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  • Silence and Society

    by Charles Lemert ...
    Silence and Society addresses the reality that social sciences have ignored the importance of silence in human communication. Without communication, there is no community and thus no society. Yet, as classic communication theory explains, communication must always deal with noise. Increasingly, as cyber-technologies and media have gained the upper hand in social life, so have they become purveyors ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Americans Thinking America

    Elements of American Social Thought

    by Charles Lemert ...
    Series series A New Order of Social Things
    In this dynamic book, Charles Lemert elaborates a vigorous, distinctive, and creative American tradition in social thought.American social theory has tended to be overshadowed by European social thought. Yet, looking deeper, Americans have always made important contributions to social theory. Drawing upon the work of a dazzling array of both seminal and unjustly overlooked philosophers, ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Social Theory

    The Multicultural, Global, and Classic Readings

    by Charles Lemert ...
    Social Theory is more than a reader. Feminists, race theorists, decolonizing leaders, and others are thoughtfully introduced by Charles Lemert’s substantial commentaries. Social Theory has always sought to keep up with the new while respecting the old—from Durkheim and Weber to Latinx and LGBTQ pioneers. When the book first appeared it was, as it remains, a collection of selections from those who ... Read more

    $152.99 CAD

  • Dark Thoughts

    Race and the Eclipse of Society

    by Charles Lemert ...
    In Dark Thoughts, eminent sociologist Charles Lemert dares to say, and explain, what everyone already knows - that the modern world was built on the need of white people to pretend they are not as dark as the next person.Delving poignantly into the history and literature of domination, Lemert retells key moments of the twentieth-century by profiling figures like W.E.B. DuBois, Charlotte Perkins ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Thinking the Unthinkable

    The Riddles of Classical Social Theories

    by Charles C. Lemert ...
    In the eloquent style for which he has become famous, Charles Lemert writes of social theory as no one else. Thinking the Unthinkable is offered as text for instruction, yet it defies the prevailing assumption that social theory is a method for clarifying the facts of social life. Lemert shows how social theory began late in the 19th century as a struggle to come to terms with the failure of ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • Structural Lie

    Small Clues to Global Things

    by Charles C. Lemert ...
    The Structural Lie tackles one of social science's most mysterious problems. How is it possible to derive statements about the grand structures of social life from their effects in the small movements of everyday life? Prominent sociologist Charles Lemert shows how Marx and Freud provide some answers to this question. Marx derived from the commodity his picture of the capitalist system, Freud ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • Globalization

    An Introduction to the End of the Known World

    by Charles C. Lemert ...
    "Globalization: An Introduction to the End of the Known World" surveys the history of globalization from the earliest of ancient texts through contemporary debates and the prospects for anticipating the new worlds to come. At the end of the twentieth century, debates over the nature of globalization were unable to agree on a simple resolution, except to say that globalization is economic, ... Read more

    $69.99 CAD

  • Postmodernism is Not What You Think

    by Charles C. Lemert ...
    'Charles Lemert is one of the most thoughtful and interesting of sociology's postmodernists. He recurrently finds new angles of vision and is especially helpful for overcoming the pernicious opposition of 'micro' and 'macro' perspectives.' -Craig Calhoun, New York University (on the first edition) Highly readable, the second edition of Postmodernism Is Not What You Think responds to the widespread ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Sociology After the Crisis

    by Charles C. Lemert ...
    Widely assigned and taught in senior capstone and social theory courses, Sociology After the Crisis offers the first systematic theory of social differences built on the sociological traditions by embracing to Durkheim, Weber and other familiar figures. The first edition was acclaimed for its nuanced and original rereading of Durkheim in relation to the theoretical reasons he and his ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Uncertainties of Time

    The Past and Future of TimeSpace

    by Immanuel Wallerstein, Charles Lemert ...
    Series series A New Order of Social Things
    Examining the concept of TimeSpace in the work of Immanuel Wallerstein and its crucial role within world-systems analysis, Uncertainties of Time brings together important but previously hard-to-access material from Wallerstein’s writings.TimeSpace is a concept developed from his earliest days in the 1970s until well into the twenty-first century, drawing from the historian Fernand Braudel and the ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • The New Psychoanalysis

    by Phyllis W. Meadow, Charles Lemert ...
    Series series Legacies of Social Thought Series
    The New Psychoanalysis explores and explains important developments in psychoanalytic thought and practice since FreudOs death in 1939. Drawing on the experience of her many years of clinical work with patients, as well as research and teaching in the training institutes she directs, Phyllis W. Meadow offers convincing testimony of the power of the unconscious forces that drive our thinking, ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Capitalism and Its Uncertain Future

    by Kristin Plys, Charles Lemert ...
    For decades, Charles Lemert has been the leading voice in social theory. In Capitalism and its Uncertain Future he teams up with one of the most creative emerging social theorists, Kristin Plys, to examine how social theory imagines capitalism. This engaging and innovative book provides new perspectives on well known theorists from Adam Smith, and Frantz Fanon, to Gilles Deleuze, while also ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD