Sociology of Knowledge Products

By Claudia Derichs

While the areas conventionally studied in Area Studies or Comparative Area Studies are demarcated primarily by geographical boundaries, areas serving the idea of ‘the good life’ in an emotional sense are hardly comprehended as such. The fact of pluri-local connectivity should, however, be…

Hardback – 2016-12-30 
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Routledge Global Cooperation Series

By Maria do Mar Pereira

Feminist scholarship is sometimes dismissed as not quite ‘proper’ knowledge – it’s too political or subjective, many argue. But what are the boundaries of ‘proper’ knowledge? Who defines them, and how are they changing? How do feminists negotiate them? And how does this boundary-work affect women’s…

Hardback – 2016-12-26 
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Transformations

By Garry Potter

Now in its second edition, this comprehensive textbook offers an exceptionally accessible yet in-depth introduction to the philosophy of social science. Students with no previous knowledge will find themselves taken on an engaging philosophical journey: the book’s unique dialogue format anticipates…

Paperback – 2016-12-13 
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By Devorah Kalekin-Fishman

How is the process of globalization effecting changes in the structure of knowledge in sociology? This path-breaking volume looks at the human dimension of developments in the discipline by compiling a set of interviews that exemplify the life and work of a sociologist today. Their ideas and…

Hardback – 2016-12-06 
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Public Intellectuals and the Sociology of Knowledge

Edited by Heike Egner, Maren Schorch, Martin Voss

It is widely assumed that humanity should be able to learn from calamities (e.g., emergencies, disasters, catastrophes) and that the affected individuals, groups, and enterprises, as well as the concerned (disaster-) management organizations and institutions for prevention and mitigation, will be…

Paperback – 2016-11-30 
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Routledge Studies in Environment, Culture, and Society

Edited by Jackie Smith, MICHAEL GOODHART, Patrick Manning, John Markoff

At a particularly urgent world-historical moment, this volume brings together some of the leading researchers of social movements and global social change and other emerging scholars and practitioners to advance new thinking about social movements and global transformation. Social movements around…

Paperback – 2016-10-19 
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Political Economy of the World-System Annuals

Edited by Chen Hongjie, W. James Jacob

This book considers a wide range of key developments and key areas of debate in China’s education system. Marketization, quality assurance, and issues of inequality and gender are all discussed, as are expansion in the primary, secondary and tertiary sectors, the impact of globalization, and the…

Hardback – 2016-10-13 
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Comparative Development and Policy in Asia

Edited by Annette Freyberg-Inan, Ewan Harrison, Patrick James

This edited volume offers a systematic evaluation of how knowledge is produced by scholarly research into International Relations. The contributors explore three key questions: To what extent is scientific progress and accumulation of knowledge possible? What are the different accounts of how this…

Hardback – 2016-10-11 
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New International Relations

Edited by Felicity Mellor, Stephen Webster

Over the last half century scholars from a range of disciplines have attempted to theorise silence. Naively we tend to think of silence negatively, as a lack, an emptiness. Yet silence studies shows that silence is more than mere absence. All speech incorporates silence, not only in the gaps…

Hardback – 2016-09-28 
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By Marian Adolf, Nico Stehr

As we move through our modern world, the phenomenon we call knowledge is always involved. Whether we talk of know-how, technology, innovation, politics or education, it is the concept of knowledge that ties them all together. But despite its ubiquity as a modern trope we seldom encounter knowledge…

Paperback – 2016-09-22
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Key Ideas

Edited by David L. Brunsma, Keri Iyall Smith, Brian Gran

How do people work together to advance human rights? Do people form groups to prevent human rights from being enforced? Why? In what ways do circumstances matter to the work of individuals collectively working to shape human rights practices? Human society is made of individuals within…

Paperback – 2016-09-01
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By A. Javier Trevino, Karen M. McCormack

This book challenges sociologists and sociology students to think beyond the construction of social problems to tackle a central question: What do sociologists do with the analytic tools and academic skills afforded by their discipline to respond to social problems? Service Sociology posits that…

Paperback – 2016-08-26
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