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Rethinking the Public Sphere Through Transnationalizing Processes - Europe and Beyond (Hardcover, New): A. Salvatore, O.... Rethinking the Public Sphere Through Transnationalizing Processes - Europe and Beyond (Hardcover, New)
A. Salvatore, O. Schmidtke, H. Trenz
R3,897 Discovery Miles 38 970 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book discusses the extent to which the theoretical relevance and analytical rigor of the concept of the public sphere is affected (or undermined) by current processes of transnationalization. The contributions address fundamental questions concerning the viability of a socially and politically effective public sphere in a post-Westphalian world. To what degree are the theoretical presuppositions regarding the critical function and democratic quality of public deliberation still valid in contemporary societies that adhere decreasingly to the Westphalian logic of closed national political communities and modes of communication? Under what conditions is the critical impetus of the public sphere still applicable in a world that, in Europe and beyond, is increasingly responding to processes of trans-border interaction and communication?

Matters of Revolution - Urban Spaces and Symbolic Politics in Berlin and Warsaw After 1989 (Paperback): Dominik Bartmanski Matters of Revolution - Urban Spaces and Symbolic Politics in Berlin and Warsaw After 1989 (Paperback)
Dominik Bartmanski
R1,256 Discovery Miles 12 560 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Symbols matter, and especially those present in public spaces, but how do they exert influence and maintain a hold over us? Why do such materialities count even in the intensely digitalized culture? This book considers the importance of urban symbols to political revolutions, examining manifold reasons for which social movements necessitate the affirmation or destruction of various material icons and public monuments. What explains variability of life cycles of certain classes of symbols? Why do some of them seem more potent than others? Why do people exhibit nostalgic attachments to some symbols of the controversial past and vehemently oppose others? What nourishes and threatens the social life of icons? Through comparative analyses of major iconic processes following the epochal revolution of 1989 in Berlin and Warsaw, the book argues that revolutionary action needs objects and sites which concretize the transformative redrawing of the symbolic boundaries between the "sacred" and "profane," good and evil, before and after, and "progressive" and "reactionary"-the symbolic shifts that every revolution implies in theory and formalizes in practice. Public symbols ensconced within actual urban spaces provide indispensable visibility to human values and social changes. As affective topographies that externalize collective feelings, their very presence and durability is meaningful, and so are the revolutionary rituals of preservation and destruction directed at those spaces. Far from being mere gestures or token signifiers, they have their own gravity with profound cultural ramifications. This volume will appeal to sociologists, anthropologists, geographers, and social theorists with interests in urban studies, public heritage, material culture, political revolution, and social movements.

Life Strategies of Migrants from Crisis Regimes - Achiever or Survivor? (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Olga Oleinikova Life Strategies of Migrants from Crisis Regimes - Achiever or Survivor? (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Olga Oleinikova
R1,549 Discovery Miles 15 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book offers a profoundly new examination of life strategies of migrants from regimes in crisis. By focusing on the unique paired comparison of two opposing life strategies-the dynamic, risk-taking and future-oriented 'achievement life strategy' and the conservative, risk-minimizing and survival-oriented 'survival life strategy'-this volume takes migration from post-independence Ukraine to Australia as a central case study to show how people shape their lives in response to regime transitions and crises; what life strategies individuals pursue to cope with social change; and why these individuals chose migration to Australia. Ultimately, the book compels us to reassess what we mean by migration and regime crisis in order to adequately respond to the global challenges confronting numerous democracies today. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology and politics with interests in migration, political theory and democracy.

Technological Economy (Hardcover): Don Slater, Andrew Barry Technological Economy (Hardcover)
Don Slater, Andrew Barry
R4,478 Discovery Miles 44 780 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this major new collection, leading experts in the field of economic sociology combine to provide a critical overview of the latest approaches to the study of economics in the social sciences. Traditionally social scientists have taken one of two approaches towards the economy, either emphasizing the rationality of economic actors and the objective reality of market forces or alternatively rejecting these very notions as abstractions which do violence to the embeddedness of economic relations in social and cultural life. In contrast, The Technological Economy argues for a new understanding of the relationship between the economy and culture. In developing its critical analysis of the new economic sociology, this book is exceptional in adopting cultural approaches to the economy, whilst taking the role of economics in the formation of markets seriously.

