Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: joe bailey

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  • SOCIAL THEORY FOR PLANNING
    JOE BAILEY
    Planners necessarily use theories of how society works. More often than not, however, these were left unstated or confused. As the scope of planning increased in the 1970s it became vital that planners adopted a more refined approach to the social life which they tried to influence. Originally published in 1975, Social Theory for Planning brings to the attention of an important...

    $1,480.00

  • IDEAS AND INTERVENTION (RLE SOCIAL THEORY)
    JOE BAILEY
    Theorizing in sociology has increasingly become a self-generating and self-fulfilling activity, as sociologists absorb theory as an isolated and formalist part of their discipline. Joe Bailey believes that sociological theory should be a contribution to practical social intervention. His book presents a practical view of social theorizing as an activity at which sociologists ar...

    $1,320.00

  • SOCIAL EUROPE
    JOE BAILEY
    Since the first edition of Social Europe was published in 1992 profound social changes have occurred throughout Europe as a result of conflicting pressures on the one hand to become more integrated and on the other to protect national interests and identity. This second edition of Social Europe has been fully revised to provide a comprehensive and focused account of basic socia...

    $1,120.00

  • PESSIMISM - BAILEY
    JOE BAILEY
    First Published in 1988. Pessimism is a peculiar idea. It is either seen as a psychological problem or as a metaphysical issue, but in neither sense is it treated as useful or illuminating or in any way relevant to our understanding of the world. It is the thesis of this book that pessimism and optimism are unavoidable kinds of social judgment of the future which we all display...

    $660.00