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Zygmunt Bauman is one of the most inspirational and controversial
thinkers on the scene of contemporary sociology. For several
decades he has provided compelling analyses and diagnoses of a vast
variety of aspects of modern and liquid modern living. This book
considers the theoretical significance of his contribution to
sociology, but also discusses and adopts a critical stance towards
his work. The Sociology of Zygmunt Bauman introduces and critically
appraises some of the most significant as well as some of the
lesser known of Bauman's contributions to contemporary sociology.
An international team of scholars delineates and discusses how
Bauman's treatment of these themes challenges conventional wisdom
in sociology, thereby revising and revitalizing sociological
theory. As a special feature, the book concludes with Bauman's
intriguing reflections and contemplations on his own life and
intellectual trajectory, published here for the first time in
English. In this postscript aptly entitled 'Pro Domo Sua' ('About
Myself'), he describes the pushes and pulls that throughout the
years have shaped his thinking.
This book outlines the history and developments of interactionist
social thought through a consideration of its key figures. Arranged
chronologically, each chapter illustrates the impact that
individual sociologists working within an interactionism framework
have had on interactionism as perspective and on the discipline of
sociology as such. It presents analyses of interactionist theorists
from Georg Simmel through to Herbert Bulmer and Erving Goffman and
onto the more recent contributions of Arlie R. Hochschild and Gary
Alan Fine. Through an engagement with the latest scholarship this
work shows that in a discipline often focused on macrosocial
developments and large-scale structures, the interactionist
perspective which privileges the study of human interaction has
continued relevance. The broad scope of this book will make it an
invaluable resource for scholars and students of sociology, social
theory, cultural studies, media studies, social psychology,
criminology and anthropology.
This volume explores the nature of nostalgia as an important
emotion in contemporary society and social theory. Situated between
the 'sociology of emotions' and 'nostalgia studies', it considers
the reasons for which nostalgia appears to be becoming an
increasingly significant and debated emotion in late-modern
culture. With chapters offering studies of nostalgia at micro-,
meso- and macro-levels of society, it offers insights into the rise
to prominence of nostalgia and the attendant consequences.
Thematically organised and examining the role of nostalgia on an
individual level - in the lives of concrete individuals - as well
as analysing its function on a more historical social level as a
collective and culturally shared emotion, Nostalgia Now brings
together the latest empirical and theoretical work on an important
contemporary emotion and proposes new agendas for research. As
such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology, social theory,
psychology and cultural studies with interests in the emotions.
This volume presents a broad range of studies on a variety of
emotions from social scientific perspectives. Bringing together
scholars from disciplines including sociology, psychology,
anthropology and philosophy, it examines emotions including desire,
empathy, freedom, happiness, hate, disgust, humiliation, guilt,
unemotionality and despair, exploring the main facets of these
emotions and considering the ways in which they are manifested and
folded into our cultural and social lives. It will therefore appeal
to scholars across the social sciences with interests in emotion,
affect and contemporary culture.
Everyday life is something we tend to take for granted, something
that just is, something unnoticed. But everyday life is perhaps the
most important dimension of society - it's where we live most parts
of our lives with each other. This book provides a clear,
contemporary and comprehensive overview of the sociologies of
everyday life. Looking at everyday activities and experiences, from
language and emotions to popular culture and leisure, Encountering
the Everyday explores what social structures, orders and processes
mean to us on a daily basis. The book carefully leads the reader
through historical developments in the field, beginning at the
earlier Chicago school and finishing with up-to-date ideas of
postmodernism and interactionism. Each chapter relates theoretical
ideas directly to case studies and real empirical research to make
complex concepts and core issues accessible, relevant and engaging.
Written by leading international scholars in the field, this truly
global book will inspire and inform all students and scholars of
everyday life sociology.
This volume describes and analyses a series of emotions prevalent
in everyday life and culture, with each chapter exploring the main
facets of a particular emotion and considering the ways in which it
manifests itself in and informs our culture and lives. Considering
our expression, conception, management and sanctioning of emotions,
and the ways in which these have changed over time, as well as the
ways in which we can theorise particular emotional states, authors
ask how certain emotions are linked to culture and society and what
roles they play in politics and contemporary life. With examples
and case studies taken from research into media, culture and social
life, Emotions in Culture and Everyday Life will appeal to scholars
of sociology, anthropology, psychology, media and cultural studies
and philosophy with interests in the emotions.