Purpose Power - How Mission-Driven Leaders Engage for Change (Hardcover): Alicia Bonner Ness Purpose Power - How Mission-Driven Leaders Engage for Change (Hardcover)
Alicia Bonner Ness
R661 Discovery Miles 6 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Adorno, Habermas and the Search for a Rational Society (Hardcover): Deborah Cook Adorno, Habermas and the Search for a Rational Society (Hardcover)
Deborah Cook
R4,180 Discovery Miles 41 800 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Theodor W. Adorno and Jurgen Habermas both champion the goal of a rational society. However, they differ significantly about what this society should look like and how best to achieve it. Exploring the premises shared by both critical theorists, along with their profound disagreements about social conditions today, this book defends Adorno against Habermas' influential criticisms of his account of Western society and prospects for achieving reasonable conditions of human life. The book begins with an overview of these critical theories of Western society. Both Adorno and Habermas follow Georg Lukacs when they argue that domination consists in the reifying extension of a calculating, rationalizing form of thought to all areas of human life. Their views about reification are discussed in the second chapter. In chapter three the author explores their conflicting accounts of the historical emergence and development of the type of rationality now prevalent in the West. Since Adorno and Habermas claim to have a critical purchase on reified social life, the critical leverage of their theories is assessed in chapter four. The final chapter deals with their opposing views about what a rational society would look like, as well as their claims about the prospects for establishing such a society. Adorno, Habermas and the Search for a Rational Society will be essential reading for students and researchers of critical theory, political theory and the work of Adorno and Habermas.

Difference (Hardcover): Mark Currie Difference (Hardcover)
Mark Currie
R2,818 Discovery Miles 28 180 Ships in 12 - 19 working days


Difference is one of the most influential critical concepts of recent decades and in this book Mark Currie offers a comprehensive account of the history of the term and its place in some of the most influential schools of theory of the past four decades, including:
* post-structuralism
* deconstruction
* new historicism
* psychoanalysis
* French feminism
* postcolonialism.
Employing literary case studies throughout, Difference provides an accessible introduction to a term at the heart of today's critical idiom.

Subjectivity (Hardcover): Donald Hall Subjectivity (Hardcover)
Donald Hall
R2,798 Discovery Miles 27 980 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Explores the history of theories of selfhood, from the Classical era to the present, and demonstrates how those theories can be applied in literary and cultural criticism. Donald E. Hall:

* examines all of the major methodologies and theoretical emphases of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including psychoanalytic criticism, materialism, feminism and queer theory
* applies the theories discussed in detailed readings of literary and cultural texts, from novels and poetry to film and the visual arts
* offers a unique perspective on our current obsession with perfecting our selves
* looks to the future of selfhood given the new identity possibilities arising out of developing technologies.

Examining some of the most exciting issues confronting cultural critics and readers today, Subjectivity is the essential introduction to a fraught but crucial critical term and a challenge to the way we define our selves.

The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies - Volume 1: A Space of Bounded Variety (Paperback): Will Atkinson The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies - Volume 1: A Space of Bounded Variety (Paperback)
Will Atkinson
R1,348 Discovery Miles 13 480 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

This first volume of The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies offers a bold and wide-ranging assessment of the shape and effects of class systems across a diverse range of capitalist nations. Plumbing a trove of data and deploying cutting-edge techniques, it carefully maps the distribution of the key sources of power and documents the major convergences and divergences between market societies old and new. Establishing that the multidimensional vision of class proposed decades ago by Pierre Bourdieu appears to hold good throughout Europe, parts of the wider Western world and Eastern Asia, the book goes on to examine a number of significant themes: the relationship between class and occupation; the intersection of class with gender, religion, geography and age; the correspondences between social position and political attitudes; self-positioning in the class structure; and the extent of belief in meritocracy. For all the striking cross-national commonalities, however, the book unearths consistent variations seemingly linked to distinct politico-economic regimes. This title will appeal to scholars and advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in sociology, politics and demography, and is essential reading for all those interested in social class across the globe. Chapter 3 of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license

Employing Nietzsche's Sociological Imagination - How to Understand Totalitarian Democracy (Paperback): Jack Fong Employing Nietzsche's Sociological Imagination - How to Understand Totalitarian Democracy (Paperback)
Jack Fong
R1,045 Discovery Miles 10 450 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Harnessing the empowering ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche to read the human condition of modern existence through a sociological lens, Employing Nietzsche's Sociological Imagination: How to Understand Totalitarian Democracy confronts the realities of how modernity and its utopianisms affect one's ability to purpose existence with self-authored meaning. By critically assessing the ideals of modern institutions, the motives of their pundits, and their political ideologies as expressions born from the social decay of exhausted dreams and projects of modernity, Jack Fong assembles Nietzsche's existential sociological imagination to empower actors to emancipate the self from such duress. Illuminating the merits of creating new meaning for life affirmation by overcoming struggle with one's will to power, Fong reveals Nietzsche's horizons for actualized and empowered selves, selves to be liberated from convention, groupthink, and cultural scripts that exact deference from society's captive audiences.

Early Sociology of Management and Organizations (Hardcover): Kenneth Thompson Early Sociology of Management and Organizations (Hardcover)
Kenneth Thompson
R36,144 Discovery Miles 361 440 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The early development of the sociology of management and organizations has to be viewed in relation to the emergence, at the beginning of the twentieth century, of a 'Management Movement'. This movement took various forms. On the one hand, it entailed the formation of professional management associations in industrial societies, such as America and Britain, with the aim of promoting both knowledge of the principles of organization and the professional status of managers. On the other, it involved academic study of management and working conditions. This eight-volume set represents the main streams of thought that converged together in the first decades of the twentieth century to inform thinking about management.

The Body - Critical Concepts in Sociology (Hardcover): Andrew Blaikie The Body - Critical Concepts in Sociology (Hardcover)
Andrew Blaikie; Edited by Mike Hepworth, Mary Holmes, Alexandra Howson, David Inglis, …
R45,542 Discovery Miles 455 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days


This collection offers a uniquely comprehensive guide to the sociology of the body. With a strong historical scope and conceptual framework, it provides an indispensible reference for undergraduate and postgraduate students, and a robust source for scholars working in the area. The central focus is on understanding sociology through the body; what is often described as re-reading sociology in a 'more corporeal light'. This is an interdisciplinary process, drawing on history, feminism, cultural history, art history, anthropology, social psychology, philosophy, medical sociology and media and communications, as well as sociology. While this has been primarily a Western practice, The Body seeks to broaden the perspective to include references that draw on alternative cultural assumptions, beliefs and practices (including Japan, and South America.)

Sociology On Culture (Hardcover, Textbook): Marshall Battani, John R. Hall, Mary Jo Neitz Sociology On Culture (Hardcover, Textbook)
Marshall Battani, John R. Hall, Mary Jo Neitz
R5,841 Discovery Miles 58 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days


Contents:
1. Introduction Part I: Culture and Society 2. Culture, Self and Society 3. Preindustrial Sources of Contemporary Culture 4. Social Stratification and Culture Part II: Toward a Sociology of Cultural Power, Production and Social Life 5. Power, Culture and Cultural Power 6. The Production of Culture 7. Cultural Objects, Audiences and Users and Meaning Part III: Culture in a Changing World 8. Industrialism and Mass Culture 9. Deconstructing Folk Culture 10. Deconstructing Postmodernity 11. Culture, Action and Change

