Zygmunt Bauman (1925-2017) was Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Leeds. His many books have become international bestsellers and have been translated into more than thirty languages.
Michael Hviid Jacobsen is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Social Work, Aalborg University, Denmark. He has published extensively on issues such as social theory, death and dying, and methodology.
Keith Tester is Professor of Sociology at the University of Hull. He has published widely in sociology and is recognised as one of the leading interpreters of the work of Zygmunt Bauman.
56 Ebooks by Michael Hviid Jacobsen
Michael Hviid Jacobsen & Keith Tester: What Use is Sociology?
What’s the use of sociology? The question has been asked often enough and it leaves a lingering doubt in the minds of many. At a time when there is widespread scepticism about the value of sociology …
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€15.99
Michael Hviid Jacobsen & Keith Tester: What Use is Sociology?
What’s the use of sociology? The question has been asked often enough and it leaves a lingering doubt in the minds of many. At a time when there is widespread scepticism about the value of sociology …
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€15.99
Michael Hviid Jacobsen: The Interactionist Imagination
This book outlines the history and developments of interactionist social thought through a consideration of its key figures. Arranged chronologically, each chapter illustrates the impact that individ …
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€106.99
Michael Hviid Jacobsen & Soren Kristiansen: The Social Thought of Erving Goffman
Part of the SAGE Social Thinker series, this book serves as a concise and inviting introduction to the life and works of Erving Goffman, one of the most prominent social theorists in postwar sociolog …
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€36.99
Cecil Greek & Michael Hviid Jacobsen: Framing Law and Crime
This cutting-edge edited collection brings together 17 scholarly essays on two of cinema and television’s most enduring and powerful themes: law and crime. With contributions by many of the most prom …
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€70.43
Michael Hviid Jacobsen: Contemporary Goffman
The sociology of Erving Goffman has inspired generations of sociologists throughout the world. Students and scholars alike have in Goffman’s unsurpassable and generous ability to capture the world of …
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€90.07
Michael Hviid Jacobsen: Contemporary Goffman
The sociology of Erving Goffman has inspired generations of sociologists throughout the world. Students and scholars alike have in Goffman’s unsurpassable and generous ability to capture the world of …
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€69.59
Michael Hviid Jacobsen: Contemporary Goffman
The sociology of Erving Goffman has inspired generations of sociologists throughout the world. Students and scholars alike have in Goffman’s unsurpassable and generous ability to capture the world of …
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€69.50
Michael Hviid Jacobsen: Encountering the Everyday
Everyday life is something we tend to take for granted, something that just is, something unnoticed. But everyday life is perhaps the most important dimension of society it’s where we live most parts …
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€49.68
Keith Tester: Utopia: Social Theory and the Future
In the light of globalization”s failure provide the universal panacea expected by some of its more enthusiastic proponents, and the current status of neo-liberalism in Europe, a search has begun for …
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€64.44
Keith Tester: Utopia: Social Theory and the Future
In the light of globalization”s failure provide the universal panacea expected by some of its more enthusiastic proponents, and the current status of neo-liberalism in Europe, a search has begun for …
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€64.34
Michael Hviid Jacobsen & Poul Poder: The Sociology of Zygmunt Bauman
Zygmunt Bauman is one of the most inspirational and controversial thinkers on the scene of contemporary sociology. For several decades he has provided compelling analyses and diagnoses of a vast vari …
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€61.90
Michael Hviid Jacobsen & Poul Poder: The Sociology of Zygmunt Bauman
Zygmunt Bauman is one of the most inspirational and controversial thinkers on the scene of contemporary sociology. For several decades he has provided compelling analyses and diagnoses of a vast vari …
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€61.42
Michael Hviid Jacobsen: The Poetics of Crime
The Poetics of Crime provides an invitation to reconsider and reimagine how criminological knowledge may be creatively and poetically constructed, obtained, corroborated and applied. Departing from t …
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€51.48
Michael Hviid Jacobsen: The Poetics of Crime
The Poetics of Crime provides an invitation to reconsider and reimagine how criminological knowledge may be creatively and poetically constructed, obtained, corroborated and applied. Departing from t …
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€51.34
Michael Hviid (Aalborg University, Denmark) Jacobsen: Postmortal Society
Throughout history mankind has struggled to reconcile itself with the inescapability of its own mortality. This book explores the themes of immortality and survivalism in contemporary culture, sheddi …
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€56.55
Michael Hviid (Aalborg University, Denmark) Jacobsen: Postmortal Society
Throughout history mankind has struggled to reconcile itself with the inescapability of its own mortality. This book explores the themes of immortality and survivalism in contemporary culture, sheddi …
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€56.55
Michael Hviid Jacobsen & Sandra Walklate: Liquid Criminology
This book explores the ways in which criminological methods can be imaginatively deployed and developed in a world increasingly characterized by the blurred nature of social reality. Whilst recognizi …
