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13 results in Key Issues in Modern Sociology

Rethinking the Social through Durkheim, Marx, Weber and Whitehead
  • Michael Halewood
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    05 December 2015
    Print publication:
    01 December 2014
  • According to some social theorists, we are �at the end of the social�. This book argues that such pronouncements may be premature, as we need to reengage with what sociologists have previously meant by �the social�. �Rethinking the Social� is the first book to systematically analyse the different concepts of the social developed by Durkheim, Marx and Weber. It examines how the concept of the social became unproblematic for twentieth-century writers and suggests that debates surrounding this concept remain very much alive. Building on A. N. Whitehead�s work, Halewood develops a novel �philosophy of the social�.

The Spirit of Luc Boltanski
  • Essays on the 'Pragmatic Sociology of Critique'
  • Edited by Simon Susen, Bryan S. Turner
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    05 December 2014
    Print publication:
    01 November 2014
  • What is the relevance of Luc Boltanski's 'pragmatic sociology of critique' to central issues in contemporary social and political analysis? In seeking to respond to this question, this book contains critical commentaries from prominent social theorists attempting to map out the influence and broad scope of Boltanski's oeuvre.

Émile Durkheim and the Collective Consciousness of Society
  • Kenneth Smith
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    05 October 2014
    Print publication:
    01 August 2014
  • This volume sets out to explore the use of Émile Durkheim's concept of the 'collective consciousness of society', and represents the first ever book-length treatment of this underexplored topic. Operating from both a criminological and sociological perspective, Kenneth Smith argues that Durkheim's original concept must be sensitively revised and suitably updated for its real relevance to come to the fore. Major adjustments to Durkheim's concept of the collective consciousness include Smith's compelling arguments that the model does not apply to everyone equally, and that Durkheim's concept does not in any way rely on what might be called the disciplinary functions of society.

Consumption, Cities and States
  • Comparing Singapore with Asian and Western Cities
  • Ann Brooks
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    05 September 2014
    Print publication:
    15 May 2014
  • 'Consumption, Cities and States' examines the fascinating intersection of consumption, citizenship and the state in a cross-section of global cities in Asia and the West. It focuses on a number of theoretical and empirical analyses: developing and amplifying the intersection of consumption, citizenship and the state in late modernity in relation to a range of cities; examining the concept of the global city as an 'aspirational' category for cities in Asia and the West; and considering case studies which highlight the intersection of consumption and the state. As Ann Brooks and Lionel Wee demonstrate, the interface between citizen status and consumer activity proves a crucial point of analysis in the light of the neoliberal assertion that individuals and institutions perform at their best within a free market economy.

Fighting Scholars
  • Habitus and Ethnographies of Martial Arts and Combat Sports
  • Edited by Dale Spencer, Raúl Sánchez García
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    05 March 2014
    Print publication:
    01 September 2013
  • 'Fighting Scholars' offers the first book-length overview of the ethnographic study of martial arts and combat sports. The book's main claim is that such activities represent privileged grounds to access different social dimensions, such as emotion, violence, pain, gender, ethnicity and religion. In order to explore these dimensions, the concept of 'habitus' is presented prominently as an epistemic remedy for the academic distant gaze of the effaced academic body. [NP] The book's most innovative features are its empirical focus and theoretical orientation. While ethnographic research is a widespread and popular approach within the social sciences, combat sports and martial arts have yet to be sufficiently interrogated from an ethnographic standpoint. The different contributions of this volume are aligned within the same project that began to crystallize in Loïc Wacquant's 'Body and Soul': the construction of a 'carnal sociology' that constitutes an exploration of the social world 'from' the body.

Ernst Cassirer and the Critical Science of Germany, 1899-1919
  • Gregory B. Moynahan
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    05 September 2013
    Print publication:
    15 July 2013
  • Recovering a lost world of the politics of science in Imperial Germany, Gregory B. Moynahan approaches the life and work of the philosopher and historian Ernst Cassirer (1875–1945) from a revisionist perspective, using this framework to redefine the origins of twentieth-century critical historicism and critical theory. The only text in English to focus on the first half of the polymath Cassirer’s career and his role in the Marburg School, this volume illuminates one of the most important – and in English, least-studied – reform movements in Imperial Germany.

Ageing, Corporeality and Embodiment
  • Paul Higgs, Chris Gilleard
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    05 July 2013
    Print publication:
    15 May 2013
  • ‘Ageing, Corporeality and Embodiment’ outlines and develops an argument about the emergence of a ‘new ageing’ during the second half of the twentieth century and its realisation through the processes of ‘embodiment’. The authors argue that ageing as a unitary social process and agedness as a distinct social location have lost much of their purchase on the social imagination. Instead, this work asserts that later life has become as much a field for ‘not becoming old’ as of ‘old age’. The volume locates the origins of this transformation in the cultural ferment of the 1960s, when new forms of embodiment concerned with identity and the care of the self arose as mass phenomena. Over time, these new forms of embodiment have been extended, changing the traditional relationship between body, age and society by making struggles over the care of the self central to the cultures of later life.

