Sociology of Knowledge Products

Edited by MARIA ALICE DE FARIA NOGUEIRA, Camila Maria dos Santos Moraes

Brazilian Mobilities presents an overview of the diversity of Mobility studies developed in Brazil, it builds a picture of a strong Latin-American perspective emerging in the field of mobilities research, which provides unique insight into the complex dynamics of mobilities in the emerging…

Hardback – 2020-02-25 
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Changing Mobilities

Edited by James L. Conyers, Jr.

Narrating the realities of teacher burn out, the reception of a Black intelligentsia, and HIV awareness in local communities, the eighth volume of Africana Studies explores Higher Education across the US as inextricably related to contemporary issues facing Black Americans. Featuring the work of…

Paperback – 2020-02-12 
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Edited by Michael Klenk

This book offers a systematic look at current challenges in moral epistemology through the lens of research on higher-order evidence. Fueled by recent advances in empirical research, higher-order evidence has generated a wealth of insights about the genealogy of moral beliefs. Higher-Order Evidence…

Hardback – 2020-01-15 
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By Sal Restivo

The concept of society sui generis – society as a level of reality which could be studied scientifically – crystallized in the middle of the nineteenth century in Europe, with the work of Durkheim, Marx and Weber and today, more than at any other period in history, the idea of the social has gained…

Paperback – 2019-12-19 
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By Hubert Knoblauch

This volume advocates a shift from the social constructivism found in the work of Thomas Luckmann and Peter Berger, to a communicative constructivism that acknowledges communication as an embodied form of action in its own right, according to which social actors, in engaging in communicative action…

Hardback – 2019-12-16 
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Knowledge, Communication and Society

Edited by Sue Jackson

Higher education has been presented as a solution to a host of local and global problems, despite the fact that learning and assessment can also be used as mechanisms for exclusion and social control. Developing Transformative Spaces in Higher Education: Learning to Transgress demonstrates that…

Paperback – 2019-11-15 
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Routledge Research in Higher Education

Edited by Teresa Kulawik, Zhanna Kravchenko

Challenging persistent geopolitical asymmetries in feminist knowledge production, this collection depicts collisions between concepts and lived experiences, between academic feminism and political activism, between the West as generalizable and the East as the concrete Other. Borderlands narrows…

Hardback – 2019-11-08 
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Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality

Edited by Robert D. Anderson, Nancy Gallini

Originally published in 1998, Competition Policy and Intellectual Property Rights in a Knowledge-Based Economy is the ninth title in the Investment in Canada Research Series, reissued in 2019. The volume examines innovation and productivity improvement at the core of the Canadian economy. The book…

Hardback – 2019-10-31 
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Edited by Richard G. Lipsey, Alice O. Nakamura

Originally published in 2006, Services Industries and the Knowledge-Based Economy is the thirteenth and final title in the series Investment in Canada Research Series, reissued in 2019 and examines services industries in Canada. Accounting for almost three-quarters of both gross domestic…

Hardback – 2019-10-31 
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By Spiros Gangas

Sociological Theory and the Capability Approach connects normative strands of sociological theory to the fusion of ethics and economics proposed by Amartya Sen’s and Martha Nussbaum’s capability approach. Spanning classical (Hegel, Marx, Durkheim, Scheler, Weber) and contemporary debates (…

Hardback – 2019-10-25 
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International Library of Sociology

By Nico Stehr, Dustin Voss

Since the publication of Georg Simmel’s Philosophy of Money more than a century ago, social science has primarily considered money a medium of exchange. This new book treats money as a more inclusive social concept that has profoundly influenced the emergence of modern society. Money is also a…

Paperback – 2019-10-17 
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By Will Atkinson

Pierre Bourdieu was the most influential sociologist of the late 20th century. The framework he developed continues to inspire countless researchers across the globe and provokes intense debates long after his death. Novel concepts, innovative applications and countless elaborations spring up every…

Paperback – 2019-10-01
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