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Media Sociology And Journalism - Studies In Truth And Democracy

by Greg Nielsen

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 While the alt right and post-truth attitudes render democracy fragile, so does professional journalism when it reports on the most vulnerable subjects in society but rarely addresses them as the imagined audience. A dialogical critique of divisions in news media, politics, and contemporary sociological theory can provide an alternative way forward.
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Occupational Devotion: Finding Satisfaction And Fulfillment At Work

by Robert Stebbins

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 The devotee occupations serve as full-time or part-time livelihoods for people fortunate enough to have found them. Such work has so far been observed to exist in four sectors of the economy: the liberal professions, consulting occupations, skilled trades, and small business proprietors. Devotee work roots in serious leisure.
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Our Emotions And Culture - How Modern Life Changes Us

by E Doyle Mccarthy

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 In the current global social landscape, emotions have become important in peopleâ€™s lives. Doyle McCarthy, in Culture and Our Emotions, explains in highly accessible terms how this came about and how our lives have been changed in the process.
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Karl Marx'S 'Capital': A Guide To Volumes Iâ€“Iii

by Kenneth Smith

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 This book provides a comprehensive guide to all three volumes of Karl Marxâ€™s Capital, with advice on further reading and points for further discussion.
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A Player'S Guide To The Post-Truth Condition - The Name Of The Game

by Steve Fuller

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 This book is a shorter, more accessible and updated follow-up to Post-Truth: Knowledge as a Power Game, which remains the only book that sheds a largely hopeful light on our post-truth condition across a wide range of intellectual fields and public affairs, including Brexit, Trump and the COVID-19 pandemic.
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A Player'S Guide To The Post-Truth Condition - The Name Of The Game

by Steve Fuller

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 This book is a shorter, more accessible and updated follow-up to Post-Truth: Knowledge as a Power Game, which remains the only book that sheds a largely hopeful light on our post-truth condition across a wide range of intellectual fields and public affairs, including Brexit, Trump and the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Network Persistence And The Axis Of Hierarchy - How Orderly Stratification Is Implicit In Sticky Struggles

by Steven Rytina

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 "Network Persistence and the Axis of Hierarchy" shows how networks, modestly redefined as a strong, yet imperfect tendency for pairings to recur day after day, that is, stickiness, imply a singular axis of stratification. This is contrary to the nearly universal insistence that stratification is multidimensional. Reanalysis of three central mobility data sets sustains the novel claim.
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Post-Truth - Knowledge As A Power Game

by Steve Fuller

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 â€˜Post-truthâ€™, Oxford Dictionaryâ€™s 2016 word of the year, appears to cover only the turn away from reason in contemporary politics. In fact the truth behind â€˜post-truthâ€™ is historically and philosophically more complex. As Fuller shows in this book, it reaches into the nature of knowledge itself.
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Toward Leader Democracy

by Andras Korosenyi e Jan Pakulski

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 â€˜Toward Leader Democracyâ€™ investigates how todayâ€™s liberal democratic regimes are increasingly moving toward a pronounced focus on political leaders and their image, and explores the mechanics, evolution and implications of this phenomenon.
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The Legacy Of Pierre Bourdieu - Critical Essays

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 This volume explores the sociological legacy of the late Pierre Bourdieu through an examination of the intellectual division between his reception in the world of French social sciences and his reception in the Anglophone world.
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Religion And The State - A Comparative Sociology

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 This volume explores key issues in the modern tensions between state and religions by exploring a number of case studies from around the world.
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Responsible Citizens - Individuals, Health And Policy Under Neoliberalism

by B. J. Brown e Sally Baker

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 â€˜Responsible Citizensâ€™ reveals how rising emphasis on the individual has gone hand in hand with an increase in subtle authoritarianism â€" particularly within public services â€" such that a kind of â€˜governance through responsibilityâ€™ is today being enforced upon the population.
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Overseas Chinese Christian Entrepreneurs In Modern China - A Case Study Of The Influence Of Christian Ethics On Business Life

by Joy Kooi-Chin Tong

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 Inspired by Max Weberâ€™s thesis on the Protestant ethic, this volume examines the influence of Christianity on overseas Chinese entrepreneurs working in China during its transition from a centrally-planned economy toward a market economy under Communist rule.
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A. N. Whitehead And Social Theory - Tracing A Culture Of Thought

by Michael Halewood

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 This book outlines A.N. Whiteheadâ€™s philosophy of process and uses it to re-orient a range of topics within social theory, namely: the relation of language and the body; sexual difference and conceptions of nature; the question of realism; the concept of the social; and capitalism as process.
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A Guide To Marx'S 'Capital' Vols Iâ€“Iii

by Kenneth Smith

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 This book provides a comprehensive guide to all three volumes of Karl Marxâ€™s â€˜Capitalâ€™, with advice on further reading and points for further discussion.
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Sixties Radicalism And Social Movement Activism - Retreat Or Resurgence?

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 'Sixties Radicalism and Social Movement Activism' explores and re-analyses major events, debates and themes from the radical developments of the nineteen sixties and relates them to contemporary social movements and issues.
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Corporate Wrongdoing And The Art Of The Accusation

by Robert R. Faulkner

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 This book addresses an old and basic question: what is the moral order of the market? â€˜Corporate Wrongdoing and the Art of the Accusationâ€™ is an exploration of accusations of wrongdoing and the revelations these accusations expose about the dark side of capitalism and modern corporations.
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Psychoanalytic Mythologies

by Ian Parker

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 â€˜Psychoanalytic Mythologiesâ€™ presents a collection of essays on the theme of what it is to be a human subject in a culture permeated by psychoanalytic imagery.
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Nationalizing The Body - The Medical Market, Print And Daktari Medicine

by Projit Bihari Mukharji

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 â€˜Nationalizing the Bodyâ€™ examines the different meanings of â€˜modern medicineâ€™ that were employed in colonial South Asia, and explores the different discourses that were constructed around â€˜modernityâ€™.
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Media Sociology And Journalism - Studies In Truth And Democracy

by Greg Nielsen

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 While the alt right and post-truth attitudes render democracy fragile, so does professional journalism when it reports on the most vulnerable subjects in society but rarely addresses them as the imagined audience. A dialogical critique of divisions in news media, politics, and contemporary sociological theory can provide an alternative way forward.
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The Art And Science Of Sociology - Essays In Honor Of Edward A. Tiryakian

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 A festschrift honoring the work of Edward A. Tiryakian, consisting of a large number of essays.
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Structure, Agency And Biotechnology - The Case Of The Rothamsted Gm Wheat Trials

by Aristeidis Panagiotou

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 â€œStructure, Agency, Biotechnologyâ€ argues for the significance of sociological theory and highlights the insights that it can offer into the study of agricultural biotechnology.
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Ib Music Revision Guide, 3rd Edition - Everything You Need To Prepare For The Music Listening Examination (Standard And Higher Level 2019-2021)

by Roger Paul

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 The IB Music Revision Guide 3rd Edition
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Our Emotions And Culture - How Modern Life Changes Us

by E Doyle Mccarthy

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 In the current global social landscape, emotions have become important in peopleâ€™s lives. Doyle McCarthy, in Culture and Our Emotions, explains in highly accessible terms how this came about and how our lives have been changed in the process.
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