Bücher der Reihe International Library of Sociology

This astute and timely book investigates the radical potential of technically unlimited reproduction in postmodern culture. It describes a move towards a regime of cultural rights ordered by simulation rather than originality.

Introducing the concept of 'multicultural intimacies', this book offers a form of critical engagement with the cultural politics of multiculturalism, one that attends to ideals of mixing, loving thy neighbour and feelings for the nation.

The Badlands of Modernity offers a wide ranging original interpretation of modernity as it emerged during the eighteenth century.

Using a variety of evidence from the health management field, the author documents the rise of general management, the application of new techniques to reduce medical costs and improve efficiency, and other methods to control, use and evaluate clinical performance.

This volume demonstrates how cultural studies has diffused from Britain into other English-speaking countries, and how its original concerns have been renegotiated and changed. It is a guide to international cultural studies.

A distinctive and theoretically informed study of the administration of the Scottish prison system, based on extensive research and combining theoretical innovation with detailed empirical evidence.

Provides a history of the nature of mass mediation. This book the ways in which a number of discourses, technologies, and institutions have historically shaped the ways of imagining nature in the mass media. It is useful for students and researchers in the fields of media, sociology, cultural geography and environmental studies.

In contemporary society, 'the camp' is now the rule rather than the exception. In this volume, the authors explore the paradox of the camp, as representing both an old fear of enclosure and a new dream of belonging.

'..a story of the success of the women's movement in placing rape and its survival on the political agenda. ...I liked it very much.' Betsy Stanko, University of Brunel

This book is a practical application of Foucault's archaeological and genealogical methods to the study of illness and modernity.

Offering a critique of the humanist paradigm in social theory, this work offers a comprehensive sociological analysis of complexity theory. Drawing from sources in sociology, philosophy, complexity theory, 'fuzzy logic', systems theory, and more, it presents interdisciplinary perspectives on the sociology of complex, self-organizing structures.

Argues that only the society that achieves an appropriate balance between informality and formality of interaction will find itself in a position to move forward to further democratisation and an improved quality of life.

Intended for social sciences and humanities researchers and postgraduates, this book promises to question the whole direction of social sciences methodology. Offering an introduction to this key topic, it brings together a body of work that has come to be known as non-representational theory. It also provides approaches to social sciences.

Fusing two key concerns of contemporary sociology: globalization and its discontents, and the complexity turn in social theory, this book utilizes complexity theory to analyze the shifting constellation of social movement networks that constitute opposition to neo-liberal globalization. It also suggests a framework for understanding mobilization.

Is society being fragmented by political and economic changes? Through a comparative analysis of Australia, New Zealand and Britain, Thorns examines the debate surrounding global restructuring.

Develops the theme of "co-production", showing how scientific knowledge both embeds and is embedded in social identities, institutions, representations and discourses. Accordingly, ways of knowing the world are inseparably linked to the ways in which people seek to organize and control it.

Exploring both popular cultural forms and changes in crime policies and criminal law, Valier elaborates new forms of critical engagement with the politics of crime and punishment.

This work provides a global history and sociology, and a comparative political analysis of the family as an institution It focuses on: the rights and powers of fathers and husbands; marriage, cohabitation and extra-marital sexuality; and on fertility and birth-control.

Celia Lury considers the interrelated dimensions of the brand: as a creator of space, time and community, as a form of intellectual property and as an increasingly important medium of exchange in a global economy.

Using the knowledge and experience of education practitioners and theorists, these volumes look at the connection between education and society. Many areas are looked into which made these books standard texts for all teachers.

This authoritative and revealing book provides the first sociological examination of postmodernism. Lash examines the differences between modernism and postmodernism, providing a clear explanation of why postmodernism is important.

Examines the ways in which collective cultural identities are being reshaped under conditions of a postmodern geography and a communications environment of cable and satellite broadcasting. Looks at Europe, America, Islam and the Orient.

This important book will be essential reading for anyone with an interest in how questions of gender remake and are remade by the social and economic conditions in which they occur.