| Your search for
'Social Theory' in subject
found 35 book(s). | Modify Search | Displaying 1 - 20 of 35 book(s) |
1. | | Title: At the dawn of modernity: biology, culture, and material life in Europe after the year 1000Author: Levine, David 1946- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Sociology | Social Theory | European History | European StudiesPublisher's Description: Looking at a neglected period in the social history of modernization, David Levine investigates the centuries that followed the year 1000, when a new kind of society emerged in Europe. New commercial routines, new forms of agriculture, new methods of information technology, and increased population . . . [more]Similar Items | 2. | | Title: Behind the postmodern facade: architectural change in late twentieth-century America Author: Larson, Magali Sarfatti Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Architecture | Architecture | Philosophy | Politics | American Studies | Sociology | Social TheoryPublisher's Description: Magali Larson's comprehensive study explores how architecture "happens" and what has become of the profession in the postmodern era. Drawing from extensive interviews with pivotal architects - from Philip Johnson, who was among the first to introduce European modernism to America, to Peter Eisenman, . . . [more]Similar Items | 3. | | | 4. | | Title: Classical Telugu poetry: an anthology Author: Nārāyaṇarāvu, Vēlcēru 1932- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Literature | Asian Studies | Hinduism | Poetry | Folklore and Mythology | South Asia | Social Theory | Asian LiteraturePublisher's Description: This groundbreaking anthology opens a window on a thousand years of classical poetry in Telugu, the mellifluous language of Andhra Pradesh in southern India. The classical tradition in Telugu is one of the richest yet least explored of all South Asian literatures. This authoritative volume, the firs . . . [more]Similar Items | 5. | | Title: The collective and the individual in Russia: a study of practicesAuthor: Kharkhordin, Oleg 1964- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | Social Theory | European History | Russian and Eastern European Studies | Intellectual HistoryPublisher's Description: Oleg Kharkhordin has constructed a compelling, subtle, and complex genealogy of the Soviet individual that is as much about Michel Foucault as it is about Russia. Examining the period from the Russian Revolution to the fall of Gorbachev, Kharkhordin demonstrates that Party rituals - which forced eac . . . [more]Similar Items | 6. | | Title: Envisioning power: ideologies of dominance and crisisAuthor: Wolf, Eric R 1923- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Anthropology | Social Theory | Social and Political Thought | Political Theory | Intellectual HistoryPublisher's Description: With the originality and energy that have marked his earlier works, Eric Wolf now explores the historical relationship of ideas, power, and culture. Responding to anthropology's long reliance on a concept of culture that takes little account of power, Wolf argues that power is crucial in shaping the . . . [more]Similar Items | 7. | | Title: The French Revolution and the birth of modernity Author: Fehér, Ferenc 1933- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | Politics | Social TheoryPublisher's Description: Written from widely different perspectives, these essays characterize the Great Revolution as the dawn of the modern age, the grand narrative of modernity. The scope of issues under scrutiny is extremely broad, ranging from the analyses of the hotly debated class character of 1789 and the problem of . . . [more]Similar Items | 8. | | Title: The frontiers of Catholicism: the politics of ideology in a liberal worldAuthor: Burns, Gene 1958- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Sociology | Religion | Social Theory | Gender Studies | Christianity | PoliticsPublisher's Description: Gene Burns examines the origins of contemporary diversity and conflict in the Catholic Church, illuminating as well the processes of ideological change. Similar Items | 9. | | Title: Gimme some truth: the John Lennon FBI filesAuthor: Wiener, Jon Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: American Studies | Politics | Sociology | Social Problems | Music | Social Theory | Cultural Anthropology | LawPublisher's Description: When FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover reported to the Nixon White House in 1972 about the Bureau's surveillance of John Lennon, he began by explaining that Lennon was a "former member of the Beatles singing group." When a copy of this letter arrived in response to Jon Wiener's 1981 Freedom of Informatio . . . [more]Similar Items | 10. | | Title: Going for gold: men, mines, and migrationAuthor: Moodie, T. Dunbar Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Sociology | African Studies | Social Theory | Men and MasculinityPublisher's Description: This book tells the story of the lives of migrant black African men who work on the South African gold mines, told from their own point of view and, as much as possible, in their own words. Dunbar Moodie examines the operation of local power structures and resistances, changes in production techniqu . . . [more]Similar Items | 11. | | Title: History, power, ideology: