Beyond Sociology

Author : John Urry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134655458

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Sociology Beyond Societies by John Urry Pdf

In this ground-breaking contribution to social theory, John Urry argues that the traditional basis of sociology - the study of society - is outmoded in an increasingly borderless world. If sociology is to make a pertinent contribution to the post societal era it must forget the social rigidities of the pre-global order and, instead, switch its focus to the study of both physical and virtual movement. In considering this sociology of mobilities, the book concerns itself with the travels of people, ideas, images, messages, waste products and money across international borders, and the implications these mobilities have to our experiences of time, space, dwelling and citizenship. Sociology Beyond Society extends recent debate about globalisation both by providing an analysis of how mobilities reconstitute social life in uneven and complex ways, and by arguing for the significance of objects, senses, and time and space in the theorising of contemporary life. This book will be essential reading for undergraduates and graduates studying sociology and cultural geography.

Author : Ivar Oxaal,Tony Barnett,David Booth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136856938

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Beyond the Sociology of Development by Ivar Oxaal,Tony Barnett,David Booth Pdf

Conceived as a response to the economic naïvety and implicit metropolitan bias of many 1950s and 60s studies of ‘the sociology of development’ , this volume, first published in 1975, provides actual field studies and theoretical reviews to indicate the directions which a conceptually more adequate study of developing societies should take. Much of the book reflects strongly the influence of Andre Gunder Frank, but the contributors adopt a critical attitude to his ideas, applying them in empirical situations within such African and American countries as Kenya, Guyana, Tanzania and Peru. Others pursue the lines of enquiry opened up by Latin American theories of economic ‘dependency’ and by the new school of French economic anthropology.

Author : John Urry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317095149

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Mobilities: New Perspectives on Transport and Society by John Urry Pdf

Bringing together the leading authors currently working at the intersection of social science and transport science, this volume provides a companion to the well-established and extensive international Transport and Society series. Each chapter, and the volume as a whole, offers closer and richer consideration of the issues, practices and structures of multiple mobilities which shape the current world but which have typically been overlooked or minimised. What this approach seeks to do is not only draw attention to many new areas of research and investigation relating to mobile lives, but also to point to new theories and methods by which such lives have to be researched and examined. Such new theories and methods are relevant both to rethinking 'transport' studies as such but are also recasting 'societal' studies as 'transport' so that it comes out of the ghetto and enters mainstream social science.

Author : Ananta Kumar Giri
Publisher : Springer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811066412

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Beyond Sociology by Ananta Kumar Giri Pdf

This book explores the contours of a transformational sociology which seeks to reconsider the horizons of sociological imagination. It questions accepted modernist assumptions such as the equation of society and nation-state, the dualism of individual and society and that of ontology and epistemology. Arguing that contemporary sociology suffers from what Ulrich Beck calls the Nato-like fire power of western sociology, it argues that sociology has to open itself to transcivilizational dialogues and planetary conversations about self, culture and society. The book also challenges scholars to go beyond a privileging of the post-traditional telos of modernist sociology and puts forward a foundational interrogation of modernist sociology. It underscores the limitations of established conventions of sociology and considering an alternative sociology based upon Confucian vision and practice of self-transformation. This collection offers a way to go beyond dominant structures of modern sociology and contemporary dominant ways of thinking about and doing sociology helping us cultivate a transdisciplinary sociology.

Author : Kauko Pietila
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781412930901

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Reason of Sociology by Kauko Pietila Pdf

Published in association with the ISA, and part of the SAGE Studies in International Sociology series, this is a passionate and stimulating exploration of how the work of Georg Simmel can help revitalise and focus the aims of sociology today.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004272217

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Classical Sociology Beyond Methodological Nationalism by Anonim Pdf

Classical Sociology Beyond Methodological Nationalism defends classical sociology from the accusation of ‘methodological nationalism’ and re-evaluates classical sociological thought as a more functional tool for analysing the political forms of modernity in the era of globalisation.

Author : Ivar Oxaal,Tony Barnett,David Booth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136856921

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Beyond the Sociology of Development by Ivar Oxaal,Tony Barnett,David Booth Pdf

Conceived as a response to the economic naïvety and implicit metropolitan bias of many 1950s and 60s studies of ‘the sociology of development’ , this volume, first published in 1975, provides actual field studies and theoretical reviews to indicate the directions which a conceptually more adequate study of developing societies should take. Much of the book reflects strongly the influence of Andre Gunder Frank, but the contributors adopt a critical attitude to his ideas, applying them in empirical situations within such African and American countries as Kenya, Guyana, Tanzania and Peru. Others pursue the lines of enquiry opened up by Latin American theories of economic ‘dependency’ and by the new school of French economic anthropology.