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€51.35
Michael Hviid Jacobsen & Sandra Walklate: Liquid Criminology
This book explores the ways in which criminological methods can be imaginatively deployed and developed in a world increasingly characterized by the blurred nature of social reality. Whilst recognizi …
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€51.25
Michael S. Drake & Michael Hviid Jacobsen: Imaginative Methodologies in the Social Sciences
Imaginative Methodologies in the Social Sciences develops, expands and challenges conventional social scientific methodology and language by way of literary, poetic and other alternative sources of i …
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€69.75
Michael S. Drake & Michael Hviid Jacobsen: Imaginative Methodologies in the Social Sciences
Imaginative Methodologies in the Social Sciences develops, expands and challenges conventional social scientific methodology and language by way of literary, poetic and other alternative sources of i …
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€68.60
Michael Hviid Jacobsen: Beyond Bauman
Bringing together leading interpreters of Zygmunt Bauman’s sociology, this volume thinks with and beyond Bauman’s work in order to show its continued relevance as a theory in its own right, as an obj …
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€50.84
Michael Hviid Jacobsen: Beyond Bauman
Bringing together leading interpreters of Zygmunt Bauman’s sociology, this volume thinks with and beyond Bauman’s work in order to show its continued relevance as a theory in its own right, as an obj …
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€51.36
Michael Hviid Jacobsen & Sandra Walklate: Emotions and Crime
In spite of the fact that crime is an emotive topic, the question of emotion has been largely overlooked in criminological research, which has tended instead to examine criminal conduct in terms of s …
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€53.52
Michael Hviid Jacobsen & Sandra Walklate: Emotions and Crime
In spite of the fact that crime is an emotive topic, the question of emotion has been largely overlooked in criminological research, which has tended instead to examine criminal conduct in terms of s …
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€53.35
Michael Hviid Jacobsen: Critical and Cultural Interactionism
One of the longest standing traditions in sociology, interactionism is concerned with studying human interaction and showing how society to a large part is constituted by patterns of interaction. In …
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€51.47
Michael Hviid Jacobsen: Critical and Cultural Interactionism
One of the longest standing traditions in sociology, interactionism is concerned with studying human interaction and showing how society to a large part is constituted by patterns of interaction. In …
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€51.46
Michael Hviid Jacobsen: The Transformation of Modernity
This title was first published in 2001: For over 30 years it has been argued that contemporary society is undergoing a fundamental transformation. The portrait of the modern society or modernity offe …
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€19.25
Michael Hviid Jacobsen: The Transformation of Modernity
This title was first published in 2001: For over 30 years it has been argued that contemporary society is undergoing a fundamental transformation. The portrait of the modern society or modernity offe …
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€19.22
Michael Hviid Jacobsen: Emotions, Everyday Life and Sociology
This volume explores the emotions that are intricately woven into the texture of everyday life and experience. A contribution to the literature on the sociology of emotions, it focuses on the role of …
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€54.02
Michael Hviid Jacobsen: Emotions, Everyday Life and Sociology
This volume explores the emotions that are intricately woven into the texture of everyday life and experience. A contribution to the literature on the sociology of emotions, it focuses on the role of …
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€53.63
Michael Hviid Jacobsen & Soren Kristiansen: Social Thought of Erving Goffman
Part of the SAGE Social Thinker series, this book serves as a concise and inviting introduction to the life and works of Erving Goffman, one of the most prominent social theorists in postwar sociolog …
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€37.23
Michael Hviid Jacobsen & Anders Petersen: Exploring Grief
As modern society’s routine sequestration of death and grief is increasingly replaced by late-modern society’s growing concern with existential issues and emotionality, this book explores grief as a …
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€54.05
Michael Hviid Jacobsen & Anders Petersen: Exploring Grief
As modern society’s routine sequestration of death and grief is increasingly replaced by late-modern society’s growing concern with existential issues and emotionality, this book explores grief as a …
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€53.91
Michael Hviid (Aalborg University, Denmark) Jacobsen & Adriana (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania) Teodorescu: Death in Contemporary Popular Culture
With intense and violent portrayals of death becoming ever more common on television and in cinema and the growth of death-centric movies, series, texts, songs, and video clips attracting a wide and …
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€51.36
Michael Hviid (Aalborg University, Denmark) Jacobsen & Adriana (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania) Teodorescu: Death in Contemporary Popular Culture
With intense and violent portrayals of death becoming ever more common on television and in cinema and the growth of death-centric movies, series, texts, songs, and video clips attracting a wide and …
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€51.41
Michael Hviid (Aalborg University, Denmark) Jacobsen: Nostalgia Now
