Chapter 1. Introduction; Michael Jonas, Beate Littig and Angela Wroblewski -- Part I. Methodologies and Methodological Aspects of Practice Theories -- Chapter 2. Sociology of Social Practices: Theory or Modus Operandi of Empirical Research; Robert Schmidt.– Chapter 3. Practice Theory as a Package of Theory, Methods and Vocabulary: Affordances and Limitations; Davide Nicolini -- Chapter 4. Rel…
Chapter 1. Cultural Linguistics: The state of the art (Farzad Sharifian) -- Chapter 2. Cultural Conceptualisations in Humorous Discourse in English and Serbian (Diana Prodanović-Stankić) -- Chapter 3. Cultural Conceptualizations of Death in Taiwanese Buddhist and Christian Eulogistic idioms (Wei-lun Lu) -- Chapter 4. Life as Opera: A cultural metaphor in Chinese (Ning Yu) -- Chapter 5. Cultur…
This book brings together a collection of work from emerging and established scholars who have put forth a vision of what critical sociology is and what it could be in the early decades of the 21st century. Pushing beyond the theoretical outlines of sociological critique, the authors demonstrate how critical sociology is practiced through conceptual innovation and empirical analyses interweavin…
Prologue, Part 1. Requiem for Plato and the Gods -- Prologue, Part 2. The Postmodern Context -- Chapter 1. The Science of Society -- Chapter 2. What about the Gene and What about the Brain? -- Chapter 3. The Social Lives of Minds and Brains -- Chapter 4. Thinking Machines -- Chapter 5. God and Society -- Chapter 6. The Social Construction of Mathematics -- Chapter 7. What Can a Sociologist Say …