Sociology of Knowledge Products

By Monika Büscher

The hypermobility of the twenty-first century is fragile, arguably on the verge of momentous change. Public space is a particularly important locale of socio-technical innovation in mobile living. Based on studies of emerging mobility practices in and around public places, undertaken as part…

Hardback – 2017-09-30 
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Changing Mobilities

Edited by G. Anthony Bruno, A.C. Rutherford

Skepticism is one of the most enduring and profound of philosophical problems. With its roots in Plato and the Sceptics to Descartes, Hume, Kant and Wittgenstein, skepticism presents a challenge that every philosopher must reckon with. In this outstanding collection philosophers engage with…

Hardback – 2017-09-29 
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By Neil Thompson

Paperback – 2017-09-28 
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By Robert Bickel

With particular attention to his work on modernization and modernity as construed by a sociologist of knowledge, this book offers a sympathetic exposition and evaluation of Peter Berger’s work as one of the world’s most accomplished and influential sociologists. In the context of an examination of…

Hardback – 2017-09-19 
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Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

Edited by Rob Kitchin, Tracey P. Lauriault, Gavin McArdle

There is a long history of governments, businesses, science and citizens producing and utilizing data in order to monitor, regulate, profit from and make sense of the urban world. Recently, we have entered the age of big data, and now many aspects of everyday urban life are being captured as data…

Paperback – 2017-09-12 
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Regions and Cities

By Per Wisselgren

The social sciences have, ever since they were first established as academic disciplines, played a foundational role in most spheres of modern society - in policy-making, education, the media and public debate - and hence also, indirectly, for our self-understanding as social beings. The Social…

Paperback – 2017-08-18 
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Public Intellectuals and the Sociology of Knowledge

Edited by V. V. Krishna

This volume looks at the role of universities in the National Innovation Systems in economies of the Asia-Pacific. It examines the tremendous growth of human and knowledge capital made possible by teaching and research excellence in major universities along with how universities are being…

Hardback – 2017-08-04 
Routledge India

By Adrian Furnham

First published in 1991, this book represents the first wide-ranging review of young people’s understanding of the social world and the functioning of society. Taking a social cognitive view of adolescence, it focuses on the processes by which young people learn to understand other people’s…

Paperback – 2017-07-23 
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By Robert Aman

At the centre of Decolonising Intercultural Education is a simple yet fundamental question: is it possible to learn from the Other? This book argues that many recent efforts to theorise interculturality restrict themselves to a variety of interpretations within a Western framework of knowledge,…

Hardback – 2017-07-21 
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Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education

By Michael Lynch

First published in 1985, this book provides a descriptive study of social activities in a neurosciences laboratory. Based on fieldwork conducted by the author in the laboratory during 1975 and 1976, and taking an ethnomethodological approach, it focuses on the phenomenon of the social…

Hardback – 2017-06-28 
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Directions in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis

Edited by Rebecca Adler-Nissen, Kristoffer Kropp

This book addresses the important but understudied question of how social scientific knowledge is entangled in the process of European integration. More specifically, it provides the first systematic introduction to a sociology of knowledge approach to European integration and demonstrates the…

Paperback – 2017-06-16
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Journal of European Integration Special Issues

Edited by Jon Bannister, Irene Hardill

The essays presented in this volume examine knowledge mobilisation and its relation to research impact and engagement. The social sciences matter because they can help us to understand and address the complex challenges confronting society. This is particularly true in an era of significant…

Paperback – 2017-06-07
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Contemporary Issues in Social Science