Professor Ralph Schroeder's Books

Sociology in Question

By: Professor Pierre Bourdieu

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The works of Pierre Bourdieu occupy a central place in the current development of world sociology. This volume offers an accessible but challenging introduction to Bourdieu's ideas. In a series of discussions, lectures and interviews, the range of Bourdieu's ideas is laid out and its relation to other disciplines and other sociological schools is explored. The issues developed include the sociology of culture, leisure and taste; the intrinsic reflexivity of social science; and the role of language in society and social sciences.

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1446236846

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9781446236840

Risk Society

Towards a New Modernity

By: Professor Ulrich Beck

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Risk Society

Towards a New Modernity

By: Professor Ulrich Beck

This panoramic analysis of the condition of Western societies has been hailed as a classic. This first English edition has taken its place as a core text of contemporary sociology alongside earlier typifications of society as postindustrial and current debates about the social dimensions of the postmodern. Underpinning the analysis is the notion of the risk society'. The changing nature of society's relation to production and distribution is related to the environmental impact as a totalizing, globalizing economy based on scientific and technical knowledge becomes more central to social organization and social conflict.

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272

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1446223426

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9781446223420

Economies of Signs and Space

By: Professor Scott M Lash,Scott Lash John Urry,Professor John Urry

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Economies of Signs and Space

By: Professor Scott M Lash,Scott Lash John Urry,Professor John Urry

This is a novel account of social change that supplants conventional understandings of society' and presents a sociology that takes as its main unit of analysis flows through time and across space. Developing a comparative analysis of the UK and US, the new Germany and Japan, Lash and Urry show how restructuration after organized capitalism has its basis in increasingly reflexive social actors and organizations. The consequence is not only the much-vaunted postmodern condition' but also a growth in reflexivity. In exploring this new reflexive world, the authors argue that today's economies are increasingly ones of signs - information, symbols, images, desire - and of space, where both signs and social subjects - refugees, financiers, tourists and "fl[ci]aneurs " - are mobile over ever greater distances at ever greater speeds.

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376

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1446227162

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9781446227169

Orientalism, Postmodernism and Globalism

By: Professor Bryan S Turner

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Orientalism, Postmodernism and Globalism

By: Professor Bryan S Turner

It is often thought that the development of capitalism and the modernization of culture have brought about a profound decline of religious belief and commitment. The history of Christianity in the last two decades appears to be a good illustration of this general process of secularization with the undermining of belief and commitment as Western cultures became industrial and urban. However, in the twentieth century we have seen that Islam continues to be a dominant force in politics and culture not only in the Orient but in Western society. In this challenging study of contemporary social theory, Bryan Turner examines the recent debate about orientalism in relation to postmodernism and the process of globalization. He provides a profound critique of many of the leading fissures in classical orientalism. His book also considers the impact of the notion of the world in sociological theory. These cultural changes and social debates also reflect important change in the status and position of intellecuals in modern culture who are threatened, not only by the levelling of mass culture, but also by the new opportunities posed by postmodernism. He takes a critical view of the role of sociology in these developments and raises important questions about the global role of English intellectuals as a social stratum. Bryan Turner's ability to combine these discussions about religion, politics, culture and intellectuals represents a remarkable integration of cultural analysis in cultural studies.

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245

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Routledge

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1134839405

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9781134839407

Computer Analysis and Qualitative Research

By: Dr Nigel G G Fielding,Nigel Fielding Raymond M. Lee,Professor Raymond M Lee

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Computer Analysis and Qualitative Research

By: Dr Nigel G G Fielding,Nigel Fielding Raymond M. Lee,Professor Raymond M Lee

The use of computers in qualitative research has redefined the way social researchers handle qualitative data. Two leading researchers in the field have written this lucid and accessible text on the principal approaches in qualitative research and show how the leading computer programs are used in computer-assisted qualitative data analysis (CAQDAS). The authors examine the advantages and disadvantages of computer use, the impact of research resources and the research environment on the research process, and the status of qualitative research. They provide a framework for developing the craft and practice of CAQDAS and conclude by examining the latest techniques and their implications for the evolution of qualitative research.

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1446228150

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9781446228159

Max Weber's Comparative-Historical Sociology Today

Major Themes, Mode of Causal Analysis, and Applications

By: Professor Stephen Kalberg

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Max Weber's Comparative-Historical Sociology Today

Major Themes, Mode of Causal Analysis, and Applications

By: Professor Stephen Kalberg

Bringing together the author's major scholarly work on Weber over the last thirty years , offering a rich examination of the major themes in his sociology, alongside a reconstruction of his mode of analysis and application of his approach, this book will appeal to scholars around the world with interests in social theory, German and American societies, cultural sociology, political sociology, the sociology of knowledge, comparative-historical sociology, and the sociology of civilizations.

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353

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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140949537X

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9781409495376

Confusion of Tongues

A Theory of Normative Language

By: Stephen Finlay (Professor)

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Confusion of Tongues

A Theory of Normative Language

By: Stephen Finlay (Professor)

Can normative words like "good," "ought," and "reason" be defined in non-normative terms? Stephen Finlay argues that they can, advancing a new theory of the meaning of this language and providing pragmatic explanations of the especially problematic features of its moral and deliberative uses which comprise the puzzles of metaethics.

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289

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199347492

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9780199347490

The People's State

East German Society from Hitler to Honecker

By: Mary Fulbrook,Professor of German History Mary Fulbrook

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The People's State

East German Society from Hitler to Honecker

By: Mary Fulbrook,Professor of German History Mary Fulbrook

An insight into the experience of life within the East German dictatorship

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Yale University Press

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0300108842

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9780300108842

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Sociology in Question

Sociology in Question

Risk Society

Risk Society

Economies of Signs and Space

Economies of Signs and Space

Orientalism, Postmodernism and Globalism

Orientalism, Postmodernism and Globalism

Computer Analysis and Qualitative Research

Computer Analysis and Qualitative Research

Max Weber's Comparative-Historical Sociology Today

Max Weber's Comparative-Historical Sociology Today

Confusion of Tongues

Confusion of Tongues

The People's State

The People's State

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