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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Goffman's Legacy

    by Luiz Carlos Baptista, Ann Branaman, James J. Chriss, Norman K. Denzin, Uta Gerhardt, Charles Lemert, Philip Manning, Anne Warfield Rawls, Mary F. Rogers, Thomas J. Scheff, Gregory W. H. Smith, A Javier Treviño ...
    Series series Legacies of Social Thought Series
    Erving Goffman (1922-82) was arguably one of the most influential American sociologists of the twentieth century. A keen observer of the interaction order of everyday life, Goffman's books, which have sold in the hundreds of thousands, continue to be widely read and his concepts have permanently entered the sociology lexicon. This volume consists of ten original essays, all written by prominent ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • Introduction to Contemporary Social Theory

    by Anthony Elliott, Charles Lemert ...
    In this comprehensive and clear introduction to contemporary social theory, Anthony Elliott and Charles Lemert explore the major theoretical traditions from the Frankfurt School to the digital revolution and beyond. Fully revised and updated, this second edition has been expanded to consider the most recent developments in social theory, including a new chapter on the digital revolution and the ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD