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Robert Bocock,Robert Bocock
Provides a critical overview of the major sociological approaches to consumption in both modern and postmodern societies. Bocock develops a distinctive analysis of consumption as a socio-cultural process.
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Robert Bocock
Demonstrates Freud’s relevance to discussions about gender, sexuality, family, religion, ideology, symbolism, political authority, and language. Examines the influence that Freud’s theories had upon sociological schools.
Provides a critical overview of the major sociological approaches to consumption in both modern and postmodern societies. Bocock develops an analysis of consumption as a sociocultural process.
Originally published in 1974, Ritual in Industrial Society is based on several years’ research including interviews and observations into the importance of ritual in industrial society within modern Britain.
Freud, they might argue, was not only (and very explicitly) a psychologist, but also (and equally explicitly) a clinical psychologist, whose most immediate preoccupation was that of trying to cure…
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Considers the social and cultural aspects of 20th-century modern industrial social formations, focusing on Britain and Europe, and with some reference to North America and Australasia.
This collection deals with the central questions which have emerged from the break-up of the postwar political consensus around the welfare state. A series of distinguished contributors, including exponents of…
A revised and updated edition of this introduction to social welfare in contemporary Britain. It considers the central questions which have emerged from the break-up of the post-war political consensus…
