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New Publication
Sociology as Science In this entertaining and insightful book, Raymond Boudon, one of France’s most eminent sociologists, draws on his personal history and intellectual career, showing how they relate to his distinctive ideas on the claim that contemporary sociology can operate as a true science. His distinctive contributions on such topics as educational and social inequality, rationality, methodological individualism, and the classical tradition in sociology have been influential. Boudon’s perspective moves beyond narrow, parochial and obscure concerns to the broader issues of how best to explain and understand society. |
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New Publication
Sociological Reasoning Do the social sciences provide universally valid explanations of human behaviour in society? Passeron thinks not. However, this doesn’t mean that social scientists can only represent the diverse narratives of ordinary people. Passeron argues vigorously that Sociological reasoning enables us, within a historical continuum, to analyse the dialectic between context and individual intention, the general and the particular. This is what defines the social sciences as ‘in-between’ sciences. |
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Recent Publication
Placing Politics In Placing Politics (published originally as Le lieu du politique in
1983), Marc Abélès sets out to study the political practices of the
Ochollo from the Gamo highlands of south-west Ethiopia. In doing
so he demonstrates that the Ochollo constitute a “democratic” model
of organisation where the population is self-administrered by means of
frequent assemblies. |
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Recent Publication
The Gamo of Ethiopia The Gamo of Ethiopia are made up of around forty political entities integrated into the Menilek Empire in 1897–1898. Each of these entities is governed by a democratic assembly and represented by a sacrificer-king. In The Gamo of Ethiopia (originally published as Les Gamo d’Éthiopie in 1981) Jacques Bureau looks at several of these entities at different moments in their history and studies variants of two types of institution: assemblies and sacrificers. |
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Recent Publication
An Expedition With Negus Menilek With his book An Expedition with Negus Menilek, (published here in an English translation for the first time) J.-G. Vanderheym provides a rare eye-witness account, by a European, of everyday life at the court of Emperor Menilek towards the close of the nineteenth century. |
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Recent Publication
Sexuality in France This book presents the most recent and comprehensive scientific study of the sexual behaviour and attitudes of the French. Published for the first time in English, the work is based on a major research survey conducted in 2006–7 with 12,000 participants, and supported by the main social research and health agencies in France. |
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Other Forthcoming Publications |