Modern society emerged in the context of European colonialism and empire. So, too, did a
distinctively modern social theory, laying the basis for most social theorising ever since. Yet …

The history of anthropology has been written from multiple viewpoints, often from
perspectives of gender, nationality, theory, or politics. Before Boas delves deeper into issues …

Once upon a time scholars assumed that the knowing subject in the disciplines is
transparent, disincorporated from the known and untouched by the geo-political …

Imagination and over twenty years since I first started working on the issues as part of my
DPhil at the University of Sussex. Then, there was no postcolonial sociology and there were …

Economists and Societies is the first book to systematically compare the profession of
economics in the United States, Britain, and France, and to explain why economics, far from …

On Sociology brings together a collection of essays all written in the last ten years by one of
the best-known and influential British sociologist, John H. Goldthorpe. The essays are …

Drawing from current debates in social theory about the changing nature of knowledge, this
book offers the most comprehensive sociological theory of the university that has yet …

Although Auguste Comte is conventionally acknowledged as one of the founders of
sociology and as a key representative of positivism, few new editions of his writings have …

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Illustration and Retrospect JOHN H. GOLDTHORPE Page 2 Page 3 ON SOCIOLOGY …

By now, most academics have heard something about the new science of complexity. In a
manner reminiscent of Einstein and the last hundred years of physics, complexity science …