Bøger af William Outhwaite

Gennemrevideret og opdateret udgave af denne lærebogsklassiker, blandt andet med nye kapitler om Zygmunt Bauman og Ulrich Beck. Alle bibliografier er ajourført.

Transregional Europe integrates work in human geography and planning with related scholarship in history and the other social sciences, covering public perceptions of European macro-regions and EU macro-regional planning.

Does it make sense to speak of a European society, above and beyond its component states and regions? In this major new book William Outhwaite argues that it does.

This new edition of a well-regarded book provides a concise and exceptionally clear introduction to Habermas's work, from his early writings on the public sphere, through his work on law and the state, to his more recent discussion of science, religion and contemporary Europe.

This important Manifesto argues that we still need a concept of society in order to make sense of the forces which structure our lives.

Undertakes a study of the implications of post-communism for sociological theory. This book discusses the thesis that the fall of communism has decimated alternative conceptions of social organizations other than capitalism. It covers state/civil society, globalization, the future of 'modernity', and post-socialism.

These processes, ranging from the interpersonal negotiation of meaning to the constraining influence of administrative or market structures, cannot be understood as mere constructs either in the minds of the theorist or of the social factors themselves, since they actually generate the social world as we know it.