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Author: Jon Clark
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-11-26
Total Pages: 626
ISBN-13: 1134077092
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume forms part of a series on contemporary sociologists. The work of each scholar chosen is internationally recognized and relates to the core of sociology in the 1990s. This text covers the main themes of John Goldthorpe's work, and includes his replies to criticisms of his ideas.
Author: Jon Clark
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Published: 1990-06
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ISBN-13: 9780850005493
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jonathan Michie
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-02-03
Total Pages: 2166
ISBN-13: 1135932263
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 2-volume work includes approximately 1,200 entries in A-Z order, critically reviewing the literature on specific topics from abortion to world systems theory. In addition, nine major entries cover each of the major disciplines (political economy; management and business; human geography; politics; sociology; law; psychology; organizational behavior) and the history and development of the social sciences in a broader sense.
Author: Patrick Clancy
Publisher: Institute of Public Administration
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 734
ISBN-13: 9781872002873
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jon Clark
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 490
ISBN-13: 9781850005490
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe writings of Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida pose a serious challenge to the old established, but now seriously compromised forms of thought. In this compelling book, Roy Boyne explains the very significant advances for which they have been responsible, their general importance for the human sciences, and the forms of hope that they offer for an age often characterized by scepticism, cynicism and reaction. The focus of the book is the dispute between Foucault and Derrida on the nature of reason, madness and 'otherness'. The range of issues covered includes the birth of the prison, problems of textual interpretation, the nature of the self and contemporary movements such as socialism, feminism and anti-racialism. Roy Boyne argues that whilst the two thinkers chose very different paths, they were in fact rather surprisingly to converge upon the common ground of power and ethics. Despite the evident honesty, importance and adventurousness of the work of Foucault and Derrida, many also find it difficult and opaque. Roy Boyne has performed a major service for students of their writings in this compelling and accessible book.
Author: Michael R. Smith
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-09-29
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13: 1351497340
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplanations for inflation had for a long time been ceded to the purview of economists. The acceleration in rates of inflation within advanced economies during the 1960s and 1970s, however, prompted sociologists and political scientists to attempt their own accounts for this phenomenon.There are two major competing explanations of the postwar inflation. One, most commonly held by economists, is that inflation has been produced by governments through a combination of policy errors and cynical manipulation of policy for electoral purposes. The other, often advanced by sociologists and political scientists as an alternative, is that inflation has been an outcome of class conflict. In his study that ranges widely over the literature in the relevant disciplines, Smith examines the strengths and weaknesses of each account, with particular attention to the evidence presented in support of class-conflict explanations. He concludes that, on balance, the policy-error/cynical-manipulation explanation is better supported than its class-conflict rival.The clarity with which Smith presents these rival accounts and the critical rigor of his scrutiny make this a work of interest to advanced students in macroeconomic theory and to policy makers.
Author: Olav Korsnes
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-12-06
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 1351672223
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince the financial crisis, the issue of the ‘one percent’ has become the centre of intense public debate, unavoidable even for members of the elite themselves. Moreover, inquiring into elites has taken centre-stage once again in both journalistic investigations and academic research. New Directions in Elite Studies attempts to move the social scientific study of elites beyond economic analysis, which has greatly improved our knowledge of inequality, but is restricted to income and wealth. In contrast, this book mobilizes a broad scope of research methods to uncover the social composition of the power elite – the ‘field of power’. It reconstructs processes through which people gain access to positions in this particular social space, examines the various forms of capital they mobilize in the process – economic, but also cultural and social capital – and probes changes over time and variations across national contexts. Bringing together the most advanced research into elites by a European and multidisciplinary group of scholars, this book presents an agenda for the future study of elites. It will appeal to all those interested in the study of elites, inequality, class, power, and gender inequality.
Author: S. Themelis
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-01-07
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1137108614
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAims to inform students, scholars, and educators about the complex processes and factors that promote or impede education's potential to enhance individual advancement within the socioeconomic structure of a late-industrialized country within the context of modern capitalism.
Author: Derek Wynne
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-01-22
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 1134956525
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this valuable study, conducted within the theoretical context associated with the work of Pierre Bourdieu, Derek Wynne looks at how the 'new middle class' of the late twentieth century goes about constructing and defending its social identity.
Author: Gunn Elisabeth Birkelund
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Published: 2013-02-06
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 1781905371
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEmphasizes unsolved issues and developments within class and stratification analysis, discussing both theoretical and methodological innovations and revisions. In this book, comparative analysis has also revealed cross-national differentiation in stratification processes, partly related to welfare state arrangements and national policies.
