University of California Press; 2nd edition (May 5, 2003) - 330 p.
In private life we try to induce or suppress love, envy, and anger through deep acting or "emotional work," just as we manage our outer expressions through surface acting. But what happens when this system of adjusting emotions is adapted to commercial purposes? Hochschild examines the cost of this kind of...
University of California Press, 2003, - 322 p.
Arlie Russell Hochschild, author of three New York Times Notable Books, has been one of the freshest and most popular voices in feminist sociology over the last decades. Her influential, unusually perceptive work has opened up new ways of seeing family life, love, gender, the workplace, market transactions-indeed, American life...
Penguin Books, 2003, - 352 p.
Fifteen years after its first publication, The Second Shift remains just as important and relevant today as it did then. As the majority of women entered the workforce, sociologist and Berkeley professor Arlie Hochschild was one of the first to talk about what really happens in dual-career households. Many people were amazed to find that women...
М.: Дом интеллектуальной книги, Издательский дом ГУ ВШЭ, 2004. — 283 с. — ISBN: 5-7333-0226-7. Книга известного американского социолога - представителя культурно-исторического направления в современной экономической социологии - признана лучшим современным исследованием в области социологии денег и одной из наиболее интересных книг в области социальных наук. Превосходно...
Publisher: Routledge (1997) - 252 pages.
Once seen as synonymous with 'any-feminism' postfeminism is now understood as the theoretical meeting ground between feminism and anti-foundationalist movements such as postmodernism, post-structuralism and post-colonialism. In this clear exposition of some of the major debates, theorists and practitioners, Ann Brooks shows how feminism...
Publisher: Palgrave (2007) - 354 pages. Mother-child relationships in Western Europe were greatly affected by political decisions during the early 1900s, and the maternal role has been transformed over the years. To understand the dilemmas faced by women concerning motherhood and work, Allen argues that problems must be examined in terms of their demographic and political...
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr (Oktober 2006) - 273 pages.
A remarkable number of women today are taking the daunting step of having children outside of marriage. In Single By Chance, Mothers By Choice, Rosanna Hertz offers the first full-scale account of this fast-growing phenomenon, revealing why these middle class women took this unorthodox path and how they have managed to make...
Publisher: New York Univ Pr (März 2012) - 257 pages.
They go by many names: helicopter parents, hovercrafts, PFHs (Parents from Hell). Drawing on a wealth of eye-opening interviews with parents across the country, Margaret K. Nelson cuts through the stereotypes and hyperbole to examine the realities of what she terms "parenting out of control". Situating this phenomenon within...
Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr (
30. Juli 2008) - 262 pages.
"Through the voices of those who have weathered the storm, Mama, PhD provides invaluable lessons for young scholars-both men and women-striving to navigate family and academic careers."-Robert Drago, author of Striking a Balance: Work, Family, Life "All those sleepless nights and dirty diapers and baby food in your...
Publisher: Routledge Chapman & Hall (
18. Juli 1996) - 256 pages.
Currently, lone mothers and their children make up almost 20 per cent of families with dependent children in the UK, a threefold increase since 1970. Yet, while they are often cited by politicians as both a symptom and cause of social breakdown, relatively little is known of the causes, consequences and...
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr (
1. Mai 2010) - 240 pages.
The question of how best to combine work and family life has led to lively debates in recent years. Both a lifestyle and a policy issue, it has been addressed psychologically, socially, and economically, and conclusions have been hotly contested. But as Neil Gilbert shows in this penetrating and provocative book, we haven't...
Publisher: The MIT Press (January 7, 2011). - 144 p.
In 1984, Irving Singer published the first volume of what would become a classic and much acclaimed trilogy on love. Trained as an analytical philosopher, Singer first approached his subject with the tools of current philosophical methodology. Dissatisfied by the initial results (finding the chapters he had written "just...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 302 p. Computers have changed not just the way we work but the way we love. Falling in and out of love, flirting, cheating, even having sex online have all become part of the modern way of living and loving. Yet we know very little about these new types of relationship. How is an online affair where the two people involved may never see or...
