What is Political Sociology', Paperback

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In his most important work, Max Horkheimer surveys and demonstrates the gradual ascendancy of Reason in Western philosophy, its eventual total appl...

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This book intends to be a contribution to the varieties of capitalism paradigm. The theoretical background is Weber 's theory of legitimacy. Was co...

Stephen Van Evera greeted new graduate students at MIT with a commonsense introduction to qualitative methods in the social sciences. His helpful h...

Few activities bring together physicality, emotions, politics, money, and morality as dramatically as sport. In Brazil's stadiums or China's parks,...

Location Technologies in International Context offers the first international account of location technologies (in an expanded sense) and brings to...

First published in 1956, The Power Elite stands as a contemporary classic of social science and social criticism. C. Wright Mills examines and crit...

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Social theory is a crucial resource for the social sciences. It provides rich insights into how human beings think and act and how contemporary soc...

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DescriptionFor a century, social scientists have avoided genetics like the plague. But the nature-nurture wars are over. In the past decade, a smal...

This reissue of Understanding Media marks the thirtieth anniversary (1964-1994) of Marshall McLuhan's classic expose on the state of the then emerg...

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Andreas Hepp takes an integrative look at one of the biggest questions in media and communications research: how digital media is changing society....

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