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This set contains the two authoritative textbooks Contemporary Sociological Theory, 3rd Edition and Classical Sociological Theory, 3rd Edition. The third edition of Contemporary Sociological Theory is the definitive guide to…
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In this book, scholars from a wide range of disciplines respond to Habermas’s most directly relevant work, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere.
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Craig Calhoun
This book explores the many reasons why nationalism still matters and the dangers posed by an overly hasty attempt to turn post national ideals into political practice.
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Nationalism is one of the most pressing of global problems. Drawing on examples from around the world, Craig Calhoun considers nationalism’s diverse manifestations, its history, and its relationship to imperialism…
The most comprehensive, authoritative, single-volume dictionary of key terms in anthropology, sociology, political science, economics, cultural studies, and related fields–in more than 1,800 concise, A-to-Z entries.
Emphasizes the coexistence of different kinds of radicalism, their tensions, and their implications. This title reveals the importance of radicalism’s links to pre-industrial culture and attachments to place and local…
This is an exploration of the growth of American sociology as it addressed changes and challenges throughout the 20th century, covering topics ranging from the discipline’s intellectual roots to understanding…
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Robert K. Merton (1910-2003) was one of the most influential sociologists of the twentieth century, producing clear theories and innovative research that continue to shape multiple disciplines. Merton’s reach can…
We want neither gods nor emperors , went the words from the Chinese version of The Internationale. Students sang the old socialist song as they gathered in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square…
This text surveys the origins, fortunes and prospects of critical social theory, this most influential of theoretical approaches. It covers the early Frankfurt School to Habermas, contemporary debates over postmodernism…
aeo Political identity is becoming the key issue within social and cultural theory at the centurya s end. aeoThis groundbreaking volume is an excellent introduction to the debates around identity…
A three volume analysis of the global economic crisis
A three volume analysis of the the global economic crisis
A collection of original essays analyzing the factors that resulted in the global economic crisis
Situates the crisis in the historical trajectory of the capitalist world-system, showing how the crisis was made possible not only by neoliberal financial reforms but by a massive turn away…
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Explores changes in relationships between the world’s richer and poorer countries following the global economic crisis, focusing on social and political dimensions
Explores the repercussions and the possible economic futures following the global financial crisis
With the specter of prosecution after his term is over and the possibility of disbarment in Arkansas hanging over President Clinton, the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal and the events that have followed…
Hans Kohn,Craig Calhoun
In this sixtieth anniversary edition of The Idea of Nationalism, Craig Calhoun probes the work of Hans Kohn and the world that first brought prominence to this unparalleled defense of…
Seeks to revitalize the field of cultural sociology with an emphasis not on abstract theoretical debates but on showing how to put theoretical sources to work in empirical research. This…
Hannah Arendt’s work has been noted for its unorthodox and eclectic style. This book aims to show that her unusual approach in fact reflects a consistent and distinctive conception of…
Tariq Modood
Examines the modern problem of religious identity and cultural racism.
Everyone from parents to policymakers has an interest in the mission of higher education, yet in many cases, the shifting relationship between public and private goods and public and private…
Charles R. Hale
Scholars in many fields increasingly find themselves caught between the academy, with its demands for rigor and objectivity, and direct engagement in social activism. What ethical, political, and practical tensions…
Micheline R. Ishay
Explores the tensions and contradictions between ideas of nationalism and internationalism as they played themselves out through the major political thinkers from the early modern period into the 19th century.
Craig Calhoun,Richard Sennett,Harel Shapira
Treating cities as laboratories of the modern world, Infrastructures of the Urban examines how they are made and how they should be remade.
This collection of essays examines how the secular is constituted and understood, and how new understandings of secularism and religion shape analytic perspectives in the social sciences, politics, and international…
What does it mean to say that we live in a secular age? This title charts the conversations in which A Secular Age intervenes and addresses wider questions of secularism…
Craig Calhoun,Eduardo Mendieta,Jonathan VanAntwerpen
To the surprise of many readers, Jurgen Habermas has recently made religion a major theme of his work.
Craig Calhoun (New York University, USA)
Questions the social bases of cosmopolitanism and the continuing importance of nationalism. This book addresses the ways in which cosmopolitan theories may be biased from the standpoint of European and…
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Bravely confronts the epochal changes of our times, the new problems of the new global world order, it avoids the temptations to impose on the discipline any overarching paradigm or…
Craig Calhoun,Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar,Charles Taylor
Craig Calhoun, Dilip Gaonkar, and Charles Taylor argue that democracies have embraced individual freedom at the expense of equality and solidarity, economic growth at the expense of democracy. Rebuilding local…
Examines what the experience of past empires tells us about the nature and consequences of global power. Reviewing the much contested history of domination by Western colonizing powers, this work…
Josie Craig Berry
Oklahoma Black poet, Josie Craig Berry, published her first (extant) poem in 1918, when she was 29. She also wrote a weekly literary column for Oklahoma City's The Black Dispatch…
Pierre Bourdieu
First published in French as Images d'Algerie by Camera Austria/Actes Sud.
This book discusses the question: are social structures products of human action, expressions of individual or group power?
C Calhoun
This comprehensive collection of contemporary sociological theory is the definitive guide to current perspectives and approaches in the field, examining key topics and debates in the field.
