Culture (Critical Concepts in Sociology)

JENKS

Routledge

Culture is a concept that has remained on the top of the agenda within the social sciences for two decades. It incites controversy and debate and always appears fresh. This book, updated throughout and with new sections on visual culture, urban culture and subcultures, argues that to understand the concept we need to locate it within traditions of thought and appreciate its political and ideological bases. The book looks at the concept of culture in the context of idealism and materialism, examining its relation to the notion of social structure and assessing its once assumed monopoly within literary study. Culture remains stimulating throughout. A standard reference text for students on sociology and cultural studies courses, this second concise and student-friendly edition offers an overview over the sociology of culture in an accessible format.

Culture:Crit Concepts Vol3

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Childhood is an extremely complex and highly contested concept. It refers to a life phase as well as to the age group defined as children, but is also a cultural construction, part of the social and economic structure of communities. The key scholarship collected, introduced, and reprinted in these volumes reflects this complexity and introduces the reader to the wide variety of interpretations that have been and continue to be placed on it. It might be suggested that the push or initiative in theorizing childhood has derived from advances within sociology and anthropology. However, the future provides potential for interdisciplinary study, which this collection also reflects. The contemporary study of childhood must comprise a conjoining of disciplines: sociology; anthropology; psychology; social geography; history; philosophy; and socio-legal theory, all have something to add to the field and are represented within the collection.

Childhood: Critical Concepts in Sociology

Textbooks and general histories of modern China agree that the so-called Miao rebellion constituted one of the major rebellions of the nineteenth century. It lasted for twenty years, caused devastation of such severity that its effects were still obvious to travelers in Guizhou province decades later, and, by one account, resulted in the deaths of more than four million people. In an impressive presentation of material drawn from local histories, private writings, and official documents, Jenks argues that the Qing government sought to lay the blame for the turmoil squarely on an ethnic minority it regarded as obstreperous and inferior. As well as altering perceptions of the rebellion, Insurgency and Social Disorder in Guizhou enhances our understanding of the causes of the rebellion and its place in the crises that beset mid-nineteenth-century China. It contributes to the sociology of rebellion and peasant movements and is a valuable supplement to current anthropological work on Chinese minorities. Its treatment of Qing attitudes toward the Miao has implications for minority policies in the Peoples Republic of China today.

Jenks: Insurgency & Social Disorder (Revealing Antiquity; 7)

History

Jenks, Robert Darrah

Jenks, Rebert D

Asia

University of Hawaii Press

Spring Comes Again

Jorian Jenks was leading member of the British Union of Fascists, a pioneer of radical ecology and organic farming, and a founder of the Soil Association and Editor of its journal "Mother Earth" and is regarded by many as one of the principle architects of the Green Movement in Britain. As a keen and active supporter of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirt organisation, he wrote many articles for the movement's newspapers and journals.
In "Spring Comes Again" Jorian Jenks highlights the problems created by liberalism and the "free market" economy arguing that in reality it can only lead to exploitation and repression - a system devised to ensure that a minority are free to prey on the weaker members of society. Other topics include Marxism and the Class War, the Bureaucratic State, the Disintegration of Socialism, the Spirit of Fascism, the Corporate State, and Unity, Equity, Security - the watchwords of the Fascist Revolution.
During World War Two, for opposing another war with Germany, he was imprisoned by the British government without charge or trial spending some time in the infamous torture centre at Latchmere House in Surrey.

Jorian

Sanctuary Press Ltd

Early American Pattern Glass 1850 1910

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