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Understanding Society through Popular Music
2nd Edition
Written for Introductory Sociology and Sociology of Popular Music courses, the second edition of Understanding Society through Popular Music uses popular music to illustrate fundamental social institutions, theories, sociological concepts, and processes. The authors use music, a social phenomenon...
Published January 10th 2013 by Routledge
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Ferry Tales
Mobility, Place, and Time on Canada's West Coast
Series: Innovative Ethnographies
The purpose of this rich and innovatively presented ethnography is to explore mobility, sense of place and time on the British Columbia coast. On the basis of almost 400 interviews with ferry passengers and over 250 ferry journeys, the author narrates and reflects on the performance of travel and...
Published January 19th 2012 by Routledge
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The Senses in Self, Society, and Culture
A Sociology of the Senses
Series: Contemporary Sociological Perspectives
The Senses in Self, Society, and Culture is the definitive guide to the sociological and anthropological study of the senses. Vannini, Waskul, and Gottschalk provide a comprehensive map of the social and cultural significance of the senses that is woven in a thorough analytical review of classical,...
Published August 7th 2011 by Routledge
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Understanding Society through Popular Music
The purpose of this book is to use music as a tool to help students understand the structure and process of social life. Sociologically, music is important because it simultaneously contains and reflects a people's language, values, feelings, concerns, and goals. The material in...
Published September 28th 2008 by Routledge
