New Publication

The Challenge of Indigenous Peoples
Spectacle or Politics?

Edited by Barbara Glowczewski & Rosita Henry
With contributions by: Wayne Jowandi Barker; Jessica De Largy Healy; Barbara Glowczewski; Rosita Henry; Wolfgang Kempf; Jari Kupiainen; Stéphane Lacam-Gitareu; Géraldine Le Roux; Arnaud Morvan; Martin Préaud; Dominique Samson Normand de Chambourg; Alexandre Soucaille; Anke Tonnaer

eBook: 3 June 2011, ISBN 978-1-905622-40-5, £90.00 (inc. VAT @ 20%)
Hardback: 24 June 2011, 298pp, ISBN 978-1-905622-26-9, £90.00

This book is concerned with the ways in which Indigenous peoples express their cultural and social identities in art and politics. Based on field research and practical initiatives with Indigenous peoples in Australia, Oceania, Asia and Siberia, it provides chapters on contemporary creative and political practices..

New Publication

Paul F. Lazarsfeld: An Empirical Theory of Social Action - Collected Writings
Edited by Christian Fleck and Nico Stehr
Translations by Hella Beister


28 March 2011, Hardback, 508pp
ISBN 978-1-905622-22-1
, £150.00
GEMAS Studies in Social Analysis Series

The articles collected together in Paul F. Lazarsfeld, An Empirical Theory of Social Action demonstrate that many of Paul Lazarsfeld's influential intellectual and methodological concerns that were to so shape the direction of sociology as a discipline in the United States were already evident in his early writings, many of which are published here for the first time in English.
Accompanied by a detailed and illuminating biographical introduction by the editors, this collection is an important contribution to the history of sociology in the 20th century.

New Publication

Ancient Korea-Japan Relations and the Nihonshoki

Choi Jae-sŏk


25th March 2011, hardback, 320pp.
ISBN: 978-1-905622-10-8, £90.00

Ancient Korea–Japan Relations and the Nihonshoki represents the distillation of 15 years of research by Choi Jae-sŏk into ancient Korea–Japan relations. The author analyses nineteen elements of the Nihonshoki, which, as he asserts, is more than a history of ancient Japan, it is also a history of ancient Korea–Japan relations.

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New Publication

Baby Boomers: A Mobile Generation
By Catherine Bonvalet and Jim Ogg
Translated by Krystyna Horko

GEMAS Studies in Social Analysis
Published in association with the Institut National d'Etudes Démographiques (INED)

Hardback - January 2011, 254 pp., ISBN: 978-1-905622-33-7, £65.00
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Paperback - January 2011, 254 pp. ISBN: 978-1-905622-39-9, £24.99
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Through the use of survey data and qualitative interviews with baby boomers living in London and Paris, the authors demonstrate the diversity of the boomer generation - most notably in terms of housing experiences but equally in areas such as work and consumption. The contrasting experiences within the two cities studied provide evidence that is at odds with the commonly accepted view that baby boomers are culturally dominant and have a monopoly of financial wealth.

Recent Publication

The Future of Collective Beliefs

Gérald Bronner


January 2011, hardback, 200pp.
ISBN: 978-1-905622-35-1, £65.00
GEMAS Studies in Social Analysis Series

In this intriguing book on the sociology of beliefs, Gérald Bronner examines the social processes that perpetuate all types of strange and erroneous ideas. Using models based on cognitive science, he explores the weird and wonderful domain of the “market for ideas”.

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New Paperback Edition

Rights and Virtues: Political Essays on Citizenship and Social Justice

By Bryan S. Turner

January 2011, £29.99, paperback, 312pp.
ISBN: 978-1-905622-38-2
GEMAS Studies in Social Analysis Series

The subjects covered in this major work include the debate about modern citizenship inspired by T.H. Marshall, the globalisation of human rights, national sovereignty, the relationship between religion and conceptions of rights, participation and exclusion, and the concept of social virtue.

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Recently Reprinted

An English Eye:The Photographs of James Ravilious

Photographs by James Ravilious; Text by Peter Hamilton; Foreword by Alan Bennett

2nd edition, paperback, 120 pp, 113 duotones, ISBN-13: 978-1-905622-14-6, £22.95.

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Recent Publication

New Europe: Growth to Limits?

Edited by Sven Eliaeson & Nadezhda Georgieva

Foreword by Christopher G.A. Bryant

July 2010, hardback, 468pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1-905622-27-6, £125.00
Gemas Studies in Social Analysis Series

How far can the European Union be extended geographically? How far, too, can the four freedoms and the single market be developed? What are the limits to multi-level governance? What, beyond liberal democracy and a market economy, does the union stand for? On these and other questions this book's twenty plus contributions, based on a symposium at the Centre for Social Studies at the Institute for Philosophy and Sociology at the Polish Academy of Science in Warsaw, offer readers rich food for thought.

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Recent Publication

Modelling Educational Choice
An Explanation of Change in French Secondary Education

By Nathalie Bulle

Foreword by Raymond Boudon

July 2010, hardback, 154pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1-905622-36-8, £50.00
GEMAS Studies in Social Analysis Series

In this rigorous study of French secondary education during the 20th century, Nathalie Bulle provides a simulation of how pupils and their families chose amongst the streams of study available to them. Her research supports the thesis of the relative autonomy of the educational system in relation to other sub-systems of society, and is a major contribution to the sociology of education.

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Forthcoming Publication

The Web of Science
Social Dynamics of Biomedical Research

By Michel Dubois


April 2011, 224pp. £60.00, hardback
ISBN 978-1-905622-21-4

In this new book on the sociology of stem cell and prion disease research, Michel Dubois explores the dynamics of biomedical science through a study of the networks through which scientific collaboration in this domain has developed. One of his aims is to offer an alternative to the overly simplistic view of scientific transformation popularly associated with the idea of 'technoscience'. His study develops an innovative theory directed towards the renewal of the sociology of science, that defines the main principles of a sociological approach based on scientific action and its often unintended consequences.

Other Forthcoming Publications

Talcott Parsons and Modern Sociology
By Peter Hamilton & François Chazel
Revised and updated 2011 edition, incorporating an essay by François Chazel,
"The Vicissitudes of Parsons's Reception in Continental Europe"

GEMAS Studies in Social Analysis Series

July 2011, £TBC, hardback, ISBN 978-1-905622-09-2

Alexis de Tocqueville: Scholarly and Critical Assessments
Edited by Raymond Boudon, Françoise Melonio, Mohamed Cherkaoui
4 volumes, 1664pp approx., £TBC

Alexis de Tocqueville: The Collected Work in English
Edited by Raymond Boudon, Françoise Melonio, Mohamed Cherkaoui
4-8 volumes, 1664-3328pp approx., £TBC

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