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Social control

  • Making People Behaveby Elizabeth Burney

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 42.50

    'Anti-social behaviour' has become a label attached to a huge range of nuisance and petty crime, and rarely out of the headlines as tackling this problem has become a central part of the British government's crime control policy. At the same time 'anti-social behaviour' has provided the lever for control mechanisms ranging from the draconian to the... more...

  • The Importance of Being Civilby John A. Hall

    Princeton University Press 2013; US$ 29.95

    Civility is desirable and possible, but can this fragile ideal be guaranteed? The Importance of Being Civil offers the most comprehensive look at the nature and advantages of civility, throughout history and in our world today. Esteemed sociologist John Hall expands our understanding of civility as related to larger social forces--including revolution,... more...

  • Spiritual Capitalby Samuel D. Rima

    Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 99.95

    In Spiritual Capital, Sam Rima makes the case for a new moral foundation or core to business and economics that directly addresses today's financial and business crisis. Based on solid academic research, Rima explains spiritual capital theory in terms of the resources needed for its creation, how it is formed, how it can be invested and what the... more...

  • Reclaiming the Streetsby Roy Coleman

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 133.00

    In an age of mass camera surveillance people in the UK have become the most watched, catalogued and categorised people in the western world, all with little public debate or opposition. Nor has there been much more critical research that understands CCTV within the broader social relations out of which it has grown and consolidated. The aim of this... more...

  • Struggles for Social Rights in Latin Americaby Susan Eva Eckstein; Timothy P. Wickham-Crowley

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 29.95

    This is a collection of original essays focusing on social rights in Latin America, covering four areas in particular: subsistence, labor, gender, and race/ethnicity within the original framework of human rights. Topics covered include the environment, AIDS, workers' rights, tourism, and many more. more...

  • IMPERFECTION AND IMPARTIALITYby Marcel L.J. Wissenburg

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 52.95

    This text argues, from a liberal perspective, for a radical re- interpretation of existing ideas concerning social justice. Since the 1980s there has been debate between liberals and their critics, Concerning The Use Of Impartiality As A Notion On Which To Base Social theories of justice. In introducing an impartial standard of the right, the implications... more...

  • Social Life and Social Knowledgeby Ulrich Mueller; Jeremy I.M. Carpendale; Nancy Budwig; Bryan Sokol

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 44.95

    In this new volume, leading researchers provide state-of-the-art perspectives on how social interaction influences the development of knowledge. The book integrates approaches from a variety of disciplines including developmental psychology, psychopathology, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, evolutionary biology, and primatology. It reviews the... more...

  • Risk, Uncertainty and Governmentby Pat O'Malley

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 71.95

    Both risk and uncertainty are neo-liberal concepts, which can be viewed as complementary techniques for governing diverse aspects of life, rather than natural states of things. This new book examines the way these constructs govern the production of wealth through 'uncertain' speculation and 'calculable' investment formulae. The way in which risk... more...

  • Human-Environment Interactionsby Eduardo S. Brondízio; Emilio F. Moran

    Springer 2012; US$ 139.99

    Drawing on research from eleven countries across four continents, the 16 chapters in the volume bring perspectives from various specialties in anthropology and human ecology, institutional analysis, historical and political ecology, geography, archaeology, and land change sciences. The four sections of the volume reflect complementary approaches to... more...