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  • FOR SOCIOLOGY
    First published in 2001. For Sociology is not the dogmatic stand of a single discipline against the tide of interdisciplinarity. Rather it is an attempt to explore the nature of sociological argument and the relationship of sociology both to the natural sciences and other social sciences, as well as assessing its role in understanding the complexities of the contemporary world....

    $1,100.00

  • CRADLE TO GRAVE: LIFE-COURSE CHANGE IN MODERN SWEDEN
    JAN O. JONSSON / COLIN MILLS
    The empirical study of individuals' life-course is one of the most promising areas of research within sociology today. Increased availability of large-scale longitudinal data and improved statistical methods have made it possible to address theoretically relevant questions about events such as entrance into the labour market, job mobility, divorce and death. This book consists ...

    $1,640.00

  • MAKING FAMILIES
    JANE RIBBENS MCCARTHY / ROSALIND EDWARDS / VAL GILLIES
    This book goes to the heart of academic, political and popular debates, as well as professional concerns, about the nature of contemporary family life and parenting. Families are widely discussed in western societies as breaking down or as radically changing, with step-families in particular seen as evidence of such trends. In one of the first British in-depth sociological rese...

    $1,260.00

  • IMPERIALISM, LABOUR AND THE NEW WOMAN
    LIZ STANLEY
    Olive Schreiner (1855-1920) was the best-known feminist theorist and writer of her time. Her writings spanned a number of conventionally separate genres (including the novel, short story, allegory, political essay, polemic and theoretical treatise), which she crafted to produce a highly distinctive feminist and analytical 'voice'. A feminist who was contemporaneously an interna...

    $1,560.00

  • A SOCIOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE BRITISH SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
    JENIFFER PLATT
    This book is about the development of sociology in Britain told through the story of its learned society, The British Sociological Association. Learned societies have been neglected in the history of the discipline, though they are a vital part of the social structure of academic life. The BSA has had its internal dynamics, but it has also been affected by external factors rele...

    $1,320.00

  • COTTONS AND CASUALS: THE GENDERED ORGANISATION OF LABOUR IN TIME AND SPACE
    MIRIAM GLUCKSMANN
    Cottons and Casuals explores the connections between women's work in different spheres since the 1930s: paid employment, at home, and in the community. Women's own testimony and an array of other source materials are used to develop new ways of looking at their changing patterns of living and working. The book examines changes in the organisation and commodification of domestic...

    $1,320.00