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  • Cultureby Chris Jenks

    Taylor and Francis 1993; US$ 49.95

    Culture provides a comprehensive introduction to one of the buzz words of today. It argues that we must locate it within traditions of thought and not treat it as a modern invention or discovery. more...

  • Childhoodby Chris Jenks

    Routledge 1996; US$ 174.00

    In this fascinating book Chris Jenks thoroughly examines the concept of childhood. He focuses on the way the image of the child is played out in society, looking specifically at its image through history and the reality of child abuse. more...

  • Cultural Reproductionby Chris Jenks

    Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 45.95

    This timely and lively book teems with new insights and speculations about how culture is reproduced. Drawing on a wide range of perspectives, it will be recognized as a key text in the sociology of culture and cultural studies. more...

  • Visual Cultureby Chris Jenks

    Routledge 1995; US$ 57.95

    This collection of original and exciting essays explores the 'visual' character of contemporary culture. Examining film, painting, propaganda, photography and television, this is an indispensible guide to this field. more...

  • Transgressionby Chris Jenks

    Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 50.95

    Transgression is truly a key idea for our time. Society is created by constraint and boundaries, but as our culture is increasingly subject to uncertainty and flux we find it more and more difficult to determine where those boundaries lie. In this fast moving study, Chris Jenks ranges widely over the history of ideas, the major theorists, and the... more...

  • Thought as a Systemby Chris Jenks

    Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 33.95

    Bohm suggests that collective thought and knowledge have become so automated that we are in large part controlled by them, with a subsequent loss of authenticity, freedom and order. more...

  • Childhoodby Chris Jenks

    Taylor and Francis 2005; US$ 51.95

    In this book Chris Jenks looks at what the ways in which we construct our image of childhood can tell us about ourselves. After a general discussion of the social construction of childhood, the book is structured around three examples of the way the image of the child is played out in society: the history of childhood from medieval times through... more...

  • Cultureby Chris Jenks

    Routledge 2004; US$ 43.95

    This book, updated throughout and with new sections on visual culture, urban culture and subcultures, argues that to understand the concept we need to locate it within traditions of thought and appreciate its political and ideological bases. more...

  • Subcultureby Chris Jenks

    SAGE Publications 2004; US$ 47.95

    This illuminating book, which explores the idea of subcultures, traces the concept back to the works of Tonnies and Durkheim. Jenks also analyses subcultures in American urban sociology and criminology. Finally, he evaluates the work of Stuart Hall and the Birmingham School and argues for the continuing relevance of subcultures. more...

  • Rationality, Education and the Social Organization of Knowledege (RLE Edu L)by Chris Jenks

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 105.00

    The manner in which we variously come to an understanding of our world presents problems for us all, but the unified method by which we ought best to acquire such knowledge represents the particular problem of contemporary education. This important book seeks to explore some of the underlying practises and assumptions that go to produce and sustain... more...