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Modern sociology owes its existence and the progress it has made to the integration of differing kinds of orientations.

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Theory of Action: Towards a New Synthesis Going Beyond Parsons
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Beyond Hegemony investigates the authoritarianism and breakdown of those state socialist governments in Russia and elsew

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Jeffrey Alexander, known for his work in sociological theory, breaks new ground in Action and Its Environments. The book

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This book provides a short, comprehensive and accessible introduction to Ultra-Realism: a unique and radical school of c

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This study re-examines narrative theory and outlines the consequences for narratology of deconstructive, poststructurali

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This thesis pursues three successive and related areas of research. First, it undertakes a critique of Schoenberg’s inte

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The aim of this paper is to describe chronologically the evolution of macroeconomic theory since the publication of the

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A new synthesis of the principles of quantum mechanics and Relativity is proposed in the context of complex differential

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A new synthesis of the principles of quantum mechanics and Relativity is proposed in the context of complex differential

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