Search results for “[Subject: structural]”

• Author(s): Jonathan Eastwood • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Sociology - Social TheorySocial structure is arguably the central concept of sociology, and in recent years a much wider public has taken up with ...

• Author(s): Ali Meghji • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: DemographyFar from its origins in US legal studies in the 1980s, critical race theory has grown to become a leading approach to the analysis of racial in...

• Author(s): Jonathan Eastwood • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Sociology - Social TheorySocial structure is arguably the central concept of sociology, and in recent years a much wider public has taken up with ...

• Author(s): Molly Anne Rothenberg • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralIn The Excessive Subject: A New Theory of Social Change, Molly Anne Rothenberg uncovers an innovative theory of social chan...

• Author(s): John Shepherd • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialIn this book Shepherd and Wicke make a bold and original contribution to the understanding of music as a form of h...

• Author(s): Carolina Alves • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Economics - TheoryDecolonization has long been debated across the social sciences, but the economics discipline has so far avoided such critical enga...

• Author(s): Avital Ronell • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: Movements - Post-StructuralismWhat position does America occupy in the recent history of Western philosophy? At once the dest...

• Author(s): Claude Levi-Strauss • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThis volume of Lévi-Strauss's writings from 1941 to 1947 bears witness to a period of his work which is ofte...

• Author(s): Stephen Davies • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: World - GeneralThe re-election of Donald Trump has illustrated in spectacular fashion the extent to which politics all over the world is in a state o...

• Author(s): Monica McDermott • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: DiscriminationWhen Americans think about race, "white" is often the furthest thing from their minds. Yet whiteness colors so much of social life in...

• Author(s): Panos Theodoropoulos • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Labor & Industrial RelationsMigrant workers in the West are at the frontline of the precarious condition that i...

• Author(s): Patricia Hill Collins • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Feminism & Feminist TheorySchool shootings, police misconduct, and sexual assault where people are injured and...

• Author(s): Claude Levi-Strauss • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThis volume of Lévi-Strauss's writings from 1941 to 1947 bears witness to a period of his work which is oft...

• Author(s): Christopher Dandeker • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralAs a result of the writings of Foucault, surveillance has come to be seen as a phenomenon of major importance in modern soci...

• Author(s): Robert R. Geyer • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Social PolicyWith the growing challenges of economic globalization and national welfare state retrenchment, the development and futu...

• Author(s): Simon Copland • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Men's StudiesInspired by leaders such as Andrew Tate and Jordan Peterson, the online manosphere has exploded in recent yea...

• Author(s): Chang Kyung-Sup • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Sociology - Social TheoryIn many Asian societies, the process of modernization often took place in a rapid and highly compressed fashion – not over ...

• Author(s): Alenka Zupančič • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: General Books • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernThis book argues that the psychoanalytic concept of disavowal best renders the structure underlying our...

• Author(s): Donatella Di Cesare • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: GeneralAs capitalism triumphs on the ruins of utopias and faith in progress fades, revolts are breaking out everywhere. From London to Hong Kong...

• Author(s): Jerome Denis • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralWhat does a coffee machine, a car, road signs, a smartphone, a cathedral, a work of art, a satellite, a bicycle, a washing machine, ...

• Author(s): Alan Cribb • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Philosophy, Theory & Social AspectsWhat purposes should education serve? Why does education matter? What should be done about education? These funda...

• Author(s): Thomas G. Weiss • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: GlobalizationFriends and foes of international cooperation puzzle about how to explain order, stability, and predictability in a world without a ...

• Author(s): Shaun Riordan • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: International Relations - DiplomacyThe world of international relations has changed radically in the last few years. Technological, social and politic...

• Author(s): Chang Kyung-Sup • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Sociology - Social TheoryIn many Asian societies, the process of modernization often took place in a rapid and highly compressed fashion – not over ...

• Author(s): Jacques Lacan • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Education & Psychology • BISAC: Psychotherapy - PsychoanalysisWhat does Lacan show us? He shows us that desire is not a biological function; that it is no...

• Author(s): Eva Illouz • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralFew of us have been spared the agonies of intimate relationships. They come in many shapes: loving a man or a woman who will not commi...

• Author(s): Jean K. Chalaby • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Television - History & CriticismFew trends have had as much impact on television as formats have in recent years. Long confined to the fringes o...

• Author(s): Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: ImperialismThe Bolivian scholar and activist Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui is a pre-eminent Latin American intellect...

• Author(s): Pierre Bourdieu • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralA key feature of those who work for the state, in the legal system and in public services is that the...

• Author(s): Peter Collier • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThis is the fifth and final volume based on the lectures given by Pierre Bourdieu at the Collège de Fr...

• Author(s): Marc De Vos • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralThe European Union is in a state of revolution. In response to new global realities from the climate crisis to the Covi...

• Author(s): Andreas Reckwitz • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralContemporary society has seen an unprecedented rise in both the demand and the desire to be creative, to bring something new int...

• Author(s): Costas Lapavitsas • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Economic PolicyMany on the Left see the European Union as a fundamentally benign project with the potential to underpin ever great...

• Author(s): Deborah Chambers • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Mental HealthFamily relations are undergoing dramatic changes globally and locally. At the same time, certain features of family life endure. This ...

• Author(s): Rengin Firat • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Discrimination & RacismRace is a fundamental reality of life. It shapes our experiences and interactions whether we are conscious of it or not. But...

• Author(s): Francis G. Castles • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Public Policy - GeneralThis book looks at the public policy profiles of eight advanced capitalist states and asks what makes them distinctive. Th...