Utopia: Social Theory and the Future
In the light of globalization's failure provide the universal panacea expected by some of its more enthusiastic proponents, and the current status of neo-liberalism in Europe, a search has begun for alternative visions of the future; alternatives ...
Postmortal Society
Throughout history mankind has struggled to reconcile itself with the inescapability of its own mortality. This book explores the themes of immortality and survivalism in contemporary culture, shedding light on the varied and ingenious ways in whi...
Contemporary Goffman
The sociology of Erving Goffman has inspired generations of sociologists throughout the world. Students and scholars alike have in Goffman's unsurpassable and generous ability to capture the world of everyday life discovered an emporium of useful,...
Age of Spectacular Death
This book explores death in contemporary society - or more precisely, in the 'spectacular age' - by moving beyond classic studies of death that emphasised the importance of the death taboo and death denial to examine how we now 'do' death. Unfoldi...
Encountering the Everyday: An Introduction to the Sociologies of the Unnoticed
Everyday life is something we tend to take for granted, something that just is, something unnoticed. But everyday life is perhaps the most important dimension of society – it's where we live most parts of our lives with each other. This book provides a clear, contemporary and comprehensive overview of the sociologies of everyday life. Looking at everyday activities and experiences, from language and emotions to popular culture and leisure, Encountering the Everyday explores what social structures, orders and processes mean to us on a daily basis. The book carefully leads the reader through historical developments in the field, beginning at the earlier Chicago school and finishing with up-to-date ideas of postmodernism and interactionism. Each chapter relates theoretical ideas directly to case studies and real empirical research to make complex concepts and core issues accessible, relevant and engaging. Written by leading international scholars in the field, this truly global book will
Emotions, Everyday Life and Sociology
This volume explores the emotions that are intricately woven into the texture of everyday life and experience. A contribution to the literature on the sociology of emotions, it focuses on the role of emotions as being integral to daily life, broad...
Poetics of Crime
The Poetics of Crime provides an invitation to reconsider and reimagine how criminological knowledge may be creatively and poetically constructed, obtained, corroborated and applied. Departing from the conventional understanding of criminology as ...
Beyond Bauman
Bringing together leading interpreters of Zygmunt Bauman's sociology, this volume thinks with and beyond Bauman's work in order to show its continued relevance as a theory in its own right, as an object of criticism and as a stepping stone towards...
Humanitarianism and Modern Culture
It seems paradoxical that in the West the predominant mode of expressing concern about suffering in the Third World comes through participation in various forms of popular culture-such as buying tickets to a rock concert like Live Aid in 1985-rath...
Civil Society
This major study discusses some of the meanings and preconditions of freedom, responsibility and social order. The author argues that these are problems of modernity. The imagination of civil society created a milieu which was at once the location...
What Use is Sociology?
What's the use of sociology? The question has been asked often enough and it leaves a lingering doubt in the minds of many. At a time when there is widespread scepticism about the value of sociology and of the social sciences generally, this short...
Liquid Criminology
This book explores the ways in which criminological methods can be imaginatively deployed and developed in a world increasingly characterized by the blurred nature of social reality. Whilst recognizing the importance of positivist approaches and r...
Exploring Grief
As modern society's routine sequestration of death and grief is increasingly replaced by late-modern society's growing concern with existential issues and emotionality, this book explores grief as a social emotion, bringing together contributions ...
Transformation of Modernity
This title was first published in 2001: For over 30 years it has been argued that contemporary society is undergoing a fundamental transformation. The portrait of the modern society or modernity offered by philosophers and social scientists from H...
The Social Thought of Erving Goffman
Part of the SAGE Social Thinker series, this book serves as a concise and inviting introduction to the life and works of Erving Goffman, one of the most prominent social theorists in postwar sociology. Goffman's ideas continue to influence s...
Conversations with Zygmunt Bauman
Zygmunt Bauman is one of the leading figures in contemporary social thought. His work ranges across issues of ethics, culture and politics. It never forgets that social thought ought to help men and women make sense of their lives and aspire towar...
After the Cosmopolitan?
After the Cosmopolitan? argues that both racial divisions and intercultural dialogue can only be understood in the context of the urbanism through which they are realized. All the key debates in cultural theory and urban studies are covered in det...
Imaginative Methodologies in the Social Sciences
Imaginative Methodologies in the Social Sciences develops, expands and challenges conventional social scientific methodology and language by way of literary, poetic and other alternative sources of inspiration, as sociologists, social workers, ant...
Imaginative Methodologies in the Social Sciences
Imaginative Methodologies in the Social Sciences develops, expands and challenges conventional social scientific methodology and language by way of literary, poetic and other alternative sources of inspiration, as sociologists, social workers, ant...
Not A Wake: A dream embodying (pi)'s digits fully for 10000 decimals
Not A Wake: A dream embodying (pi)'s digits fully for 10000 decimals
Routledge International Handbook of Goffman Studies
This book explores the fertility and enigma of Erving Goffman's sociological reasoning and its capacity to shed fresh light on the fundamental features of human sociality. Thematically arranged, it brings together the work of leading scholars of G...