One of the longest standing traditions in sociology, interactionism
is concerned with studying human interaction and showing how
society to a large part is constituted by patterns of interaction.
In spite of the work of figures such as Robert E. Park, Everett C.
Hughes, Erving Goffman, Herbert Blumer, Norman K. Denzin and Gary
Alan Fine, interactionism - perhaps owing to its association with
the perspective of symbolic interactionism - remains something of
an odd man out in mainstream sociology. This book seeks to rectify
this apparent neglect by bringing together critical social theories
and microsociological approaches to research, thus revealing the
critical and cultural potentials in interactionism - the chapters
arguing that far from being oriented towards the status quo,
interactionism in fact contains a critical and cultural edge.
Presenting the latest work from some of the leading figures in
interactionist thought to show recent developments in the field and
offer an overview of some of the most potent and prominent ideas
within critical and cultural criminology, Critical and Cultural
Interactionism will appeal to scholars of sociology with interests
in interactionism, social theory research methods and criminology.
Monsters, Law, Crime, an edited collection composed of essays
written by prominent U.S. and international experts in Law,
Criminology, Sociology, Anthropology, Communication and Film,
constitutes a rigorous attempt to explore fertile interdisciplinary
inquiries into "monsters" and "monster-talk," and law and crime.
"Monsters" may refer to allegorical or symbolic fantastic beings
(as in literature, film, legends, myths, etc.), or actual or real
life monsters, as well as the interplay/ambiguity between the two
general types of "monsters." This edited collection thus explores
and updates contemporary discussions of the emergent and evolving
fronts of monster theory in relation to cutting-edge research on
law and crime, and may be seen as extensions of a Gothic
Criminology, generally construed. Gothic Criminology refers to a
theoretical framework initially developed by Caroline Joan "Kay" S.
Picart, a Philosophy and Film professor turned Attorney and Law
professor, and Cecil Greek, a Sociologist (Picart and Greek 2008).
Succinctly paraphrased, noting the proliferation of Gothic modes of
narration and visualization in American popular culture, academia
and even public policy, Picart and Greek proposed a framework,
which they described as a "Gothic Criminology" to attempt to
analyze the fertile lacunae connecting the "real" and the "reel" in
the flow of Gothic metaphors and narratives that abound around
criminological phenomena that populate not only popular culture but
also academic and public policy discourses.
This book explores the fertility and enigma of Erving Goffman's
sociological reasoning and its capacity to shed fresh light on the
fundamental features of human sociality. Thematically arranged, it
brings together the work of leading scholars of Goffman's work to
explore the concepts and themes that define Goffman's analytical
preoccupations, examining the ways these ideas have shaped
significant fields of study and situating Goffman's sociology in
comparison to some eminent thinkers often linked with his name.
Through a series of chapters informed by the same inventive and
imaginative spirit characteristic of Goffman's sociology, the book
presents fresh perspectives on his contribution to the field and
reveals the value of his thought for a variety of disciplines now
increasingly aware of the importance of Goffman's sociology to a
range of social phenomena. A fresh perspective on the legacy of one
of sociology's most important figures, The Routledge International
Handbook of Goffman Studies will appeal to scholars across the
social sciences with interests in interactionist and
micro-sociological perspectives.
As modern society's routine sequestration of death and grief is
increasingly replaced by late-modern society's growing concern with
existential issues and emotionality, this book explores grief as a
social emotion, bringing together contributions from scholars
across the social sciences and humanities to examine its social and
cultural aspects. Thematically organised in order to consider the
historical changes in our understanding of grief, literary
treatments of grief, contemporary forms of grief and grief as a
perspective from which to engage in critique of society, it
provides insights into the sociality of grief and will appeal to
scholars of sociology, social theory and cultural studies with
interests in the emotions and social pathologies.
In spite of the fact that crime is an emotive topic, the question
of emotion has been largely overlooked in criminological research,
which has tended instead to examine criminal conduct in terms of
structural background variables or rational decision-making.
