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Cover of Manuel Castells: The Power of Identity, with a New Preface

Manuel Castells: The Power of Identity, with a New Preface

In this second volume of The Information Age trilogy, with an extensive new preface following the recent global economic crisis, Manuel Castells deals with the social, political, and cultural …

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Kim Humphery: Excess

Over-consumption is one of the key issues of our time, especially in the Western world. Over the past decade, in the face of historically unprecedented levels of consumer spending in the West – and …

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Michele Dillon: Introduction to Sociological Theory

The extensively revised and updated second edition combines carefully chosen primary quotes with wide-ranging discussion and everyday illustrative examples to provide an in-depth introduction to …

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Barbara Misztal: Trust in Modern Societies

This is one of the first systematic discussions of the nature of trust as a means of social cohesion, discussing the works of leading social theorists on the issue of social …

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Thomas Kemple: Simmel

Georg Simmel, as well as being a major philosopher, is one of the founding figures of sociology whose work is comparable in importance to that of Marx, Weber, and Durkheim. His writings on money, …

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Peter Wagner: Modernity as Experience and Interpretation

We are all modern today. But modernity today is not what it used to be. Over the past few decades, modernity has been radically changed by globalization, individualization, new inequalities, and …

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Andreas Reckwitz: Society of Singularities

Our contemporary societies place more and more emphasis on the singular and the unique. The industrial societies of the early 20th century produced standardized products, cities, subjects and …

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Niamh Reilly: Women’s Human Rights

Women’s Human Rights: Seeking Gender Justice in a Globalising Age explores the emergence of transnational, UN-oriented, feminist advocacy for womens human rights, especially over the past three …

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Jeffrey C. Alexander: The Dark Side of Modernity

In this book, one of the world’s leading social theorists presents a critical, alarmed, but also nuanced understanding of the post-traditional world we inhabit today. Jeffrey Alexander writes …

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Anthony Elliott & Bryan S. Turner: On Society

‘Society’ is one of the most frequently used words in public life; it is also a foundational term in the social sciences. In our own time, however, the idea has never been so much in dispute and …