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Book Review: Ordinary Ethics in China
Drawing on a wide range of anthropological case studies, this book examines the kinds of moral and ethical issues that emerge (sometimes almost unnoticed) in the flow of everyday life in Chinese...
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Book Review: The Future of Social Movement Research: Dynamics, Mechanisms,...
Are the dynamics of contention changing? This is the question confronted by the contributors of this volume. The answers, arriving at a time of extraordinary worldwide turmoil, aim not only to provide...
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The books that inspired Mike Savage: “The highlight of my visits to London...
Mike Savage is Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics. In this new series of academic inspiration essays, Mike talks us through some of the books to have had the biggest impact on...
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Book Review: The Oxford Handbook of Criminological Theory
The Oxford Handbook of Criminological Theory is organized not around schools of thought but around themes that shape much thinking about and research on crime. This more unconventional approach seeks...
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The books that inspired Carli Ria Rowell: “Bev Skeggs’ work motivates me...
Continuing our Academic Inspiration series, ESRC doctoral student at the University of Warwick and Post Graduate Ambassador for the British Sociological Association Carli Ria Rowell reflects on how the...
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Book Review: Beyond Citizenship? Feminism and the Transformation of Belonging
Is citizenship is a worthwhile object for feminist politics and scholarship, or should a different language be used to express belonging and equality? Beyond Citizenship? Feminism and the...
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Book Review: Lush Life: Constructing Organized Crime in the UK by Dick Hobbs
Lush Life makes a timely contribution to social scientific knowledge of organized crime in a period of substantial criminal justice and police restructuring, writes Karen Lumsden. In this essential...
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Book Review: Precarious Japan by Anne Allison
In an era of irregular labour, nagging recession, nuclear contamination, and a shrinking population, Japan is facing precarious times. How the Japanese experience insecurity in their daily and social...
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Book Review: C. Wright Mills and the Sociological Imagination: Contemporary...
This book is a collection of essays offering current perspectives on C. Wright Mills’ influence on the field of sociological research, specifically focussing on his most famous work- The Sociological...
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The books that inspired Craig Calhoun: “Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age has...
From 24th of February to 1st March 2014 the London School of Economics will hold its 6th Annual Literary Festival, under the theme ‘Reflections’. The festival will explore how the social sciences and...
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Book Review: The Approaching Great Transformation: Toward a Liveable...
The Approaching Great Transformation is Joel Magnuson‘s take on how communities around the world are shifting away from consumer culture and reliance on fossil fuels and moving towards ethical...
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Book Review: Returns: Becoming Indigenous in the Twenty-First Century by...
It was once widely assumed that native and tribal societies were destined to disappear under the shadow of globalization. Sooner or later, irresistible economic and political forces would complete the...
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Book Review: Introducing Qualitative Research: A Student’s Guide, 2nd...
In this book, Rose Barbour sets out to provide a clear, user-friendly introduction to the craft of doing qualitative research. The author’s writing style and the inclusion of numerous anecdotes from...
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Book Review: The Education of David Martin: The Making of an Unlikely...
David Martin‘s autobiography offers surprising and often moving insights into his life, times and intellectual development. As Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the LSE he gives readers a...
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Book Review: A Sociology of Culture, Taste and Value by Simon Stewart
This book sets out to explore sociological debates in relation to culture, taste and value. Simon Stewart argues that sociology can contribute to debates about aesthetic value and to an understanding...
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Book Review: Punk Sociology by David Beer
This book explores the possibility of drawing upon a punk ethos to inspire sociology and to cultivate a vibrant future for the discipline. Aiming to fire the sociological imaginations of sociologists...
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In focusing on what literature can tell us about various aspects of African American life, including housing, earnings, assets, unemployment, household […]
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Sexual Fields: Toward a Sociology of Collective Sexual Life provides an innovative and productive way of thinking about how sexual attitudes, […]
View ArticleBook Review: What Use is Sociology? Conversations with Zygmunt Bauman,...
This conversational book with Zygmunt Bauman looks at the usefulness of sociology with an aim to inspire future conversations about […]
View ArticleBook Review: Underground Sociabilities: Identity, Culture, and Resistance in...
Dedicated to the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, to their people and their history, Underground Sociabilities showcases research into how […]
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