Culture, Class, Distinction

Tony Bennett, Mike Savage, Elizabeth Bortolaia Silva

• Paperback | Engels | Cresc
• Culture, Class, Distinction is major contribution to international debates regarding the role of cultural capital in relation to modern forms of inequ... Lees meer

The Media and Social Theory

• Paperback | Engels | Cresc
• Media studies needs richer and livelier intellectual resources. This book brings together major and emerging international media analysts to consider ... Lees meer

Enter Culture, Exit Arts?

Semi Purhonen, Riie Heikkilä, Irmak Karademir Hazir

• Paperback | Engels | Cresc
• Key debates of contemporary cultural sociology - the rise of the 'cultural omnivore', the fate of classical 'highbrow' culture, the popularization, co... Lees meer

Creative Labour

David Hesmondhalgh, Sarah Baker

• Paperback | Engels | Cresc
• What is it like to work in the media? Are media jobs more 'creative' than those in other sectors? To answer these questions, this book explores the cr... Lees meer

Markets and the Arts of Attachment

• Hardcover | Engels | Cresc
• The collection explores how sentiment and relations are organised in consumer markets. Social studies of economies and markets have much more to offer... Lees meer

Imitation, Contagion, Suggestion

• Hardcover | Engels | Cresc
• Terrorist attacks seem to mimic other terrorist attacks. Mass shootings appear to mimic previous mass shootings. Financial traders seem to mimic other... Lees meer

Objects and Materials

• Hardcover | Engels | Cresc
• There is broad acceptance across the Humanities and Social Sciences that our deliberations on the social need to take place through attention to pract... Lees meer

Imitation, Contagion, Suggestion

• Paperback | Engels | Cresc
• Terrorist attacks seem to mimic other terrorist attacks. Mass shootings appear to mimic previous mass shootings. Financial traders seem to mimic other... Lees meer

Cultural Pedagogies and Human Conduct

Megan Watkins, Greg Noble, Catherine Driscoll

• Paperback | Engels | Cresc
• Pedagogy is often glossed as the 'art and science of teaching' but this focus typically ties it to the instructional practices of formalised schooling... Lees meer

Assembling and Governing Habits

• Paperback | Engels | Cresc
• The increasing significance of managing or changing habits is evident across a range of pressing contemporary issues: climate change, waste management... Lees meer

Understanding Sport

John Horne, Alan Tomlinson, Garry Whannel

• Paperback | Engels | Cresc
• In the decade or more since publication of the first edition of Understanding Sport , both sport and wider global society have undergone profound chan... Lees meer

The Provoked Economy

Fabian Muniesa

• Paperback | Engels | Cresc
• Do things such as performance indicators, valuation formulas, consumer tests, stock prices or financial contracts represent an external reality? Or do... Lees meer

Lived Economies of Default

Joe Deville

• Paperback | Engels | Cresc
• Consumer credit borrowing - using credit cards, store cards and personal loans - is an important and routine part of many of our lives. But what happe... Lees meer

Milk, Modernity and the Making of the Human

Richie Nimmo

• Paperback | Engels | Cresc
• This book undertakes a critique of the pervasive notion that human beings are separate from and elevated above the nonhuman world and explores its rol... Lees meer

Making Culture, Changing Society

Tony Bennett

• Hardcover | Engels | Cresc
• Making Culture, Changing Society proposes a challenging new account of the relations between culture and society focused on how particular forms of cu... Lees meer

Unpacking IKEA

Pauline Garvey

• Paperback | Engels | Cresc
• This book represents the first anthropological ethnography of Ikea consumption and goes to the heart of understanding the unique and at times frantic ... Lees meer

Infrastructures and Social Complexity

• Paperback | Engels | Cresc
• Contemporary forms of infrastructural development herald alternative futures through their incorporation of digital technologies, mobile capital, inte... Lees meer

Material Powers

• Hardcover | Engels | Cresc | nr. 4
• This edited collection is a major contribution to the current development of a 'material turn' in the social sciences and humanities. It does so by ex... Lees meer

Accumulation

• Paperback | Engels | Cresc
• From food punnets to credit cards, plastic facilitates every part of our daily lives. It has become central to processes of contemporary socio-materia... Lees meer

Rio de Janeiro

Beatriz Jaguaribe

• Paperback | Engels | Cresc
• "Through artistic imaginaries, media productions, social practices and spatial mappings, this book offers an insightful and original contribution to t... Lees meer

Infrastructures and Social Complexity

• Hardcover | Engels | Cresc
• Contemporary forms of infrastructural development herald alternative futures through their incorporation of digital technologies, mobile capital, inte... Lees meer

A World Laid Waste?

• Hardcover | Engels | Cresc
• Globalisation and neo-liberalism have seen the rise of new international powers, increasingly interlinked economies, and mass urbanisation. The intern... Lees meer

Devising Consumption

Liz McFall

• Paperback | Engels | Cresc
• The book explores the vital role played by the financial service industries in enabling the poor to consume over the last hundred and fifty years. Spe... Lees meer

Diasporas and Diplomacy

• Paperback | Engels | Cresc
• Diasporas and Diplomacy analyzes the exercise of British 'soft power' through the BBC's foreign language services, and the diplomatic role played by t... Lees meer