Building on research into emotions within sociology, this book
seeks to show how criminologists can in fact take emotions
seriously and why criminology needs to begin considering emotions
as a central element of its theoretical, conceptual and
methodological apparatus. Thematically organised and presenting
both empirical and theoretical studies, Emotions and Crime pays
attention to the different emotional dimensions of crime,
victimhood, the criminal justice system, the practice of
criminological research and the discipline of criminology. Bringing
together the work of an international team of authors and
discussing research into violence, punishment, gender, imprisonment
and mass atrocity, this volume shows how crime and emotions are
inextricably connected, and illustrates both the hidden and
pervasive role of emotions in criminological work.
This book explores death in contemporary society - or more
precisely, in the 'spectacular age' - by moving beyond classic
studies of death that emphasised the importance of the death taboo
and death denial to examine how we now 'do' death. Unfolding the
notion of 'spectacular death' as characteristic of our modern
approach to death and dying, it considers the new mediation or
mediatisation of death and dying; the commercialisation of death as
a 'marketable commodity' used to sell products, advance artistic
expression or provoke curiosity; the re-ritualisation of death and
the growth of new ways of finding meaning through commemorating the
dead; the revolution of palliative care; and the specialisation
surrounding death, particularly in relation to scholarship.
Presenting a range of case studies that shed light on this new
understanding of death in contemporary culture, The Age of
Spectacular Death will appeal to scholars of sociology, cultural
and media studies, psychology and anthropology with interests in
death and dying.
This book explores death in contemporary society - or more
precisely, in the 'spectacular age' - by moving beyond classic
studies of death that emphasised the importance of the death taboo
and death denial to examine how we now 'do' death. Unfolding the
notion of 'spectacular death' as characteristic of our modern
approach to death and dying, it considers the new mediation or
mediatisation of death and dying; the commercialisation of death as
a 'marketable commodity' used to sell products, advance artistic
expression or provoke curiosity; the re-ritualisation of death and
the growth of new ways of finding meaning through commemorating the
dead; the revolution of palliative care; and the specialisation
surrounding death, particularly in relation to scholarship.
Presenting a range of case studies that shed light on this new
understanding of death in contemporary culture, The Age of
Spectacular Death will appeal to scholars of sociology, cultural
and media studies, psychology and anthropology with interests in
death and dying.
The Poetics of Crime provides an invitation to reconsider and
reimagine how criminological knowledge may be creatively and
poetically constructed, obtained, corroborated and applied.
Departing from the conventional understanding of criminology as a
discipline concerned with refined statistical analyses, survey
methods and quantitative measurements, this book shows that
criminology can - and indeed should - move beyond such confines to
seek sources of insight, information and knowledge in the
unexplored corners of poetically and creatively inspired approaches
and methodologies. With chapters illustrating the ways in which
criminologists and other researchers or practitioners working on
crime-related questions can find inspiration in a variety of
unconventional materials, writing styles and analytical strategies,
The Poetics of Crime offers studies of police photography, classic
and contemporary literature, silver screen movies, performative
dance enactments and media images. As such, this volume opens up
the field of criminological research to alternative and novel
sources of knowledge about crime, its perpetrators and victims,
authorities, motives and justice. It will therefore appeal not only
to sociologists, social theorists and criminologists, but to
scholars across disciplines with interests in crime, deviance and
innovative approaches to social research.
This volume explores the emotions that are intricately woven into
the texture of everyday life and experience. A contribution to the
literature on the sociology of emotions, it focuses on the role of
emotions as being integral to daily life, broadening our
understanding by examining both 'core' emotions and those that are
often overlooked or omitted from more conventional studies.
Bringing together theoretical and empirical studies from scholars
across a range of subjects, including sociology, psychology,
cultural studies, history, politics and cognitive science, this
international collection centres on the 'everyday-ness' of
emotional experience.
