Essays on the Sociology of Perception

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134557434
Total Pages : 349 pages
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Book Synopsis Essays on the Sociology of Perception by : Mary Douglas

Download or read book Essays on the Sociology of Perception written by Mary Douglas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-16 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1982, this is one of Mary Douglas' favourite books. It is based on her meetings with friends in which they attempt to apply the grip/group analysis from Natural Symbols. The essays have been important texts for preparing grid/group exercises ever since. She is still trying to improve the argument of Natural Symbols and is always hoping to find better applications to illustrate the power of the two dimensions used for accurate comparison.

From Max Weber

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415482690
Total Pages : 517 pages
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Download or read book From Max Weber written by Max Weber and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Max Weber (1864-1920) was one of the most prolific and influential sociologists of the twentieth century. This classic collection draws together his key papers. This edition contains a new preface by Professor Bryan S. Turner.

From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology

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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
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Download or read book From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology written by Max Weber and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1928 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing the student to the work of a great sociologist, this book opens with a comprehensive biographical essay on Weber's life and work and includes his essays on science and politics, power, religion, and social structures.

Sociological Writings

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Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
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Book Synopsis Sociological Writings by : Max Weber

Download or read book Sociological Writings written by Max Weber and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1994 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a compact collection of Weber's most trenchant sociological writings.

From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134689012
Total Pages : 512 pages
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Book Synopsis From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology by : H.H. Gerth

Download or read book From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology written by H.H. Gerth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Essays in Medical Sociology

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Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781412822770
Total Pages : 742 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (227 download)

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Book Synopsis Essays in Medical Sociology by : Renée Claire Fox

Download or read book Essays in Medical Sociology written by Renée Claire Fox and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This outstanding collection of essays by Renee C. Fox encompasses almost thirty years of original, pioneering research in the sociology of medicine. Based on fieldwork in a variety of medical settings in the United States, Belgium, and Zaire, these ethnographic essays examine chronic and terminal illness, medical research, therapeutic innovation, medical education and socialization, and bio-ethics. Within this framework, three empirical "cases" have been singled out for special scrutiny--the process of becoming a physician, the development of the artificial kidney machine and organ transplantation, and the evolution of medical research in Belgium. Without ignoring social structural or psychodynamic factors, Dr. Fox has explored basic cultural phenomena and questions associated with health, illness, and medicine: values, beliefs, symbols, rites, and the nuances of language: ethical and existential dilemmas and dualities; and the complex interrelationships between medicine, science, religion, and magic. She draws systematically and imaginatively upon anthropological, psychological, historical, and biological insights and integrates observations and analyses from her own studies in American, Western European, and Central African societies. This second, augmented edition includes Professor Fox's more recent contributions to the expanding field of the sociology of medicine. They are "The Evolution of Medical Uncertainty; The Human Condition of Health Professionals; Reflections on the Utah Artificial Heart Program; Is Religion Important in Belgium?; Medical Morality is Not Bioethics"--"Medical Ethics in China and the United States; "and "Medicine, Science and Technology. "The work also includes a new introduction, "Endings, Beginnings and Continuities." Now, anthropologists, sociologists, medical educators, scientists, researchers, and students can join her on her "journeys into the field" and share with her the priceless insights to be gained from the physicians, nurses, medical students, patients, and their families, who are working, living, and dying on the edge of what is known, scrutable, and remediable--on the edge of medical science.

Power, Trust, and Meaning

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226195568
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (955 download)

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Book Synopsis Power, Trust, and Meaning by : S. N. Eisenstadt

Download or read book Power, Trust, and Meaning written by S. N. Eisenstadt and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1995-06-15 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: S. N. Eisenstadt is well known for his wide-ranging investigations of modernization, social stratification, revolution, comparative civilization, and political development. This collection of twelve major theoretical essays spans more than forty years of research, to explore systematically the bases of human action and society. Framed by a new introduction and an extensive epilogue, which are themselves important statements about processes of institutional formations and cultural creativity, the essays trace the major developments of contemporary sociological theory and analysis. Examining themes of trust and solidarity among immigrants, youth groups, and generations, and in friendships, kinships, and patron-client relationships, Eisenstadt explores larger questions of social structure and agency, conflict and change, and the reconstitution of the social order. He looks also at political and religious systems, paying particular attention to great historical empires and the major civilizations. United by what they reveal about three major dimensions of social life—power, trust, and meaning—these essays offer a vision of culture as both a preserving and a transforming aspect of social life, thus providing a new perspective on the relations between culture and social structure.

Body Matters

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135427291
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (354 download)

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Book Synopsis Body Matters by : Sue Scott

Download or read book Body Matters written by Sue Scott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the sociological embodiment of various "social actors", the authors consider the subsequent links with the constraints of daily life i.e. the male body, female therapists, body builders, marital and sexual counsellors, sex workers. They present recent or new research findings on aspects of the body, variants from what is conventionally seen as "natural" and consider and question aspects of self-image versus society's expectations. A number of developments in discussions of the body on such topics as feminist thought, the study of health and illness and cultural theory are presented as a series of essays which demonstrate the variety of interests mentioned.; The book is aimed at undergraduates/postgraduates students and lecturers in sociology, cultural studies, women's and gender studies.

Essays in Economic Sociology

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691009063
Total Pages : 334 pages
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Book Synopsis Essays in Economic Sociology by : Max Weber

Download or read book Essays in Economic Sociology written by Max Weber and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1999-09-05 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic sociologist and Weber scholar Richard Swedberg has, in this volume, selected essays from Weber's enormous body of writings on the subject of economic sociology. The central themes of the anthology are modern capitalism and its relationships to politics, law, culture and religion.