Author : Andrew Tudor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135027902

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Beyond Empiricism by Andrew Tudor Pdf

Originally published in 1982. This volume explores some features of modern philosophy of science from the point of view of their utility for sociology’s self-understanding. Recently philosophers of science have broken with the empiricism once fundamental to their discipline, and have sought alternative methods of science. Founded on the belief that these developments are significant for sociologists, the book explores the failings of the old "received view" and some of the more recent alternatives. It proposes a schematic outline of the structure of inquiry, paying detailed attention to questions about the nature of theory, explanation and demonstration.

Author : John Urry
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0415190894

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Sociology Beyond Societies by John Urry Pdf

Do societies still exist? How should sociology adapt after globalization? This book extends the recent debate about globalisation from the sociological perspective.

Author : Syed Farid Alatas,Vineeta Sinha
Publisher : Springer
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137411341

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Sociological Theory Beyond the Canon by Syed Farid Alatas,Vineeta Sinha Pdf

This book expands the sociological canon by introducing non-Western and female voices, and subjects the existing canon itself to critique. Including chapters on both the ‘founding fathers’ of sociology and neglected thinkers it highlights the biases of Eurocentrism and androcentrism, while also offering much-needed correctives to them. The authors challenge a dominant account of the development of sociological theory which would have us believe that it was only Western European and later North American white males in the nineteenth and early twentieth century who thought in a creative and systematic manner about the origins and nature of the emerging modernity of their time. This integrated and contextualised account seeks to restructure the ways in which we theorise the emergence of the classical sociological canon. This book’s global scope fills a significant lacuna and provides a unique teaching resource to students of classical sociological theory.

Author : Jenifer KUNZ,Claudia STUART
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1524958905

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Sociology by Jenifer KUNZ,Claudia STUART Pdf

Author : Thomas J. Linneman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-20
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781136900389

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Social Statistics by Thomas J. Linneman Pdf

"With just the right level of detail, and a graphically innovative approach, this book carefully guides students through the statistical techniques they will encounter in the real world. The basics, plus multiple regression, interaction effects, logistic regression, non-linear effects, all covered in a non-intimidating way for your students. The book uses three datasets throughout: General Social Survey, American National Election Studies, World Values Survey, and includes SPSS demonstrations at the end of each chapter. Most of your students will likely take only one stats course and use only one stats book in their college careers. This one innovatively equips them for their worlds ahead, regardless of the career paths they follow."--Page [i].

Author : Nahla Abdo
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1998-10-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781551300634

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Sociological Thought by Nahla Abdo Pdf

Sociological Thought: Beyond Eurocentric Theory is designed to provide students of sociology with an alternative vision of social theory. In an exciting and original introduction to the book, Abdo provides an innovative critique of the Eurocentric and male-oriented nature of conventional sociological textbooks, and provides us with a new approach to understanding the field. The horizons of social theory are expanded by the inclusion of a chapter by Rosa Luxemburg and a chapter by the fourteenth century Arab/North African scholar Ibn Khaldun.

Author : Tonya K. Davidson,Ondine Park
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781487594084

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Seasonal Sociology by Tonya K. Davidson,Ondine Park Pdf

Seasonal Sociology offers an engrossing and lively introduction to sociology through the seasons, examining the sociality of consumption practices, leisure activities, work, religious traditions, schooling, celebrations and holidays.

Author : Elizabeth A. Weinberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351148788

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Sociology in the Soviet Union and Beyond by Elizabeth A. Weinberg Pdf

This fascinating and comprehensive volume traces the development, scope and character of sociological research in Russia and subsequently the Soviet Union from the turn of the 20th century to the 1990s. Opening with the lively social debates of pre-Revolution Russia, Elizabeth Weinberg discusses the intellectual factions of the post-Revolutionary period and the eventual replacement of 'idealism' with 'materialism', leading to the emergence of Soviet sociology in 1956. The book examines the methods of research that were accepted as valid for Marxist research, offering a profile of key Soviet sociologists and the research climate in which they operated. It also discusses the main areas of research that predominated in Soviet sociology, with separate chapters on two of the most significant: public opinion research and time-budget studies. This fully revised, newly updated edition of The Development of Sociology in the Soviet Union concludes with a discussion of the involvement of Soviet sociologists in the processes of perestroika and glasnost, and the changing position of sociology from the late 1980s onwards.