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This book, updated throughout and with new sections on visual culture, urban culture and subcultures, argues that to understand the concept we need to locate it within traditions of thought and appreciate its political and ideological bases.
Drawing on resources in classical and contemporary social theory, and working through case studies of Britain, the United States and Japan, Woodiwiss provides a general sociological account of the development of human rights.
In this fast moving study, Chris Jenks presents a sweeping overview of the history of ideas, the major theorists and the significant moments in the formation of the idea of transgression.
This work attempts to take into account the whole "system" of information and entertainment and to define, on the basis of theory and a number of case studies, the conditions and prerequisites for a cross-media enquiry on the media and their different uses in societies.
This book provides an overview of the key issues arising from this demographic change, asking questions such as: * What if any, are the universal characteristics of the ageing experience? * What different ways is it possible to grow old?
With the increasing number of moral panics in recent years triggered by incidents such as the Bulger case and the spread of AIDS, this book examines their wider significance particularly in terms of the functioning of the mass media.
This introductory text argues that class remains a key concept in sociology. Edgell examines the work of Marx, Weber, Wright and Goldthorpe - and discusses class structures, social mobility, inequality and politics.
This book presents a clear and comprehensive overview of citizenship, exploring its historical and conceptual origins, its contemporary dilemmas and its emancipatory potential for the future.
This fully updated new edition of the hugely popular Racism provides a thought-provoking account of the history and debate about the concept, combining both historical and theoretical analysis.
Best-selling author David Bohm suggests that collective thought and knowledge have become so automated that we are in large part controlled by them, with a subsequent loss of authenticity, freedom and order.
This volume presents a critical overview of major sociological approaches to the process of consumption, in both modern and postmodern societies. It develops an analysis of consumption as a socio-cultural process, and of the ideology of consumerism.
Anthony Cohen explores the concept of community in social theory.
In this extensively revised and restructured new edition of 'Globalization', Malcolm Waters provides a user-friendly introduction to the main arguments about the globalisation process.
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