Risk and Everyday Life 9780761947585, 0761947582

This book examines how people respond to, experience and think about risk. The authors stress the need to take into acco

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Risk and Everyday Life
9780761947585, 0761947582

Providing an overview and commentary on ways in which sociologists seek to understand the 'risk society', this

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A penetrating analysis and critique of the neoliberal policies that prompted the global economic crisis of 2008.

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Nearly four centuries ago, liberal political thought asserted that the state was the product of a distant, pre-historica

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Food and Everyday Life provides a qualitative, interpretive, and interdisciplinary examination of food and food practice

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In recent years, there has been an explosion of interest in the contemporary social study of the body which has raised i

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This introductory text explores the historical and contemporary relevance of religion to social life, through an examina

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We are all more primitive and irrational than we care to acknowledge, says Dr. Leonard Shengold in this profound and elo

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This book is a ′survival guide′ for students and researchers who would like to conduct a qualitative study with limited

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