City and Modernity in Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin - Fragments of Metropolis (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Vincenzo Mele City and Modernity in Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin - Fragments of Metropolis (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Vincenzo Mele
R3,405 Discovery Miles 34 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book reconstructs and compares the social theories of modernity of Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin, two classic thinkers in German social thought. The author focuses on five main topics: the historical-sociological method through which they investigate modernity; how are the concepts of history and society possible; the consequences of modern metropolis on the construction of individual subjectivity; the aestheticization of everyday life caused by the expansion of commodity culture; and the female culture as a counter-power to the domination of masculine objective culture. In the decades since Simmel and Benjamin, urban reality has undergone profound changes and we may even question the very existence of the subject of analysis: what is the city, the metropolis in today's context of globalization and capital flows? Simmel's and Benjamin's metropolis has thus become an "endless city," beyond the physical and geographical confines of urban reality.

Essays on Hayek (Hardcover, New edition): Fritz Machlup Essays on Hayek (Hardcover, New edition)
Fritz Machlup
R6,728 Discovery Miles 67 280 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Varying according to the scope of Hayek's contributions, the papers in this volume include among others: * An affirmation of the "relevance" of Hayek's work * A survey of his contribution to knowledge * An appraisal of Hayek's innovative work on the methodology of the social sciences * A discussion of Hayek's achievements as scholar and mentor The contributors are: Fritz Machlup, Geroge Roche, Arthur Shenfield, Max Hartwell, William Buckley, Gottfried Dietze, Shirley Letwin.

Economics and Sociology - A Plea for Co-Operation in the Social Sciences (Hardcover): Adolf Loewe Economics and Sociology - A Plea for Co-Operation in the Social Sciences (Hardcover)
Adolf Loewe
R7,621 Discovery Miles 76 210 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Arguing that the disciplines of economics and sociology are inter-related and vitally important to each other, this work discusses major issues such as the effects of urbanization, population growth, and the growth of various forms of nationalism from both economic and socio-political viewpoints. In addition the significance and limits of pure economics are examined, as are the sociological factors in modern economic theory, as well as power and economic law.

The Early Sociology of Culture (Hardcover): Kenneth Thompson The Early Sociology of Culture (Hardcover)
Kenneth Thompson
R43,650 Discovery Miles 436 500 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The study of sociology regularly involves a re-reading of the classics of the discipline, and this collection makes available some of the most important early texts for re-evaluation. The early twentieth century was a crucial period of development for the emerging discipline of sociology. The primary focus during this period was on various aspects of culture. Each of the volumes collected here contributes to our understanding of the importance of culture, through an examination of empirical data and issues including population movement, the colonial 'other', immigration, social problems of the inner city, the evolution of morals and the need to understand different subcultures. The work also illustrates different national, theoretical and political standpoints from which to view these concerns. Complete with a new introduction by the editor, this collection will provide an invaluable resource for students and researchers, addressing major themes which are of perennial importance to the field.

C.L.R. James and the Study of Culture (Hardcover): A. Smith C.L.R. James and the Study of Culture (Hardcover)
A. Smith
R1,504 Discovery Miles 15 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book provides the first dedicated introduction to the cultural writings and analyses of the radical West Indian thinker C.L.R. James. It lays out James' account of the way in which games, books, music and film become a part of the politics and history of popular struggles.

Ernest Gellner, Selected Philosophical Themes (Hardcover): Ernest Gellner Ernest Gellner, Selected Philosophical Themes (Hardcover)
Ernest Gellner
R11,307 Discovery Miles 113 070 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Ernest Gellner made major contributions in very diverse fields, notably philosophy and social anthropology. His attacks on the orthodoxies of his time made it difficult for him to be fully accepted into either of these academic communities, but that suited him well enough: he seemed to enjoy leading a one-man crusade for critical rationalism, defending enlightenment universalism against the rising tides of idealism and relativism. His influence spread far beyond social anthropology: the fierce tone of the polemics of the 1950s against Oxford philosophers was repeated during the 1990s in tangles in the TLS with the literary critic Edward Said. For Gellner the issues were essentially the same: the vital need to refute the claim that ideas lead the world.

