This book is about the development of sociology in Britain told through the story of its learned society, The British Sociological Association. Learned societies have been neglected in the history of the discipline, though they are a vital part of the social structure of academic life...
In this ground-breaking work, Mucha and Keen complete their trilogy on the history of sociology in Central and Eastern Europe in the post-Communist era with the autobiographies of ten sociological witnesses...
First published in 1967, this essay in the interpretation of radical social thought deals mainly with the radical theorists rather than the doctrines of social and political movements, but makes an exception in an important discussion of the new radicalism of the 1960s. The author's main concern is ..
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This collection of essential readings examines how the nature and function of fashion theory has been understood by a wide range of social and cultural thinkers and used to explain, or explain away, the astonishing variety, complexity and beauty of what we call fashion...