Социология

‘An inspirational call to arms’ DAILY MAIL‘This book is so sensible, so substantially researched, so briskly written, so clear in its arguments, that one wishes Baroness Cavendish was still whisp…

How do people think about their identities? How do they express themselves individually and as part of collective groups, social movements, organizations, neighborhoods, or nations? <br />&…

George Herbert Mead taught philosophy and social psychology at the University of Chicago for almost 40 years (from 1894 until his death in 1931). During those years he published many articles and…

At the start of the twentieth century, the pre-eminent black sociologist, W.E.B. DuBois, identified the color line as America's great problem. While the color line is increasingly variegated…

The Borgias Celebrated Crimes by Alexandre Dumas <br/> libreka classics – These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audience. Immerse yourself in well-known a…

Latin America has experienced a profound transformation in the first two decades of the 21st century: it has been fully incorporated into the global economy, while excluding regions and populatio…

We are what we know. We know what is handed down. Our daily life is organised by «historical narrations». Universally. To judge over the validity of «historical narrations» and of history, we mus…

The history of migration is deeply entangled with colonialism. To this day, colonial logics continue to shape the dynamics of migration as well as the responses of states to those arriving at the…

This book aims to provide a better understanding of how human cultures interact with climate change over an extended period of time. It is an analysis of the past and present, ranging from the fi…

[b]THE COMMODIFICATION GAP[/b] ‘In an elegant and careful theoretical analysis, this book demonstrates how gentrification is always entwined with institutions and distinctive contextual processes…

The study of ecological systems is often impeded by components that escape perfect observation, such as the trajectories of moving animals or the status of plant seed banks. These hidden componen…

Sarah Nettleton’s [i]The Sociology of Health and Illness[/i] has become a cornerstone text, popular with students and academics alike for its rigorous and accessible overview of the field. Buildi…

The digital revolution has not only transformed multiple aspects of social life – it also shakes sociological theory, transforming the most basic assumptions that have underlain it. In this timel…

Skin is the border of our body and, as such, it is that through which we relate to others but also what separates us from them. Through skin, we speak: when we display it, when we tan it, when we…

The Inhumanity of Socialism by Edward Francis Adams <br/> libreka classics – These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audience. Immerse yourself in well-know…

In &apos;The Principles of Sociology&apos; Spencer rejected the sociology of Auguste Comte&apos;s positivism and made some valuable contributions to early sociology, attempting to reformulate soc…

In a world of increasingly heated political debates on migration, relentlessly caught up in questions of security, humanitarian crisis, and cultural “problems,” this book radically shifts the foc…

[b]An accessible and comprehensive introduction to key concepts in globalization written by leading authors in the field [/b] In the comprehensively revised Third Edition of [i]Globalization: A B…

An economic and military superpower with 20 percent of the world’s population, China has the wherewithal to transform the international system. Xi Jinping’s bold calls for China to “lead in the r…

We commonly think of society as made of and by humans, but with the proliferation of machine learning and AI technologies, this is clearly no longer the case. Billions of automated systems tacitl…