Bøker av Daniel Nehring

Self-help books aim to empower their readers and deliver happiness and personal fulfilment but do they really live up to this? In contrast, this book explores the production, circulation and consumption of self-help books from an innovative transnational perspective.

Exploring cultural transformations of intimacy in contemporary Mexico, Intimacies and Cultural Change examines the ways in which globalisation and rapid cultural change have transformed the cultural meanings of couple relationships, sexuality, and personal life in Mexican society. Through a range of contemporary case studies.

Re-examining C.Wright Mills's legacy as a jumping off point, this original introduction to sociology illuminates global concepts, themes and practices that are fundamental to the discipline and rethinks and re-imagines what a critically committed, politically engaged and publicly relevant sociology should look like in the 21st century.