This volume explores the nature of nostalgia as an important emotion in contemporary society and social theory. Situated between the ‘sociology of emotions’ and ‘nostalgia studies’, it considers the …
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€51.18
Michael Hviid (Aalborg University, Denmark) Jacobsen: Nostalgia Now
This volume explores the nature of nostalgia as an important emotion in contemporary society and social theory. Situated between the ‘sociology of emotions’ and ‘nostalgia studies’, it considers the …
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€51.18
Michael Hviid Jacobsen: Age of Spectacular Death
This book explores death in contemporary society – or more precisely, in the ‘spectacular age’ – by moving beyond classic studies of death that emphasised the importance of the death taboo and death …
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€47.79
Michael Hviid Jacobsen: Age of Spectacular Death
This book explores death in contemporary society – or more precisely, in the ‘spectacular age’ – by moving beyond classic studies of death that emphasised the importance of the death taboo and death …
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€47.20
Caroline Joan &Kay& S. Picart: Monsters, Law, Crime
Monsters, Law, Crime, an edited collection composed of essays written by prominent U.S. and international experts in Law, Criminology, Sociology, Anthropology, Communication and Film, constitutes a r …
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€44.66
Michael Hviid Jacobsen: Intimations of Nostalgia
Nostalgia, a complex and multi-layered emotion, has gained interest since the turn of the century in both society and academic circles. Written by an international group of scholars, this volume inve …
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€39.99
Michael Hviid Jacobsen: Intimations of Nostalgia
Nostalgia, a complex and multi-layered emotion, has gained interest since the turn of the century in both society and academic circles. Written by an international group of scholars, this volume inve …
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€35.94
Michael Hviid Jacobsen & Soren Kristiansen: Social Thought of Erving Goffman
Part of the SAGE Social Thinker series, this book serves as a concise and inviting introduction to the life and works of Erving Goffman, one of the most prominent social theorists in postwar sociolog …
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€37.21
Michael Hviid Jacobsen & Greg Smith: Routledge International Handbook of Goffman Studies
This book explores the fertility and enigma of Erving Goffman’s sociological reasoning and its capacity to shed fresh light on the fundamental features of human sociality. Thematically arranged, it b …
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€56.50
Michael Hviid Jacobsen & Greg Smith: Routledge International Handbook of Goffman Studies
This book explores the fertility and enigma of Erving Goffman’s sociological reasoning and its capacity to shed fresh light on the fundamental features of human sociality. Thematically arranged, it b …
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€56.60
Michael Hviid Jacobsen: Emotions in Culture and Everyday Life
This volume describes and analyses a series of emotions prevalent in everyday life and culture, with each chapter exploring the main facets of a particular emotion and considering the ways in which i …
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€51.20
Michael Hviid Jacobsen: Emotions in Culture and Everyday Life
This volume describes and analyses a series of emotions prevalent in everyday life and culture, with each chapter exploring the main facets of a particular emotion and considering the ways in which i …
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€51.36
Michael Hviid Jacobsen: The Anthem Companion to Erving Goffman
The purpose of the volume—as with the other volumes published in the Anthem Press “Companion to Sociology” series—is to provide a comprehensive overview of Erving Goffman’s continued appeal and …
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€62.99
Michael Hviid Jacobsen: Anthem Companion to Erving Goffman
The purpose of the volume – as with the other volumes published in the Anthem Press ‘Companion to Sociology’ series – is to provide a comprehensive overview of Erving Goffman’s continued importance w …
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€57.77
Michael Hviid Jacobsen: Exploring Emotions in Social Life
This volume presents a broad range of studies on a variety of emotions from social scientific perspectives. Bringing together scholars from disciplines including sociology, psychology, anthropology a …
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€51.41
Michael Hviid Jacobsen: Exploring Emotions in Social Life
This volume presents a broad range of studies on a variety of emotions from social scientific perspectives. Bringing together scholars from disciplines including sociology, psychology, anthropology a …
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€51.17
Michael Hviid Jacobsen: Dark Emotions
Dark Emotions is a book about a range of emotional experiences that are often regarded or characterized as ‘negative’, ‘disturbing’ or ‘dark’ as contrasted with emotions that are ‘positive’, ‘pleasan …
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€51.27
Michael Hviid Jacobsen: Dark Emotions
Dark Emotions is a book about a range of emotional experiences that are often regarded or characterized as ‘negative’, ‘disturbing’ or ‘dark’ as contrasted with emotions that are ‘positive’, ‘pleasan …
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€51.45
Emiliano Bevilacqua & Michael Hviid Jacobsen: Love and Sexuality in Social Theory
Love and Sexuality in Social Theory considers the role that love and sexuality play in private and public life. Drawing on both classical and contemporary social theory, this book presents both theor …
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€51.41
Emiliano Bevilacqua & Michael Hviid Jacobsen: Love and Sexuality in Social Theory
Love and Sexuality in Social Theory considers the role that love and sexuality play in private and public life. Drawing on both classical and contemporary social theory, this book presents both theor …
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€51.54
