First As Tragedy, Then As Farce by Slavoj Žižek

Craft of Sociology: Epistemological Preliminaries

The paintings of the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has emerged, over the past 20 years, as probably the most big and cutting edge our bodies of concept and examine in modern social technology.
The Craft of Sociology, either a textbook and an unique contribution to epistemology in social technology, makes a speciality of a uncomplicated challenge of sociological examine: the need of an epistemological holiday with the preconstructed items social perform bargains to the researcher.
Pierre Bourdieu and his co-authors argue within the epistemological culture of students like Bachelard, Canguilhem, Koyre, a convention that identifies the development of the article as being the elemental clinical act.
Their method of discussing the difficulty makes it available not just to lecturers and specialists of epistemology, but in addition to complex scholars of social technological know-how, utilizing for representation a variety of texts from a few of the social sciences in addition to from philosophy of technological know-how. The e-book comprises an interview with Pierre Bourdieu and an creation by means of the editor to his sociological method.

Making Sense of Nature

We take heed to a cacophony of voices teaching us how one can imagine and consider approximately nature, together with our personal our bodies. the scoop media, natural world documentaries, technological know-how magazines, and environmental NGOs are between these clamouring for our cognizance. yet are we empowered by way of all this data or is our dependence on a number of groups permitting our options, sentiments and actions to be unduly ruled by way of others?

Interaction Ritual: Essays on Face-to-Face Behavior

In a super sequence of books approximately social habit, together with The Presentation of Self in lifestyle, Asylums, and Stigma, Erving Goffman has uncovered all that's at stake while humans meet nose to nose. Goffman’s paintings, as soon as of the good highbrow achievements of our time, is an without end interesting observation on how we enact ourselves by means of our responses to and our readings of different humans.

No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age

The obstacle of the innovative flow is so obtrusive that not anything below a primary rethinking of its uncomplicated assumptions is needed. modern-day progressives now paintings for pro businesses more well-off with the interior online game in Washington DC (and capitols through the West), the place they're outmatched and outspent by way of company pursuits.