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Free Download Lorne Tepperman, "Starting Points : A Sociological Journey"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0199006822 | PDF | pages: 568 | 166.7 mb
Starting Points offers introductory students a roadmap to the problems, theories, and approaches at the core of sociology. With engaging discussions of the investigations, theories, and researchers shaping the field today, this text encourages students to step back and interpret their world from a sociological perspective.

Free Download Sociological Theory for Digital Society: The Codes that Bind Us Together
by Ori Schwarz
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1509542965 | 218 Pages | True ePUB | 0.59 MB

Free Download Dennis Firkus, "On the Normalization of Organized Brutalities: An Organizational Sociological Analysis of the Euthanasia Institution Had"
English | ISBN: 3658415142 | 2023 | 142 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book takes an organizational sociological perspective on the systematically carried out mass murders in the context of Nazi euthanasia in Hadamar. On the basis of numerous theoretically elaborated as well as empirically proven organizational mechanisms, it is shown how these illegal practices were "normalized" in an extraordinary way by and for the personnel, who were not trained or otherwise predisposed to murder. The acts thus became a legitimate expectation of action, while at the same time the organizational integration had a desolidarizing, demoralizing, and responsibility-relieving effect.

Free Download Law’s Community: Legal Theory in Sociological Perspective (Oxford Socio-Legal Studies) By Roger Cotterrell
1997 | 400 Pages | ISBN: 0198264909 | PDF | 65 MB
This important collection of essays by a leading theorist attempts to re-locate the relationship between the traditional concerns of legal theory and the sociology of law by establishing a consistent approach to the analysis of law in contemporary Western societies. This new book is based upon previously published essays which have been extensively revised and updated, and includes new introductory and concluding chapters. It offers an important contribution to the study of law and social theory.

Free Download Rongting Hou, "A Sociological Study on Emotion Regulation in People Living with HIV/AIDS in China "
English | ISBN: 9811614938 | 2021 | 189 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book explores the experiences and emotional expression of 30 people Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) using qualitative research methods such as "illness narratives," and analyzes the dilemmas of "sicknesses of the society" including "Acquired Needs Deficiency" Syndrome, "Acquired Expectation Insufficiency" Syndrome, and "Acquired Punishment" Syndrome at the micro, meso and macro levels, so as to investigate higher-intensity negative emotions.In turn, the book draws on the perspectives of conflict and game, structure and function, and system and interaction, in order to propose a dynamic mechanism of emotion and expression, and argues that these negative emotions can be transformed, strengthened and presented through defense mechanisms such as suppression and attribution, which will influence social institutions at the micro, meso and macro levels and even possibly bring about positive changes in the social structure.

Free Download Jiří Šubrt, "The Sociological Inheritance of the 1960s: Historical Reflections on a Decade of Changing Thought"
English | ISBN: 1803828064 | 2023 | 120 pages | EPUB, PDF | 631 KB + 892 KB
The 1960s saw pioneering changes in the realms of international politics, science, culture and art. Turning this historical lens onto the study of sociology, The Sociological Inheritance of the 1960s reveals both the continuities and the departures the field has seen in its core principles and approaches over the past several decades.

Free Download Troubling Sociological Concepts: An Interrogation By Martyn Hammersley
2020 | 239 Pages | ISBN: 303051644X | EPUB | 2 MB
Sociology addresses challenging social issues and seeks new ways to understand them. However, much sociological terminology suffers from multiple, vague, or uncertain meanings. This is true of many of the central terms that sociologists use, such as ‘power’, ‘ideology’, ‘culture’, ‘social class’, and even ‘society’. The result is that the conclusions reached by sociological investigations are frequently subject to discrepant interpretations, and their validity is difficult to assess. The chapters in this book address several of the key terms employed by sociologists, examining the concepts associated with them in depth – from both an historical and an analytical perspective. The aim is not to develop an entirely new framework but rather to document the various meanings associated with these terms, and to suggest ways in which they could be refined or developed for the purposes of sociological analysis. Since the concepts addressed are of wide relevance, Troubling Sociological Concepts will be of interest and use to researchers and students across the social sciences.

Free Download The Oasis of Bukhara, Volume 2 : An Archaeological, Sociological and Historical Study
by Rocco Rante, Florian Schwarz
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9004513493 | 189 Pages | True PDF | 63 MB

Free Download George Ritzer, "Contemporary Sociological Theory and Its Classical Roots: The Basics"
English | ISBN: 154439621X | 2022 | 488 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Contemporary Sociological Theory and Its Classical Roots: The Basics, is a brief survey of sociology′s major theorists and theoretical approaches, from the Classical founders to the present. The authors connect many theorists together into chapters with broad headings (Contemporary Integrative Theories, Contemporary Theories of Everyday Life, etc.) that offer students a big-picture, synthesized view of the entire span of sociological theory.

Free Download Re/Structuring Science Education: ReUniting Sociological and Psychological Perspectives By Wolff-Michael Roth (auth.), Wolff-Michael Roth (eds.)
2010 | 381 Pages | ISBN: 9048139953 | PDF | 6 MB
Since its beginnings, science education has been under the influence of psychological theories of knowing and learning, while in more recent years, social constructivist and sociological frameworks have also begun to emerge. With little work being done on showing how the perspectives of these separate approaches might be integrated, this work aims to plug the gap. The book helps lay the groundwork for reuniting sociological and psychological perspectives on the knowing, learning, and teaching of science. Featuring a range of integrative efforts beginning with simple conversation, the chapters here include not only articles but also commentaries that engage with other papers, as well as a useful running narrative that, from the introduction to the epilogue, contextualizes the book and its sections. Specific attention is given to cultural-historical activity theory, which already offers an integration of psychological and cultural-historical (sociological) perspectives on collectively motivated human activities. A number of chapters, as well as the contextualizing narrative, explicitly use this theory as a framework for rethinking science education to achieve the reunification that is the goal of this work.All the contributors to this volume have produced texts that contribute to the effort of overcoming the extant divide between sociological and psychological approaches to science education research and practice. From very different positions-gender, culture, race-they provide valuable insights to reuniting approaches in both theory and method in the field. As an ensemble, the contributions constitute a rich menu of ideas from which new forms of science education can emerge.