Articles in the Research & Reference category
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In The Routledge Handbook of Body Studies, contributors examine the body across theoretical and disciplinary perspectives, including pragmatism, feminism, queer theory, post-modernism, post-humanism, cultural sociology, philosophy and anthropology.
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The Routledge International Handbook of Globalization Studies offers an analysis of the demographic, economic, technological, social and cultural consequences of globalization.
In this collection of original essays, contributors examine the body across a number of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives, including pragmatism, feminism, queer theory, post-modernism, post-humanism, cultural sociology, philosophy and anthropology.
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The Routledge International Handbook of Contemporary Social and Political Theory is an essential research tool for both undergraduate students, postgraduate students, and researchers working in the fields of political theory, social and political philosophy, contemporary social theory, and cultural theory.
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The Handbook of Human Rights comprises over sixty contributions from key human rights thinkers. The book is organized around eight areas of discussion: foundations and critiques; new frameworks for understanding human rights; world religious traditions and human rights; social, economic, group, and collective rights; critical perspectives on human rights organizations, institutions, and practices; law and human rights; narrative and aesthetic dimension of rights; and geographies of rights.
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This book examines alienation from both a sociological and psychoanalytic perspective, revisiting classic treatments of the topic—Marx, Simmel, Weber—and exploring its relevance to understanding postmodern consumer society
This collection of essays emerged out of intense conversations on multi-sited ethnography, prompted by a workshop held at the University of Sussex that brought together researchers from different institutional backgrounds and affiliations in Europe, the United States and Africa – including George Marcus himself.
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The International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology is the first book to offer comprehensive coverage of the most important topics in Economic Sociology, one of the most rapidly growing areas of the social sciences.
In Unintended Outcomes in Social Movements, Fang Deng (Bridgewater State College) applies the formal methods of game theory to understand some of the contingent, strategic decision-making by both sidesduring the 1989 confrontation in Tiananmen Square.
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Handbook of Cultural Sociology edited by John R. Hall, Laura Grindstaff and Ming-cheng Lo (all at the University of California, Davis,) is essential reading for students interested in diverse subfields within Sociology, as well as Cultural Studies, Media and Communication, and Postcolonial Theory.
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