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Routledge handbook of body studies
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ISBN: 9780415593557 0415593557 9780203842096 020384209X 1136903321 9781136903274 9781136903311 9781136903328 9781138080119 Year: 2012 Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge,

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In the last three decades, the human body has gained increasing prominence in contemporary political debates, and it has become a central topic of modern social sciences and humanities. Modern technologies - such as organ transplants, stem-cell research, nanotechnology, cosmetic surgery and cryonics - have changed how we think about the body. In this collection of thirty original essays by leading figures in the field, these issues are explored across a number of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives, including pragmatism, feminism, queer theory, post-modernism, post-humanism, cultural sociology, philosophy and anthropology. A wide range of case studies, which include cosmetics, diet, organ transplants, racial bodies, masculinity and sexuality, eating disorders, religion and the sacred body, and disability, are used to appraise these different perspectives. In addition, this Handbook explores various epistemological approaches to the basic question: what is a body? It also offers a strongly themed range of chapters on empirical topics that are organized around religion, medicine, gender, technology and consumption.It also contributes to the debate over the globalization of the body: how have military technology, modern medicine, sport and consumption led to this contemporary obsession with matters corporeal? The Handbook's clear, direct style will appeal to a wide undergraduate audience in the social sciences, particularly for those studying medical sociology, gender studies, sports studies, disability studies, social gerontology, or the sociology of religion. It will serve to consolidate the new field of body studies.


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The Routledge international handbook of globalization studies
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ISBN: 9780415458085 9780203870006 9780415686082 9780203722831 9781135878764 9781135878832 9781135878900 0415686083 Year: 2009 Publisher: New York : Routledge,

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The Routledge International Handbook of Globalization Studies offers students clear and informed chapters on the history of globalization and key theories that have considered the causes and consequences of the globalization process. There are substantive sections looking at demographic, economic, technological, social and cultural changes in globalization. The handbook examines many negative aspects -- new wars, slavery, illegal migration, pollution and inequality -- but concludes with an examination of responses to these problems through human rights organizations, international labour law and the growth of cosmopolitanism. There is a strong emphasis on interdisciplinary approaches with essays covering sociology, demography, economics, politics, anthropology and history. The Handbook, written in a clear and direct style, will appeal to a wide audience. The extensive references and sources will direct students to areas of further study.

Max Weber : from history to modernity
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ISBN: 0415076188 9780415076180 0415103878 9780415103879 Year: 2003 Publisher: London New York Routledge

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Intended for undergraduates, postgraduates and academics of sociology, this collection of essays examines Weber's contribution to the contemporary debate about modernity and postmodernity.


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Weber and Islam : a critical study
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ISBN: 0710089422 9780710089427 Year: 1978 Publisher: London ; Boston : Routledge & Kegan Paul,

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Marx and the end of Orientalism
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Year: 1978 Publisher: London Allen & Unwin

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Medical power and social knowledge
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ISBN: 0803980876 Year: 1987 Publisher: London : Sage Publications,

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On society
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ISBN: 9780745648415 074564841X 9780745648422 0745648428 Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge: Polity press,

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'Society' is one of the most fundamental frequently used words in public life; it is also a foundational term in the social sciences. In our own time, however, the idea of society has never been so much in dispute and so little understood. For some critics, society is simply too consensual for a world of intensive discord. For others, the idea of society is oppressive - the very notion, so some argue, is dismissive of the infinite social differences that shape global realities. In this erudite and original book, two of the worlds leading social theorists, Anthony Elliott and Bryan S. Turner, focus on unravelling the different meanings of society as a way of introducing the reader to contemporary debates in social theory. The authors provocatively argue that all ideas of society can be assigned to one of three analytical categories, or some combination of these: structure, solidarity or creation. In developing a fresh characterization of the nature of the social, Elliott and Turner introduce the concepts of enclaved, sticky and elastic societies as a means of understanding global transformations. -- Back cover.

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Diccionario de sociología
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ISBN: 8437606357 Year: 1986 Publisher: Madrid : Cátedra,

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Sociologie --- Woordenboeken.

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