central issues in Marxism and anthropologyAuthor: Donham, Donald L. (Donald Lewis) Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Anthropology | Social Theory | African StudiesPublisher's Description: Is Marxism a reflection of the conceptual system it fights against, rather than a truly comprehensive approach to human history? Drawing on recent work in anthropology, history, and philosophy, Donald Donham confronts this problem in analyzing a radically different social order: the former Maale kin . . . [more]Similar Items | 12. | | | 13. | | Title: Imperial ideology and provincial loyalty in the Roman EmpireAuthor: Ando, Clifford 1969- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Classics | Classical History | Ancient History | Social TheoryPublisher's Description: The Roman empire remains unique. Although Rome claimed to rule the world, it did not. Rather, its uniqueness stems from the culture it created and the loyalty it inspired across an area that stretched from the Tyne to the Euphrates. Moreover, the empire created this culture with a bureaucracy smalle . . . [more]Similar Items | 14. | | Title: Kitchens: the culture of restaurant workAuthor: Fine, Gary Alan Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Sociology | American Studies | Popular Culture | Social TheoryPublisher's Description: Kitchens takes us into the robust, overheated, backstage world of the contemporary restaurant. In this rich, often surprising portrait of the real lives of kitchen workers, Gary Alan Fine brings their experiences, challenges, and satisfactions to colorful life. He provides a riveting exploration of . . . [more]Similar Items | 15. | | Title: Learning from experience: minority identities, multicultural struggles Author: Moya, Paula M. L Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Literature | American Studies | Ethnic Studies | Chicano Studies | Gender Studies | Social and Political Thought | Politics | Social Theory | ImmigrationPublisher's Description: In Learning from Experience, Paula Moya offers an alternative to some influential philosophical assumptions about identity and experience in contemporary literary theory. Arguing that the texts and lived experiences of subordinated people are rich sources of insight about our society, Moya presents . . . [more]Similar Items | 16. | | Title: Money and the modern mind: George Simmel's Philosophy of moneyAuthor: Poggi, Gianfranco Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Social Science | Philosophy | Economics and Business | Social Theory | European StudiesPublisher's Description: A major representative of the German sociological tradition, Georg Simmel (1858-1918) has influenced social thinkers ranging from the Chicago School to Walter Benjamin. His magnum opus, The Philosophy of Money , published in 1900, is nevertheless a difficult book that has daunted many would-be reade . . . [more]Similar Items | 17. | | Title: Paris as revolution: writing in the nineteenth-century city Author: Ferguson, Priscilla Parkhurst Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | Social Theory | European Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | European History | French StudiesPublisher's Description: In nineteenth-century Paris, passionate involvement with revolution turned the city into an engrossing object of cultural speculation. For writers caught between an explosive past and a bewildering future, revolution offered a virtuoso metaphor by which the city could be known and a vital principle . . . [more]Similar Items | 18. | | Title: Pious passion: the emergence of modern fundamentalism in the United States and IranAuthor: Riesebrodt, Martin Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Religion | Sociology | Social Theory | Middle Eastern Studies | American Studies | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: Martin Riesebrodt's unconventional study provides an extraordinary look at religious fundamentalism. Comparing two seemingly disparate movements - in early twentieth-century United States and 1960s and 1970s Iran - he examines why these movements arose and developed. He sees them not simply as prote . . . [more]Similar Items | 19. | | Title: Politics, death, and the devil: self and power in Max Weber and Thomas MannAuthor: Goldman, Harvey Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Sociology | Social Theory | European History | Literary Theory and Criticism | Political Theory | PhilosophyPublisher's Description: This sequel to Harvey Goldman's well-received Max Weber and Thomas Mann continues his rich exploration of the political and cultural critiques embodied in the more mature writings of these two authors. Combining social and political thought, intellectual history, and literary interpretation, Goldman . . . [more]Similar Items | 20. | | Title: Problematics of sociology: the Georg Simmel lectures, 1995Author: Smelser, Neil J Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Sociology | Social TheoryPublisher's Description: These skillfully written essays are based on the Georg Simmel Lectures delivered by Neil J. Smelser at Humboldt University in Berlin in the spring of 1995. A distillation of Smelser's reflections after nearly four decades of research, teaching, and thought in the field of sociology, the essays ident . . . [more]Similar Items |
|