The first authoritative yet accessible guide to this broad and popular topic Sociology is the study of human and societal interaction, and because society is constantly changing, sociology will always remain a crucial and relevant subject. Sociology For Dummies helps you understand this complex field, serving as the ideal study guide both when you're deciding to take a class as well as when you are already participating in a course.
The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change
A rich, systematic and empirically grounded account of intellectual change in three civilizations. "The Sociology of Philosophies" is an ambitious, comprehensive, and brilliant account of the rationalization process of three world philosophies: Western, Indian, and Asian. In Collins' analysis, this developmental process is shown to be generated via social and conceptual networks...The book expounds upon an immense range of intellectual history, and certainly makes inspiring and interesting reading.
This book is designed to bring the reader up to date on the theory and research traditions that have proliferated in the analysis of human emotions. Key figures who have carried the sociology of emotions to its current level of prominence review their own work and the work of others who have made contributions to a particular approach to the study of emotions. The outcome is a comprehensive book that serves as a primer on the cutting edge of sociological work in what is obviously a key dynamic in human affairs.
The purpose of this book is to present, examine, evaluate, and explain the role and place of the state bureaucracy in society and public administration of Russia under three regimes-the tsarist, the Soviet, and the present or post-Soviet.
The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind, by James Boyle
Added by: Kaldagan | Karma: 115.48 | Non-Fiction, Other | 8 June 2009
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In this enlightening book James Boyle describes what he calls the range wars of the information age—today’s heated battles over intellectual property. Boyle argues that just as every informed citizen needs to know at least something about the environment or civil rights, every citizen should also understand intellectual property law. Why? Because intellectual property rights mark out the ground rules of the information society, and today’s policies are unbalanced,...
