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Luc Boltanski, Arnaud Esquerre
The Making of Public Space

This new book by Luc Boltanski and Arnaud Esquerre is a highly original analysis of the two key processes that shape the contemporary public sphere. On the one hand, there are the processes of news provis…

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Carolin Amlinger, Oliver Nachtwey,
Offended Freedom

Today, a new kind of freedom fighter has emerged in our midst: liberal and open-minded, these individuals champion liberty and resent the imposition of more and more rules and exhortations that constrain …

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Jonathan Eastwood
Social Structure

"Social structure is arguably the central concept of sociology, and in recent years a much wider public has taken up with fresh vigor the sociological idea that persistent inequalities are rooted in …

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Jonathan Eastwood
Social Structure

"Social structure is arguably the central concept of sociology, and in recent years a much wider public has taken up with fresh vigor the sociological idea that persistent inequalities are rooted in …

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Dev Nath Pathak
To Be or Not to Be Sociological

**What does it mean to be sociological?**This is not a rhetorical question since it leads to unearthing the prevalent ways of seeing in the discipline of sociology, taking notes of the content and discont…

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Hartmut Rosa
Alienation and Acceleration

Modern life is speeding-up, constantly. While the art of saving time reaches unprecedented heights through the introduction of ever-new technologies of communication and production, it nevertheless feels …

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Hartmut Rosa
Alienation and Acceleration

Modern life is speeding-up, constantly. While the art of saving time reaches unprecedented heights through the introduction of ever-new technologies of communication and production, it nevertheless feels …

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Sarita K Kashyap
Custodians of Salvation

This book presents an anthropological investigation into the lives of the Dom community, who have historically managed the handling of the dead for centuries yet remain socially marginalised.

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Prashan Ranasinghe
The Homelessness of Being

The Homelessness of Being invites readers to consider what it means to be human. This dialogue between sociology and the early and middle phases of Heidegger's writings argues that to be human is to be ho…

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Michael Strand, Omar Lizardo
Orienting to Chance

Explores the implications of chance and uncertainty in social theory and offers a new interpretation of the sociological canon.Since the founding of the discipline, sociologists have endeavored to underst…

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The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Global Elites

The fortunes of the wealthy are soaring across the globe. Economists have demonstrated that the lion's share of economic growth over the past decade benefits the richest people: the top 1% took 38% of all…

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Marcus Morgan
Performing Power

When the bronze statue of Edward Colston was thrown into the Bristol harbour, what was it about this spectacle that made it more effective than countless petitions to have the slaver's icon removed? What …

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Emmanuel Todd
Lineages of Modernity

Originally published in French as "Oâau en sommes-nous? Une esquisse de l'histoire humaine" by ãaEditions du Seuil, 2017.

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Nick Couldry
The Space of the World

"Over the past thirty years, humanity has made a huge mistake. We handed over to big tech decisions that have allowed them to build what has become our "space of the world" - the highly art…

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Nick Couldry
The Space of the World

"Over the past thirty years, humanity has made a huge mistake. We handed over to big tech decisions that have allowed them to build what has become our "space of the world" - the highly art…

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Cristian Mendoza, Lluís Clavell
Communication Culture in a Digital Age

Why are human beings so attracted to information and communication technologies? Developments in this field have formed new social networks around these technologies and that seem to compete with pre-exis…

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Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra,
The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Machine Learning

This volume is the first comprehensive collection of essays exploring machine learning from a sociological perspective. It offers a thorough introduction to various forms of machine learning and features …

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Chang Kyung-Sup
The Risk of Compressed Modernity

In many Asian societies, the process of modernization often took place in a rapid and highly compressed fashion - not over centuries, as had happened in most Western societies, but in several decades. Thi…

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Chang Kyung-Sup
The Risk of Compressed Modernity

In many Asian societies, the process of modernization often took place in a rapid and highly compressed fashion - not over centuries, as had happened in most Western societies, but in several decades. Thi…

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Tomazi&
The (In)Visibilization Society

Today, we are living in a new social order: the (in)visibilization society.How and why is this society making so many human beingss and the environment invisible, while simultaneously developing and expan…

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