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The New Common: How the COVID-19 Pandemic is Transforming Society

Springer, 2021

This open access book presents the scientific views of some fifty experts on how they believe the COVID-19 pandemic is currently affecting society, and how it will continue to do so in the years to come. Using the concept of a “common” (in the sense of common values, common places, common goods, and common sense), they...

Social Solidarity and the Gift

Cambridge University Press, 2004

This book is the result of more than ten years of research and teaching about the themes of the gift and solidarity. It all started in 1992 when, in conversations with anthropologist Willy Jansen, I was put on the track of the gift literature. This was followed by an invitation from the Dutch newspaper Trouw on the occasion of its fiftieth...

International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (9 vol. set)

Macmillan Technical, 2007

Late in 2004 I received a telephone call from Hélène Potter, director of new product development for Macmillan Reference USA—an imprint of Gale. I did not realize immediately that it was the telephone call that would shape a large share of my intellectual activity for the next three years. In fact, I recall hearing about a...

Detecting the Social: Order and Disorder in Post-1970s Detective Fiction

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

This book analyses the ways in which twenty-first century detective fiction provides an understanding of the increasingly complex and often baffling contemporary world ? and what sociology, as a discipline, can learn from it.

Conventional sociological accounts of fiction generally comprehend its value in terms of...

Artificial General Intelligence (Cognitive Technologies)

Springer, 2007

This is the first book on current research on artificial general intelligence (AGI), work explicitly focused on engineering general intelligence – autonomous, self-reflective, self-improving, commonsensical intelligence. Each author explains a specific aspect of AGI in detail in each chapter, while also investigating the common themes in...

Populism and World Politics: Exploring Inter- and Transnational Dimensions (Global Political Sociology)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This volume is the first to analyze populism’s international dimension: its impact on, and interaction with, foreign policy and international politics. The contributions to this volume engage conceptual theoretical issues and overarching questions such as the still under-specified concept of populism or the importance of leadership and the...

Nonviolence and Peace Psychology (Peace Psychology Book Series)

Springer, 2009

Recent trends and events worldwide have increased public interest in nonviolence, pacifism, and peace psychology as well as professional interest across the social sciences. "Nonviolence and Peace Psychology" assembles multiple perspectives to create a more comprehensive and nuanced understanding of the concepts and phenomena of...

Bloomsbury, Modernism, and the Reinvention of Intimacy

Cambridge University Press, 2011

Bloomsbury, Modernism, and the Reinvention of Intimacy integrates the studies of three 'inner circle' members of the Bloomsbury group and three 'satellite' figures into a rich narrative of early twentieth-century culture. Wolfe shows how numerous modernist writers felt torn. On the one hand, they doubted the...

Attitudes and Opinions

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004

Notable advances resulting from new research findings, measurement approaches, widespread uses of the Internet, and increasingly sophisticated approaches to sampling and polling, have stimulated a new generation of attitude scholars. This extensively revised edition captures this excitement, while remaining grounded in scholarly research....

Handbook of Politics: State and Society in Global Perspective (Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research)

Springer, 2009

Political sociology is the interdisciplinary study of power and the intersection of personality, society and politics. The field also examines how the political process is affected by major social trends as well as exploring how social policies are altered by various social forces.

Political sociologists increasingly use a wide variety...

A Sociology of Shame and Blame: Insiders Versus Outsiders

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book presents a novel approach to framing the concept of stigma, and understanding why and how it functions.

Graham Scambler extends his analysis beyond common social interactionist understandings of stigma by linking experiences to the larger social structure?the political economy. A Sociology of...

Understanding Criminology: Current Theoretical Debates (Crime and Justice)

Open University Press, 2007

"Provides a very clear, easily readable introduction to the wide range of criminological theories.". Anne Rees, University of Portsmouth, UK

What does contemporary criminological theory look like? .
What impact, if any, does it have on policy?

The new edition of this...

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