Tag: Sociological

Free Download Talcott Parsons, "Essays in Sociological Theory"
English | 1954 | pages: 466 | ISBN: 1016853874 | EPUB | 2,2 mb
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

Free Download Criminology
by Barkan, Steven;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0137636210 | 461 pages | True PDF | 68.68 MB
Criminology: A Sociological Understanding presents award-winning coverage of the sociology of criminology. It assesses the impact of race, ethnicity, gender and social class on crime and the treatment of criminals. Moving beyond simple "get tough" approaches, Author Steven Barkan asserts that understanding the social causes of criminal behavior is the first step to addressing it. He urges readers to take a critical eye to our reliance on the criminal justice system as a means of reducing crime.

Free Download Jeffrey C Goldfarb, "The Persistence Of Freedom: The Sociological Implications Of Polish Student Theater"
English | ISBN: 0367294761 | 2020 | 176 pages | EPUB | 722 KB
This sociological study of cultural freedom examines the relatively unhindered Polish theater movement in terms of the organizational context and cultural traditions that support it. Dr. Goldfarb points to inadequacies in prevailing models of Communist societies and asserts that cultural freedom may be realized not only as dissent in opposition to

Free Download Kerstin Jacobsson, Jonas Lindblom, "Animal Rights Activism: A Moral-Sociological Perspective on Social Movements"
English | 2016 | pages: 145 | ISBN: 9089647643 | PDF | 0,8 mb
We’re in an era of ever increasing attention to animal rights, and activism around the issue is growing more widespread and prominent. In this volume, Jonas Lindblom and Kerstin Jacobsson use the animal rights movement in Sweden to offer the first analysis of social movements through the lens of Emile Durkheim’s sociology of morality. By positing social movements as essentially a moral phenomenon-and morality itself as a social fact-the book complements more structural, cultural, or strategic action-based approaches, even as it also demonstrates the continuing value of classical sociological approaches to understanding contemporary society.

Free Download Jan Blommaert, "Durkheim and the Internet: On Sociolinguistics and the Sociological Imagination"
English | ISBN: 1350055190 | 2018 | 136 pages | PDF | 1416 KB
Sociolinguistic evidence is an undervalued resource for social theory. In this book, Jan Blommaert uses contemporary sociolinguistic insights to develop a new sociological imagination, exploring how we construct and operate in online spaces, and what the implications of this are for offline social practice.

Free Download Andrea Maccarini, Emmanuele Morandi, Riccardo Prandini, "Sociological Realism"
English | 2014 | pages: 212 | ISBN: 1138798010, 0415614562 | PDF | 2,3 mb
Sociological Realism presents a clear and updated discussion of the main tenets and issues of social theory, written by some of the top scholars within the critical realist and relational approach. It connects such approaches systematically to other strands of thought that are central in contemporary sociology, like systems theory and rational choice theory.

Free Download Hannu Simola, "The Finnish Education Mystery: Historical and sociological essays on schooling in Finland"
English | 2017 | pages: 309 | ISBN: 1138096997, 0415812585 | PDF | 4,8 mb
Finnish education has been a focus of global interest since its first PISA success in 2001. After years of superficial celebration, astonishment and educational tourism, the focus has recently shifted to what is possibly the most interesting element of this Finnish success story: that Finnish schools have been effectively applying methods that go against the flow of global education policy with no testing, no inspection, no hard evaluation, no detailed national curriculum, no accountability and no hard competition. From a historical and sociological perspective the Finnish case is not merely a linear success story, but is part of a controversial and paradoxical struggle towards Utopia: towards egalitarian schooling.

Free Download Bob Carter, "Realism and Racism: Concepts of Race in Sociological Research"
English | 2000 | pages: 131 | ISBN: 0415233739, 0415233720 | PDF | 4,2 mb
There are continuing difficulties within social science surrounding concepts of race. This book suggests that these difficulties stem from the uncertain ontological and epistemological status of ideas about race, itself a consequence of the recognition that concepts of race have all but lost their relevance as sociologically significant descriptions.