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IT'S BACK! An English Eye: The Photographs of James Ravilious Photographs by James Ravilious Text by Peter Hamilton Foreword by Alan Bennett December 2007, £19.95, paperback, 120 pp., 113 duotones Out of print for nearly a year, An English Eye is now available again. |
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New Publication
Family and Housing This important new comparative research study of housing and family is distinctive because it takes France and southern Europe as its focus.
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Solsbury Hill In 1994 Adrian Arbib had privileged access to photograph the events on the Solsbury hill road protest, from the often violent actions taken by the private security guards to the quieter moments of life in the trees. His work is a unique record of an important moment in British political history when a peaceable political movement changed government transport policy. |
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Recent Publications
DOWN THE DEEP LANES James Ravilious’s stunning photography and Peter Beacham’s wonderfully perceptive text take the reader on a journey down Devon’s deep lanes into the heart of a countryside not usually acknowledged by guidebooks. What is described, illustrated and celebrated here is the stuff of everyday existence in the rural south west – the lane, field and farmstead, the orchard and the vegetable garden, cob and corrugated iron, and the all pervading weather. |
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Rights and Virtues The subjects covered in this major new work include the debate about modern citizenship inspired by T.H. Marshall, the globalisation of human rights, national sovereignty, the relationship between religion and conceptions of rights, participation and exclusion, and the concept of social virtue. |
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Durkheim and the Puzzle of Social Complexity In this remarkable defence of Durkheimian social theory, Mohamed Cherkaoui analyses the relevance of the great French sociologist's ideas for understanding contemporary society. These range from the discussion of anomie and suicide, to the role of politics in pedagogy and educational organisation. More Information :: Purchase Online :: Sample Chapter (pdf) |
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Research-Technology and Cultural Change: Instrumentation, Genericity, Transversality By Terry Shinn March 2008, £60.00, hardback, 216 pp. ISBN: 978-1-905622-06-1 This book outlines a new perspective on the history and sociology of science that places the devices and instruments of scientific measurement, and the people who design and develop them, at the centre of study. Terry Shinn identifies a hitherto unexplored domain of scientific development that he calls research-technology, and demonstrates its centrality for understanding scientific change and development. More Information :: Purchase Online :: Sample Chapter (pdf) |
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Forthcoming Publication
The Web of Science In this new book on the sociology of stem cell and prion disease research, Michel Dubois explores the dynamics of biomedical science through a study of the networks through which scientific collaboration in this domain has developed. One of his aims is to offer an alternative to the overly simplistic view of scientific transformation popularly associated with the idea of 'technoscience'. His study develops an innovative theory directed towards the renewal of the sociology of science, that defines the main principles of a sociological approach based on scientific action and its often unintended consequences. |
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Forthcoming Publication
Paul F. Lazarsfeld The articles collected together in Paul F. Lazarsfeld, An Empirical Theory of Social Action demonstrate that many of Paul Lazarsfeld's influential intellectual and methodological concerns that were to so shape the direction of sociology as a discipline in the United States were already evident in his early writings, many of which are published here for the first time in English.
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