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  • A CONTEMPORARY INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY
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    A CONTEMPORARY INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY
    JEFFREY ALEXANDER / JEFFREY C. ALEXANDER / KENNETH THOMPSON / LAURA DESFOR EDLES / MOSHOULA CAPOUS-DESYL
    The influential authors significantly update their popular introductory text that invites students to reflect on their lives in the context of the combustible leap from modern to postmodern life. The authors show how culture is central to understanding many world problems as they challenge readers to confront the problems and possibilities of an era in which the futures of the ...

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  • TRUTH AND TRAGEDY
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    TRUTH AND TRAGEDY
    KENNETH THOMPSON
    Featuring a new fifty-page interview with Hans J. Morgenthau by Bernard Johnson, this volume on the renowed scholar and philosopher demonstrates how pervasive is his mark on the study of international relations and political philosophy. The interview illuminates Morgenthau's intellectual development in Europe between the world wars and in the United States. It is in recognition...

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  • MORAL PANICS
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    MORAL PANICS
    KENNETH THOMPSON
    It is widely acknowledged that this is the age of moral panics. From the Bulger case to mad cow disease, newspaper headlines continually warn of some new danger and television programmes echo the theme with sensational docmenturies. This concise survey will help student trace the development of ideas of moral panic and to analyse how changing public perceptions are shaped and r...

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  • READINGS FROM EMILE DURKHEIM
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    READINGS FROM EMILE DURKHEIM
    KENNETH THOMPSON
    Emile Durkheim is regarded as a founding father of sociology, and is studied in all basic sociology courses. This handy textbook is a key collection of translations from Durkheim's major works. ...

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  • EMILE DURKHEIM
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    EMILE DURKHEIM
    PROF KENNETH THOMPSON
    This book examines Durkheim's considerable achievements and situates them in their social and intellectual contexts, with a concise account of the major elements of Durkheim's sociology. The book includes a critical commentary on the four main studies which exemplify Durkheim's contribution to sociology: The Division of Labour in Society; Suicide; The Rules of Sociological Meth...

    $1,439.00

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  • CULTURE & PROGRESS:ESC V8
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    CULTURE & PROGRESS:ESC V8
    KENNETH THOMPSON
    First published in 2003. This final volume in the VIII-volume set titled The Early Sociology of Culture, deals with human culture, and confines itself neither to contemporary life nor to Western European civilization. The author argues that, if the volume demonstrates an inadequacy of the methods used in interpreting culture and progress, the study is justified. The chapters ar...

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  • WHAT CAN NANOTECHNOLOGY LEARN FROM BIOTECHNOLOGY?: SOCIAL AND ETHICAL LESSONS FOR NANOSCIENCE FROM THE DEBATE OVER AGRIFOOD BIOTECHNOLOGY AND GMOS
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    WHAT CAN NANOTECHNOLOGY LEARN FROM BIOTECHNOLOGY?: SOCIAL AND ETHICAL LESSONS FOR NANOSCIENCE FROM THE DEBATE OVER AGRIFOOD BIOTECHNOLOGY AND GMOS
    DAVID, KENNETH / THOMPSON, PAUL B.
    What Can Nanotechnology Learn From Biotechnology? presents diverse perspectives on biotechnology and nanotechnologies. Avoiding extreme perspectives, unwarranted hype and absolute rejection, this book explores the diverse territory of proponents and opponents of challenging but potentially risky technologies. Contributions from recognized experts in their fields represent the p...

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  • KEY QUOTATIONS IN SOCIOLOGY
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    KEY QUOTATIONS IN SOCIOLOGY
    KENNETH THOMPSON / KEN THOMPSON
    Jean Baudrillard on consumption: `It is not defined by the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the car we drive ... but in the organization of all this as signifying substance ... Consumption, in so far as it is meaningful, is a systematic act of the manipulation of signs.' Auguste Comte on science and sociology: `From science comes prevision; from prevision comes action (Savoir ...

    $459.00

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