Sociology
Featured Books
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Self-Presentation and Representative Politics
Essays in Context, 1960-2020
Derek Robbins
The book presents six articles written at intervals of about a decade between 1960 and 2020, all of which relate to the problem of representative politics. The articles are contextualised historically to document a developing presentation of self on the part of the author while also raising questions about the changing nature of political representation.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785279003
January 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00The book presents six articles written at intervals of about a decade between 1960 and 2020, all of which relate to the problem of representative politics. The articles are contextualised historically to document a developing presentation of self on the part of the author while also raising questions about the changing nature of political representation.
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The Anthem Companion to Raymond Aron
Edited by Joachim Stark, Christopher Adair-Toteff
Raymond Aron is an exceptional figure among twentieth-century sociological and political thinkers. The book focuses on the sociological work of this author of the century, who analyzed his age both in its grand-scale political and socio-economic traits and in the complex social and political ramifications of its day-to-day life.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839980039
December 2021
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£195.00 / $195.00Raymond Aron is an exceptional figure among twentieth-century sociological and political thinkers. The book focuses on the sociological work of this author of the century, who analyzed his age both in its grand-scale political and socio-economic traits and in the complex social and political ramifications of its day-to-day life.
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Legal Identity, Race and Belonging in the Dominican Republic
From Citizen to Foreigner
Eve Hayes de Kalaf
foreword by Junot DíazThis book provides a cautionary tale regarding legal identity practices as promulgated by the World Bank, UN and Inter-American Development Bank. It warns that policies encouraging the en masse registration of native-born migrant-descended populations can also force the thorny question of nationality, unsettling long-established identities and entitlements.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785277641
November 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00This book provides a cautionary tale regarding legal identity practices as promulgated by the World Bank, UN and Inter-American Development Bank. It warns that policies encouraging the en masse registration of native-born migrant-descended populations can also force the thorny question of nationality, unsettling long-established identities and entitlements.
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Doing Gender in Heavy Metal
Perceptions on Women in a Hypermasculine Subculture
Anna S. Rogers, Mathieu Deflem
This book offers a sociological study of gender regarding women in the heavy metal subculture. Relying on interviews with fans, women have made progress in the metal world, although gendered conditions also continue to exist. Heavy metal feminism is a process in becoming, but not yet an accomplished reality.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839981333
October 2021
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£95.00 / $95.00This book offers a sociological study of gender regarding women in the heavy metal subculture. Relying on interviews with fans, women have made progress in the metal world, although gendered conditions also continue to exist. Heavy metal feminism is a process in becoming, but not yet an accomplished reality.
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Sexual Bargaining in the Digital Era
Crafting a New Normal
John H. Scanzoni
Sexual Bargaining in the Digital Era follows the evolution of genders/sexualities and so on away from their Old Normal pattern, which prevailed during the Agricultural Age and the Industrial Age, and into the New Normal pattern which is currently surfacing in concert with an emerging Digital Era.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785277436
October 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00Sexual Bargaining in the Digital Era follows the evolution of genders/sexualities and so on away from their Old Normal pattern, which prevailed during the Agricultural Age and the Industrial Age, and into the New Normal pattern which is currently surfacing in concert with an emerging Digital Era.
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The Anthem Companion to Philip Selznick
Edited by Paul van Seters
The Anthem Companion to Philip Selznick is a collection of essays by renowned authors on the preeminent sociologist.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785278259
August 2021
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£195.00 / $195.00The Anthem Companion to Philip Selznick is a collection of essays by renowned authors on the preeminent sociologist.
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Procreation and Population in Historical Social Science
Daniela Danna
The book sees procreation, the forgotten basis of population dynamics, and its macrohistorical results through the lenses of world-system analysis. This interdisciplinary book sheds light on the historical paths leading to the current unprecedented numbers of humans on the globe, fuelled by the capitalist demand for labor.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785277160
August 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00The book sees procreation, the forgotten basis of population dynamics, and its macrohistorical results through the lenses of world-system analysis. This interdisciplinary book sheds light on the historical paths leading to the current unprecedented numbers of humans on the globe, fuelled by the capitalist demand for labor.
