Sociology
Featured Books
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Offering Theory
Reading in Sociography
John Mowitt
A reading of Theory that in tracing when and where Theory arises in the event of reading, proposes how Theory might best be handled in the context of higher education today.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785274060
August 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00A reading of Theory that in tracing when and where Theory arises in the event of reading, proposes how Theory might best be handled in the context of higher education today.
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Rethinking Therapeutic Reading
Lessons from Seneca, Montaigne, Wordsworth and George Eliot
Kelda Green
foreword by Michael WoodThrough a combination of literary criticism and experimental psychology, ‘Rethinking Therapeutic Reading’ reconsiders the role that serious literary reading might play in the real world, reclaiming literature as a vital tool for dealing with human troubles.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785273810
June 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00Through a combination of literary criticism and experimental psychology, ‘Rethinking Therapeutic Reading’ reconsiders the role that serious literary reading might play in the real world, reclaiming literature as a vital tool for dealing with human troubles.
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Land and Agrarian Transformation in Zimbabwe
Rethinking Rural Livelihoods in the Aftermath of the Land Reforms
Grasian Mkodzongi
This book explores the outcomes of Zimbabwe’s fast track land reform implemented in 2000. The book pays particular attention to changing livelihoods in Zimbabwe’s countryside occasioned by the land reform.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785274152
June 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00This book explores the outcomes of Zimbabwe’s fast track land reform implemented in 2000. The book pays particular attention to changing livelihoods in Zimbabwe’s countryside occasioned by the land reform.
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Network Persistence and the Axis of Hierarchy
How Orderly Stratification Is Implicit in Sticky Struggles
Steven Rytina
“Network Persistence and the Axis of Hierarchy” shows how networks, modestly redefined as a strong, yet imperfect tendency for pairings to recur day after day, that is, stickiness, imply a singular axis of stratification. This is contrary to the nearly universal insistence that stratification is multidimensional. Reanalysis of three central mobility data sets sustains the novel claim.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785271960
April 2020
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£195.00 / $195.00“Network Persistence and the Axis of Hierarchy” shows how networks, modestly redefined as a strong, yet imperfect tendency for pairings to recur day after day, that is, stickiness, imply a singular axis of stratification. This is contrary to the nearly universal insistence that stratification is multidimensional. Reanalysis of three central mobility data sets sustains the novel claim.
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Knowledge Evolution and Societal Transformations
Action Theory to Solve Adaptive Problems
Jerald Hage
foreword by Michael Quinn PattonKnowledge Evolution and Societal Transformation proposes a new paradigm based on the evolution of knowledge that synthesizes existing social science theories at three analytical levels. A central theme is how knowledge causes new problems and explains growing inequality. To solve these problems, systemic networks in education, economy, and political system are suggested.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785273759
April 2020
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£195.00 / $195.00Knowledge Evolution and Societal Transformation proposes a new paradigm based on the evolution of knowledge that synthesizes existing social science theories at three analytical levels. A central theme is how knowledge causes new problems and explains growing inequality. To solve these problems, systemic networks in education, economy, and political system are suggested.
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Bauman, Elias and Latour on Modernity and Its Alternatives
Three Contemporary Sociological Theorists on Modernity and Other Options
Sandro Segre
‘Bauman, Elias and Latour on Modernity and Its Alternatives’ summarizes and compares the sociological works of three contemporary authors insofar as they deal with the themes of modernity and its alternatives. These alternatives are either deemed to be possible or actually experienced, whether historically or in the present.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785273049
March 2020
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£79.95 / $79.95‘Bauman, Elias and Latour on Modernity and Its Alternatives’ summarizes and compares the sociological works of three contemporary authors insofar as they deal with the themes of modernity and its alternatives. These alternatives are either deemed to be possible or actually experienced, whether historically or in the present.
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The Status of Religion and the Public Benefit in Charity Law
Edited by Barry W. Bussey
‘The Status of Religion and the Public Benefit in Charity Law’ is an apologetic for maintaining the presumption of public benefit for the charitable category ‘advancement of religion’ in democratic countries within the English common law tradition.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785272660
February 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00‘The Status of Religion and the Public Benefit in Charity Law’ is an apologetic for maintaining the presumption of public benefit for the charitable category ‘advancement of religion’ in democratic countries within the English common law tradition.
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Subjectivism and Interpretative Methodology in Theory and Practice
Fu-Lai Tony Yu
“Subjectivism and Interpretative Methodology in Theory and Practice” uses the subjectivist approach originated in Max Weber’s interpretation method, Alfred Schutz’s phenomenology, and Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann’s sociology of knowledge to understand economic and social phenomena.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785272110
February 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00“Subjectivism and Interpretative Methodology in Theory and Practice” uses the subjectivist approach originated in Max Weber’s interpretation method, Alfred Schutz’s phenomenology, and Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann’s sociology of knowledge to understand economic and social phenomena.
