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1	Contested Knowledge: Social Theory Today more books like this by Professor Steven Seidman add to wishlist Contested Knowledge has established itself as a leading text that brings social theory into the present day by providing the most up-to-date perspectives on social theory by one of the most important thinkers of our time, Steven Seidman. The book tracks the work of the major figures in the field, from the classical sociologists - Durkheim, Marx, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $36.17! \| SVS
2	Introducing the New Sexuality Studies: Original Essays and Interviews more books like this by Professor Steven Seidman (Editor), Nancy Fischer (Editor), Chet Meeks (Editor) add to wishlist As the field of sexuality studies has become a growth area in academia and classes on sexuality studies are incorporated into various disciplines, the expanding book market has been filled with specialist oriented texts which are often theoretically focused and contain too many summaries for an undergraduate audience. Addressing this imbalance, ... see all copies from $28.80! new only from $53.87! \| SVS
3	The Social Construction of Sexuality more books like this by Professor Steven Seidman add to wishlist Though attitudes toward sexuality have changed greatly over the past two centuries, it is still taken for granted that a distinction can be made between natural and unnatural manifestations of sexuality. see all copies from $2.30! new only from $21.23! \| SVS
4	The New American Cultural Sociology more books like this by Philip Smith (Editor), Professor Steven Seidman (Editor), Professor Jeffrey C Alexander (Contributions by) add to wishlist American Cultural Sociology presents a serious challenge to British Cultural Studies and European grand theory alike. This exciting volume brings together sixteen seminal papers by leading figures in what is emerging as an important intellectual tradition. It places them in the context of related work in Sociology and other disciplines, exploring ... see all copies from $11.70! new only from $37.90! \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Unfinished Revolution: Social Movement Theory and the Gay and Lesbian Movement more books like this by Stephen M Engel, Professor Steven Seidman (Editor), Professor Jeffrey C Alexander (Editor) add to wishlist The Unfinished Revolution compares the post-Second World War histories of the American and British gay and lesbian movements with an eye toward understanding how distinct political institutional environments affect the development, strategies, goals, and outcomes of a social movement. Stephen M. Engel utilizes an electic mix of source materials ... see all copies from $16.97! new only from $32.01!
6	Embattled Eros: Sexual Politics and Ethics in Contemporary America more books like this by Professor Steven Seidman, Seidman Steven add to wishlist Embattled Eros is a sophisticated analysis of the major dynamics and patterns of the contemporary debate on sexuality. Steven Seidman shows that at the root of the major conflicts within this contoversial field, are two sexual ideologies, the libertarian and the romanticist. Examining the strengths and limits of each ideology, he puts forward ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $44.28! \| SVS
7	Beyond the Closet: The Transformation of Gay and Lesbian Life more books like this by Professor Steven Seidman add to wishlist Steven Seidman offers the first sustained account of the post-closeted gay world. Since the Stonewall rebellions, lesbian and gay life has been understood in terms of 'being in' or 'coming out' of the closet. Seidman argues that a new configuration of gay life is taking shape, and that the closet is disappearing. see all copies from $4.49! new only from $6.54! \| first editions
8	Identity Without Selfhood: Simone de Beauvoir and Bisexuality more books like this by Dr. Mariam Fraser, Professor Jeffrey C Alexander (Editor), Professor Steven Seidman (Editor) add to wishlist Identity Without Selfhood proposes an original conception of identity and subjectivity in the context of recent post-structuralist and queer debates. The author argues that efforts to analyse and even 'deconstruct' identity and selfhood still rely on certain core Western techniques of identity such as individuality, boundedness, autonomy, self ... see all copies from $4.45! new only from $4.46! \| first editions
