Sociology and Sociological Theory
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The Principles of Knowledge Creation
Edited by Bengt Gustavsson
The Principles of Knowledge Creation is an essential guide to the various methods of collating, explaining and understanding research data. It provides an overview of the possibilities and opportunities that exist in the research world, ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![Explaining the Economic Success of Singapore]()
Explaining the Economic Success of Singapore
Johnny Sung
Explaining the Economic Success of Singapore explores the transformation of Singapore in the last three decades, going beyond the conventional explanations. The book argues that there was more to the transformation than a simple ‘right p...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Working Mothers in Europe
Edited by Ute Gerhard, Trudie Knijn, Anja Weckwert
Working Mothers in Europe combines comparative perspectives on social policies with analyses of mothers’ practices as evidenced in macro data and as explored in country based case studies. Social policy research has emphasised the impact...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Sustainable Consumption
Edited by Dale Southerton, Heather Chappells, Bas Van Vliet
Sustainable Consumption is unique, not just in its inter-disciplinary and substantive subject matter (changing networks of utility consumption and production), but because it examines empirically the key theoretical debates underpinning ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Exploring the Tomato
Mark Harvey, Stephen Quilley, Huw Beynon
Exploring the Tomato engages with an apparently simple fruit in order to reveal major changes to society and economy. It treats the tomato as an object of fascination and as a probe into major historical changes in twentieth century capi... -
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![The End of Marriage?]()
The End of Marriage?
Jane Lewis
The modern day sees fewer marriages than before, and cohabitation is a major driver of family change. Jane Lewis questions whether this is – as many commentators argue and fear – a sign of ever-increasing individualism. Just as the or... -
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![Capitalism, Socialism, and Radical Political Economy]()
Capitalism, Socialism, and Radical Political Economy
Edited by Robert Pollin
This book demonstrates the continued vibrancy and relevance of radical political economy as a mode of social scientific analysis. Scholars and students in economics, sociology, history, philosophy and political science will find the ess... -
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Surviving Post-communism
K. Roberts, S. C. Clark, C. Fagan, J. Tholen
How do young people survive in the era of high unemployment, persistent economic crises and poor living standards that characterise post-communist society in the former Soviet Union? This major new original book – written by leading aut... -
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![The Formation of a Labour Market in Russia]()
The Formation of a Labour Market in Russia
Simon Clarke
The Russian labour market has been hailed by some economists as being ‘perfectly flexible’ because Russia has achieved enormous employment restructuring with minimal unemployment, and by others as plagued by rigidities since pay structur... -
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Structural Adjustment without Mass Unemployment?
Edited by Simon Clarke
Mass unemployment has usually been seen as a necessary accompaniment to major structural adjustment, yet in Russia, amid economic collapse, enormous structural changes have taken place with remarkably low levels of unemployment. Some ha... -
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Early French Feminisms, 1830–1940
Felicia Gordon, Máire Cross
Early French Feminisms, 1830–1940 is a source book of personal and political writings by Flora Tristan, Pauline Roland, Jeanne Deroin, Hélène Brion and Madeleine Pelletier, five key individuals in the development of women’s rights in Fra... -
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Social Theory and the Crisis of State Socialism
Larry Ray
Drawing on a wide range of social theory, Social Theory and the Crisis of State Socialism offers a comparative analysis of the democratic revolutions, combining historical understanding with accounts of the crisis of communism in Bulgari...
