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What Is This Thing Called Science?

by Alan Chalmers

33,91€ + 10% CARD

 A new edition of a classic text in the philosophy of science illuminating the major developments in the field.
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Stata Survival Manual

by David Pevalin e Karen Robson

39,21€ + 10% CARD

 The book will guide you through the research process offering further reading where more complex decisions need to be made and giving 'real world' examples from a wide range of disciplines and anecdotes that clarify issues for readers.
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Theorizing Sexuality

by Stevi Jackson e Sue Scott

32,85€ + 10% CARD

 The book confronts the anxieties associated with sexuality in the late modern, western world and engages with wider debates on social transformations in late modernity. As such, it provides both an overview of the field of sexuality as well as setting a new agenda for debating the topic.
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Policy

by H Colebatch

31,79€ + 10% CARD

 Policy is key reading for the student studying the subject, the public official or community activist engaged in making policy, and the interested member of the public who wants to know where policy comes from, and why it matters.
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Perspectives On Welfare

by Alan Deacon

33,91€ + 10% CARD

 Provides an introduction to the debates about the future direction of welfare reform on both sides of the Atlantic. This work outlines a range of different perspectives on welfare, and shows how each of them rests upon a different assumption about the role and purpose of welfare policy and a different understanding of human nature and motivation.
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Making Sense Of Social Movements

by Nick Crossley

32,85€ + 10% CARD

 Offers an outline of the main thesis of social movements and offers a perspective, based upon the work of the social theorist, Pierre Bourdieu. This book is intended for sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists and social psychologists.
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Democracy

by Anthony Arblaster

31,79€ + 10% CARD

 Looks at the history of both the theory and practice of democracy, and the fierce opposition it has often provoked. This book argues that democracy remains a relevant ideal and a challenge to much conventional political thinking, as well as to the centralizing tendencies of global power.
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Sociology Of Sex And Sexuality

by Gail Hawkes

36,03€ + 10% CARD

 A Sociology of Sex and Sexuality offers an historical sociological analysis of ideas about expressions of sexual desire, combining both primary and secondary historical and theoretical material with original research and popular imagery in the contemporary context.
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Comparative Social Policy

by Patricia Kennett

33,91€ + 10% CARD

 Suggests that cross-national research must go beyond its traditional boundaries of the nation state and the bureaucratic system of state-based provision. This work encourages an approach that incorporates a recognition of global processes, as well as the role of non-state elements in welfare provision.
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Social Exclusion

by David Byrne

30,73€ + 10% CARD

 'Social Exclusion' is a key phrase in social policy and social politics across most of contemporary Europe. This book explores developments in social theory, social experience and social policy in relation to Social Exclusion.
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Ethnography

by John Brewer

34,97€ + 10% CARD

 Sets out the competing methodological bases of the subject and details its different uses as a research method. This book offers guidelines for good practice in the research process, as well as advice on the analysis, interpretation and presentation of ethnographic data.
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Surveying The Social World

by Alan Aldridge

31,52€ + 10% CARD

 Presents a technique for gathering information and opinions from individuals, organizations and community groups. This book explains the potential of the survey method and the ways it can be used effectively when resources are limited.
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Surveillance Society

by David Lyon

33,91€ + 10% CARD

 Takes a post-privacy approach to surveillance with a fresh look at the relations between technology and society. This book gives an overview of current research on and developments in surveillance, including closed circuit TV and biometrics, illustrated by empirical examples.
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Discourse

by David Howarth

31,79€ + 10% CARD

 The concept of discourse is used in a variety of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. By drawing upon existing empirical accounts, this book shows how this conception of discourse theory is used to analyse central issues in social science research.
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Education In A Post-Welfare Society

by Sally Tomlinson

33,91€ + 10% CARD

 Presents an examination of the relationship of education policy to social class, race, gender and the economy, paying attention to the educational disadvantages of some ethnic groups and refugee children. This book includes chronologies of education acts, reports and initiatives and summaries of major legislation.
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Work, Consumerism And The New Poor

by Zygmunt Bauman

33,91€ + 10% CARD

 It is one thing to be poor in a society of producers and universal employment; it is quite a different thing to be poor in a society of consumers. This book considers how effective different ways of fighting poverty and relieving its hardships are. It features discussion of work on redundancy, disposability and exclusion.
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Drama In Performance

by Raymond Williams

29,00€ + 10% CARD

 Covers a method of dramaturgical rather than literary-critical analysis of plays, locating dramatic texts in the conditions and conventions of their original performance and reading them to disclose their performance potentialities.
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Class

by Richard Scase

27,81€ + 10% CARD

 Presents an introduction to the analysis of social class. This book highlights the importance of social class in Western capitalist society, characterized by relations of exploitation, against a background of the failure of Soviet and East European state socialism.
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Childhood And Society

by Nick Lee

33,91€ + 10% CARD

 Adulthood is no longer lived as a state of personal completion. Careers, intimate relationships, even identities, are increasingly provisional. Does this mean that there is no significant difference between adults and children? This book examines these issues through assessments of theories of childhood in a globalizing and mediated social world.
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Citizenship In A Global Age

by Gerard Delanty

30,20€ + 10% CARD

 This book provides a comprehensive and concise overview of the main debates on citizenship and the implications of globalization. It argues that citizenship is no longer defined by nationality and the nation state, but has become de-territorialized and fragmented into the separate discourses of rights, participation, responsibility and identity.
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Families, Violence And Social Change

by Linda Mckie

30,73€ + 10% CARD

 Tackles assumptions surrounding the family as a changing institution and supposed haven from the public sphere of life. This book considers families and social change in terms of concepts of power, inequality, gender, generations, sexuality and ethnicity. It develops a theory of social change and families through a critical and pragmatic stance.

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