Order and Agency in Modernity

Order and Agency in ModernityAddresses the relationship between modernity and social theory by looking at the works of Parsons, Goffman, and Garfinkel. In this unique analysis of three prominent theorists of modern sociology, theory is understood as implicitly, but importantly, reflecting especially modern problems of individual and social life. From the grand theoretical systems of Talcott Parsons to the unique symbolic interactionism of Erving Goffman and the radically mundane

This book explores the domain of image processing using Python

Photographs frame the narrative of a painful journey from Thessaloniki to Auschwitz: the loss of Renée Revah’s family in the concentration camp

The Last Day of a Condemned Man (1829) is a short novel by Victor Hugo

the chapter looks ahead to future trends in this field

and future

such as sociology

Explores the religious thought and lives of the poor women of Peru

just so happens to be one of the only poems published by Emily Dickinson in her lifetime

On board the Malabar

" while also bringing out significant contemporary themes relating to "gender" and "race

Joe Colombo defied omertà to commandeer the Italian American Civil Rights League

Clay Barbour ignores the advice of his friend Nils Berquist and attends a séance at the home of well-known spiritualists James and Alicia Moore