences to cast new light on the concepts of commitment, charisma and affiliation in social movements.

Science, Technology, and Social Change (Routledge Revivals) (Paperback): Steven Yearley Science, Technology, and Social Change (Routledge Revivals) (Paperback)
Steven Yearley
R681 Discovery Miles 6 810 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First published in 1988, this book provides students with a way to increase their understanding of the role of science and technology in society. Steven Yearley draws on and develops ideas from research in the sociology and politics of science to address, in particular: the nature of scientific knowledge and the authority it commands; the political and economic role of science in the West; the relationship between science, technology, and social change in underdeveloped countries. Examples used range from nineteenth-century brain science to the strategic defence initiative, and from hugely expensive experiments in nuclear physics, to proposals for inexpensive boat-building programmes in the Sudan. Overall, this reissue provides a comprehensive and stimulating account of the role played by science and technology in contemporary social change.

The Changing Governance of the Sciences - The Advent of Research Evaluation Systems (Hardcover, 2., Akt. Aufl.): Richard... The Changing Governance of the Sciences - The Advent of Research Evaluation Systems (Hardcover, 2., Akt. Aufl.)
Richard Whitley, Jochen Glaser
R4,513 Discovery Miles 45 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The establishment of national systems of retrospective research evaluations is one of the most significant of recent changes in the governance of science. In many countries, state attempts to manage public science systems and improve their quality have triggered the institutionalisation of such systems, which vary greatly in their methods of assessing research performance, and consequences for universities. The contributions to this volume discuss, inter alia, the birth and development of research evaluation systems as well as the reasons for their absence in the United States, the responses by universities and academics to these new governance regimes, and their consequences for the production of scientific knowledge.

Knowledge and Society - The Anthropology of Science and Technology (Hardcover): Arie Rip Knowledge and Society - The Anthropology of Science and Technology (Hardcover)
Arie Rip; Volume editing by David J Hess, Linda L. Layne
R3,366 Discovery Miles 33 660 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Part of a series examining different aspects of knowledge and society, this volume focuses on the anthropology of science and technology. Divided into three parts, it covers: the reconstruction of medical science and technology; science and technology at large; and discipline, culture and power.

The Social Direction of the Public Sciences - Causes and Consequences of Co-operation between Scientists and Non-scientific... The Social Direction of the Public Sciences - Causes and Consequences of Co-operation between Scientists and Non-scientific Groups (Hardcover, 1987 ed.)
Stuart Blume, Joske Bunders, Loet Leydesdorff, Richard P. Whitley
R4,568 Discovery Miles 45 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume of the Sociology of the Sciences Yearbooks stems from our experience that collaborations between non-scientists and scientists, often initiated by scientists seeking greater social relevance for science, can be of major importance for cognitive development. It seemed to us that it would be useful to explore the conditions under which such collaborations affect scientific change and the nature of the processes involved. This book therefore focuses on a number of instances in which scientists and non-scientists were jointly involved in the genera tion of scientific results at the "interface" of science and society. Despite the considerable variety of cases reported here, a number of questions are central. Under what conditions do such cooperative processes occur? What perceptions of social relevance and what sorts of col laborations with non-scientific groups are involved? How is this collaboration achieved, and through what forums? How can insights into its conditions and mechanisms stabilize such cooperations over a longer period of time? If they are stabilized, do they really affect science, or do they mainly function to shield the rest of the science system against external influences? These questions are pertinent both to intellectual problems in the sociology of science and to the practical concerns of modern science policies. The significance of relations between knowledge producers and knowledge consumers and interest in how these relations affect science and society have changed considerably in recent decades."

Corporate Social Responsibility Across Europe (Hardcover, 2005 ed.): Andre Habisch, Jan Jonker, Martina Wegner, Rene Schmidpeter Corporate Social Responsibility Across Europe (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)
Andre Habisch, Jan Jonker, Martina Wegner, Rene Schmidpeter
R2,947 Discovery Miles 29 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become an increasingly important topic in our global society. Corporate Social Responsibility Across Europe is the first volume of its kind to bring together twenty-three national perspectives on this issue. Thirty-seven European researchers worked on the book, which provides a comprehensive and structured survey of CSR developments and progress at national levels. An overview and analysis is provided for each country. Topics addressed include business and societal mindsets in the different cultural settings, national drivers for the current development of CSR, and prospects for the individual countries in the future. Furthermore it contains three comprehensive pan-European analyses. The chapters also contain practical information and references to the Internet as well as relevant literature in order to support further research and stimulate business activities in this field. The result is a rather unique collection of essays on the topic of CSR across Europe.

