Compiled by the acknowledged leaders in environmental career information, The Complete Guide to Environmental Careers in the 21st Century is a completely revised and updated edition of what has become the standard reference on the subject. Organized for ease of use and fully updated to reflect ongoing changes in environmental ......
Anthony Giddens is widely recognized as one of the most important sociologists of the post-war period, but few works have placed his theory in the context of other theoretical positions and research traditions. Consequently, there is a vagueness about what is unique or different about Giddens' social theory. This volume guides the reader through Giddens' early attempts to overcome the duality of structure and agency. Giddens himself saw this duality as a major failing of social theories of modernity and his bid to solve the problem can be regarded as the key to the development of his trademark "structuration theory". The book investigates the ways in which Giddens' approach to agency and institutions draws on theorists such as Wittgenstein and Goffman, who failed to develop a "macro" approach to sociology. It then turns to his theory of modernity. Here the book examines themes which have become cornerstones of Giddens' later work: the transformation of modern intimacy and sexuality, and the fate of politics in late modern society. The text systematically relates Giddens' theoretical concepts to modern social theory, comparing and contrasting his work with major currents in this area, inclding the work of Habermas, Foucault, Bourdieu, Elias and Parsons, and with schools of thought such as feminism, ethnomethodology, Marxism, symbolic interactionism and postmodernism. The text incorporates insights from many different perspectives into Giddens' theory of structuration, his work on the formation of cultural identities, the dynamics of modernity and the fate of the nation-state.
With contributions by musicians, music critics, scholars and people in the music industry, this book discusses popular music and the process by which it has been mythologized by its audience, its chroniclers and its analysts.
With contributions by musicians, music critics, scholars and people in the music industry, this book discusses popular music and the process by which it has been mythologized by its audience, its chroniclers and its analysts.
Christopher Dawson (1889-1970) has been widely praised as one of the most important Catholic historians of the twentieth century. Commended for his sophisticated approach to history, Dawson focused much of his writing on the important relationship between religion and culture. This volume is the first edited collection of Dawson's works to appear ......
This collection contains twenty-seven new essays on American paranoia drawn from a range of disciplines, including American studies, film studies, history, literature, religious studies, and sociology. It's arranged by topic and largely in chronological order, explore manifestations of fear throughout the history of the United States. Approaching ......
By identifying some of the distinctive commu nication practices in Chinese culture, and interpreting the dynamics, the authors offer a realistic and clear illustrati on of the specific characteristics of Chinese communication. '
This text offers a broad-ranging survey of social and cultural theory while issuing a challenge to contemporary cultural studies' emphasis on speculation, rather than observation. The authors invite readers to question their participation in both dominant and sub-cultural practices by providing perspectives on the everyday through ethnography, ......
This work explains what is understood by the term "new social movements", and provides a critical assessment of identity politics. It examines a range of issues including neo-tribalism associated with identity politics and alternative lifestyles, and challenges those who treat new social movements as instances of wider social change while often ignoring their more "local" and "dispersed" importance. The text questions what it means to adopt an identity that is organized around issues of expressivism and offers a series of non-reductionist ways of looking at identity politics. By analyzing expressive identities through issues of performance, spaces of identity and the "occasion", the author argues that the significance of identity politics and the changes it brings about within society are local, plural, situated adn topologically complex, challenging the still persistent singular idea of new social movements as historical agents of change.
