Social Theory

**THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER**Sapiens showed us where we came from. In our increasingly uncertain times, Homo Deus shows us where we're going.'Spe...

'One is not born, but rather becomes, woman'First published in Paris in 1949, The Second Sex by Simone de Beavoir was a groundbreaking, risqué book...

The story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of SapiensStories brought us tog...

It's not enough to have great ideas. You also need to know how to communicate them.What makes someone charismatic? Why do some people captivate a r...

In this series of trenchant essays, Pierre Bourdieu continues the urgent project begun in Acts of Resistance. Dissecting the claims of neoliberalis...

In Professional Philosophy and Its Myths, Rebekah Spera and David M. Peña-Guzmán argue that academic philosophy is steeped in a host of myths that ...

Is it impossible to assess dignity, which is the faculty or agency of autonomy and equality of rights under the current rule of law, when we are me...

This special anniversary issue of differences considers how critical theory has changed in the twenty years since the journal’s inception. differ...

The originality and depth of Gramsci's theory of hegemony is now evidenced in the wide-ranging intellectual applications within a growing corpus of...

The world is becoming more transnational. This edited collection examines how the immense transnational changes in the contemporary world are being...

Contemporary social and cultural life is increasingly organised around a logic of self-transformation, where changing the body is seen as key. Tran...

How can one explain the general failure of the social sciences to accumulate reliable knowledge? According to Pat Duffy Hutcheon the social science...

A new philosophical reflection on the secret and its importance to our contemporary political experienceThe Snowden Affair, Wikileaks, the 'lone wo...

Symbolic interactionsim is of major importance in contemporary sociology. In this study, three authorities in the field collaborate to define symbo...

In everyday life, people negotiate on issues, entertain offers and counteroffers, and gain or lose in terms of economic capital, political power, c...

The Social Life of Criticism explores the cultural representation of the female critic in Victorian Britain, focusing especially on how women write...

The sociological concept of social capital has grown in popularity in recent years and research programs in North America, Europe, and East Asia ha...