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  • SAVING SOCIETY
    BERNARD S PHILLIPS / DAVID CHRISTNER
    Why do many problems throughout the world seem to be getting worse? Saving Society argues that a dramatic change in our mode of thinking is required. The authors show how many of our fundamental assumptions lead to an overly bureaucratic approach, blocking solutions to many of our problems. They contrast our present emotional repression and conforming behaviour with a more libe...

    $3,000.00

  • UNDERSTANDING TERRORISM
    BERNARD S PHILLIPS
    Two fundamental problems within the social sciences are the failure to integrate the existing segments of knowledge and a very limited ability to point out directions for solving social problems, given that lack of integrated knowledge.This volume illustrates the integrated work of seven sociologists to reverse this situation not only for the problem of terrorism but also for a...

    $1,899.00

  • GOFFMAN UNBOUND!
    THOMAS J. SCHEFF / BERNARD S PHILLIPS / HAROLD KINCAID
    "Thomas Scheff demonstrates why Goffman remains such a key figure for social scientists. Goffman may have been cautious about recognizing the role of emotions in social life, but Scheff boldly and creatively shows why the sociological and the psychological are necessarily intertwined. This is certainly a book for all serious analysts of social behaviour." Michael Billig, Nottin...

    $1,399.00

  • ARMAGEDDON OR EVOLUTION?
    BERNARD S PHILLIPS
    We are currently experiencing a wide range of evolving problems that threaten us with extinction. However, Phillips argues that we have the capacity-with the aid of a broad approach to the scientific method that builds on Mills's concept of "the sociological imagination"-to confront these problems ever more effectively. This book develops and builds upon new methods for address...

    $899.00

  • BUREAUCRATIC CULTURE AND ESCALATING WORLD PROBLEMS
    BERNARD S PHILLIPS / J. DAVID KNOTTNERUS / BERNARD S PHILLIPS
    On the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The Sociological Imagination by C. Wright Mills, the 'bureaucratic ethos' that he described continues to define our world more than ever before. In Bureaucratic Culture and Escalating World Problems eleven contributors systematically continue and develop Mills' broad vision of the scientific method. They analyse escalating burea...

    $939.00

  • INVISIBLE CRISIS OF CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY
    BERNARD S PHILLIPS / LOUIS C. JOHNSTON
    Is there a growing gap in today's world between cultural aspirations and their fulfillment, a gap that is increasing social problems of all kinds? If so, what forces are producing that gap? How can these forces be changed? To answer these questions, Phillips and Johnston employ a very broad approach to the scientific method, drawing evidence from a wide variety of data and sour...

    $779.00