Egendomliga Fåglar I Din Närmiljö
Nu är den äntligen här - den efterlängtade guiden till alla de märkliga fågelarter som har dykt upp i vår omgivning. Vi är många som konstaterat att faunan inte är sig lik. Den ena fågeln är underligare än den andra. Vad är det för inbunden gök som sitter och trycker i ett hörn? Vem är den vassnäbbade individ som sprätter runt på golfbanan? Och vad är det för ett enfaldigt fjäderfä som slänger massor av gammalt bröd i våra kommunala vatten? Förvirringen har varit stor och frågorna många. Men nu finns svaren nära till hands tack vare denna behändiga kolorerade handbok som tagits fram i nära samarbete med MIFO (sällskapet för missförstådda ornitologer). Här kan du råka dem alla: Hacksprätt (Bracca vulgaris), Klänganka (Succulentus pestilens), Pausfågel (Soelis corvus) och många fler av våra besynnerliga bevingade vänner.
Esajas' Bog
Esajas’ Bog, dette storslåede værk fra Det Gamle Testamente, læses af cand.theol. og sognepræst ved Kastelskirken Else Hviid. Det er 18. bog i forlagets serie Bibelen læst af … Blandt profetlitteraturen i Det Gamle Testamente finder vi Esajas’ Bog. Vi kender det smukke digt, fordi der læses fra det i gudstjenesten på alle fire adventssøndage, ligesom vi flittigt synger ’Blomstre som en rosengård’ mens vi venter på, at der skal blive jul. Esajasbogens poetiske og billedskabende sprog er enestående og Esajas er både en historisk person og en litterær figur. Det handler om dom og frelse i skriftet, der er forfattet mellem 700-400 f.Kr. Else Hviid har beskæftiget sig med denne tekst gennem hele sit lange præstevirke, og man kan nu nyde frugten af hendes refleksioner i denne livs- og verdensnære læsning. Esajas’ Bog handler om Gud og menneskers liv med hinanden. Om krig og kærlighed, håbløshed og forventning, pligt og mod, liv og død, sorg og glæde. Digtere, malere og komponister har
Critical and Cultural Interactionism
One of the longest standing traditions in sociology, interactionism is concerned with studying human interaction and showing how society to a large part is constituted by patterns of interaction. In spite of the work of figures such as Robert E. Park, Everett C. Hughes, Erving Goffman, Herbert Blumer, Norman K. Denzin and Gary Alan Fine, interactionism – perhaps owing to its association with the perspective of symbolic interactionism – remains something of an odd man out in mainstream sociology. This book seeks to rectify this apparent neglect by bringing together critical social theories and microsociological approaches to research, thus revealing the critical and cultural potentials in interactionism – the chapters arguing that far from being oriented towards the status quo, interactionism in fact contains a critical and cultural edge. Presenting the latest work from some of the leading figures in interactionist thought to show recent developments in the field and offer an overview
The Poetics of Crime
The Poetics of Crime provides an invitation to reconsider and reimagine how criminological knowledge may be creatively and poetically constructed, obtained, corroborated and applied. Departing from the conventional understanding of criminology as a discipline concerned with refined statistical analyses, survey methods and quantitative measurements, this book shows that criminology can - and indeed should - move beyond such confines to seek sources of insight, information and knowledge in the unexplored corners of poetically and creatively inspired approaches and methodologies. With chapters illustrating the ways in which criminologists and other researchers or practitioners working on crime-related questions can find inspiration in a variety of unconventional materials, writing styles and analytical strategies, The Poetics of Crime offers studies of police photography, classic and contemporary literature, silver screen movies, performative dance enactments and media images. As such,
Dark Emotions
Dark Emotions is a book about a range of emotional experiences that are often regarded or characterized as ‘negative’, ‘disturbing’ or ‘dark’ as contrasted with emotions that are ‘positive’, ‘pleasant’ or ‘light’. Each chapter in the book is devoted to introducing different ‘dark emotions’ such as disappointment, betrayal, worry, regret, resentment and alienation and seeks to show – through conceptual, theoretical and empirical examples – how these emotions influence peoples’ lives and their relations to self, others and society. The book thus provides an overview of some dark emotions that are recognizable in our everyday lives and culture. It contains accessible introductions and relevant theoretical and empirical research on 12 different kinds of ‘dark emotions’. The chapters are highly useful for teaching sessions and research contexts. Additionally, they provide extensive lists of references for further reading. The book will be particularly useful for students or scholars with
Invitation to Existential Psychology
Existential psychology examines how people deal with the biggest issues - such as finding meaning in life and facing death. It deals with many of the same problems as psychoanalysis and analytical psychology, but emphasises the view that one can u...
History of Western Astrology
`Superb general account.' Times Literary Supplement The story of the history of Western astrology begins with the philosophers of Greece in the 5th century BC. To the magic and stargazing of Egypt the Greeks addednumerology, geometryand rational t...
Crisis Management By Apology
This volume examines the role of apologia and apology in response to public attack. Author Keith Michael Hearit provides an introduction to these common components of public life, and considers a diverse list of subjects, from public figures and i...
Jean-Paul Marat
A landmark biography of one of the most notorious and controversial protagonists of the French Revolution-Jean-Paul Marat. ¿ Who better to pen an authoritative biography of Jean-Paul Marat (1743-93) than preeminent historian of France Keith Michae...
Human Rights and Asian Values
The Asian challenge to the universality of human rights has sparked off intense debate. This volume takes a clear stand for universal rights, both theoretically and empirically, by analysing social and political processes in a number of East and S...
The American University in a Postsecular Age
For much of the twentieth century, it was assumed that higher education was and ought to be a secular enterprise, but that approach no longer suffices. The culture has shifted, and contemporary college and university students are increasingly brin...