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The Basics eBook Series

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  • Journalism Studies: The Basics

    by Martin Conboy ...
    Series series The Basics
    Journalism Studies: The Basics provides an introductory overview of the emerging field of Journalism Studies, discussing key issues and contemporary debates. Drawing on Conboy’s extensive experience in the field, the changing nature of journalism and its future directions are addressed, through chapters covering:the history and development of Journalism Studieshow journalists are created through ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

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  • Sociology, Work and Organisation

    Seventh Edition

    by Tony Watson ...
    The seventh edition of Sociology, Work and Organisation is outstandingly effective in explaining how we can use the sociological imagination to understand the nature of institutions of work, organisations, occupations, management and employment and how they are changing in the twenty-first century.Intellectual and accessible, it is unrivalled in the breadth of its coverage and its authoritative ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • Understanding Law and Society

    by Max Travers ...
    This textbook on the sociology of law is organised according to the theoretical traditions of sociology, and oriented towards providing an accessible, but sophisticated, introduction to, and overview of, the central themes, problems and debates in this field. The book employs an international range of examples - including the state, minority rights, terrorism, family violence, the legal profession ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Journalism and Society

    by Denis McQuail ...
    Every serious student of journalism should read this book... Denis McQuail has succeeded in producing a work of scholarship that shows what journalists do and what they should do.- Stephen Coleman, University of Leeds"For a half century we have spoken earnestly of journalism′s responsibility to society instead of to business and government. Now this concept is given sophistication unmatched, by ... Read more

    $69.29 USD

  • Understanding the Media

    by Eoin Devereux ...
    This is a lucid and lively introduction to key concepts and developments in media and media studies. The new edition, with updated case studies and a good range of online reading, is a valuable resource for both students and lecturers.- Chindu Sreedharan, Bournemouth University"Has expanded the possibilities of what a textbook can be. Incisive questions framed through accessible and detailed ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • Against Meritocracy

    Culture, power and myths of mobility

    by Jo Littler ...
    Meritocracy today involves the idea that whatever your social position at birth, society ought to offer enough opportunity and mobility for ‘talent’ to combine with ‘effort’ in order to ‘rise to the top’. This idea is one of the most prevalent social and cultural tropes of our time, as palpable in the speeches of politicians as in popular culture. In this book Jo Littler argues that meritocracy is ... Read more

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  • Gender and Diversity in Management

    A Concise Introduction

    by Caroline Gatrell, Elaine Swan ...
    In this engaging and handy book, Gatrell and Swan provide both an insightful introduction and much-needed resource to the understanding of gender and diversity in management.Gender and Diversity in Management accessibly overviews the core issues of gender, race, sexuality, disability and diversity in management. In an area where there is often conflicting scholarship, this concise introduction ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Media, Society, World

    Social Theory and Digital Media Practice

    by Nick Couldry ...
    Media are fundamental to our sense of living in a social world. Since the beginning of modernity, media have transformed the scale on which we act as social beings. And now in the era of digital media, media themselves are being transformed as platforms, content, and producers multiply.Yet the implications of social theory for understanding media and of media for rethinking social theory have been ... Read more

    $27.00 USD

  • The community development reader

    History, themes and issues

    Edited by Gary Craig, Marjorie Mayo, Keith Popple, Mae Shaw, Marilyn Taylor ...
    Community development emerged as a recognisable occupational activity in the United Kingdom in the 1950s. Since then, whilst struggling to remain true to its basic values it has often been manipulated to serve differing policy and political purposes. This unique Reader traces its changing fortunes through a selection of readings from key writers. It will be invaluable to those pursuing community ... Read more

    $65.69 USD

  • Cultural Policy

    Management, Value & Modernity in the Creative Industries

    by Dave O'Brien ...
    Contemporary society is complex; governed and administered by a range of contradictory policies, practices and techniques. Nowhere are these contradictions more keenly felt than in cultural policy. This book uses insights from a range of disciplines to aid the reader in understanding contemporary cultural policy.Drawing on a range of case studies, including analysis of the reality of work in the ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The Information Society

    Issues and Illusions

    by David Lyon ...
    This book provides an overview of debates about whether we are entering into a phase of social existence without precedent - the 'information society'. Intended as a bridge between the literatures of 'social theory' and the 'social impact of technology', this study exposes the myths surrounding the creation of the information society, discussing technologies such as cable TV and robotics. ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Policing

    Politics, Culture and Control

    Edited by Tim Newburn, Professor Jill Peay ...
    Bringing together a range of leading social scientists and criminologists, this volume explores a number of key themes raised by the work of Robert Reiner. Arguably the leading policing scholar of his generation, Reiner's work over some 40 years has ranged broadly in this field, taking in the study of police history, culture, organisation, elites and relationships with the media. Always carefully ... Read more

    $97.19 USD