Editorial Alka Kurian, Jyotsna Kapur and Aarti Wani Articles Nautanki and Hindi Cinema: Changing Representations Nandi Bhatia Between the Godfather and the Mafi a: Situating Right-Wing Interventions in the Bombay Film Industry (1992–2002) Nandana Bose Melbourne, Indian Popular Cinema and the Marketing of ‘An Enviable Cosmopolitan Lifestyle’ Andrew Hassam Looking for Love in All...
Сборник статей. — СПб.: Европейский университет в Санкт-Петербурге, 2009. — 430 с. — (Труды факультета политических наук и социологии; Выпуск 18). — ISBN 978-5-94380-088-7. Дефицит институционального доверия является устойчивой характеристикой российского общества. Особый смысл недоверие к учреждениям и профессионалам приобретает, когда мы говорим о репродуктивном здоровье....
78 pages Films without Frontiers Owen Evans and Elaine Canning Articles Saving Robert de Niro: Jean Reno as Francophone all-American action hero Cristina Johnston Enabling collisions: Re-thinking multiculturalism through Fatih Akin’s Gegen die Wand/Head On Polona Petek Gendered discourses of nation(hood) and the West in Polish cinema Elzbieta Ostrowska and Joanna Rydzewska The...
М.: Госкино. — 24 с.
«Советский экран» — иллюстрированный журнал, выходивший с различной периодичностью с 1925 по 1998 год (с перерывом в 1930—1957 гг.). В январе-марте 1925 года журнал издавался под названием «Экран Киногазеты», в 1929—1930 годах — «Кино и жизнь», в 1991—1997 — «Экран». До 1992 года журнал был Органом Союза кинематографистов СССР и Госкино СССР. В журнале...
The University Press of Kentucky; Reprint edition, 2009. — 464 p. In Reconstructing American Historical Cinema: From Cimarron to Citizen Kane, J. E. Smyth dramatically departs from the traditional understanding of the relationship between film and history. By looking at production records, scripts, and contemporary reviews, Smyth argues that certain classical Hollywood...
I. B. Tauris; Revised edition, 2001. — 228 р.
This is the most comprehensive analysis to date of Nazi film propaganda in its political, social, and economic contexts, from the pre-war cinema as it fell under the control of the Propaganda Minister, Joseph Goebbels, through to the end of the Second World War. David Welch studies more than one hundred films of all types,...
Publisher: Princeton University Press (March 26, 2007) - 368 p. In their personal lives, people consider it essential to separate economics and intimacy. We have, for example, a long-standing taboo against workplace romance, while we see marital love as different from prostitution because it is not a fundamentally financial exchange. In The Purchase of Intimacy, Viviana Zelizer...
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (July 10, 2008) - 144 p.
Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
Analyzing Love is concerned with four basic and neglected problems concerning love. The first is identifying its relevant features: distinguishing it from liking and benevolence and from sexual desire; describing the objects that can be loved and the judgments and aims...
Publisher: Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (September 24, 2002), 368 p. In today's world, women have more power, legal recognition, and professional success than ever before. Alongside the evident progress of the women's movement, however, writer and journalist Naomi Wolf is troubled by a different kind of social control, which, she argues, may prove just as restrictive as...
Санкт-Петербург: Издательство Европейского университета в Санкт-Петербурге, 2009. — 524 с. — (Труды факультета политических наук и социологии; Вып. 17). В книге представлены результаты эмпирических исследований, посвященных различным аспектам формирования нового быта в современной России. Авторы фокусируют внимание на изменениях тендерного устройства частной жизни....
Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd; 1 edition (December 15, 2005)
Language: English
This is a comprehensive, critical review of social theory that places leading contributions in their larger context. Written predominantly for students, the scope and range of the subjects and authors dealt with results in one of the most comprehensive introductions to...
Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage (September 14, 2004)
Language: English
Less against love than against the cultural constraints that leads us to create wrong-headed ideas of love, this is book is the perfect antidote to any lingering social guilt about being happily single. Against Love: A Polemic will both shock and irritate, especially when you find yourself nodding...
Routledge, 2006. — 448 p.
This innovative publication maps out the broad and interdisciplinary field of contemporary European social theory. It covers sociological theory, the wider theoretical traditions in the social sciences including cultural and political theory, anthropological theory, social philosophy and social thought in the broadest sense of the term.
This volume...
Paperback: 262 pages Publisher: Verso (October 27, 1989) Language: English André Gorz's earlier books—from Ecology as Politics to Farewell to the Working Class and Paths to Paradise—have informed and inspired the most radical currents in Green movements in Europe and America over the last two decades. In Critique of Economic Reason, he offers his fullest account to date of the...
Hardcover: 226 pages
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (February 16, 2012)
Language: English
This lively and invigorating book explores the complex ways that globalization has profoundly affected the once-static nationally defined boundaries of citizenship. From Cairo to Beijing, campaigns for civil rights and democracy around the world are intensifying and speeding...
Routledge, 2004. — 208 p.
In his compelling follow-up to The Rise of the Creative Class, Richard Florida outlines how certain cities succeed in attracting members of the 'creative class' - the millions of people who work in information-age economic sectors and in industries driven by innovation and talent.
Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Ashgate (May 6, 2008)
Language: English
Zygmunt Bauman is one of the most inspirational and controversial thinkers on the scene of contemporary sociology. For several decades he has provided compelling analyses and diagnoses of a vast variety of aspects of modern and liquid modern living. His work is increasingly popularized, appraised and...
Hardcover: 208 pages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (September 4, 2004)
Language: English
Zygmunt Bauman is one of the most important contemporary social thinkers, influencing thought about the Holocaust, postmodernity, globalization, and more. This is the first book to discuss all of Bauman's work, from the first essays in post-Stalinist Poland, through his participation in...
Paperback: 38 pages Publisher: Demos (May 18, 1994) Language: English Foreword vii The Rise of Reason: Bureaucracy and Business Fragmentation and Discontinuity The Privatisation of Common Fates The Deficiencies of Community Risk and Limits New Ethics in Search of New Politics Further Reading
Stanford University Press, 1992. — 216 p. Zygmunt Bauman's new book is a brilliant exploration, from a sociological point of view, of the 'taboo' subject in modern societies: death and dying. The book develops a new theory of the ways in which human mortality is reacted to, and dealt with, in social institutions and culture. The hypothesis explored in the book is that the...
Paperback: 232 pages
Publisher: Polity Press (February 20, 1997)
Language: English
If, as Freud postulated, modern society assails man's freedom by repressing his sexual expression, then the postmodern era can be said to be defined by the individual's quest for sublime happiness at the expense of security. Society has held to the concepts of beauty, purity, and order for...
Paperback: 254 pages Publisher: Cornell University Press (February 23, 2001) Language: English A new afterword to this edition, "The Duty to Remember-But What?" tackles difficult issues of guilt and innocence on the individual and societal levels. Zygmunt Bauman explores the silences found in debates about the Holocaust, and asks what the historical facts of the Holocaust tell...
Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Polity Press; New Ed edition (1993)
Language: English
Modernity, argues Bauman, promised to bring the kind of clarity and transparency to human life that only reason can offer. This has not happened, and today we no longer believe that it ever will. We are ever more acutely aware of the irredeemable contingency of our existence, choices,...
Paperback: 880 pages Publisher: University Of Chicago Press (March 1, 2007) Language: English Description Though the word sociology was coined in Europe, the field of sociology grew most dramatically in America. Despite that disproportionate influence, American sociology has never been the subject of an extended historical examination. To remedy that situation—and to celebrate...
