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  1. Sociological Theory: What went Wrong?

    Diagnosis and Remedies

    By Nicos Mouzelis

    Social theory is open to many passing currents. Claims to originality tend to thrive and past achievements are often ignored. In Sociologiocal Theory: What Went Wrong? Mouzelis claims that "problems" currently being isolated are not really problems, and that "achievements" claimed are little more...

    Published July 19th 1995 by Routledge

  2. Consuming Places

    By JOHN Urry

    Series: International Library of Sociology

    John Urry has been discussing and writing on these and similar questions for the past fifteen years. In Consuming Places, he gathers together his most significant contributions. Urry begins with an extensive review of the connections between society, time and space. The concept of 'society', the...

    Published March 8th 1995 by Routledge

  3. Melancholy and the Critique of Modernity

    Soren Kierkegaard's Religious Psychology

    By Harvie Ferguson

    The connections between the emergence of modern society and the experience of melancholy are explored through a comprehensive re-examination of Soren Kierkegaard's rich and insightful writings....

    Published November 16th 1994 by Routledge

  4. The Frankfurt School

    Critical Assessments

    Edited by Jay M. Bernstein

    Series: Critical Assessments of Leading Sociologists

    This set of six volumes provide a full picture of the School by examining the important developments that have occured since the deaths of the original core of Frankfurt scholars. In particular the work of Jurgen Habermas is fully assessed...

    Published November 2nd 1994 by Routledge

  5. Organizing Modernity

    New Weberian Perspectives on Work, Organization and Society

    By Larry Ray, Michael Reed, Larry Ray, Michael Reed

    Published October 26th 1994 by Routledge

  6. The Poverty of Postmodernism

    By John O'Neill

    Series: Social Futures

    Published October 19th 1994 by Routledge

  8. Debating Durkheim

    Edited by Hermino Martins, William Pickering

    `An excellent collection of essays, which will make a useful addition to the English-language literature on Durkheim.' - William Outhwaite, University of Sussex...

    Published August 31st 1994 by Routledge

  9. Community and the Economy

    The Theory of Public Co-operation

    By Jonathan Boswell

    Presenting a new political and historical theory of the mixed economy, this book is a convincing argument for a challenging social ideal - democratic communitarianism. Individualistic notions of liberty, equality and prosperity are too central to modern life and they need to be balanced by values...

    Published August 31st 1994 by Routledge

  10. The Social and Economic Works of John Ruskin

    Including John Ruskin: His Life and Work, and Munera Pulveris, among others, this set includes Ruskin's most famous attack on economic orthodoxy as well as one of the finest critiques of his writings available....

    Published August 24th 1994 by Routledge

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Forthcoming Books

  1. Gender, Sexuality and Reproduction in Evolutionary Narratives
    By Venla Oikkonen
    To Be Published May 26th 2013
  2. Migration in the 21st Century: Political Economy and Ethnography
    Edited by Pauline Gardiner Barber, Winnie Lem
    To Be Published May 28th 2013
  3. The Contemporary Bauman
    Edited by Anthony Elliott
    To Be Published May 30th 2013
  4. Community and the Economy: The Theory of Public Co-operation
    By Jonathan Boswell
    To Be Published May 30th 2013
  5. The Jargon of Authenticity, 2nd Edition
    By Theodor Adorno
    To Be Published May 30th 2013

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