Situating Social Theory (Pocket)
avTim May, Jason Powell
ISBN: 9780335210770 - UTGIVEN: 2008-08-08Examines the implications of developments, challenges and disputes that have become important to debates in social theory including fresh commentaries on key authors. This edition also explores the extent to which how we situate social theory may need re-examining.[...]
Social Welfare, Aging, and Social Theory (Pocket)
avJason L. Powell, John Martyn Chamberlain, Jason L. Powell
ISBN: 9780739147788 - UTGIVEN: 2012-01Social Welfare, Aging and Social Theory explores how we can understand the changing relationship between social welfare and human aging. The book begins by reviewing how historical changes in society impacted on shaping emergence of scientific approaches to understand and problematize and bio-medica[...]
Foucault And Aging (Inbunden)
avJason L. Powell, Azrini Wahidin, Simon Biggs
ISBN: 9781594546020 - UTGIVEN: 200605This book is concerned with demonstrating the relevance and application of Michel Foucault's work to an understanding of human ageing. The diverse range of arguments in the book identifies the ways in which 'ageing' has been organised, shaped and positioned through both knowledge systems and social [...]
Baudrillard and Postmodernism (Häftad)
avJason L. Powell
ISBN: 9781622575411 - UTGIVEN: 2013-01This innovative book locates the historical emergence of post-modernism and what it is a reaction against. One of the key theorists of post-modernism, is Jean Baudrillard. He has had an enormous impact on contemporary social theory and social philosophy. This text locates his key concepts, locates e[...]