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Critical Sexual Literacy
Forecasting Trends in Sexual Politics, Diversity and Pedagogy
Edited by Gilbert Herdt, Michelle Marzullo, Nicole Polen Petit
This book is a new and exciting resource for teachers, students, and activists who aim to critically examine contemporary sexuality through the lens of sexual literacy and situated social analysis. This original anthology provides shorter cutting-edge essays on theory, method, and activism, including the nature of globalization and local sexuality discovered in ‘glocal’ topics, processes, and contexts. These cutting-edge essays inform readers of key moments in sexual history, including areas relating to research, practice, and social policy, and provide a platform from which to engage in rich discussion and forecast the development of sexual literacy in our world within multiple contexts.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839980664
August 2021
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£145.00 / $145.00This book is a new and exciting resource for teachers, students, and activists who aim to critically examine contemporary sexuality through the lens of sexual literacy and situated social analysis. This original anthology provides shorter cutting-edge essays on theory, method, and activism, including the nature of globalization and local sexuality discovered in ‘glocal’ topics, processes, and contexts. These cutting-edge essays inform readers of key moments in sexual history, including areas relating to research, practice, and social policy, and provide a platform from which to engage in rich discussion and forecast the development of sexual literacy in our world within multiple contexts.
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The Anthem Companion to Maurice Halbwachs
Edited by Robert Leroux, Jean-Christophe Marcel
This book seeks to place Louis Maurice Halbwachs in his historical and intellectual context, showing that his work was sensitive to the events of his time, and that the development of his analysis could be influenced by happenstance.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785276804
July 2021
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£195.00 / $195.00This book seeks to place Louis Maurice Halbwachs in his historical and intellectual context, showing that his work was sensitive to the events of his time, and that the development of his analysis could be influenced by happenstance.
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Kid Power, Inequalities and Intergenerational Relations
Clara Rübner Jørgensen, Michael Wyness
This book combines theories of power with empirical material on children’s lives across the world to propose a novel framework for understanding kid power. It explores the nature of power relations between children and adults and provides a critical analysis of kid power, considering inequalities and inter-generational relations.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785277702
July 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00This book combines theories of power with empirical material on children’s lives across the world to propose a novel framework for understanding kid power. It explores the nature of power relations between children and adults and provides a critical analysis of kid power, considering inequalities and inter-generational relations.
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Process Philosophy
A Synthesis
Bart Nooteboom
The book analyses and compares a variety of processes of change: in evolution, learning and innovation, language and meaning, self and society and ethics and morality. Taking a realistic approach, the book is inspired by pragmatic philosophy, in particular, that of Dewey, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein and Heidegger and employs insights from economics, sociology, anthropology and social psychology.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785277467
March 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00The book analyses and compares a variety of processes of change: in evolution, learning and innovation, language and meaning, self and society and ethics and morality. Taking a realistic approach, the book is inspired by pragmatic philosophy, in particular, that of Dewey, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein and Heidegger and employs insights from economics, sociology, anthropology and social psychology.
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Karl Marx’s ‘Capital’: A Guide to Volumes I–III
Kenneth Smith
This book provides a comprehensive guide to all three volumes of Karl Marx’s Capital, with advice on further reading and points for further discussion.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781839980008
March 2021
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£29.95 / $29.95This book provides a comprehensive guide to all three volumes of Karl Marx’s Capital, with advice on further reading and points for further discussion.
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American Paraliterature and Other Theories to Hijack Communication
Blake Stricklin
A critical account of the 1975 Schizo-Culture conference, which Michel Foucault called “the last countercultural event of the 1960s,” and its direct and indirect connection to American experimental literature.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785277221
March 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00A critical account of the 1975 Schizo-Culture conference, which Michel Foucault called “the last countercultural event of the 1960s,” and its direct and indirect connection to American experimental literature.
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First Letters After Exile by Thomas Mann, Hannah Arendt, Ernst Bloch, and Others
Edited by David Kettler, Detlef Garz
The book contains a number of studies focused on the post-war correspondence between noted exiles from Hitler’s Germany and colleagues and friends who remained in Germany. These materials provide unique insights into the reshaping of relations among the correspondents, which figure decisively in decisions of exiles on questions of return.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785276712
March 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00The book contains a number of studies focused on the post-war correspondence between noted exiles from Hitler’s Germany and colleagues and friends who remained in Germany. These materials provide unique insights into the reshaping of relations among the correspondents, which figure decisively in decisions of exiles on questions of return.
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Ethical Teachings of Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī
Economics of Happiness
Sami Al-Daghistani
This book studies the interplay of economic philosophy and moral conduct as reflected in the writings of one of the most renowned scholars in Islamic history, Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī (d. 1111). Al-Ghazālī contributed to Islamic theology, philosophy, and Sufism but is also regarded as one of the forerunners of classical economic thought in Islamic tradition.
Anthem Press
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9781785275302
February 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00This book studies the interplay of economic philosophy and moral conduct as reflected in the writings of one of the most renowned scholars in Islamic history, Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī (d. 1111). Al-Ghazālī contributed to Islamic theology, philosophy, and Sufism but is also regarded as one of the forerunners of classical economic thought in Islamic tradition.
