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Stigma is an illuminating excursion into the situation of persons who are unable to conform to standards that society calls normal. Disqualified from full social acceptance, they are stigmatized individuals.
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Widely acknowledged as one of the world's leading experts on language and the workings of the mind, Pulitzer Prize finalist Pinker has undertaken the most ambitious and controversial work of his career—a brilliant reexamination of the concept of human... [ More...]
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This is a searing account of life in the underclass and why it persists as it does, written by a British psychiatrist who treats the poor in a slum hospital and a prison in England. Dr. Dalrymple's key insight is that long-term poverty is caused not by... [ More...]
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This book rejects apocalyptic pronouncements that the end of the millennium represents the "end" of nature as well. Remaking Reality brings together contributors from across the human sciences who argue that a notion of "social nature" provides great hope... [ More...]
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Anthropologist Wayne Warry argues that self-government can be realized only when individuals are secure in their cultural identity and can contribute to the transformation of their communities. Warry's notion of community healing involves efforts to rebuild... [ More...]
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This is the first collection of essays to be published on Durkheim's masterpiece The Elementary Forms of Religious Life and includes work by the most important international Durkheim scholars.
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Without doubt Baudrillard is one of the foremost European thinkers of the last fifty years, his work has provoked debate and controversy across a number of disciplines, yet his significance has so far been largely ignored by feminist theorists.
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Geography has recently seen something of a 'body craze'. It is no longer enough to simply examine the broad and wide sweeping maps of power and meaning. The micro-level politics that imbue bodies and spaces are increasingly being held up to scrutiny. the... [ More...]
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This state-of-the-art handbook represents the postmodern revolution to the broadest extent of its impact on contemporary theories of culture and society. A diverse group of scholars offers over fifty summaries of the key figures who have been... [ More...]
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Focusing primarily on its micro-level causes and consequences, the book's international contributors argue that social capital is fundamentally how people interact.
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