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In this new book, Bauman examines how we have moved away from a ´heavy´ and ´solid´, hardware-focused modernity to a ´light´ and ´liquid´, software-based modernity. This passage, he argues, has brough...

In this introduction to the social analysis of music, the author argues that musical meaning must be understood as socially constructed, rather than inherent, and that the notion of a correspondance b...

Mathematical models in the social sciences have become increasingly sophisticated and widespread in the last decade. This period has also seen many critiques, most lamenting the sacrifices incurred in...

This book explores the empirical and theoretical aspects of constituent structure in natural language syntax. It surveys a wide variety of functionalist and formalist theoretical approaches, from depe...

This book offers a lucid new interpretation of the Ancien Régime and the origins of the French Revolution. It examines what was arguably the most ambitious project of the eighteenth-century French mon...

The Aims of Argument focuses on the aims or purposes of argument: to inquire, to convince, to persuade, and to mediate. In contrast to other books´ pedagogy, Aims emphasizes rhetorical contexts, helpi...

Organized along the same lines as Three Sociological Traditions, Four Sociological Traditions is Randall Collins´ updated guide to the development of modern sociology. Explaining in a brief, readable ...

Social network analysis, which focuses on relationships among social entities, is used widely in the social and behavioral sciences, as well as in economics, marketing, and industrial engineering. Soc...

Dissatisfied with the compartmentalization of studies concerning strikes, wars, revolutions, social movements, and other forms of political struggle, McAdam, Tarrow, and Tilly identify causal mechanis...

This volume is an important complement to Wasserman and Faust´s Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications (Cambridge, 1995). The authors, leading methodologists, present the most significant d...

Eating Out is a fascinating study of the consumption of food outside the home. Through surveys and intensive interviews carried out in England in the 1990s, the authors have collected a wealth of info...

Over the last three decades American policing has gone through a period of significant change and innovation. In what is a relatively short historical time frame the police began to reconsider their f...

This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Michael Banton´s classic book reviews historical theories of racial and ethnic relations and contemporary struggles to supersede them. It shows how eight...

In this groundbreaking book, influential cultural sociologist Alberto Melucci delves deeper into questions about the self as both a psychological and sociocultural entity, particularly in the context ...

The Human Genome Diversity Project was an important controversial research program arising from the debates surrounding the mapping of the human genome. This book, based on a detailed ethnographic stu...

Organizations are a defining feature of the modern world, and the study of organizations (Organization Studies) has become well established in both sociology departments and professional schools, most...

This new book views risk analysis as one important basis for informed debate, policy decisions and governance regarding risk issues within societies. Its twelve chapters provide interdisciplinary insi...

For over twenty years Charles C. Ragin has been at the forefront of the development of innovative methods for social scientists. In Redesigning Social Inquiry, he continues his campaign to revitalize ...

Bruno Latour´s contention is that the word ´social´, as used by Social Scientists, has become laden with assumptions to the point where it has become misnomer. When the adjective is applied to a pheno...