This penetrating and informative book provides readers with the perfect systematic critical guide to the file-sharing phenomenon. Combining inter-disciplinary resources from sociology, history, media
The Tourist Gaze, Third Edition restructures, reworks and remakes the groundbreaking previous versions making this successful book even more relevant for tourism students, researchers and designers in
This dynamic, energetic book systematically brings together the major developments in the social and political theory of education. It offers a global introduction to the major debates within the fiel
Blackman (media and communications, U. of London at Goldsmith) theorizes "the thorny question of the body's potential for mediation." She does so "within the context of increasing evidence that sugges
The German sociologist and philosopher Georg Simmel (1858-1918) is recognized as a leading early twentieth-century European social theorist. This collection enables the reader to engage with the full
In his exploration of the interaction between religion and worldwide social and cultural change, the author examines the major theories of global change and discusses the ways in which such change imp
Unrivalled in its clarity and coverage, this sparkling new edition of Chris Shilling’s classic text is a masterful account of the emergence and development of body matters in sociology and related dis
This is Shilling's (sociology, U. of Kent, Canterbury) third edition of the book he wrote in 1993 on various issues with how bodies are understood as purely physical or socially constructed things. Th
"French social and philosophical thought has played a very significant role in the development of European and American social theory. This detailed, timely book provides a map of the production and r
The ??~demotic turn' is a term coined by Graeme Turner to describe the increasing visibility of the ??~ordinary person' in the media today. In this dynamic and insightful book he explores the ??~whys
This is the first book-length study to addresses sport's role in ??~the making of race', the place of sport within black Diasporic struggles for equality, and the contested location of sport in relat
In this unique and agenda-setting examination of the relation between nature and culture, Klaus Eder demonstrates our ideas of nature are culturally determined, and explains how the relation between m
In Spaces of Culture an international group of scholars examines the implications of questions such as: What is culture? What is the relationship between social structure and culture in a globalized a
This new edition of this classic text from one of the major figures of world sociology includes an introduction published in English for the first time. In Norbert Elias's hands, a local community stu
In The Symbol Theory, Norbert Elias draws together three central themes. At the first level the book is concerned with symbols in relation to language, knowing and thinking. Secondly, Elias stresses t
This challenging volume reasserts the centrality of the body within social theory as a means to understanding the complex interrelations between nature, culture and society. At a theoretical level, th
In this book leading social scientists from many countries analyze the extent to which we are seeing a globalization of culture. Is a unified world culture emerging? And if so, how does this relate to
Thrift considers what happened when capitalism began to consider its own practices on a continuous basis, use its fear of uncertainty as a resource, and think of the everyday. He counters critics of c
This is the first comprehensive description of Pierre Bourdieu's theory of culture and habitus. Within the wider intellectual context of Bourdieu's work, this book provides a systematic reading of his
