Authors:Chris Rojek, Mr Bryan S Turner, Bryan Turner,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: political, routledge, studies, social, thought, theory, politics, francois, lyotard, justice, jean
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1998-07-01
List price: $200.00
ISBN-10: 0415117240
ISBN-13: 9780415117241

Jean-Francois Lyotard is still considered to be the father of postmodernism. An international range of contributors in the field of cultural and philosophical studies, including Barry Smart, John O’ Neill and Victor J. Seidler consider Lyotard’s writings on justice and politics of difference, feminism, youth and Judaism.

Author: Mr Bryan S Turner
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: responses, routledge, critical, crit, weber, max
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2004-11-11
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0415184762
ISBN-13: 9780415184762

This collection reprints critical responses to Weber’s sociology in the period 1920-1945. All of the material in this collection, apart from Bryan Turner’s introduction, has been published previously. The selections are in English, German, French and Italian.

Author: Bryan Turner
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: city, theories, social
Number of Pages: 456
Published: 2004-11-11
List price: $1.00
ISBN-10: 0415163072
ISBN-13: 9780415163071

This set brings together some of the most significant writings on the city from the period 1898 to 1938. The unprecedented urbanization of the nineteenth century prompted a wide range of theoretical and empirical writings on the city. Along with writings that address specific urban problems-- especially those relating to infrastructure, housing and poverty-- this collection includes essays that are more generally concerned with the nature and texture of city life. In their reflection of the experience of rapid urban growth, these volumes are particularly relevant to many of the newly industria

Author: Bryan Turner
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Keywords: thought, social, concepts, status
Number of Pages: 110
Published: 1989-03-15
List price: $23.50
ISBN-10: 0816617236
ISBN-13: 9780816617234

Author: Bryan S. Turner
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: readers, blackwell, reader, parsons, talcott
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1991-01-15
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 1557865442
ISBN-13: 9781557865441

Talcott Parsons has been one of the most influential American sociologists of the postwar period. Bryan Turner’s selections from Parsons’ work provide a comprehensive overview of his principal contributions and are grouped under the following subdivisions: religion and modern society; life, sex, and death; sociological theory; and American society and the world order.These selections offer an exposition of the core features of Parsons’ sociology and demonstrate his continuing relevance to critical issues today, including globalization, the place of American civilization in th

Author: Bryan Turner
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: orientalism, volume, readings
Number of Pages: 476
Published: 2000-02
List price: $450.00
ISBN-10: 0415208998
ISBN-13: 9780415208994

Authors:June Edmunds, Bryan Turner,
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: politics, narrative, consciousness, generational
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2003-01
List price: $30.95
ISBN-10: 0742517314
ISBN-13: 9780742517318

With the erosion of strong class theory, sociologists have recently started to look at aspects of social stratification other than class. One of the most interesting new areas of investigation is the sociology of generations.