Pierre Bourdieu, Key Concepts
Edited by Michael Grenfeil Pierre Bourdieu is now regarded as one of the foremost socialphilosophers of the twentieth century. Born in a small village in theFrench Pyrenees, his extraordinary academic…[...]
Edited by Michael Grenfeil Pierre Bourdieu is now regarded as one of the foremost socialphilosophers of the twentieth century. Born in a small village in theFrench Pyrenees, his extraordinary academic…[...]
frontiers of narrativeSeries Editor: David Herman,North Carolina State University No single period or society can do without narratives. And, a good numberof contemporary thinkers hasten to add, whatever you say…[...]
Edited byKedar Nath Dwivediand Ved Prakash Varma There has been a growing awareness of the need to take the problem ofchildhood depression more seriously. It is sometimes felt that there…[...]
Handbook ofDepression inChildren andAdolescentsEdited byJohn R. Z. AbelaBenjamin L. Hankin Children and adolescents are currently experiencing depression at anunprecedented rate. As prevalence rates of depression in Western cultures have soared…[...]
Edited byHeather Eatonand Lois Ann Lorentzen TH IS VOLUME IS AN IMPORTANT EFFORT to evaluate the discourse of ecofemi- nism, which has emerged worldwide in the last three decades, and…[...]
Medical SociologyAn IntroductionHannah Bradby Teachers collaborating on a medical curriculum tend to argue that their ownspecialist subject requires a significant amount of time to be devoted to it andfierce debates…[...]
Ritzer, George.Globalization : A Basic Text / George Ritzer. Similarly illustrative of rapid and extensive global flows is the scandal associatedwith the $50 billion Ponzi scheme run by New York…[...]
GENERAL EDITORGeorge RitzerUniversity of Maryland Social theory has approached nationalism most as a politicalideology structuring relations of power and conflict. It hasfocused on nationalism’s relationship to ethnic violenceand war, on…[...]
George RitzerUniversity of Maryland To the best of our knowledge, this is the first Encyclopediaof Social Theory. There are, of course, encyclopedias of thesocial sciences (among others) that have addressed…[...]
Encyclopedia of World Religions, Frank K. FlinnJ. Gordon Melton, Series Editor The Encyclopedia of Catholicism seeks to coverthe landmark people, movements, institutions,practices, and doctrines of Roman Catholicismfrom its earliest origins.…[...]