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  • - Cultural Codes and Symbolic Performance
    av Carlo Tognato
    732,-

    By engaging in an ethnography of the social text of German, European and USA monetary affairs, this book introduces a new analytical framework that will enable practitioners and academics, particularly within sociology, economics, political economy, and political science, to gain a clear understanding of the role of culture in central banking.

  • - Cultural Investigation in the Social Sciences
    av Philip Smith & Jeffrey C. Alexander
    732,-

    Theorist Clifford Geertz's influence extends far beyond Anthropology. This volume reflects the breadth of his influence, looking at Geertz as a theorist rather than as an anthropologist. To date there has been no impartial, comprehensive, and authoritative work published on this critical figure.

  • - From MLK and RFK to Fortuyn and van Gogh
    av Ron Eyerman
    732,-

    Developing the theory of cultural trauma in regard to the shattering potential effects of political assassinations, Eyerman examines political and social life in three different national contexts: Martin Luther King, Bobby Kennedy, and Harvey Milk in the U.S.; Theo Van Gogh in the Netherlands; and Olof Palme and Anna Lindh in Sweden

  • - Discourse and Ritual during the Land War, 1879-1882
    av Anne Kane
    732,-

    Author Anne Kane analyzes the intertwined cultural, political and social transformations that occur during historical events by focusing specifically on the case of the Irish Land War, a pivotal event in the formation of the modern Irish nation.

  • - The Long Road to Apology
    av Eric Taylor Woods
    1 252,-

    This book focuses on the recurring struggle over the meaning of the Anglican Church's role in the Indian residential schools--a long-running school system designed to assimilate Indigenous children into Euro-Canadian culture, in which sexual, psychological, and physical abuse were common.

  • - The Great Urban Escape
    av Nicholas Osbaldiston
    601 - 732,-

    In recent times, there has been a substantial push by people to escape the metropolis for lifestyles in small coastal, country, or mountainside locales. This book explores the narratives emerging from amenity-left migration using methods developed within the 'strong' cultural sociology.

  • - Materiality and Meaning in Social Life
     
    509,-

    A collection of original articles that explore social aspects of the phenomenon of icon. Having experienced the benefits and realized the limitations of so called 'linguistic turn', sociology has recently acknowledged a need to further expand its horizons.

  • - Decoding Facts and Variables
    av Richard Biernacki
    732,-

    Revisiting the dominant scientific method, 'coding,' with which investigators from sociology to literary criticism have sampled texts and catalogued their cultural messages, the author demonstrates that the celebrated hard outputs rest on misleading samples and on unfeasible classifying of the texts' meanings.

  • - Webs of Significance
    av Tom Inglis
    601 - 732,-

    The struggle to create and sustain meaning in our everyday lives is fought using cultural ingredients to spin the webs of meaning that keep us going.

  • - The Power of Myth, Ritual, and Emotion in the New Media Ecology
    av S. Baker
    732 - 773,-

    A social tragedy is a collective representation of injustice. Baker demonstrates how social tragedies facilitate moral action and discusses a series of contemporary case studies - the death of Princess Diana, Zinedine Zidane's 2006 World Cup scandal, KONY 2012 - to examine their social and political effects.

  • av Frederick F. Wherry
    253 - 704,-

    * Develops an exciting new cultural approach to the study of markets that helps to explain some of the puzzles and oddities in the way markets work. * Reveals the important and implicit role that cultural dynamics play in the way markets are organized and the way people operate within them.

  • av Erik Hannerz
    583 - 732,-

    Performing Punk is a rich exploration of subcultural contrasts and similarities among punks. By investigating how punk is made, for whom, and in opposition to what, this book takes the reader on a journey through the lesser-known aspects of the punk subculture.

  • - Patterns in the Social Construction of Reality
    av Wayne H. Brekhus
    253 - 704,-

  • - Moral Emotions in Social Movements
    av Benjamin Lamb-Books
    1 355 - 1 360,-

    This book is an original application of rhetoric and moral-emotions theory to the sociology of social movements.

  • - Materiality, Social Structures, and Action
    av Martina Löw
    658 - 1 738,-

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