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Ungleichheiten im "Dritten Reich"
Wallstein Verlag 2012; US$ 17.63Hauptbeschreibung Das NS-Regime schuf eine dynamische Ordnung der Ungleichheit, die jedem Einzelnen seinen gesellschaftlichen Platz zuwies. Aus dem Inhalt: Nicole Kramer/Armin Nolzen: Einleitung Gerhard Wolf: Auf dem Weg in eine "völkisch" und "rassisch" stratifizierte Gesellschaft: die Deutsche Volksliste im Wartheland Andrea Löw: Die Erfahrung... more...
Social Inequalities in Comparative Perspective
Wiley 2008; US$ 142.95This 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... more...
The Politics of Antisocial Behaviour
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 43.95Antisocial behaviour is becoming a universally accepted problem and one that dominates the political and popular imagination. By providing a new criminological framework for understanding the fear of crime, this book reposes the increasingly important debate around antisocial behaviour and the internationally understood idea of moral panics. Through... more...
How to Cause a Scandal
Scribe Publications 2010; US$ 21.99We all relish a good scandal - the larger the figure (governor, judge) and more shocking the particulars (diapers, cigars), the better. But why do people feel compelled to act out their tangled psychodramas on the national stage, and why do we so enjoy watching them, hurling our condemnation while savouring every lurid detail? With 'pointed daggers... more...
On the Currency of Egalitarian Justice, and Other Essays in Political Philosophy
Princeton University Press 2011; US$ 95.00G. A. Cohen was one of the most gifted, influential, and progressive voices in contemporary political philosophy. At the time of his death in 2009, he had plans to bring together a number of his most significant papers. This is the first of three volumes to realize those plans. Drawing on three decades of work, it contains previously uncollected articles... more...
The Egalitarian Conscience
OUP Oxford 2006; US$ 109.99The Egalitarian Conscience pays tribute to the highly influential work of Professor G. A. Cohen. Professor Cohen is a philosopher of international stature and tremendous achievement, who has been vital to the flourishing of egalitarian political philosophy. He has a significant body of work spanning issues of Marxism and distributive justice, consistently... more...
The Ashgate Research Companion to Moral Panics
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 149.95The Ashgate Research Companion to Moral Panics offers a comprehensive assemblage of cutting-edge critical and theoretical perspectives on the concept of moral panic. All chapters represent original research by many of the most influential theorists and researchers now working in the area of moral panic, including Nachman Ben-Yehuda and Erich Goode,... more...
The State and Life Chances in Urban China
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...
Equality
Palgrave Macmillan 2004; US$ 44.00How can egalitarian ideals be put into action? This ground-breaking book sets out a new interdisciplinary model for equality studies. Integrating normative questions about the ideal of equality with empirical issues about the nature of inequality, it applies a new framework to a wide range of contemporary inequalities. Proposing far-reaching changes... more...
Stigmatization, Tolerance and Repair
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 41.00A thorough examination of how peoples responses to deviant conditions are dependent on their individual backgrounds. more...









