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Sub Series

ISSN:

2212-747X

Chinese Research Perspectives on Society

International Series Advisors: Yanjie Bian, Nan Lin, Xueguang Zhou

The volumes included in this subseries on Society will continue to provide Western readers with firsthand insights into the discussions of unprecedented social changes and development with continuous economic growth in China.

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Series

ISSN:

1568-4474

International Comparative Social Studies

Series Editor: Mehdi P. Amineh, Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research-University of Amsterdam and International Institute for Asian Studies-University of Leiden

Brill’s International Comparative Social Studies focuses on presenting the results of comparative research by anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists and other social scientists.

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Series

ISSN:

0074-8684

International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology

Edited by Alberto Martinelli

Series Type:

Series

ISSN:

1872-7239

The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Yearbooks: Society

International Advisory Board: Yanjie BIAN, University of Minnesota, Nan LIN, Duke University, Xueguang ZHOU, Stanford University

The China Society Yearbook is the English version of the Blue Book of China’s Society （社会蓝皮书）, a series of annual reports edited by sociologists from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). These yearbooks collect influential articles written by prominent sociologists in China that ...

€102.00$132.00

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Volume:

117

Version:

Hardback

ISBN13:

9789004190436

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Etzioni’s Critical Functionalism

David Sciulli, Texas A&M University

Written for social theorists and general readers (including undergraduates), David Sciulli's book is the first to explain not only how but also why Amitai Etzioni’s publications evolved from his dissertation to Active Society and Socio-Economics to Communitarianism.

€94.00$122.00

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Volume:

115

Version:

Hardback

ISBN13:

9789004181694

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Rule of Law and Democracy

Edited by Leonardo Morlino, Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane, Florence and Gianluigi Palombella, Università di Parma and New York University

Through a reappraisal of rule of law and democracy the contributors provide for a fresh set of inquiries, from the State, consolidated and transitional democracies, to interstate, European and global scenarios. They converge in tackling empirical and normative questions, and suggest further ...

€94.00$122.00

Series:

Volume:

114

Version:

Hardback

ISBN13:

9789004181137

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Thick Comparison

Edited by Thomas Scheffer, Humboldt University Berlin and Jörg Niewöhner, Humboldt University Berlin

In ethnographic inquiry, comparing is fraught with difficulties, never complete and often fails. Yet it remains a strangely productive mode of working. Thick comparison develops and reflects on the production of comparability as a fruitful process in ethnographic research.

€93.00$120.00

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Volume:

103

Version:

Paperback

ISBN13:

9789004155817

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Globalization and Political Ethics

Edited by Richard B. Day, University of Toronto and Joseph Masciulli, St. Thomas University, Fredericton, NB, Canada

This book measures the current institutional and political realities surrounding globalization against philosophical ideals. Though the contributors share no particular orthodoxy, they do share the conviction that human responsibility is possible in circumstances that often appear to deny human ...

€87.00$113.00

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Volume:

100

Version:

Paperback

ISBN13:

9789004151598

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Neo-Liberal Globalism and Social Sustainable Globalisation

Edited by Eva Nieuwenhuys, Leiden University

This book pays attention to poverty, to the increasing subordination of political, social, cultural and ecological domains within society to the economic domain, and to tasks and powers that should be allotted to governments, non-governmental organisations and international corporations.