Publisher: The MIT Press (March 2, 1993) 510 pages
Language: English
The relationship between civil society and public life is in the forefront of contemporary discussion. No single scholarly voice informs this discussion more than that of Jürgen Habermas. His contributions have shaped the nature of debates over critical theory, feminism, cultural studies, and democratic...
Routledge, 1998. — 160 p. — (International Library of Philosophy). Personal Identity and Self-Consciousness is about persons and personal identity. What are we? And why does personal identity matter? Brian Garrett, using jargon-free language, addresses questions in the metaphysics of personal identity, questions in value theory, and discusses questions about the first person...
Princeton University Press, 1996. — 352 p.
The global trend toward democratization of the last two decades has been accompanied by the resurgence of various politics of "identity/difference." From nationalist and ethnic revivals in the countries of east and central Europe to the former Soviet Union, to the politics of cultural separatism in Canada, and to social movement...
Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: Routledge (December 8, 1993) Language: English Description Confusion reigns in sociological accounts of the curent condition of modernity. The story-lines from the 'end of the subject' to 'a new individualism', from the 'dissolution of society' to the re-emergence of 'civil society', from the 'end of modernity' to an 'other modernoity' to...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 336 p.
Neoliberalism. Neoconservatism. Postmarxism. Postmodernism. Is there really something genuinely new about today's isms? Have we moved past our traditional ideological landscape? Combining political history, philosophical interpretation, and good old-fashioned story-telling, Manfred B. Steger traces ideology's remarkable journey from Count...
1 edition. — Sage Publications Ltd, 2004. — 240 p.
Language: English
Roger Sibeon's distinctive new book forms part of a movement towards what many others have referred to as the `return' to sociological theory and method.
Offering both description and critique of contemporary theoretical and illustrative empirical materials, the goal of this book is a renewal of sociology...
Hardcover: 192 pages Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd (August 30, 2009) Language: English Description This book outlines a social theory of knowledge for the 21st century. With characteristic subtlety and verve, Steve Fuller deals directly with a world in which it is no longer taken for granted that universities and academics are the best places and people to embody the life of...
Paperback: 592 pages Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 2 edition (April 17, 2000) Language: English Description The Blackwell Companion to Social Theory, Second Edition, builds on the success of the highly regarded first edition by adding four completely new chapters on the foundations of social theory, anthropology, phenomenology, and sociology of the body. Retained material from...
Paperback: 176 pages Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd; 1 edition (March 27, 2004) Language: English Description How can you understand yourself? Where do your views, attitudes and values come from and why do they change? This accessible and illuminating book provides a reliable guide to these questions. The book: · Demonstrates that personal identity is formed around basic...
2nd edition. — Sage Publications Ltd, 2008. — 216 p. Language: English This new, completely revised version builds on the popular success of the First Edition. It seeks to answer the basic social question of ‘who am I?’ by developing an understanding of self-identity as formed in social relations and social activity. Comprehensive, jargon-free and authoritative, it will be...
Sage Publications, 1990. — 411 p.
In this book leading social scientists from many countries analyze the extent to which we are seeing a globalization of culture. Is a unified world culture emerging? And if so, how does this relate to existing cultural divisions and to the autonomy of the nation state? Differing explanations are offered for trends towards global unification and...
Paperback: 232 pages Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd; 2nd edition (August 10, 2007) Language: English Description The First Edition of this contemporary classic can claim to have put ‘consumer culture’ on the map, certainly in relation to postmodernism. Updated throughout, this expanded new edition includes a fully revised preface that explores the developments in consumer...
Editions Rodopi BV (April 24, 2006). — 314 pages. — (Critical Studies 29).
Language: English
The Matrix trilogy continues to split opinions widely, polarising the downright dismissive and the wildly enthusiastic. Nevertheless, it has been fully embraced as a rich source of theoretical and cultural references. The contributions in this volume probe the effects the Matrix...