As modern society's routine sequestration of death and grief is
increasingly replaced by late-modern society's growing concern with
existential issues and emotionality, this book explores grief as a
social emotion, bringing together contributions from scholars
across the social sciences and humanities to examine its social and
cultural aspects. Thematically organised in order to consider the
historical changes in our understanding of grief, literary
treatments of grief, contemporary forms of grief and grief as a
perspective from which to engage in critique of society, it
provides insights into the sociality of grief and will appeal to
scholars of sociology, social theory and cultural studies with
interests in the emotions and social pathologies.
This cutting-edge edited collection brings together 17 scholarly
essays on two of cinema and television's most enduring and powerful
themes: law and crime. With contributions by many of the most
prominent scholars in law, sociology, criminology, and film,
Framing Law and Crime offers a critical survey of a variety of
genres and media, integrating descriptions of technique with
critical analysis, and incorporating historical and socio-political
critique. The first set of essays brings together accounts of the
history of the Law and Cinema Movement; the groundbreaking genre of
"post-apocalyptic fiction;" and the policy-setting genesis of a
Canadian documentary. The second section of the book turns to the
examination of a range of international or global films, with an
eye to assessing the strengths, frailties, and possible functions
of law, as depicted in fictional cinema. After an international
focus in the second section, the third section focuses on law and
crime in American film and television, inclusive of both fictional
and documentary modes of narration. This section's expansion beyond
film narratives to include television series attempts to broaden
the scope of the edited collection, in terms of media discussed; it
is also a nod to how the big screen, although still a dominant
force in American popular culture, now has to compete, to some
extent, with the small screen, for influence over the collective
American popular cultural imaginary. The fourth section, titled
brings together various chapters that attempt to instantiate how a
"Gothic Criminology" could be useful, as an interpretative
framework in analyzing depictions of law and crime in film and
television. The fifth and final section covers issues of pedagogy,
epistemology, and ethics in relation to moving images of law and
crime. Merging wide-ranging analyses with nuanced scholarly
interpretations, Framing Law and Crime examines key concepts and
showcases original research reflecting the latest interdisciplinary
trends in the scholarship of the moving image. It addresses, not
only scholars, but also fans, and will heighten the appreciation of
connoisseurs and newcomers to these topics alike.
As nations reel from the effects of poverty, inequality, climate
change and the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, it feels as
though the world has entered a period characterized by pessimism,
cynicism and anxiety. This edited collection challenges
individualized understandings of emotion, revealing how they relate
to cultural, economic and political realities in difficult times.
Combining numerous empirical studies and theoretical developments
from around the world, the diverse contributors explore how
dystopian visions of the future influence, and are influenced by,
the emotions of an anxious and precarious present. This is an
original investigation into the changing landscape of emotion in
dark and uncertain times.
Throughout history mankind has struggled to reconcile itself with
the inescapability of its own mortality. This book explores the
themes of immortality and survivalism in contemporary culture,
shedding light on the varied and ingenious ways in which humans and
human societies aspire to confront and deal with death, or even
seek to outlive it, as it were. Bringing together theoretical and
empirical work from internationally acclaimed scholars across a
range of disciplines, Postmortal Society offers studies of the
strategies adopted and means available in modern society for trying
to 'cheat' death or prolong life, the status of the dead in the
modern Western world, the effects of beliefs that address the
terror of death in other areas of life, the 'immortalisation' of
celebrities, the veneration of the dead in virtual worlds, symbolic
immortality through work, the implications of understanding
'immortality' in chemical-neuronal terms, and the apparent paradox
of our greater reverence for the dead in increasingly secular,
capitalist societies. A fascinating collection of studies that
explore humanity's attempts to deal with its own mortality in the
modern age, this book will appeal to sociologists, anthropologists,
philosophers and scholars of cultural studies with interests in
death and dying.
Imaginative Methodologies in the Social Sciences develops, expands
and challenges conventional social scientific methodology and
language by way of literary, poetic and other alternative sources
of inspiration, as sociologists, social workers, anthropologists,
criminologists and psychologists all rethink, provoke and reignite
social scientific methodology. Challenging the mainstream orthodoxy
of social scientific methodology, which closely guards the
boundaries between the social sciences and the arts and humanities,
this volume reveals that authors and artists are often engaged in
projects parallel to those of the social sciences and vice versa,
thus demonstrating that artistic and cultural production does not
necessarily constitute a specialist field, but is in fact integral
to social reality. As such, it will be of interest to scholars and
students in the social sciences and across the arts and humanities
working on the philosophy of social science, methodology, social
theory, creativity, poetics, pedagogy and other related topics.
