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Pathologies of Powerby Paul Farmer
University of California Press 2004; US$ 15.16Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist with twenty years of experience working in Haiti, Peru, and Russia, argues that promoting the social and economic rights of the world's poor is the most important human rights struggle of our time. In Pathologies of Power Farmer uses harrowing stories of life - and death - in extreme situations to link the lived experiences of individual victims to a broader analysis of structural violence. Yet this book is far from a hopeless inventory of abuse. Farmer's disturbing examples are linked to a guarded optimism that new medical and social technologies will develop in tandem with a more informed sense of social justice. more...
Transgressionby Chris Jenks
Routledge 2003; US$ 45.99Ranges widely over the history of ideas, major theorists and the formation of the idea of transgression. Also looks at the definition of the social and its boundaries by Durkheim, Douglas and Freud, at the German tradition of Hegel and Nietzsche, more...
The State and Life Chances in Urban Chinaby Xueguang Zhou
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 30.00Using life history information of a national sample of urban residents, this book examines how shifting state policies and political processes led to drastic fluctuations of oppurtunities in education attainment, employment, promotions, and economic benefits over the 45-year history and over individuals' life courses. more...
Social Inequalities in Comparative Perspectiveby Fiona Devine; Mary Waters
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2008; US$ 129.95This unique collection of original essays brings a comparative perspective to issues of social inequality. First-rate sociologists from around the world have contributed to this exciting and rigorous volume, drawing upon their own research in the fields of race and ethnicity, class and inequality, and gender and sexuality. Contains original essays by first-rate scholars on issues of social inequalities around the world Features research and examples from the USA, Canada, UK, Australia, France, Portugal, Finland, and Japan Reviews research on issues of social inequalities from the fields of race, class, and gender Reflects on methodological issues and the strengths of qualitative research Provides students with an important overview of... more...
Equalityby John Baker; Kathleen Lynch; Sara Cantillon; Judy Walsh
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2004; US$ 124.00Integrating normative and empirical issues and applying a common framework to a wide range of contemporary inequalities, this work argues for egalitarian changes in the economy, politics, law, education and research and for innovative political strategies in order to achieve aims. more...
Cultures of Fetishismby Louise J. Kaplan
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 50.00Explores the fetishism strategy, a psychological defense that aims to tame, subdue, and if necessary, murder human vitalities. Through an exploration of cultural phenomena, this work demonstrates how an understanding of the fetishism strategy can help to preserve the human dialogue that is the basis of all human relationships. more...
The Politics of Antisocial Behaviourby Stuart Waiton
Taylor & Francis 2007; US$ 113.00By providing a new criminological framework for understanding the fear of crime, The Politics of Antisocial Behaviour re-poses the increasingly important debate around antisocial behaviour and the internationally understood idea of moral panics. more...
Accounting for Rapeby Irina Anderson; Kathy Doherty; Jane Ussher
Taylor & Francis 2007; US$ 29.95Accounting for Rape presents an original perspective on the subject of rape and sexual violence by scrutinising existing social psychological research on rape and, in particular, rape perception research more...
Stigmatization, Tolerance and Repairby Anton J. M. Dijker; Willem Koomen
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 39.00A thorough examination of how peoples responses to deviant conditions are dependent on their individual backgrounds. more...
The Cycle of Deviant Behaviorby Howard B. Kaplan; Glen C. Tolle
Springer 2006; US$ 99.00Presents a study on criminal and antisocial behaviour. This book presents an integrative theory of deviant behaviour, synthesizing social stress, social control, societal labelling, and other perspectives. It describes the intergenerational cycle of deviant behaviour and identifies the relationship between deviance and its significant correlates. more...