Kinship and Social Organisation (Routledge Revivals)
Kinship and Social Organisation (Routledge Revivals)

Author: W. H. R. Rivers

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-07-26

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 1136708685

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First published in 1914, W. H. R. Rivers' hugely influential study was the first to effectively demonstrate the close connection between methods of denoting relationship or kinship and forms of social organisation, including those based on different forms of the institution of marriage. He also shows that the terminology of relationship has been rigorously determined by social conditions and that, therefore, systems of relationship furnish us with a most valuable instrument in studying the history of social institutions. This series of lectures was originally delivered by the author in May 1914, at the London School of Economics. They are based on the experiences of the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to Melanesia in 1908.

Kinship and Social Organisation (Routledge Revivals)
Kinship and Social Organisation (Routledge Revivals)

Author: W. H. R. Rivers

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 103

ISBN-13: 9780203814659

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Sociology (Routledge Revivals)
Sociology (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Tom B. Bottomore

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-01-20

Total Pages: 607

ISBN-13: 1136968768

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First published in 1962, this seminal work is an introduction to sociology in a world context, and a sophisticated guide to the major themes, problems and controversies in contemporary sociology. The book remains unique in its organisation and presentation of sociological ideas and problems, in it s lack of insularity (its wide coverage of diverse types of society and of sociological thought from various cultural traditions), and in its systematic connection of sociology with the broad themes of modern social and political thought.

Culture, Ideology and Politics (Routledge Revivals)
Culture, Ideology and Politics (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Raphael Samuel

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-20

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 1317207122

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First published in 1982, this book is inspired the ideas generated by Eric Hobsbawm, and has taken shape around a unifying preoccupation with the symbolic order and its relationship to political and religious belief. It explores some of the oldest question in Marxist historiography, for example the relationship of ‘base’ and ‘superstructure’, art and social life, and also some of the newest and most problematic questions, such as the relationship of dreams and fantasy to political action, or of past and present — historical consciousness — to the making of ideology. The essays, which range widely over period and place, are intended to break new ground and take on difficult questions.

Routledge Revivals: Economic Development and the Role of Women (1989)
Routledge Revivals: Economic Development and the Role of Women (1989)

Author: Ruth Taplin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-09-13

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 1315316749

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First published in 1989, this book provides a macro-micro approach to economic development — taking account of multi-level linkages, both inter and intra, that had been missed by previous analyses. The author argues that these linkages demonstrate that social and economic change may occur from the "bottom up" household/family level and not just from the "top down" economic order level — using women as a vehicle to illustrate this. In the first section, the expansive body of development literature is summarised and critically reviewed — isolating the primary strengths and weaknesses. Case studies of Malaysia, the Chinese Commune and the Israeli Kibbutz demonstrate that a theory which combines the analysis of the organisation of work, kinship and ethnicity can accommodate the experience of women in an integrated manner that traditional development theory has failed to achieve.

The German Family (Routledge Revivals)
The German Family (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Richard J. Evans

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-06-11

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 1317550226

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This book surveys the history of the German family in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The contributions deal with the influence of industrialisation on family life in town and country, with rural families and communities under the impact of social and economic change, and with the role and influence of the family in the lives of men and women in the newly-emerged working class. Research on the history of the family had so far, at the point of this book’s publication in 1981, concentrated on England and France; this book adds an important comparative dimension by extending the discussion into Central Europe and bringing fresh evidence and interpretation to bear on the wider debate about the effects of industrialisation on family structure and family life as a whole. The authors approach the subject from a variety of perspectives, including social anthropology, oral history, economic history and feminist studies. This book is ideal for students of history, particularly the history of Germany.

The Social Basis of Community Care (Routledge Revivals)
The Social Basis of Community Care (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Martin Bulmer

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-06-11

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 1317448383

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Care for the elderly, disabled and mentally-ill within and by the community forms a vital part of current social policy. Martin Bulmer argues that this policy is inadequately thought out and rests on a series of poorly founded sociological assumptions. As a result there is a vacuum at the heart of government’s social care policy which is likely to lead to ineffective or deteriorating provision for those in need. This book, first published in 1987, will be essential reading for all those concerned with the organization and delivery of social care, whether as students, practitioners or teachers. It will be particularly useful for courses dealing with social policy, the personal social services and the social context of social work.

War, Women and Children in Ancient Rome (Routledge Revivals)
War, Women and Children in Ancient Rome (Routledge Revivals)

Author: John K. Evans

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-02-04

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 1317810287

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J.K. Evans’ pioneering work explores the profound changes in the social, economic and legal condition of Roman women, which, it is argued, were necessary consequences of two centuries of near-continuous warfare as Rome expanded from city-state to empire. Bridging the gap that has isolated the specialised studies of Roman women and children from the more traditional political and social concerns of historians, J.K. Evans’ investigation ranges from Cicero’s wife Terentia to the anonymous spouse of the peasant-soldier Ligustinus, charting the severe erosion of the very institutions that kept women and children in thrall. War, Women and Children in Ancient Rome will be of interest not only to classicists and historians of antiquity but also to sociologists and anthropologists, while it will similarly prove an indispensable reference work for historians of women and the family.

Primitive Classification (Routledge Revivals)
Primitive Classification (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Emile Durkheim

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-12-15

Total Pages: 163

ISBN-13: 1135174318

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In this influential work, first published in English in 1963, Durkheim and Mauss claim that the individual mind is capable of classification and they seek the origin of the ‘classificatory function’ in society. On the basis of an intensive examination of forms and principles of symbolic classification reported from the Australian aborigines, the Zuñi and traditional China, they try to establish a formal correspondence between social and symbolic classification. From this they argue that the mode of classification is determined by the form of society and that the notions of space, time, hierarchy, number, class and other such cognitive categories are products of society. Dr Needham’s introduction assesses the validity of Durkhiem and Mauss’s argument, traces its continued influence in various disciplines, and indicates its analytical value for future researches in social anthropology.