Sociology & Social Policy

Everyday Language and Everyday Life..

This book provides the first genuinely intelligible and reasonably systematic presentation of this perspective and contributed to the restructuring of empirical knowledge upon solid foundations. It remains important to those who would understood these areas of the social sciences and their potential..

Published in 1998, the main aim of this book is to use a naturalistic, evolutionary approach to solve some of the most important problems in philosophy. The author explores the notion of relative truth in the philosophy of science, ethics and aesthetics...

This book answers the question of whether we can apply evolutionary theories to our understanding of the developmwnt of social structures...

Evolution Versus Revolution..

Published in 2000, the theoretical aim of the book is to explain the dynamic mechanism of the growth of Italian "industrial districts" shifting attention from "Marshallian industrial districts", where focus is not just on the decentralization of production among small-batch firms...

Evolutionary Perspectives on Environmental Problems..

Evolutionism and Its Critics..

Exchange and Power in Social Life..

This book addresses the question of the meaning of life from the point of view of a novel interpretation of Aristotle’s teleology. Critically engaging with the work of the post-war existentialists, the author proposes that the question of the meaning of being should be approached using different ass..

The study of addiction is dominated by a narrow disease ideology that leads to biological reductionism. In this short volume, editors Granfield and Reinarman make clear the importance of a more balanced contextual approach to addiction by bringing to light critical perspectives that expose the histo..

The study of addiction is dominated by a narrow disease ideology that leads to biological reductionism. In this short volume, editors Granfield and Reinarman make clear the importance of a more balanced contextual approach to addiction by bringing to light critical perspectives that expose the histo..