Sociology & human behaviour

Power (Paperback)

Steven Lukes' Power: A Radical View is a seminal work still widely used some 30 years after publication. The second edition includes the complete original text alongside two major new essays. One asse...
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Eating Animals (Paperback)

What meat is? Where 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...
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Pierre Bourdieu (Paperback)

Where Bourdieu's writings are complex and ambiguous, Jenkins is direct, concise and to the point. This book covers Bourdieu's contributions to theory and methodology, plus substantive studies of educa...
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The Body (Paperback)

The Key Concepts

Our changing understanding of the body challenges the ways we conceive power, ideology, subjectivity and social and cultural process. This title highlights and analyses the debates which make the body...
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The Crooked Timber of Humanity (Paperback)

Chapters in the History of Ideas

The author discusses in the eight essays in this volume the meaning and significance of utopianism; cultural history; relativism; Fascism; romanticism and nationalism; and explores the conditions whic...
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Questions of Cultural Identity (Paperback)

An exploration of the issues surrounding cultural identity. It outlines the reasons why the question of identity is so compelling and yet so problematic. It interrogates different dimensions of the cr...
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Partial Connections (Paperback)

Challenges the routine ways in which anthropologists have thought about the complexity and quantity of their materials, focusing on a problem normally thought of as commonplace; that of scale and prop...
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Pierre Bourdieu (Hardback)

Derek Robbins provides the first complete assessment of the sociological achievements of one of the key European sociologists of the 20th century. Bourdieu has made decisive contributions to theory, ...
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Pierre Bourdieu (Hardback)

Where Bourdieu's writings are complex and ambiguous, Jenkins is direct, concise and to the point. This book covers Bourdieu's contributions to theory and methodology, plus substantive studies of educa...
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Pierre Bourdieu (Paperback)

Fieldwork in Culture

The work of Pierre Bourdieu has had an enormous impact on research in fields as diverse as aesthetics, education, anthropology, and sociology. This is a collection of essays focusing on the contributi...
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