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Decolonial Perspectives on Entangled Inequalities
Europe and The Caribbean
Edited by Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez, Rhoda Reddock
This book engages with decolonial social and cultural analyses of global entangled inequalities by focusing on their local articulations globally and, in particular, in Germany, Trinidad and Tobago and the United Kingdom.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785276958
February 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00This book engages with decolonial social and cultural analyses of global entangled inequalities by focusing on their local articulations globally and, in particular, in Germany, Trinidad and Tobago and the United Kingdom.
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Male Homosexuality in 21st-Century Thailand
A Longitudinal Study of Young, Rural, Same-Sex-Attracted Men Coming of Age
Jan W. de Lind van Wijngaarden
This book explores the experiences, meanings and identities of young same-sex attracted men in rural Thailand. It is based on a study of 25 young rural Thai men who were each interviewed three times within a two-year period while they were aged 18–20, uncovering significant fluidity, variety and change.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785276255
February 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00This book explores the experiences, meanings and identities of young same-sex attracted men in rural Thailand. It is based on a study of 25 young rural Thai men who were each interviewed three times within a two-year period while they were aged 18–20, uncovering significant fluidity, variety and change.
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Fashion as Cultural Translation
Signs, Images, Narratives
Patrizia Calefato
The book deals with fashion as a form of visual culture embodied through signs. It reproduces itself with a pattern based on the semiotic network of places, social practices and forms of imagery.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785272424
January 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00The book deals with fashion as a form of visual culture embodied through signs. It reproduces itself with a pattern based on the semiotic network of places, social practices and forms of imagery.
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Lusophone African Short Stories and Poetry after Independence
Decolonial Destinies
Edited and translated by Daniel Silva, Lamonte Aidoo
This book offers a translation and critical introduction to Lusophone African postcolonial poetry and short stories
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785276194
January 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00This book offers a translation and critical introduction to Lusophone African postcolonial poetry and short stories
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The Rebirth of American Literary Theory and Criticism
Scholars Discuss Intellectual Origins and Turning Points
H. Aram Veeser
A group of homogeneous interviews with contemporary literary and cultural theorists All the interviews are completed. The same ten questions were addressed to all the interviewees. The result is a homogeneous volume unlike most other interview projects.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785274374
November 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00A group of homogeneous interviews with contemporary literary and cultural theorists All the interviews are completed. The same ten questions were addressed to all the interviewees. The result is a homogeneous volume unlike most other interview projects.
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A Player’s Guide to the Post-Truth Condition
The Name of the Game
Steve Fuller
This book is a shorter, more accessible and updated follow-up to Post-Truth: Knowledge as a Power Game, which remains the only book that sheds a largely hopeful light on our post-truth condition across a wide range of intellectual fields and public affairs, including Brexit, Trump and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785276033
November 2020
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£120.00 / $120.00This book is a shorter, more accessible and updated follow-up to Post-Truth: Knowledge as a Power Game, which remains the only book that sheds a largely hopeful light on our post-truth condition across a wide range of intellectual fields and public affairs, including Brexit, Trump and the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Teaching Palestine on an Israeli University Campus
Unsettling Denial
Daphna Golan-Agnon
The word “occupation” is not heard in classrooms on the Hebrew University campus, at the heart of Palestinian East Jerusalem. The “war outside” is not spoken of. Israeli and Palestinian students unsettle this denial for the first time in a practice-led course on human rights in the reality around them.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785275012
November 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00The word “occupation” is not heard in classrooms on the Hebrew University campus, at the heart of Palestinian East Jerusalem. The “war outside” is not spoken of. Israeli and Palestinian students unsettle this denial for the first time in a practice-led course on human rights in the reality around them.
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Climate Chaos and its Origins in Slavery and Capitalism
Reva Blau, Judith Blau
Climate Chaos argues powerfully that unless global citizens come together to change the infrastructure and value system of capitalist greed and consumption, human society will not survive past this century.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785275272
October 2020
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£29.99 / $29.99Climate Chaos argues powerfully that unless global citizens come together to change the infrastructure and value system of capitalist greed and consumption, human society will not survive past this century.
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Mediating Multiculturalism
Digital Storytelling and the Everyday Ethnic
Daniella Trimboli
foreword by Sandra PonzanesiThis book addresses a historical problem—multiculturalism—using contemporary phenomena: digital storytelling. ‘Mediating Multiculturalism’ offers an innovative model for reconceptualising cultural difference in a highly mobile and contradictory global moment.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785273902
August 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00This book addresses a historical problem—multiculturalism—using contemporary phenomena: digital storytelling. ‘Mediating Multiculturalism’ offers an innovative model for reconceptualising cultural difference in a highly mobile and contradictory global moment.