Showing results for inauthor:Siniša Malešević of about 30 books (Page 1) ordered by Relevancy
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Description: This book challenges the prevailing orthodoxy that sees organised violence as in continuous decline, arguing instead that evidence shows that it continues to rise.
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Description: Malešević offers a novel sociological answer to the age-old question: 'Why do humans fight?', by emphasising the centrality of social contexts that make fighting possible.
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Description: War is a highly complex and dynamic form of social conflict. This book demonstrates the importance of using sociological tools to understand the changing character of war and organised violence. The author offers an original analysis of the historical and contemporary impact that coercion and warfare have on the transformation of social life, and vice versa. Although war and violence were decisive...
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Description: Introduces readers to the most important thinkers and schools of thought in contemporary sociological theory - from Parsons and Merton to the Frankfurt School to Foucault, Bourdieu, Giddens and Hochschild - locating each thinker within their own social, political and historical context and helping readers use these ideas to understand the contemporary world.
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Description: Introduces readers to the key figures and founders of sociological theory, including Marx, Weber, Durkheim and Martineau - locating each thinker within their own social, political and historical context and helping readers use these ideas to understand the contemporary world.
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Description: The only textbook to provide a wide-ranging analysis of war and organised violence from a sociological perspective.
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Description: Provides a coherent theoretical framework for the sociological analysis of ethnicity
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Description: Frente a la creencia generalizada de que la violencia organizada experimenta un declive continuo a lo largo de la historia, este libro ofrece un análisis sociológico en profundidad que revela que, en realidad, va en aumento. Malešević demuestra que la violencia está determinada por la capacidad organizativa, la penetración ideológica y la microsolidaridad, más que por las tendencias bioló...
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