Conflict in the Academy - A Study in the Sociology of Intellectuals (Hardcover): M. Morgan, P Baert Conflict in the Academy - A Study in the Sociology of Intellectuals (Hardcover)
M. Morgan, P Baert
R1,488 Discovery Miles 14 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Examining an intramural conflict that erupted within the English Faculty at Cambridge University in the early 1980s, this book develops a theoretical analysis of disputes as they unfold within the academy and explores the broader historical shifts within Higher Education and how these related to developments in Continental Europe.

Lubavitcher Messianism - What Really Happens When Prophecy Fails? (Hardcover, New): Simon Dein Lubavitcher Messianism - What Really Happens When Prophecy Fails? (Hardcover, New)
Simon Dein
R4,918 Discovery Miles 49 180 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In 1994 the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Schneerson, died leaving no successor. For many years his followers had maintained that he was Moshiach -the Jewish Messiah and would usher in the Redemption. After his death Lubavitch divided into two opposing groups. While some messianists hold that the Rebbe died but is to be resurrected as the messiah, others hold that he is still alive, but concealed. The anti-messianists maintain that the Rebbe could have been Moshiach if God had willed it, but they disagree vehemently that as such he could come back from the dead. Using ethnographic data obtained by the author through twenty years of fieldwork, this book presents a social-psychological account of Lubavitcher Messianism and moves beyond the typical scholarly preoccupation with belief and dissonance to examine the role of rhetoric, religious experience and ritual in maintaining counterintuitive convictions. Through examining the parallels between early Christianity and messianism in Lubavitch this book provides a comprehensive perspective for examining messianism generally.

An Introduction to the Work of Pierre Bourdieu - The Practice of Theory (Hardcover): Richard Harker, Cheleen Mahar, Chris Wilkes An Introduction to the Work of Pierre Bourdieu - The Practice of Theory (Hardcover)
Richard Harker, Cheleen Mahar, Chris Wilkes
R4,354 Discovery Miles 43 540 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Pierre Bourdieu has been making a distinguished contribution to European sociology for the past 25 years. He is Professor of Sociology at the Collge de France in Paris and author of many influential books including, most recently, Distinction and Homo Academicus, which have both been translated into English. This book serves to introduce this important body of work to the Anglo-American world. In a cross-disciplinary collaboration Richard Harker, Cheleen Mahar and Chris Wilkes provide the reader with the necessary tools to understand this complex and rewarding body of French sociology. Post modernist sociology has already been influenced by the French theorist Foucault; it is likely that the generation to come will be reading Bourdieu.

An Uneasy Embrace - Africa, India and the Spectre of Race (Paperback): Shobana Shankar An Uneasy Embrace - Africa, India and the Spectre of Race (Paperback)
Shobana Shankar
R677 Discovery Miles 6 770 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The entwined histories of Blacks and Indians defy easy explanation. From Black Lives Matter protests against Gandhi statues to Kamala Harris's historic election, this relationship--notwithstanding moments of common struggle--seethes with conflicts that reveal important lessons about race in the modern world. Shobana Shankar's groundbreaking intellectual history tackles the controversial question of how Africans and Indians see their differences. Drawing on archival and oral sources from seven countries, she traces how economic tensions surrounding the Indian diaspora in East and Southern Africa collided with the twentieth century's widening Indian networks in West Africa and the Black Atlantic. Decolonisation brought a reckoning with Euro-American racial hierarchies, as well as discord over caste, religion, sex and skin colour, simmering beneath the rhetoric of Afro-Indian solidarity. This book illuminates how postcolonial peoples remade race by reinvigorating cultural movements, from Pan-Africanism to popular devotionalism, in Africa, India and the United States. This new race consciousness was meant as a redemption from the moral dangers of economic rivalry. Yet rising wealth and nationalist amnesia now threaten this postcolonial ethos. Calls to dismantle statues, from Accra to Washington DC, are not merely symbolic. They seek to preserve dissenting histories, and the possibility of alternative futures.

Suicide - A Study in Sociology (Paperback): Emile Durkheim Suicide - A Study in Sociology (Paperback)
Emile Durkheim
R604 Discovery Miles 6 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A classic book about the phenomenon of suicide and its social causes written by one of the world's most influential sociologists.
Emile Durkheim's "Suicide "addresses the phenomenon of suicide and its social causes. Written by one of the world's most influential sociologists, this classic argues that suicide primarily results from a lack of integration of the individual into society. "Suicide "provides readers with an understanding of the impetus for suicide and its psychological impact on the victim, family, and society.