Experiencing Globalization
  • Religion in Contemporary Contexts
  • Edited by Derrick M. Nault, Bei Dawei, Evangelos Voulgarakis, Rab Paterson, Cesar Andres-Miguel Suva
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    05 May 2013
    Print publication:
    01 February 2013
  • Today, in an age of globalization, religion represents a potent force in the lives of billions of people worldwide. Yet when social theorists examine the impact of globalization on contemporary religious movements, they tend to focus on issues such as Islamic fundamentalism and threats to US or global security. This collection of essays takes a different approach, analyzing – with special reference to Asia – religion through lived experience. The key issues covered in the volume include: how religious impulses contribute to globalization; how religious groups and organizations repackage traditional beliefs for transcultural appeal; how religious adherents cope with external threats to identity; how new technologies are reshaping the nature of religious beliefs and images; and how local and global religious influences blend and/or clash. Far from religion being a subject of peripheral concern to globalization, the contributors demonstrate that from the most basic level of our interactions with the natural environment to the socio-political behavior of the “great religions” – and even to the profusion of folk and pop culture phenomena – the influence of religion upon globalization, and vice versa, is apparent at all levels.

Knowledge and Human Liberation
  • Towards Planetary Realizations
  • Ananta Kumar Giri
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    05 May 2013
    Print publication:
    15 February 2013
  • Human liberation has become an epochal challenge in today’s world, requiring not only emancipation from oppressive structures but also from the oppressive self. It is a multidimensional struggle and aspiration in which knowledge – self, social and spiritual – can play a transformative role. ‘Knowledge and Human Liberation: Towards Planetary Realizations’ undertakes such a journey of transformation, and seeks to rethink knowledge vis-à-vis the familiar themes of human interest, critical theory, enlightenment, ethnography, democracy, pluralism, rationality, secularism and cosmopolitanism. The volume also features a Foreword by John Clammer (United Nations University, Tokyo) and an Afterword by Fred Dallmayr (University of Notre Dame).

A Guide to Marx's 'Capital' Vols I-III
  • Kenneth Smith
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    05 May 2013
    Print publication:
    15 November 2012
  • This book provides a comprehensive guide to all three volumes of Karl Marx's 'Capital', with advice on further reading and points for further discussion. Recognizing the contemporary relevance of 'Capital' in the midst of the current financial crisis, Kenneth Smith has produced an essential guide to Marx's ideas, particularly on the subject of the circulation of money-capital. This guide uniquely presents the three volumes of 'Capital' in a different order of reading to that in which they were published, placing them instead in the order that Marx himself sometimes recommended as a more user-friendly way of reading. Dr Smith also argues that for most of the twentieth century, the full development of the capitalist mode of production (CMP) has been undermined by the existence of a non-capitalist 'third world', which has caused the CMP to take on the form of what Marx called a highly developed mercantile system, rather than one characterized by an uninterrupted circuit of industrial capital of the kind he expected would develop. While the guide can be read as a book in its own right, it also contains detailed references to Volumes I-III so that students, seminars and discussion groups can easily make connections between Smith's explanations and the relevant parts of 'Capital'.

Organising Neoliberalism
  • Markets, Privatisation and Justice
  • Edited by Philip Whitehead, Paul Crawshaw
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    05 February 2013
    Print publication:
    15 September 2012
  • This collection of essays incorporates the insight of an international group of experts to explore the impact of neoliberalism within different organisational domains from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. Examining neoliberalism in the context of political, social, economic and institutional domains, this volume promotes a critical and challenging approach to the social and economic attitudes characterising late-modern capitalism.

Responsible Citizens
  • Individuals, Health and Policy under Neoliberalism
  • B. J. Brown, Sally Baker
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    05 December 2012
    Print publication:
    01 June 2012
  • The individual has never been more important in society – in almost every sphere of public and private life, the individual is sovereign. Yet the importance and apparent power assigned to the individual is not all that it seems. As ‘Responsible Citizens’ investigates via its UK-based case studies, this emphasis on the individual has gone hand in hand with a rise in subtle authoritarianism, which has insinuated itself into the government of the population. Whilst present throughout the public services, this authoritarianism is most conspicuous in the health and social welfare sectors, such that a kind of ‘governance through responsibility’ is today enforced upon the population.

Becoming - An Anthropological Approach to Understandings of the Person in Java
  • Konstantinos Retsikas
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    05 November 2012
    Print publication:
    15 August 2012
  • ‘Becoming – An Anthropological Approach to Understandings of the Person in Java’ is an ethnographic monograph that examines the ways in which the peoples of a peri-urban locality in East Java, Indonesia conceive of the person, by looking at how their everyday practices relate to understandings of ethnicity, kinship, Islam and gender. The volume is also a thought experiment that aims to make a theoretical contribution to the discipline of anthropology by proposing the concept of the ‘diaphoron’ person and re-deploying the method of ‘total ethnography’.