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  • Cults
    Chris Rojek / Eugene McLaughlin / Stephanie Alice Baker
    This engaging text introduces readers to the sociology of cults. Covering the history and current state of cult studies, this book includes topics ranging from doomsday cults and new religious movements through to self-help cults, the cult of celebrity, intellectuals, and entrepreneurs. ...
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    42,54 €

  • Capitalism and Leisure Theory (Routledge Revivals)
    Chris Rojek
    First published in 1985, this title explores theories of leisure in a capitalist society. Basing his argument on a refutation of the conventional association of leisure with freedom and free time, Chris Rojek examines the four main structural characteristics of modern leisure practice: privatisation, individuation, commercialisation and pacification. The writings of Marx, Durkh...
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    77,43 €

  • Capitalism and Leisure Theory (Routledge Revivals)
    Chris Rojek
    First published in 1985, this title explores theories of leisure in a capitalist society. Basing his argument on a refutation of the conventional association of leisure with freedom and free time, Chris Rojek examines the four main structural characteristics of modern leisure practice: privatisation, individuation, commercialisation and pacification. The writings of Marx, Durkh...
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    301,97 €

  • Event Power
    Chris Rojek
    'Rojek’s argument is a psychological one, although his message is political: global events build on people’s needs to feel empowered and jointly engaged in the pursuit of a higher purpose; they allow a break from daily routines, provide an illusion of intimacy and social membership, and create a sense of self-validation and personal gratification. In short, participation in suc...
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    205,17 €

  • Event Power
    Chris Rojek
    'Rojek’s argument is a psychological one, although his message is political: global events build on people’s needs to feel empowered and jointly engaged in the pursuit of a higher purpose; they allow a break from daily routines, provide an illusion of intimacy and social membership, and create a sense of self-validation and personal gratification. In short, participation in suc...
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    63,59 €

  • Fame Attack
    Chris Rojek
    The follow up to Chris Rojek’s hugely successful Celebrity, this book assesses celebrity culture today. It explores how the fads, fashions and preoccupations of celebrities enter the popular lifeblood, explains what is distinctive about contemporary celebrity, and reveals the psychological, social and economic consequences of fame both upon the public and celebrities themselves...
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    52,56 €

  • The Labour of Leisure
    Chris Rojek
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    78,96 €

  • Leisure Theory
    Chris Rojek
    Leisure practices in the modern Western world exist in the context of mass education, mass communication and mass tourism. In this clear and energetic text, Chris Rojek advocates the theorizing of leisure (taking into account the relationship between individuals, leisure behavior and citizenship) and outlines an approach to the analysis of leisure activity which seeks to consol...
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    66,48 €

  • Leisure Theory
    Chris Rojek
    Leisure practices in the modern Western world exist in the context of mass education, mass communication and mass tourism. In this clear and energetic text, Chris Rojek advocates the theorizing of leisure (taking into account the relationship between individuals, leisure behavior and citizenship) and outlines an approach to the analysis of leisure activity which seeks to consol...
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    65,28 €

  • Society and Culture
    Bryan S Turner / Bryan S. Turner / Bryan STurner / Chris Rojek
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    93,32 €

  • Leisure and Culture
    Chris (Professor of Sociology and Rojek
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    132,93 €

  • Decentring Leisure
    Chris Rojek
    `A book to get you thinking. It has proved impossible to convey accurately the exciting, wide-ranging, seemingly effortless trawl across a wide variety of schools, disciplines and thinkers which Rojek employs to support his argument. He uses a direct personal style which shines through the closely argued material and keeps you turning the pages to the very end. Students brought...
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    235,09 €

  • Decentring Leisure
    Chris Rojek
    `A book to get you thinking. It has proved impossible to convey accurately the exciting, wide-ranging, seemingly effortless trawl across a wide variety of schools, disciplines and thinkers which Rojek employs to support his argument. He uses a direct personal style which shines through the closely argued material and keeps you turning the pages to the very end. Students brought...
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    86,60 €

  • Social Work & Received Ideas
    Chris Rojek
    Social Work and Received Ideas examines the language of both traditional and radical social work as forms of power, arguing that the will to help and care for people unintentionally results in new types of dependency, control and domination. ...
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    49,23 €

  • Leisure for Leisure
    Chris Rojek
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    72,91 €