Edited by Emmanuel Lazega, Tom A.B. Snijders, Rafael P.M. Wittek
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‘The editors, both renowned migration and gender scholars, have assembled a hugely impressive array of authors to rethink the global narratives which structure our understanding of gender and migration. Especially innovative is the focus...
‘Taking seriously the task of rethinking economics, Richard Wagner has gone to the centre of it. We are spirited beings capable of hoping, hating, learning, and doing, not flesh-covered robots enslaved to our programming. Our liberty of ...
‘The Politics of the Public Encounter unpacks an evolving and increasingly complex, sometimes confronting interaction between citizens and their governments. This book helps to understand how changing communication processes, transformin...
‘This timely book provides a fresh outlook on youth sociology, using historical perspectives to highlight the contrasts between different theories in the field while critically analysing contemporary scientific and methodological debates...
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‘In recent years, the concept of social capital has become a widely cited but often misused black box deployed willy-nilly to explain any number of societal outcomes. Karen Cook’s masterful Advanced Introduction to Social Capital fills i...
‘This book serves as testimony to the power of the historical imagination. Cerroni demonstrates a remarkable ability to navigate between the Ancient and Modern Canon. His reconstruction of the Greek myths compels us to rethink the sociol...
Edited by Katja Freistein, Bettina Mahlert, Sigrid Quack, Christine Unrau
‘This exciting collection combines sharp theoretical analysis with a rich array of illuminating case studies to show the powerful role played by creative human imagination in shaping transformative processes of global cooperation. In dep...
‘A Research Agenda for COVID-19 and Society provides impressive critical analyses and innovative research reflections on the complex social consequences of the SARS-CoV 2 pandemic. The volume has compelling contributions from social scie...
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