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Accounting for Rape
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 46.95Accounting for Rape presents an original perspective on the subject of rape, focusing on both female and male sexual violence. The authors investigate everyday beliefs about rape, to examine how blaming the victim and the normalization of rape are achieved by people in a discussion about sexual violence. They synthesize discursive psychology and... more...
Achsen der Ungleichheit
Campus Verlag 2007; US$ 26.95Hauptbeschreibung Gesellschaftliche Ungleichheit wurde lange Zeit vor allem anhand von »Klasse« thematisiert. Inzwischen hat sich der Fokus um andere Konfliktlinien erweitert. In diesem Band werden die unterschiedlichen Relationen von Ungleichheit in den Dimensionen von Klasse, Geschlecht und Ethnizität bestimmt und in einen gesellschaftstheoretischen... 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...
Stratification
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 53.95Offering a fresh and exciting new perspective on differentiation and inequality, this absorbing book investigates how our most personal choices (of sexual partners, friends, consumption items and lifestyle) are influenced by hierarchy and social difference. Exploring the topics of assortative mating; social capital; friendship networks and cultural... more...
THE HANDBOOK OF DEVIANT BEHAVIOR
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 47.95The Handbook of Deviant Behavior presents a comprehensive, integrative, and accessible overview of the contemporary body of knowledge in the field of social deviance in the twenty-first century. This book addresses the full range of scholarly concerns within this area ? including theoretical, methodological, and substantive issues ? in over seventy... more...
Understanding Social Inequality
SAGE Publications 2006; US$ 50.00Moving beyond the traditional dichotomies of social theory, Understanding Social Inequality brings the study of social stratification and inequality into the 21st century. Starting with the widely agreed "fact" that the world is becoming more unequal, this book pulls together the "identity of displacement" in sociology and the "spaces of flow" of... more...
Living on the Boundaries
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012; US$ 114.95This anthology describes and analyzes the living conditions of marginalized persons in cities and neighborhoods across the globe and the consequential impact on their future social mobility. Chapters focus on key issues that include immigration, educational underachievement, urban renewal, public health, immigration, homelessness, environmental issues,... more...
On the Currency of Egalitarian Justice, and Other Essays in Political Philosophy
Princeton University Press 2011; US$ 25.95G. 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...
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...
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...