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The Inner World of Research
On Academic Labor
Stefan Svallfors
translated by Neil BetteridgeA book about the misery and joy of life as a researcher, and on the role of emotions and social relations in research based on the author’s reflections from a life as a researcher and on interviews with leading scientists about their work and careers.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785273018
February 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00A book about the misery and joy of life as a researcher, and on the role of emotions and social relations in research based on the author’s reflections from a life as a researcher and on interviews with leading scientists about their work and careers.
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Stratagem of the Corpse
Dying with Baudrillard, a Study of Sickness and Simulacra
Gary J Shipley
foreword by William PawlettStratagem of the Corpse is a philosophical and literary exposition of death not so much as seen by Baudrillard but Baudrillard as seen by death.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785272752
January 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00Stratagem of the Corpse is a philosophical and literary exposition of death not so much as seen by Baudrillard but Baudrillard as seen by death.
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The Transformation of Capacity in International Development
Afghanistan and Pakistan (1977–2017)
Avideh K. Mayville
"The Transformation of Capacity in International Development” exposes the transformation of capacity building as a concept of practice within development through an examination of USAID’s work in Afghanistan and Pakistan from 1977 to 2017. It has implications for the future of rights-based approaches to development, the international management of global security threats and sustainability of donor investments.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785271557
November 2019
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£125.00 / $125.00“The Transformation of Capacity in International Development” exposes the transformation of capacity building as a concept of practice within development through an examination of USAID’s work in Afghanistan and Pakistan from 1977 to 2017. It has implications for the future of rights-based approaches to development, the international management of global security threats and sustainability of donor investments.
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Explorations of a Mind-Traveling Sociologist
Renée C. Fox
foreword by Anne Fadiman“Explorations of a Mind-Traveling Sociologist” is a book of thematically interconnected ethnographic essays by the internationally esteemed sociologist Renée C. Fox, who employs a participant observer outlook to provide insight on enduring––and pressing––issues of geopolitics, epidemics, aging, friendship and humanitarian action and on the meaning and meaningfulness of teaching, exploring, questing and writing.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785271427
November 2019
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£49.00 / $49.00“Explorations of a Mind-Traveling Sociologist” is a book of thematically interconnected ethnographic essays by the internationally esteemed sociologist Renée C. Fox, who employs a participant observer outlook to provide insight on enduring––and pressing––issues of geopolitics, epidemics, aging, friendship and humanitarian action and on the meaning and meaningfulness of teaching, exploring, questing and writing.
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Transnational Return and Social Change
Hierarchies, Identities and Ideas
Edited by Remus Gabriel Anghel, Margit Fauser, Paolo Boccagni
Return has long been considered the end of a migration cycle. Today, returnees’ continued transnational ties, practices and resources have become increasingly visible. ‘Transnational Return and Social Change’ pays tribute to the meso-level impacts that follow the practices and resources migrant returnees mobilize across borders, influencing communities, organizations, social networks and groups.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785270949
July 2019
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£125.00 / $125.00Return has long been considered the end of a migration cycle. Today, returnees’ continued transnational ties, practices and resources have become increasingly visible. ‘Transnational Return and Social Change’ pays tribute to the meso-level impacts that follow the practices and resources migrant returnees mobilize across borders, influencing communities, organizations, social networks and groups.
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Learning from Franz L. Neumann
Law, Theory, and the Brute Facts of Political Life
David Kettler, Thomas Wheatland
"Learning from Franz Neumann" examines the political and legal thought of Franz Neumann in relation to the contemporary decline of the social welfare state and the rise of populism.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783089970
July 2019
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£299.95 / $299.95“Learning from Franz Neumann” examines the political and legal thought of Franz Neumann in relation to the contemporary decline of the social welfare state and the rise of populism.
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The Anthem Companion to Robert N. Bellah
Edited by Matteo Bortolini
‘The Anthem Companion to Robert Bellah’ is the first major collection of writings on the life and work of one of the foremost twentieth-century sociologists of religion.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783089628
June 2019
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£125.00 / $125.00‘The Anthem Companion to Robert Bellah’ is the first major collection of writings on the life and work of one of the foremost twentieth-century sociologists of religion.
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ISIS and the Pornography of Violence
Simon Cottee
‘ISIS and the Pornography of Violence’ is a collection of iconoclastic essays on ISIS, spanning the four-year period from its ascendancy in late 2014 to its demise in early 2018.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783089659
May 2019
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£125.00 / $125.00‘ISIS and the Pornography of Violence’ is a collection of iconoclastic essays on ISIS, spanning the four-year period from its ascendancy in late 2014 to its demise in early 2018.