9	Difference Troubles: Queering Social Theory and Sexual Politics more books like this by Professor Steven Seidman add to wishlist Difference Troubles examines the implications for social theory and sexual politics of taking difference seriously. It explores the trouble difference makes not only for the social sciences, but also for the people - feminists, queer theorists, postmodernists - who champion difference. Seidman asks how social thinkers should conceptualize ... see all copies from $4.95! new only from $14.00! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Symbol and Ritual in the New Spain: The Transition to Democracy After Franco more books like this by Dr. Laura Desfor Edles, Professor Steven Seidman (Editor), Professor Jeffrey C Alexander (Editor) add to wishlist This is a book about the role of culture in social change and the Spanish transition to democracy after Franco. Laura Desfor Edles takes a distinctively culturalist approach to the 'strategy of consensus' deployed by the Spanish elite and uses systematic textual interpretation (with a particular focus on Spanish newspapers) to show how a new ... see all copies from $5.70! new only from $5.70! \| first editions
11	Nationalism and Literature: The Politics of Culture in Canada and the United States more books like this by Sarah M Corse, Professor Steven Seidman (Editor), Professor Jeffrey C Alexander (Editor) add to wishlist Sarah Corse's analysis of nearly two hundred American and Canadian novels offers a new theory of national literatures. Demonstrating that national canon formation occurs in tandem with nation-building, and that canonical novels play a symbolic role in this, Sarah Corse accounts for cross-national literary differences, addresses issues of mediation ... see all copies from $2.60! new only from $29.87! \| first editions
12 view cover	Race, Media, and the Crisis of Civil Society: From Watts to Rodney King more books like this by Ronald N Jacobs, Professor Steven Seidman (Editor), Professor Jeffrey C Alexander (Editor) add to wishlist Since the early nineteenth century, African-Americans have turned to black newspapers to monitor the mainstream media and to develop alternative interpretations of public events. Ronald Jacobs tells the stories of these newspapers, showing how they increased black visibility within white civil society and helped to form separate black public ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
13 view cover	Challenging Diversity: Rethinking Equality and the Value of Difference more books like this by Davina Cooper, Professor Steven Seidman (Editor), Professor Jeffrey C Alexander (Editor) add to wishlist What challenges are presented by the claim that diversity should be celebrated? How should equality politics respond to controversial constituencies, such as smokers and sports hunters, when they position themselves as disadvantaged? Challenging Diversity brings a new and original approach to key issues facing social, political and cultural theory ... see all copies from $3.83! new only from $13.86! \| first editions
14 view cover	Queer Fictions of the Past: History, Culture, and Difference more books like this by Scott Bravmann, Professor Steven Seidman (Editor), Professor Jeffrey C Alexander (Editor) add to wishlist A treatise on how images of homosexuality--"queer signifiers" ranging from Greece to Stonewall--have come to assume the role of empowering forces in the gay community. see all copies from $10.00! new only from $22.20! \| first editions
15 view cover	Thinking Through Television more books like this by Ron Lembo, Professor Jeffrey C Alexander (Editor), Professor Steven Seidman (Editor) add to wishlist This original and engaging book investigates American television viewing habits as a distinct cultural form. Based on an empirical study of the day-to-day use of television by working people, it develops a unique theoretical approach integrating cultural sociology, post modernism and the literature of media effects to explore the way in which ... see all copies from $2.77! new only from $15.17! \| first editions
16 view cover	Matters of Culture: Cultural Sociology in Practice more books like this by Roger Friedland (Editor), John W Mohr (Editor), Professor Steven Seidman (Editor) add to wishlist American sociology is in the midst of a cultural turn. Where sociologists once spurned culture, today they embrace and explore it, seeking to understand the construction of social forms and the way culture matters. Problems of meaning, discourse, aesthetics, value, textuality, form and narrativity, topics traditionally within the humanists' ... see all copies from $10.29! new only from $10.29!
