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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “robert easthope”
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  • An Analysis of Emile Durkheim's On Suicide

    by Robert Easthope ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Emile Durkheim’s 1897 On Suicide is widely recognized as one of the foundational classic texts of sociology. It is also one that shows the degree to which strong interpretative skills can often provide the bedrock for high-level analysis.Durkheim's aim was to analyse the nature of suicide in the context of society itself – examining it not just as an individual decision, but one in which different ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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    The Macat Analysis of Émile Durkheim's On Suicide

    by Robert Easthope ...
    Narrated by John Chancer ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 47 min

    Durkheim’s 1897 work is a powerful evidence-based study of why people take their own lives. In the late nineteenth century, it was generally accepted that each suicide was an individual phenomenon, caused by such personal factors as grief, loss, and financial problems. But Durkheim felt there were patterns in suicide rates, and believed that a more likely cause lay in the individual’s relationship ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • An Analysis of C. Wright Mills's The Sociological Imagination

    by Ismael Puga, Robert Easthope ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    C. Wright Mills’s 1959 book The Sociological Imagination is widely regarded as one of the most influential works of post-war sociology.At its heart, the work is a closely reasoned argument about the nature and aims of sociology, one that sets out a manifesto and roadmap for the field. Its wide acceptance and popular reception is a clear demonstration of the rhetorical power of Wright’s strong ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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    by Jeffrey Weeks ...
    Series series What is History?
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  • An Analysis of John Rawls's A Theory of Justice

    by Filippo Dionigi, Jeremy Kleidosty ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    John Rawls's A Theory of Justice is one of the most influential works of legal and political theory published since the Second World War. It provides a memorably well-constructed and sustained argument in favour of a new (social contract) version of the meaning of social justice. In setting out this argument, Rawls aims to construct a viable, systematic doctrine designed to ensure that the process ... Read more

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  • An Analysis of David Riesman's The Lonely Crowd

    A Study of the Changing American Character

    by Jarrod Homer ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    David Riesman’s The Lonely Crowd: A Study in the Changing American Character is one of the best-known books in the history of sociology – holding a mirror up to contemporary America and showing the nation its own character as it had never seen it before.Its success is a testament to Riesman’s mastery of one key critical thinking skill: interpretation. In critical thinking, interpretation focuses ... Read more

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  • The Critical Turn in Education

    From Marxist Critique to Poststructuralist Feminism to Critical Theories of Race

    by Isaac Gottesman ...
    Series series Critical Social Thought
    The Critical Turn in Education traces the historical emergence and development of critical theories in the field of education, from the introduction of Marxist and other radical social theories in the 1960s to the contemporary critical landscape. The book begins by tracing the first waves of critical scholarship in the field through a close, contextual study of the intellectual and political ... Read more

    $92.99 CAD

  • An Analysis of Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue

    by Jon W. Thompson ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Alasdair MacIntyre’s 1981 After Virtue was a ground-breaking contribution to modern moral philosophy. Dissatisfied with the major trends in the moral philosophy of his time, MacIntyre argued that modern moral discourse had no real rational basis. Instead, he suggested, if one wanted to build a rational theory for morality and moral actions, one would have to go all the way back to Aristotle. To ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • An Analysis of Theda Skocpol's States and Social Revolutions

    A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China

    by Riley Quinn ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Many people want to understand what revolutions are and – especially – how they come about, from the academics who study them to the states that wish to prevent (or, in some cases, provoke) them. But it is arguably the US scholar Theda Skocpol who has done most to create a viable model of revolution, and States and Social Revolutions is the work in which she sets out her intellectual stall.Skocpol ... Read more

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  • The Anarchist Roots of Geography

    Toward Spatial Emancipation

    by Simon Springer ...
    The Anarchist Roots of Geography sets the stage for a radical politics of possibility and freedom through a discussion of the insurrectionary geographies that suffuse our daily experiences. By embracing anarchist geographies as kaleidoscopic spatialities that allow for nonhierarchical connections between autonomous entities, Simon Springer configures a new political imagination.Experimentation in ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Writing History in the Global Era

    by Lynn Hunt ...
    Leading historian Lynn Hunt rethinks why history matters in today’s global world and how it should be written.Globalization is emerging as a major economic, cultural, and political force. In Writing History in the Global Era, historian Lynn Hunt examines whether globalization can reinvigorate the telling of history. She looks toward scholars from the East and West collaborating in new ways as they ... Read more

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  • The History of the Social Sciences since 1945

    by Roger E. Backhouse, Philippe Fontaine ...
    This compact volume covers the main developments in the social sciences since the Second World War. Chapters on economics, human geography, political science, psychology, social anthropology, and sociology will interest anyone wanting short, accessible histories of those disciplines, all written by experts in the relevant field; they will also make it easy for readers to make comparisons between ... Read more

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