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The Anthem Companion to Alexis de Tocqueville
Edited by Daniel Gordon
‘The Anthem Companion to Alexis de Tocqueville’ contains original interpretations of Tocqueville’s major writings on democracy and revolution as well as his lesser- known writings on colonies, prisons and minorities. Each chapter compares Tocqueville’s ideas on a given subject with those of other leading social theorists.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783089758
May 2019
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£125.00 / $125.00‘The Anthem Companion to Alexis de Tocqueville’ contains original interpretations of Tocqueville’s major writings on democracy and revolution as well as his lesser- known writings on colonies, prisons and minorities. Each chapter compares Tocqueville’s ideas on a given subject with those of other leading social theorists.
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Challenging Misrepresentations of Black Womanhood
Media, Literature and Theory
Edited by Marquita M. Gammage, Antwanisha Alameen-Shavers
"Challenging Misrepresentations of Black Womanhood" investigates the stereotyping of Black womanhood and the larger sociological impact on Black women. The text details the historical and contemporary use of stereotypes against Black women and how Black women work to challenge and dispel false perceptions.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783089376
March 2019
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£125.00 / $125.00“Challenging Misrepresentations of Black Womanhood” investigates the stereotyping of Black womanhood and the larger sociological impact on Black women. The text details the historical and contemporary use of stereotypes against Black women and how Black women work to challenge and dispel false perceptions.
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Regimes of Happiness
Comparative and Historical Studies
Edited by Yuri Contreras-Vejar, Joanna Tice Jen, Bryan S Turner
‘Regimes of Happiness’ is a comparative and historical analysis of how human societies have articulated and enacted distinctive notions of human fulfillment.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783088850
March 2019
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Regimes of Happiness’ is a comparative and historical analysis of how human societies have articulated and enacted distinctive notions of human fulfillment.
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Aging within Transnational Families
The Case of Older Peruvians
Vincent Horn
‘Aging within Transnational Families’ focuses on the often overlooked role of older people as active agents within transnational families.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783089062
March 2019
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Aging within Transnational Families’ focuses on the often overlooked role of older people as active agents within transnational families.
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Veblen’s America
The Conspicuous Case of Donald J. Trump
Sidney Plotkin
‘Veblen’s America’ examines the astonishing political rise of Donald Trump through the portal of Thorstein Veblen’s theory of barbaric legacies in American development.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783088720
December 2018
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Veblen’s America’ examines the astonishing political rise of Donald Trump through the portal of Thorstein Veblen’s theory of barbaric legacies in American development.
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The Technocene
Reflections on Bodies, Minds, and Markets
Hermínio Martins
Edited by S. Ravi Rajan, Danielle CrawfordHermínio Martins was a distinguished Portuguese sociologist. ‘The Technocene’ is a selection of some of the most important philosophical essays – a few unpublished – that he wrote following retirement from the University of Oxford. The essays address the ethical and societal consequences of the commoditization of the human body and mind.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783088324
December 2018
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£115.00 / $115.00Hermínio Martins was a distinguished Portuguese sociologist. ‘The Technocene’ is a selection of some of the most important philosophical essays – a few unpublished – that he wrote following retirement from the University of Oxford. The essays address the ethical and societal consequences of the commoditization of the human body and mind.
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Philology and Criticism
A Guide to Mahābhārata Textual Criticism
Vishwa Adluri, Joydeep Bagchee
The first book to present a comprehensive review of the Mahābhārata Critical Edition, with overviews of stemmata (textual trees), how the logic of the stemmata determined editorial choices, and an in-depth analysis of the edition’s strengths and drawbacks. An invaluable asset to any scholar working contemplating serious work on the Mahābhārata.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783085767
June 2018
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£200.00 / $200.00The first book to present a comprehensive review of the Mahābhārata Critical Edition, with overviews of stemmata (textual trees), how the logic of the stemmata determined editorial choices, and an in-depth analysis of the edition’s strengths and drawbacks. An invaluable asset to any scholar working contemplating serious work on the Mahābhārata.
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Post-Truth
Knowledge As A Power Game
Steve Fuller
‘Post-truth’, Oxford Dictionary’s 2016 word of the year, appears to cover only the turn away from reason in contemporary politics. In fact the truth behind ‘post-truth’ is historically and philosophically more complex. As Fuller shows in this book, it reaches into the nature of knowledge itself.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783086931
May 2018
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£120.00 / $120.00‘Post-truth’, Oxford Dictionary’s 2016 word of the year, appears to cover only the turn away from reason in contemporary politics. In fact the truth behind ‘post-truth’ is historically and philosophically more complex. As Fuller shows in this book, it reaches into the nature of knowledge itself.