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This series presents cutting-edge developments and debates within the field of sociology. It provides a broad range of case studies and the latest theoretical perspectives, while covering a variety of topics, theories and issues from around the world. It is not confined to any particular school of thought.

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The Pragmatics of Governmental Discourse Resilience, Sustainability and Wellbeing

The Pragmatics of Governmental Discourse: Resilience, Sustainability and Wellbeing

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By Ayan-Yue Gupta
August 16, 2024

This book presents a novel methodological framework for analysing governmental discourse that combines pragmatist perspectives on language with computational sociolinguistics and large language models. The first half engages with critical traditions of discourse analysis such as Critical Discourse ...

What is the Sociology of Philosophy? Studies of Swedish and Scandinavian Philosophy

What is the Sociology of Philosophy?: Studies of Swedish and Scandinavian Philosophy

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By Carl-Göran Heidegren, Henrik Lundberg
August 09, 2024

This book introduces the sociology of philosophy as a research field, asking what can be gained by looking at the discipline of philosophy from a sociological perspective and how to go about doing it, as presented through three case studies of 20th-century Swedish and Scandinavian philosophy. After...

Visibilities and Invisibilities of Race and Racism Toward a New Global Dialogue

Visibilities and Invisibilities of Race and Racism: Toward a New Global Dialogue

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Edited By Yasuko Takezawa, Faye V. Harrison, Akio Tanabe
July 31, 2024

Takezawa, Harrison, Tanabe and their contributors present a multi-sited, transnational, and intercultural perspective on racism, shifting its emphasis away from the conventional North Atlantic interpretive frameworks to better understand its fundamental nature. Racism is not a uniquely ...

A Sociological Approach to Commodification The Case of Transforming the Post-Socialist Society in Poland

A Sociological Approach to Commodification: The Case of Transforming the Post-Socialist Society in Poland

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By Marek Ziółkowski, Rafał Drozdowski, Mariusz Baranowski
June 14, 2024

This book analyses the processes of commodification and decommodification which have wrought changes in Polish society since 1945. Examining the case of Poland, this book also explores comparisons to other countries in the Eastern European region. It is the first book to capture long-term social ...

Magic, Science and Society

Magic, Science and Society

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By Alex Dennis
June 14, 2024

Magic, Science and Society investigates the way the ‘rationality debate’ has developed over the last century, from E.E. Evans-Pritchard’s study of Azande magic, through Peter Winch’s argument that there can be no such thing as a social science, across the arguments about the proper status of ...

Radical Ecology in the Face of the Anthropocene Extinction A New and Urgent Philosophy for Complexity in the Social Sciences

Radical Ecology in the Face of the Anthropocene Extinction: A New and Urgent Philosophy for Complexity in the Social Sciences

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By John Smith, Anna Wilson
June 14, 2024

This book has two interlocking ambitions. The first is to steer what we purposefully call the idioms of critical philosophy towards a more ecologically-informed paradigm. The second is to recognise that what has rightly come to be called The Anthropocene Extinction is not and cannot be treated as ...

Academic Freedom and Precarity in the Global North Free as a Bird

Academic Freedom and Precarity in the Global North: Free as a Bird

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Edited By Aslı Vatansever, Aysuda Kölemen
May 27, 2024

With contributions from six leading scientific countries of the Global North and from the general European Higher Education Area, this book questions the predominant view on academic freedom and pleads for a holistic approach. While academic freedom has been a top agenda point for the global ...

Capitalisms and Democracies Can Growth and Equality be Reconciled?

Capitalisms and Democracies: Can Growth and Equality be Reconciled?

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Edited By Carlo Trigilia
May 27, 2024

This book examines steadily-growing increases in inequality within Western capitalist democracies, examining with care the differences between these democracies rooted in their culture and institutions. It highlights the differences in growth and inequalities between different countries, pointing ...

Class Boundaries in Europe The Bourdieusian Approach in Perspective

Class Boundaries in Europe: The Bourdieusian Approach in Perspective

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Edited By Cédric Hugrée, Étienne Penissat, Alexis Spire, Johs. Hjellbrekke
May 27, 2024

Drawing inspiration from Pierre Bourdieu’s social space theory, this book provides an unprecedent overview of class relations, covering topics such as class polarisation, cultural reproduction, political orientations, and globalisation. The book applies Bourdieusian social space approach to show ...

Covid-19 Responses of Local Communities around the World Exploring Trust in the Context of Risk and Fear

Covid-19 Responses of Local Communities around the World: Exploring Trust in the Context of Risk and Fear

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Edited By Khun Eng Kuah, Gilles Guiheux, Francis K.G. Lim
May 27, 2024

Presenting a wide range of international case studies, the contributors to this book study the impact of Covid-19 on the risks faced by communities around the globe. Examining cases from the Americas, Europe and Asia – including Mexico, Brazil, China, India, France, and Belgium – Kuah, Guiheux, Lim...

Framing Social Theory Reassembling the Lexicon of Contemporary Social Sciences

Framing Social Theory: Reassembling the Lexicon of Contemporary Social Sciences

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Edited By Paola Rebughini, Enzo Colombo
May 27, 2024

This book proposes a reconstruction of contemporary social theory, focusing on thematic issues rather than on authors or schools of thought. In so doing, it endeavours to bridge epistemological approaches and locate critical claims shared by the main trajectories and notions of sociological ...

Happiness and Domestic Life The Influence of the Home on Subjective and Social Well-being

Happiness and Domestic Life: The Influence of the Home on Subjective and Social Well-being

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Edited By Maria Teresa Russo, Antonio Argandoña, Richard Peatfield
May 27, 2024

This book uses a multidisciplinary approach to examine the relationship between the quality of domestic life and the home environment, in its material and relational dimension, with individual and social happiness, in the context of current changes. The theme of happiness and well-being is framed ...

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