1. Coffee and Death -- 2. Baby Boomers and the Death Café -- 3. Habermas’ Theory of Communicative Action and the Colonization of the Lifeworld -- 4. Death Café Communicative Action -- 5. Death Sentiments and Death Themes -- 6. Enhancing Habermas with Erich Fromm and Kurt Wolff -- 7. Enhancing Habermas with Ray Oldenburg -- 8. Decolonizing the Lifeworld.This sociological work examines the ph…
Corruption and anticorruption in China -- Corruption-Theories and Perspectives -- A Contextualized Approach: Theory of Social Censure -- Methods -- Shift of mode: from a mass line approach to a bureaucratic approach -- Status of Law -- Creation of Social Censure on Corruption -- Application of social censure on corruption -- Outcome of social censure on corruption -- Conclusion.The book examine…
This book illustrates how leisure, as with other complex ideas that hold currency in today’s world, suffers at the level of common sense, due to a combination of oversimplification, moral depreciation, and even lack of recognition. Leisure’s modern legacy is both profound and immense, as a product of approximately 45 years of steady research, application and theory development. The common s…
Preface -- 1 Introduction to Lepsius' Concept of Institutional Theory -- 2 Interests and Ideas. Max Weber's Allocation Problem -- 3 The Institutionalization and Deinstitutionalization of Rationality Criteria -- 4 Institutional Analysis and Institutional Policy -- 5 The Institutionalization of Rationality Criteria and the Role of Intellectuals -- 6 Modernization Policy and Institution Building: …
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 …
1. Introduction -- 2.“A Shining City”? Perspectives on the American Exception -- 3. “A Sea of Faith”: The American Religious Exception -- 4.“Equal Justice under Law”: The American Legal Exception -- 5. “Almost an Island unto Itself”: The American Sports Exception.This book examines what makes the United States an exceptional society, what impact it has had abroad, and why these …
Introduction to the Handbook; Karl Spracklen, Brett Lashua, Erin Sharpe and Spencer Swain -- Part One: Traditional Theories of Leisure -- Section One Introduction; Erin Sharpe -- 1. Islam and Leisure; Kirsten Walseth and Mahfoud Amara -- 2. Centring Leisure: A Hindu View of Leisure; Veena Sharma -- 3. Listening to 19th Century Kanaka ʻŌiwi Voices; Re-Imagining the Possibilities for Leisure; K…
Foreword. Gentrification and Retail Change -- Chapter 1. The 'Death' of the High Street -- Chapter 2. Going Out of Town -- Chapter 3. Reviving the High Street -- Chapter 4. 24-Hour Party People -- Chapter 5. Sexing it Up -- Chapter 6. Place Your Bets -- Chapter 7. Fast Food, Slow Food -- Chapter 8. Bohemia on the High Street -- Chapter 9. Conclusion: Vital and Viable?.This book analyses the soc…