17 view cover	The Postmodern Turn: New Perspectives on Social Theory more books like this by Professor Steven Seidman (Editor) add to wishlist The Postmodern Turn gathers together some of the most important statements of the postmodern approach to human studies. Addressing the postmodern social theory that emphasizes the social role of knowledge, this book abandons the disciplinary boundaries separating the sciences and the humanities. Contributors include well-known theorists in the ... see all copies from $2.49! new only from $23.02! \| SVS
18 view cover	The Religious and Romantic Origins of Psychoanalysis: Individuation and Integration in Post-Freudian Theory more books like this by Suzanne R Kirschner, Professor Steven Seidman (Editor), Professor Jeffrey C Alexander (Editor) add to wishlist Demonstrating that they are Western constructions, this study considers the cultural and religious sources of contemporary psychoanalytical theories of the development of the self. Thus, it raises provocative questions about the status of psychoanalytic theories as knowledge and as science. see all copies from $12.70! new only from $33.24! \| first editions
19 view cover	Intellectual Discourse and the Politics of Modernization: Negotiating Modernity in Iran more books like this by Ali Mirsepassi, Professor Jeffrey C Alexander (Editor), Professor Steven Seidman (Editor) add to wishlist In this thought-provoking study, Ali Mirsepassi explores the concept of modernity, exposing the Eurocentric prejudices and hostility to non-Western culture that have characterized its development. Focusing on the Iranian experience of modernity, he charts its political and intellectual history and develops a new interpretation of Islamic ... see all copies from $25.00! new only from $27.75! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Fundamentalism, Sectarianism, and Revolution: The Jacobin Dimension of Modernity more books like this by S N Eisenstadt, Professor Steven Seidman (Editor), Professor Jeffrey C Alexander (Editor) add to wishlist Fundamentalism, Sectarianism, and Revolution is a major comparative analysis of fundamentalist movements in cultural and political context, with an emphasis on the contemporary scene. Leading sociologist S. N. Eisenstadt examines the meaning of the global rise of fundamentalism as one very forceful contemporary response to tensions in modernity ... see all copies from $5.69! new only from $5.69! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Handbook of the New Sexuality Studies more books like this by Professor Steven Seidman (Editor), Nancy Fischer (Editor), Chet Meeks (Editor) add to wishlist As the field of sexuality studies has become a growth area in academia and classes on sexuality studies are incorporated into various disciplines, the expanding book market has been filled with specialist oriented texts which are often theoretically focused and contain too many summaries for an undergraduate audience. Addressing this imbalance, ... see all copies from $167.00! new only from $167.00!
22 view cover	The Search for Political Community: American Activists Reinventing Commitment more books like this by Paul Lichterman, Professor Steven Seidman (Editor), Professor Jeffrey C Alexander (Editor) add to wishlist This book challenges the myth that Americans' emphasis on personal fulfilment necessarily weakens commitment to the common good. Drawing on extensive participant-observation with a variety of environmentalist groups, Paul Lichterman argues that individualism sometimes enhances public, political commitment and that a shared respect for individual ... see all copies from $4.02! new only from $22.97! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	The New Social Theory Reader: Contemporary Debates more books like this by Professor Jeffrey C Alexander (Editor), Professor Steven Seidman (Editor) add to wishlist The last decade has seen a dramatic shift in the nature of social theory as it is practised and as it is taught within the social sciences. The disciplinary divisions which used to divide the social sciences from the humanities are breaking down and the stronger engagement of social theory with social change brings into debate issues of justice, ... see all copies from $2.17! new only from $29.95! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Social Postmodernism: Beyond Identity Politics more books like this by Linda J Nicholson (Editor), Professor Steven Seidman (Editor), Professor Jeffrey C Alexander (Editor) add to wishlist Social Postmodernism defends a postmodern perspective anchored in the politics of the new social movements. The volume preserves the focus on the politics of the body, race, gender, and sexuality as elaborated in postmodern approaches. But these essays push postmodern analysis in a particular direction: toward a social postmodernism which ... see all copies from $9.62! new only from $36.22! \| SVS
25 view cover	Contested Knowledge more books like this by Professor Steven Seidman add to wishlist From the classical sociologists (Durkheim, Marx, Weber) to contemporary social theories and movements (including feminism, poststructuralism, African-American thought, and Queer Theory), Steven Seidman presents a compelling new approach to the tradition of sociological theory and its established canon.The Second Edition includes new sections on ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.08! \| SVS

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