Raymond Williams Now - Knowledge, Limits and the Future (Hardcover): J. Wallace, R. Jones, S Nield Raymond Williams Now - Knowledge, Limits and the Future (Hardcover)
J. Wallace, R. Jones, S Nield
R2,873 Discovery Miles 28 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The work of Raymond Williams continues to exercise a powerful hold over the minds of contemporary cultural analysts and social commentators. This collection responds to the challenge of Williams's thinking in discussions of topics of current interest and concern. The essays embrace a widely-divergent field of enquiry, from the study of language, dramaturgical theory, the theory of human needs and approaches to sociology, cultural studies and television, to issues of history, temporality and the future in relation to modernity and the postmodern.

Person and Self-Value - Three Essays (Hardcover, 1987 ed.): Max Scheler Person and Self-Value - Three Essays (Hardcover, 1987 ed.)
Max Scheler; Edited by M.S. Frings
R4,481 Discovery Miles 44 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

From the mysterious powers and forces peculiar to both individual and community that can turn our lives into either good or bad lives, I wish to point to two such powers being at the same time different in their own nature and yet closely related to each other: The powers that emerge from exemplary persons and leaders. Understood as basic to both sociology and the philosophy of history, it comes to us as no surprise that the problem of exemplary persons and leaders - along with the questions of the qualities types, selections and education of leaders; forms of unison existing be tween leaders and their followers, all of which belonging to the subdivisions of this problem - must be a burning problem for a people whose historical leaders from all walks of life have, in part, been swept away by wars and revolutions. This fact we also find in all salient epochs of history characterized more or less by changes in leadership. It is precisely for this reason that in our own time every group appears to struggle ever so hard with this problem, namely, who their leaders should be. This pertains equally to a group within a party, to a class, to occupations, to unions, to various schools or present-day youth movements, and even to religious and ecclesias tical groupings. Beyond any comparison, there is yearning everywhere for lead ership."

The Evolution of Complex Hunter-Gatherers - Archaeological Evidence from the North Pacific (Hardcover, 2003 ed.): Ben Fitzhugh The Evolution of Complex Hunter-Gatherers - Archaeological Evidence from the North Pacific (Hardcover, 2003 ed.)
Ben Fitzhugh
R4,558 Discovery Miles 45 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book makes a contribution to the developing field of complex hunter-gatherer studies with an archaeological analysis of the development of one such group. It examines the evolution of complex hunter-gatherers on the North Pacific coast of Alaska. It is one of the first books available to examine in depth the social evolution of a specific complex hunter-gatherer tradition on the North Pacific Rim and will be of interest to professional archaeologists, anthropologists, and students of archaeology and anthropology.

Privacy and Its Invasion (Hardcover, New): Deckle McLean Privacy and Its Invasion (Hardcover, New)
Deckle McLean
R2,470 Discovery Miles 24 700 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Privacy. We want lots of it for ourselves. We love to invade the privacy of others. We are willing to trade it for benefits of all kinds, including credit, social services, and friendship. Why is this? Where should we draw a line? How should we handle our ambivalence in an era in which privacy often appears to be under official attack? This book explores such questions by rooting into scarce literature to explain why privacy is such a strong need, reviewing a variety of methods for guarding privacy, and concluding that at one time America was a very fortunate place privacy-wise. McLean examines problem areas in which privacy invasions play, or have played, large roles. Rape and sexual offenses are analyzed; so, too, is news reporting that touches private matters and race relations.

Privacy and its Invasion also has a point to make: that privacy, despite its dark side, is an idea whose time has come, an ancient need that now requires explicit endorsement and protection as a value. A thought-provoking examination of something we have come to regard as a basic right, but a right under assault, this book is for all concerned with contemporary social and legal issues, civil liberties, and communications.

The Bureaucratization of the World in the Neoliberal Era - An International and Comparative Perspective (Hardcover): B. Hibou The Bureaucratization of the World in the Neoliberal Era - An International and Comparative Perspective (Hardcover)
B. Hibou
R1,961 Discovery Miles 19 610 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Contemporary bureaucracy is a set of norms, rules, procedures, and formalities which includes administration, business, and NGOs. Where Max Weber meets Michel Foucault, Beatrice Hibou analyzes the political dynamics underlying this process. Neoliberal bureaucracy is a vector of discipline and control, producing social and political indifference.

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