In the light of globalization's failure provide the universal
panacea expected by some of its more enthusiastic proponents, and
the current status of neo-liberalism in Europe, a search has begun
for alternative visions of the future; alternatives to the free
market and to rampant capitalism. Indeed, although these
alternatives may not be conceived of in terms of being a 'perfect
order', there does appear to be a trend towards 'utopian thinking',
as people - including scholars and intellectuals - search for
inspiration and visions of better futures. If, as this search
continues, it transpires that politics has little to offer, then
what might social theory have to contribute to the imagination of
these futures? Does social theory matter at all? What resources can
it offer this project of rethinking the future? Without being tied
to any single political platform, Utopia: Social Theory and the
Future explores some of these questions, offering a timely and
sustained attempt to make social theory relevant through
explorations of its resources and possibilities for utopian
imaginations. It is often claimed that utopian thought has no
legitimate place whatsoever in sociological thinking, yet
utopianism has remained part and parcel of social theory for
centuries. As such, in addition to considering the role of social
theory in the imagination of alternative futures, this volume
reflects on how social theory may assist us in understanding and
appreciating utopia or utopianism as a special topic of interest, a
special subject matter, a special analytical focus or a special
normative dimension of sociological thinking. Bringing together the
latest work from a leading team of social theorists, this volume
will be of interest to sociologists, social and political
theorists, anthropologists and philosophers.
This book explores the ways in which criminological methods can be
imaginatively deployed and developed in a world increasingly
characterized by the blurred nature of social reality. Whilst
recognizing the importance of positivist approaches and research
techniques, it advocates a commitment to understanding the ways in
which those techniques can be used imaginatively, at times in
combination with less conventional methods, discussing the
questions concerning risk, ethics and access that arise as a
result. Giving voice to cutting edge research practices both in
terms of concepts and methods that shift the criminological focus
towards the kind of imaginative work that comprised the foundations
of the discipline, it calls into question the utility and
credentials of mainstream work that fails to serve the discipline
itself or the policy questions allied to it. A call not to 'give up
on numbers' but also not to be defined by statistics and the
methods that produce them, Liquid Criminology sheds light on a way
of doing research for criminology that is not only creative but
also critical. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology,
criminology and social policy with interests in research methods
and design.
This cutting-edge edited collection brings together 17 scholarly
essays on two of cinema and television's most enduring and powerful
themes: law and crime. With contributions by many of the most
prominent scholars in law, sociology, criminology, and film,
Framing Law and Crime offers a critical survey of a variety of
genres and media, integrating descriptions of technique with
critical analysis, and incorporating historical and socio-political
critique. The first set of essays brings together accounts of the
history of the Law and Cinema Movement; the groundbreaking genre of
"post-apocalyptic fiction;" and the policy-setting genesis of a
Canadian documentary. The second section of the book turns to the
examination of a range of international or global films, with an
eye to assessing the strengths, frailties, and possible functions
of law, as depicted in fictional cinema. After an international
focus in the second section, the third section focuses on law and
crime in American film and television, inclusive of both fictional
and documentary modes of narration. This section's expansion beyond
film narratives to include television series attempts to broaden
the scope of the edited collection, in terms of media discussed; it
is also a nod to how the big screen, although still a dominant
force in American popular culture, now has to compete, to some
extent, with the small screen, for influence over the collective
American popular cultural imaginary. The fourth section, titled
brings together various chapters that attempt to instantiate how a
"Gothic Criminology" could be useful, as an interpretative
framework in analyzing depictions of law and crime in film and
television. The fifth and final section covers issues of pedagogy,
epistemology, and ethics in relation to moving images of law and
crime. Merging wide-ranging analyses with nuanced scholarly
interpretations, Framing Law and Crime examines key concepts and
showcases original research reflecting the latest interdisciplinary
trends in the scholarship of the moving image. It addresses, not
only scholars, but also fans, and will heighten the appreciation of
connoisseurs and newcomers to these topics alike.
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