Sociology and Human Ecology: Complexity and Post-Humanist Perspectives (Complexity in Social Science)

Traditionally, Sociology has identified its subject matter as a distinct set – social phenomena – that can be taken as quite different and largely disconnected from potentially relevant disciplines such as Psychology, Economics or Planetary Ecology. 
Within Sociology and Human Ecology, Smith and Jenks argue that this position is no longer sustainable. Indeed, exhorting the reader to confront human ecology and its relation to the physical and biological environments, Smith and Jenks suggest that the development of understanding with regards to the position occupied by the social requires, in turn, an extension of the component disciplines and methodologies of a ‘new’ human socio-ecology. 
Aiming to evoke critical change to the possibility, status and range of the social sciences whilst also offering essential grounding for inter-disciplinary engagement, Sociology and Human Ecology will appeal to postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers interested in fields such as Social Theory, Socio-Biology and Ecological Economics.

Business & Money

SMITH, JOHN

Jenks, Chris

Economics

Routledge

First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

Culture (Key Ideas)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

In Visual Culture the 'visual' character of contemporary culture is explored in original and lively essays. The contributors look at advertising, film, painting and fine art journalism, photography, television and propaganda. They argue that there is only a social, not a formal relation between vision and truth. A major preoccupation of modernity and central to an understadning of the postmodern, 'vision' and the 'visual' are emergent themes across sociology, cultural studies and critical theory in the visual arts. Visual Culture will prove an indispensable guide to the field.

Visual Culture

Arts & Photography

The basic assumption that childhood is a social construct reveals that our understandings of childhood and the meanings that we place upon children vary considerably from culture to culture, but also quite radically within the history of any one culture.

Childhood: Second edition (Key Ideas)

Childhood offers a greater appreciation of the social factors that make up our knowledge of children and childhood. It gives critical framework through which to understand private attitudes and public policy in relation to the child, viewing childhood from a social constructionist perspective.
The basic assumption that childhood is a social construct reveals that our understandings of childhood and the meanings that we place upon children vary considerably from culture to culture, but also quite radically within the history of any one culture.

Childhood (Key Ideas)

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 Vol1

Sociology

This book provides a comprehensive introduction  to the fashionable concept of culture. It argues that culture has many different meanings - derived from areas as diverse as philosophy, aesthetics, literary criticism, anthropology and sociology - and that culture is a concept to be viewed within traditions, not as a modern invention. Features:  examines culture's relation to social structure, literary study, postmodernism, idealism and materialism  addresses cultural populization and cultural reproduction  provides the grounds for understanding modern work rather than a competitive review of the new' in cultural studies  provides readers with a clear and compelling assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the cultural studies approach Chris Jenks has taught undergraduates on courses in communication studies and sociology for a decade, helped to establish and teach a successful Masters degree programme in communication, culture and society, taught courses on cultural reproduction and has recently edited a text entitled Cultural Reproduction .

Culture:Crit Concepts Vol4

Transgression is truly a key idea for our time. Society is created by constraint and boundaries, but as our culture is increasingly subject to uncertainty and flux we find it more and more difficult to determine where those boundaries lie. In this fast moving study, Chris Jenks ranges widely over the history of ideas, the major theorists, and the significant moments in the formation of the idea of transgression. He looks at the definition of the social and its boundaries by Durkheim, Douglas and Freud, at the German tradition of Hegel and Nietzsche and the increasing preoccupation with transgression itself in Baudelaire, Bataille and Foucault. The second half of the book looks at transgression in action in the East End myth of the Kray twins, in Artaud's theatre of cruelty, the spectacle of the Situationists and Bakhtin's analysis of carnival. Finally Jenks extends his treatment of transgression to its own extremity.

Transgression (Key Ideas)

Transgression is truly a key idea for our time. Society is created by constraint and boundaries, but as our culture is increasingly subject to uncertainty and flux we find it more and more difficult to determine where those boundaries lie. In this fast moving study, Chris Jenks ranges widely over the history of ideas, the major theorists, and the significant moments in the formation of the idea of transgression. He looks at the definition of the social and its boundaries by Durkheim, Douglas and Freud, at the German tradition of Hegel and Nietzsche and the increasing preoccupation with transgression itself in Baudelaire, Bataille and Foucault. The second half of the book looks at transgression in action in the East End myth of the Kray twins, in Artaud's theatre of cruelty, the spectacle of the Situationists and Bakhtin's analysis of carnival. Finally Jenks extends his treatment of transgression to its own extremity.

Offering a critique of the humanist paradigm in contemporary social theory, Qualitative Complexity is the first comprehensive sociological analysis of complexity theory. Drawing from sources in sociology, philosophy, complexity theory, 'fuzzy logic', systems theory, cognitive science and evolutionary biology, John Smith and Chris Jenks present a new series of interdisciplinary perspectives on the sociology of complex, self-organizing structures.

Qualitative Complexity: Ecology, Cognitive Processes and the Re-Emergence of Structures in Post-Humanist Social Theory (International Library of Sociology)

Philosophy

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Books by Jenks, Chris

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Sociology and Human Ecology: Complexity and Post-Humanist Perspectives (Complexity in Social Science)

Culture (Key Ideas)

Visual Culture

Childhood: Second edition (Key Ideas)

Childhood (Key Ideas)

Culture:Crit Concepts Vol1

Culture:Crit Concepts Vol4

Transgression (Key Ideas)

Transgression (Key Ideas)

Qualitative Complexity: Ecology, Cognitive Processes and the Re-Emergence of Structures in Post-Humanist Social Theory (International Library of Sociology)