Cause and Meaning in the Social Sciences - Cause and Meaning in the Social Sciences (Hardcover, New edition): Ernest Gellner Cause and Meaning in the Social Sciences - Cause and Meaning in the Social Sciences (Hardcover, New edition)
Ernest Gellner
R7,633 Discovery Miles 76 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days


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Critical Realism and Composition Theory (Hardcover): Donald Judd Critical Realism and Composition Theory (Hardcover)
Donald Judd
R4,472 Discovery Miles 44 720 Ships in 12 - 19 working days


The field of composition theory has emerged as part of the intellectual turmoil and set of pedagogical debates which have beset higher education for the last four decades and is now revolutionizing the theory and praxis of higher education.
This volume examines three of the dominant pedagogical theories within composition theory: expressivist, cognitivist, and social-constructivist and builds its critique on the fact that much of modern composition theory has focused on epistemological concerns while neglecting the ontological foundations of that which is being discussed.
Critical Realism and Composition Theory offers an alternative approach to teaching composition. This problem-oriented alternative is designed to lead students beyond the abstract, contemplative description of a problem to an expanded understanding that shows that concerns for justice cannot be addressed intellectually without at the same time confronting the practical constraints that limiting powers of social institutions play in both defining a problem and its social solution.

The Gift of European Thought and the Cost of Living (Hardcover, New): Vassos Argyrou The Gift of European Thought and the Cost of Living (Hardcover, New)
Vassos Argyrou
R3,009 Discovery Miles 30 090 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

European thought is often said to be a gift to the rest of the world, but what if there is no gift as such? What if there is only an economy where every giving is also a taking, and every taking is also a giving? This book extends the question of economies by making a case for an 'economy of thought' and a 'political economy.' It argues that all thinking and doing presupposes taking, and therefore giving, as the price to pay for taking; or that there exists a 'cost of living, ' which renders the idea of free thinking and living untenable. The argument is developed against the Enlightenment directive to think for oneself as the means of becoming autonomous and shows that this 'light, ' given to the rest of the world as a gift, turns out to be nothin

Talking to Strangers - What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know (Paperback): Malcolm Gladwell Talking to Strangers - What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know (Paperback)
Malcolm Gladwell
R554 R510 Discovery Miles 5 100 Save R44 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Max Weber (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Frank Parkin Max Weber (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Frank Parkin
R4,465 Discovery Miles 44 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days


This study of Weber's sociology, written by an eminent authority, is a clear and illuminating discussion of the most important elements of Weber's thinking. The book concentrates on four main elements of Weber's work: his approach to sociological method, ethical neutrality and historical explanation; his influential work on religion and capitalism; his theory of authority and political power; and his contribution to the analysis of class, status and party.

Fairies, Ghosts, and Santa Claus - Tinted Glasses, Fetishes, and the Politics of Seeing (Hardcover): Neriko Musha Doerr Fairies, Ghosts, and Santa Claus - Tinted Glasses, Fetishes, and the Politics of Seeing (Hardcover)
Neriko Musha Doerr
R3,013 Discovery Miles 30 130 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Investigating the politics of seeing and its effects, this book draws on Slavoj Zizek's notion of fetish and Walter Benjamin's notion of the optical unconscious to offer newer concepts: "tinted glasses", through which we see the world; "unit-thinking", which renders the world as consisting of discrete units; and "coherants", which help fragmented experiences cohere into something intelligible. Examining experiences at a Japanese heritage language school, a study-abroad trip to Sierra Leone, as well as in college classrooms, this book reveals the workings of unit-thinking and fetishism in diverse contexts and explores possibilities for social change.

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