Essays in Sociological Explanation

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Publisher : Quid Pro Books
ISBN 13 : 1610271785
Total Pages : 485 pages
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Book Synopsis Essays in Sociological Explanation by : Neil J. Smelser

Download or read book Essays in Sociological Explanation written by Neil J. Smelser and published by Quid Pro Books. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of essays on sociology, causation, and pragmatic considerations by one of the leading social scientists of the past half-century. Now republished in quality ebook format with active TOC, linked notes, and proper presentation for ereaders and apps.

In Other Words

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Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804717250
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (172 download)

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Book Synopsis In Other Words by : Pierre Bourdieu

Download or read book In Other Words written by Pierre Bourdieu and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pierre Bourdieu is one of the most protean intellectual forces in comtemporary French thought. He holds the chair in sociology at the prestigious Collège de France, yet his influence extends far beyond the area of sociological research and theory. Bourdieu's work, presented in over twenty books, lies on the borders of philosophy, anthropology and ethnology, and cultural theory. The present volume consists of diverse individual texts, produced between 1980 and 1986, which take two forms: interviews in which Bourdieu confronts a series of probing and intelligent interviewers, and conference papers that clarify and extend specific areas of his current research. Now that Bourdieu's work has achieved wide diffusion and celebrity, this is an appropriate time for this volume, a pause for retrospection and resynthesis, for correction of misreadings and extension of previous insights, and for projection of the next stages of his work. For this English edition, Bourdieu's celebrated inaugural lecture at the Collège de France, Leçon sur la Leçon, has been added. Because of the verve and clarity of Bourdieu's arguments in this book, it is a very readable and concise introduction to his work.

Essays in Sociological Theory

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 143911921X
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Book Synopsis Essays in Sociological Theory by : Talcott Parsons

Download or read book Essays in Sociological Theory written by Talcott Parsons and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Talcott Parsons needs little introduction to anyone acquainted with the literature of sociology. Few men have dominated their fields so much as Dr. Parsons does his. In this collection of nineteen essays, Dr. Parsons focuses his attention on subjects ranging from the social structure of Japan to propaganda and social control, from sociological aspects of Fascist movements to the place of psychoanalysis in society. Also dealt with are such topics as: The role of ideas in social action, the motivation of economic activities, American social structure, social classes and class conflict, and the prospects for contemporary sociological theory. The whole body of essays presented here belongs in the broad field of "application" of sociological theory. It stands in the line of scientific development of the most advanced techniques for sociological investigation and evaluation of data.

Essays on the Sociology of Culture

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Publisher : London, Routledge
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
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Book Synopsis Essays on the Sociology of Culture by : Karl Mannheim

Download or read book Essays on the Sociology of Culture written by Karl Mannheim and published by London, Routledge. This book was released on 1956 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Macrohistory

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Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804736008
Total Pages : 332 pages
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Book Synopsis Macrohistory by : Randall Collins

Download or read book Macrohistory written by Randall Collins and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the accomplishments of the golden age of "macrohistory," the sociologically informed analysis of long-term patterns of political, economic, and social change. The topics range from the Marxian-inspired theory of revolutions to the roots of the Holocaust.

Essays on Professions

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131714161X
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Book Synopsis Essays on Professions by : Robert Dingwall

Download or read book Essays on Professions written by Robert Dingwall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past 30 years Robert Dingwall has published an influential series of articles on the professions, especially law and medicine. This represents a substantial and coherent body of work in an important sub-discipline of sociology. This volume assembles the best of these writings in one single accessible place. The ten essays are republished in their original form, each bearing the traces of the time and place it was written. In sum, they provide a fascinating account of an academic journey. They are introduced with a foreword from the author, who places the work in context and offers some thoughts about how the work might be used by scholars in developing the field, to evaluate, for example, the effects of the New Labour period on professional autonomy. The essays will be indispensable to sociologists with a general interest in the professions and to scholars of law, medicine and business.

Urban Sociology

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135673314
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Book Synopsis Urban Sociology by : C.G. Pickvance

Download or read book Urban Sociology written by C.G. Pickvance and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book applies the historical materialist, or Marxist view of urban sociology and collates some fundamental sources of this perspective available. This book was first published in 1976.

An Introduction to the Sociology of Ignorance

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317674391
Total Pages : 142 pages
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Book Synopsis An Introduction to the Sociology of Ignorance by : Linsey McGoey

Download or read book An Introduction to the Sociology of Ignorance written by Linsey McGoey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-08 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ignorance is typically thought of as the absence or opposite of knowledge. In global societies that equate knowledge with power, ignorance is seen as a liability that can and should be overcome through increased education and access to information. In recent years, scholars from the social sciences, natural sciences and humanities have challenged this assumption, and have explored the ways in which ignorance can serve as a vital resource – perhaps the most vital resource – in social and political life. In this seminal volume, leading theorists of ignorance from anthropology, sociology and legal studies explore the productive role of ignorance in maintaining and destabilizing political regimes, entrenching corporate power, and shaping policy developments in climate science, global health, and global economic governance. From debates over death tolls during the war in Iraq, to the root causes of the global financial crisis, to poverty reduction strategies at the World Bank, contributors shed light on the unexpected ways that ignorance is actively harnessed by both the powerful and the marginalized in order to achieve different objectives. This eye-opening volume suggests that to understand power today, we must enrich our understanding of ignorance. This book was originally published as a special issue of Economy and Society.