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1. Society and Nature

   A Sociological Inquiry

   By Hans Kelsen

   Series: International Library of Sociology

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
2. Staging Mobilities

   By Ole B. Jensen

   Series: International Library of Sociology

   In recent years, the social sciences have taken a ‘mobilities turn’. There has been a developing realisation that mobilities do not ‘just happen’. Mobilities are carefully and meticulously designed, planned and staged (from above). However, they are equally importantly acted out, performed and...

   Published February 28th 2013 by Routledge
3. City & Region Ils 169

   Series: International Library of Sociology

   Published February 28th 2013 by Routledge
4. City Life in Japan

   A Study of a Tokyo Ward

   By Ron P. Dore

   Series: International Library of Sociology

   Incorporating a new expanded introduction. The continuing relevance of Ron Dore's classic study of Japanese urban life and social structures is widely accepted by urban sociologists and other social scientists concerned with the study of modern Japan....

   Published February 28th 2013 by Routledge
5. The Educational Thought and Influence of Matthew Arnold

   By W.F. Connell

   Series: International Library of Sociology

   Drawing on the great wealth of knowledge and experience of education practitioners and theorists, these volumes explore the very important relationship between education and society. These book became standard texts for actual and intending teachers. Drawing upon comparative material from Israel...

   Published February 28th 2013 by Routledge
6. Japanese Village Ils 56

   Edited by EMBREE J F

   Series: International Library of Sociology

   Published February 6th 2013 by Routledge
7. Unintended Outcomes of Social Movements

   The 1989 Chinese Student Movement

   By Fang Deng

   Series: International Library of Sociology

   Why did the 1989 Chinese student movement end in violent confrontation at Tiananmen Square, despite the fact that both the Chinese government and the students very much wanted to avoid violence? This puzzle, which lies at the heart of the tragic events at Tiananmen, is addressed here from a fresh...

   Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
8. Transforming Images

   Screens, affect, futures

   By Rebecca Coleman

   Series: International Library of Sociology

   Contemporary social and cultural life is increasingly organised around a logic of self-transformation, where changing the body is seen as key. Transforming Images examines how the future functions within this transformative logic to indicate the potential of a materially better time. The book...

   Published October 18th 2012 by Routledge
9. Mobility, Space and Culture

   By Peter Merriman

   Series: International Library of Sociology

   Over the past ten to fifteen years there has emerged an increasing concern with mobility in the social sciences and humanities. In Mobility, Space and Culture, Peter Merriman provides an important and timely contribution to the mobilities turn in the social sciences, encouraging academics to...

   Published June 17th 2012 by Routledge
10. Social Transnationalism

    Lifeworlds Beyond The Nation-State

    By Steffen Mau

    Series: International Library of Sociology

    In recent decades, the rise of world markets and the technological revolutions in transportation and communication have brought what was once distant and inaccessible within easy reach of the individual. The territorial and social closure that characterized nation-states is fading, and this is...

    Published April 30th 2012 by Routledge