LIBROS DEL AUTOR: chris jenks

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  • Childhood
    Chris Jenks
    In this fascinating book Chris Jenks thoroughly examines the concept of childhood. He focuses on the way the image of the child is played out in society, looking specifically at its image through history and the reality of child abuse. ...
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    84,36 €

  • Qualitative Complexity
    Chris Jenks / John Smith
    Offering a critique of the humanist paradigm in contemporary social theory, Qualitative Complexity is the first comprehensive sociological analysis of complexity theory. Drawing from sources in sociology, philosophy, complexity theory, ’fuzzy logic’, systems theory, cognitive science and evolutionary biology, John Smith and Chris Jenks present a new series of interdisciplinary ...
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    66,19 €

  • Childhood
    Chris Jenks
    In this book Chris Jenks looks at what the ways in which we construct our image of childhood can tell us about ourselves. After a general discussion of the social construction of childhood, the book is structured around three examples of the way the image of the child is played out in society: the history of childhood from medieval times through the enlightenment ’discovery’ o...
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    77,60 €

  • Subculture
    Chris Jenks
    This illuminating book, which explores the idea of subcultures, traces the concept back to the works of Tonnies and Durkheim. Jenks also analyses subcultures in American urban sociology and criminology. Finally, he evaluates the work of Stuart Hall and the Birmingham School and argues for the continuing relevance of subcultures. ...
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    151,39 €

  • Culture
    Chris Jenks
    Culture is a concept that has remained on the top of the agenda within the social sciences for two decades. It incites controversy and debate and always appears fresh. This book, updated throughout and with new sections on visual culture, urban culture and subcultures, argues that to understand the concept we need to locate it within traditions of thought and appreciate its pol...
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    77,32 €

  • Transgression
    Chris Jenks
    Transgression is truly a key idea for our time. Society is created by constraint and boundaries, but as our culture is increasingly subject to uncertainty and flux we find it more and more difficult to determine where those boundaries lie. In this fast moving study, Chris Jenks ranges widely over the history of ideas, the major theorists, and the significant moments in the form...
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    73,40 €

  • Core Sociological Dichotomies
    Chris Jenks
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    175,58 €

  • Visual Culture
    Chris Jenks
    This collection of original and exciting essays explores the `visual’ character of contemporary culture. Examining film, painting, propaganda, photography and television, this is an indispensible guide to this field. ...
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    117,72 €

  • Thought as a System
    Chris Jenks / David Bohm
    In Thought as a System, best-selling author David Bohm takes as his subject the role of thought and knowledge at every level of human affairs, from our private reflections on personal identity to our collective efforts to fashion a tolerable civilization. Elaborating upon principles of the relationship between mind and matter first put forward in Wholeness and the Implicate Ord...
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    77,19 €