Therese O’Toole is Reader in Sociology at the University of Bristol and a member of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship. She led a major ESRC/AHRC study of Muslim Participation in Contemporary Governance and an AHRC Connected Communities study of the local implementation of Prevent in Bristol.
10 Ebooks von John Holmwood
John Holmwood & Therese O’Toole: Countering Extremism in British Schools?
In 2014 an investigation into an alleged plot to ‘Islamify’ several state schools in Birmingham began. Known as the ‘Trojan Horse’ affair, this caused a previously highly successful school to be …
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€18.99
John Holmwood: Founding Sociology? Talcott Parsons and the Idea of General Theory.
The theories of Talcott Parsons“ are enjoying a revival in the world of sociology. Rather than following closely the complex original prose in an effort to explain the theory in its minutiae, …
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€63.53
John Holmwood: Founding Sociology? Talcott Parsons and the Idea of General Theory.
The theories of Talcott Parsons“ are enjoying a revival in the world of sociology. Rather than following closely the complex original prose in an effort to explain the theory in its minutiae, …
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€63.18
John Holmwood & A. Stewart: Explanation and Social Theory
Modern social science is largely pessimistic about social life and inquiry and this text traces the reasons for this. It argues for a creative and progressive social science to tackle the real …
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€21.42
John Holmwood & Alexander Stewart: Explanation and Social Theory
The book ranges widely over modern social theory, giving detailed treatments of major sources to identify common themes and deficiencies in apparently disparate schools of thought. The object is to …
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€113.68
John Holmwood & Hilary Radner: Constructing the New Consumer Society
This book argues that the coming of the ‚a new consumerism‘ in the affluent societies marks a distinct phase of modernity. Limits of production no longer confine consumption to what is necessary or …
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€28.99
John Holmwood & Therese O’Toole: Countering Extremism in British Schools?
In 2014 an investigation into an alleged plot to ‚Islamify‘ several state schools in Birmingham began. Known as the ‚Trojan Horse‘ affair, this caused a previously highly successful school to be …
PDF
Englisch
DRM
€17.75
Gurminder K. Bhambra & John Holmwood: Colonialism and Modern Social Theory
Modern society emerged in the context of European colonialism and empire. So, too, did a distinctively modern social theory, laying the basis for most social theorising ever since. Yet colonialism …
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€18.99
Martin Paul Eve & Jonathan Gray: Reassembling Scholarly Communications
A critical inquiry into the politics, practices, and infrastructures of open access and the reconfiguration of scholarly communication in digital societies.The Open Access Movement proposes to remove …
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€3.75
Alejandro Abraham-Hamanoiel & Des Freedman: Liberalism in Neoliberal Times
An exploration of the theories, histories, practices, and contradictions of liberalism today.What does it mean to be a liberal in neoliberal times? This collection of short essays attempts to show …
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€3.75
