Sociology & human behaviour
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Bowling Alone (Bog, paperback)
The Collapse and Revival of American Community
af: Robert Putnam & Robert D PutnamSprog:EngelskDrawing on evidence that includes nearly half a million interviews conducted over 25 years in the US, Putnam shows how changes in work, family structure, suburban life, technology, and the roles of wo...
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers (Bog, paperback)
Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum
af: Katherine BooSprog:EngelskA landmark debut from a Pulitzer-winning New Yorker journalist: if Dickens were alive today, this is the book he might write about India.PRIZES:Long-listed for Samuel Johnson Prize 2012....
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Visual Methodologies (Bog, paperback)
An Introduction to Researching with Visual Materials
af: Gillian RoseSprog:EngelskA thoroughly updated and fully revised new edition of the most important textbook on visual methodologies for students and researchers alike. Illustrations...
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Stigma (Bog, paperback)
Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity
af: Erving GoffmanSprog:EngelskThe dwarf, the disfigured, the blind man, the homosexual, the ex-mental patient and the member of a racial or religious minority all share one characteristic: they are all socially "abnormal". This a ...
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Trust Me, I'm Lying (Bog, hardback)
af: Ryan HolidaySprog:EngelskYou've seen it all before. A malicious online rumor costs a company millions. A political sideshow derails the national news cycle and destroys a candidate. Some product or celebrity zooms from total ...
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Eating Animals (Bog, paperback)
Sprog:EngelskWhere does it come from? How is it produced? What are the economic, social and environmental effects? Are there animals that it is straightforwardly right to eat? Are there situations in which not eat...
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Introducing Body Language (Bog, paperback)
A Practical Guide
af: Glenn WilsonSprog:EngelskEn del af Introducing serienAn INTRODUCING PRACTICAL GUIDE to understanding the body language of others and being aware of your own....
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Evidence-Based Policy (Bog, paperback)
A Realist Perspective
af: Ray PawsonSprog:EngelskLooking at the spread of evidence-based policy making across the Western world, this book examines the methodological assumptions that lie behind this drive for government departments, academic resear...
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Gay Identity, New Storytelling and the Media (Bog, paperback)
Sprog:EngelskThis critical introduction to gay and lesbian identity within the media explores the concept of 'new storytelling'. The case studies look at film, television and online media, focusing on the narrativ...
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Time of the Tribes (Bog, paperback)
The Decline of Individualism in Mass Society
Sprog:Engelskundefined black & white illustrations...
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The Practice of Everyday Life (Bog, paperback)
Sprog:EngelskConsiders the uses to which social representation and modes of social behavior are put by individuals and groups, describing the tactics available to the common man for reclaiming his own autonomy fro...
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The Logic of Practice (Bog, paperback)
af: Pierre BourdieuSprog:EngelskNow available in paperback, this book offers a major statement of Bourdieua s theoretical approach, illustrating it with examples from anthropology. It will consolidate his reputation as one of the mo...
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Organizations and Organizing (Bog, paperback)
Rational, Natural and Open Systems Perspectives
af: W Richard Scott & Gerald DavisSprog:EngelskIllustrations...
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Fans, Bloggers and Gamers (Bog, paperback)
Exploring Participatory Culture
af: Henry JenkinsSprog:EngelskHenry Jenkins' pioneering work in the early 1990s promoted the idea that fans are among the most active, creative, critically engaged, and socially connected consumers of popular culture. This title t...
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Governance of Science (Bog, paperback)
Ideology and the Future of the Open Society
af: Steve FullerSprog:EngelskEn del af Issues in Society S serienOffers a perspective on the governance of science from the standpoint of social and political theory. This book proceeds by rejecting liberal and communitarian ideologies of science, in favor of a 're...
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Machiavelli: The Prince (Bog, paperback)
Sprog:EngelskProfessor Skinner presents a lucid analysis of Machiavelli's text as a response to the world of Florentine politics. chronology, further reading...
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The Second Sex (Bog, paperback)
Sprog:EngelskEn del af Vintage Classics serienA work of anthropology and sociology, of biology and psychoanalysis, which stands - almost five decades after its first appearance - as the first landmark in the modern feminist upsurge that has trans...
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Big Data (Bog, hardback)
A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think
Sprog:EngelskWe are witnessing the beginnings of a revolution. Big data - the explosion of information that digitization has sparked - is changing our world in ways we are just starting to appreciate....
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Sociology for Midwives (Bog, paperback)
af: Carol KingdonSprog:EngelskLooks at the key topics, concepts, authors and debates from sociology and demonstrates their relevance to midwives. This title introduces the reader to the classical theorists (Comte, Marx, Durkheim, ...
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Buyology (Bog, paperback)
How Everything We Believe About Why We Buy is Wrong
af: Martin LindstromSprog:EngelskReveals what actually goes on inside our heads when we see an advertisement, hear a marketing slogan, taste two rival brands of drink, or watch a programme sponsored by a major company. This book show...
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Explaining Society (Bog, paperback)
An Introduction to Critical Realism in the Social Sciences
Sprog:EngelskA clear introduction to the practice and theory of critical realism in social science. The first book to comprehensively present critical realism and its methodological implications for social science...
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Consumption Challenged (Bog, hardback)
Food in Medialised Everyday Lives
af: Bente HalkierSprog:EngelskTakes a theoretical approach through the presentation of four empirical Danish case studies alongside data gathered from the wider European context. This title is suitable for sociologists of consumpt...
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The End of Men (Bog, paperback)
and the Rise of Women
af: Hanna RoisinSprog:EngelskWomen are no longer catching up with men. By almost every measure, they are out performing them. In this book, the author reveals how this new world order came to be and its great implications for mar...
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Analysing Policy (Bog, paperback)
What's the Problem Represented to Be?
af: Carol BacchiSprog:Engelsk
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Cultural Memory and Western Civilization (Bog, paperback)
Functions, Media, Archives
af: Aleida Assman & Aleida AssmannSprog:EngelskThis book provides an introduction to the concept of cultural memory, offering a comprehensive overview of its history, forms and functions. 14 b/w illus....
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Mossad Exodus (Bog, paperback)
The Daring Undercover Rescue of the Lost Jewish Tribe
af: Gad ShimronSprog:Engelsk15 Colour photos...
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Issues in Foster Care (Bog, paperback)
The Personal, the Professional and the Organisational
af: Robbie GilliganSprog:EngelskDrawing on professional experience from a range of perspectives, this is a consideration of the central features of the development of a responsive fostering service. It focuses on the effectiveness o...
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Beamtimes and Lifetimes (Bog, paperback)
The World of High Energy Physicists
af: Sharon TraweekSprog:EngelskLooks at the life of particle physicists, showing who these people are and what their world is really like. Traweek shows their similarities and differences, how their careers are shaped, how they int...
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Urban Outcasts (Bog, paperback)
A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality
Sprog:EngelskBreaking with the exoticizing cast of public discourse and conventional research, Urban Outcasts takes the reader inside the black ghetto of Chicago and the deindustrializing banlieue of Paris to disc...
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Latent Class Scaling Analysis (Bog, paperback)
Sprog:EngelskLatent Class Scaling Analysis Illustrations...
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Cognitive Interviewing (Bog, paperback)
A Tool for Improving Questionnaire Design
af: Gordon B WillisSprog:EngelskThe design and evaluation of questionnaires and other written and oral materials is a challenging endeavor, fraught with potential pitfalls. This book describes a means of systematically developing su...
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Warrior Ways (Bog, paperback)
Explorations in Modern Military Folklore
af: Eric A. EliasonSprog:Engelskillustrations...
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Pihkal (Bog, paperback)
A Chemical Love Story
af: Ann Shulgin & Alexander ShulginSprog:EngelskIllustrations...
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Passion and Paranoia (Bog, hardback)
Emotions and the Culture of Emotion in Academia
af: Charlotte BlochSprog:EngelskSuitable for sociologists and anthropologists researching work and organizations, emotion, academic culture and social relationships, this title shows how focusing on emotions in organizations can off...
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The Secret Museum (Bog, paperback)
Pornography in Modern Culture
af: Walter KendrickSprog:EngelskFrom the secret museums to the pornography trials of "Madame Bovary" and "Lady Chatterly's Lover", to Mapplethorpe, cable TV, and the Internet, this text explores how conceptions of pornography relate...
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Conspiracy Theories (Bog, paperback)
af: Jamie KingSprog:EngelskDid Michael Jackson fake his own death in a bid to escape financial ruin? Is swine flu a dastardly plot by global pharmaceutical companies or a scare campaign created by the pork industry's competitor...
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The Companion Species Manifesto (Bog, paperback)
Dogs, People and Significant Otherness
af: Donna J Haraway & Donna HarawaySprog:Engelsk"The Companion Species Manifesto" is about the implosion of nature and culture in the joint lives of dogs and people, who are bonded in "significant otherness". In all their historical complexity, Don...
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Conceptualising Child-Adult Relations (Bog, paperback)
af: Berry Mayall & Leena AlanenSprog:EngelskEn del af The Future of Childhood SeriesBrings together case studies from a wide range of societies with varying social expectations in order to examine how childhood differs from adulthood. illustrations...
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Being Ethnographic (Bog, paperback)
A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Ethnography
af: Raymond MaddenSprog:EngelskThis book provides theoretical, practical and critical lessons which allow researchers of all levels of experience to successfully engage with their ethnographic research...
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Being Ethnographic (Bog, hardback)
A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Ethnography
af: Raymond MaddenSprog:EngelskThis book provides theoretical, practical and critical lessons which allow researchers of all levels of experience to successfully engage with their ethnographic research...
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Realistic Evaluation (Bog, paperback)
af: Nick Tilley & Ray PawsonSprog:EngelskRealistic Evaluation shows how programme evaluation needs to be, and can be, bettered. It presents a profound yet highly readable critique of current evaluation practice, and introduces a 'manifesto' ...
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Changing Welfare States (Bog, paperback)
af: Anton HemerijckSprog:EngelskChanging Welfare States is a major new examination of the wave of social reform that has swept across Europe over the past two decades. In a comparative fashion, it analyses reform trajectories and po...
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Anti-porn (Bog, paperback)
The Resurgence of Anti-porn Feminism
af: Julia LongSprog:EngelskThis unique and inspiring book explains the powerful comeback of anti-porn feminism, and it controversially challenges liberal perspectives and the mainstreaming of a porn culture that threatens to ch...
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The Revival of Death (Bog, paperback)
af: Tony WalterSprog:EngelskFrequent assertions that death is taboo can be seen as evidence of a revival of interest in dying and bereavement. This book examines the revival and relates it to theories of modernity and postmodern...
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History of 20th Century Fashion (Bog, paperback)
Sprog:EngelskA History of 20th Century Fashion charts the early dominance of couture to the influences of street culture. 150 illustrations, (50 colour )...
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Soul Hunters (Bog, paperback)
Hunting, Animism, and Personhood Among the Siberian Yukaghirs
af: Rane WillerslevSprog:EngelskAn ethnographic interpretation of the hunting life of the Yukaghirs, a little-known group of indigenous people in the Upper Kolyma region of northeastern Siberia. This book focuses on the practical im...
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Fashion Zeitgeist (Bog, paperback)
Trends and Cycles in the Fashion System
af: Barbara Vinken & Mark HewsonSprog:EngelskThis volume shows how beauty, gender, sexuality, commerce and dandyism have persisted in defining the fashion system. 1, black & white illustrations...
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