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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • There is a Gunman on Campus

    Tragedy and Terror at Virginia Tech

    by Ben Agger, Timothy W. Luke, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Carolyn Guertin, Gwen Hunnicutt, Neal King, Patricia Nickel, Matthew A. Levy, Stanley Aronowitz0, William Ayers1, Douglas Kellner2, Michael Kimmel3, Steve Kroll-Smith4, Charles Lemert5, Stephen Pfohl6 ...
    In our media-saturated culture, momentous events occur quickly, as news and images are broadcast around the country and the world. We are often riveted by the news and our everyday reality is suddenly changed. Yet, almost as quickly, that critical event is replaced by a new story. The old event fades from memory, and we move on to the next thing before understanding why it commanded our attention ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Understanding Inequality

    The Intersection of Race/Ethnicity, Class, and Gender

    by Barbara A. Arrighi, Judi Addelston, Derrick Bell, Karen Blumenthal, Judith Butler, Jane Jerome Camhi, William J. Chamblis, Marc Cooper, Sally Ann Davies-Netzley, Simone de Beauvoir, G William Domhoff, Susan J. Douglas, Wright Dziech, Susan Estrich, Lawrence Otis Graham, Billie Michelle Fine, Judith Lorber, Arturo Madrid, Julia Marusza, Fatema Mernissi, John Stuart Mill, Timothy Nonn, Katha Pollitt, Mary F. Rogers, Kathleen Rowe, Leslie Marmon Silko, Laureen Snider, Haya Stier, Deborah Tannen, Marta Tienda, Stephen Worchel, Richard L. Zweigenhaft, Anne Fausto-Sterling, Walda Katz-Fishman, Michael Kimmel, Charles Lemert, Diane Reay, Edward H. Thompson,Jr., Lois Weis ...
    As the age of globalization and New Media unite disparate groups of people in new ways, the continual transformation and interconnections between ethnicity, class, and gender become increasingly complex. This reader, comprised of a diverse array of sources ranging from the New York Times to the journals of leading research universities, explores these issues as systems of stratification that work ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • Uncertain Worlds

    World-systems Analysis in Changing Times

    by Immanuel Wallerstein, Carlos Aguirre Rojas, Charles C. Lemert ...
    Uncertain Worlds is the definitive presentation of the evolution of world-systems analysis from the point of view of its founder, Immanuel Wallerstein. Few theorists have offered a more systematic theory of what has become known as 'globalisation' than Wallerstein. The book includes a one-of-kind interview with Wallerstein by Carlos Rojas, a conversation between Wallerstein and Lemert about the ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD