Social Theory

Though archaeologists have long acknowledged the work of social anthropologists, anthropologists have been much less eager to repay the compliment....

This title was first published in 2003. This book offers a challenging new approach to social theory, building on the concept of life-modes. Thomas...

Mapping the resonances, dissonances, and linkages between the thought of Gramsci and Foucault to uncover new tools for socio-political and critical...

Previously considered two different strands within continental thought, this book compares and contrasts Hegel's 'phenomenology' and Foucault's 'ge...

Algorithms: Technology, Culture, Politics develops a relational, situated approach to algorithms. It takes a middle ground between theories that gi...

This book critically interrogates the function of schooling in the United States of America using the writings of sociologist Zygmunt Bauman. Askin...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of caste in contemporary India. With contributions from scholars like Valerian Rodrigues, B.B. Mohanty,...

This book examines the economy of contemporary Catholic monasticism from a sociological perspective, considering the ways in which monasteries enga...

Community Justice discusses concepts of community within the context of justice policy and programs and addresses the important relationship betwee...

Community Justice discusses concepts of community within the context of justice policy and programs and addresses the important relationship betwee...

In this dynamic book, Charles Lemert elaborates a vigorous, distinctive, and creative American tradition in social thought.American social theory h...

In this dynamic book, Charles Lemert elaborates a vigorous, distinctive, and creative American tradition in social thought.American social theory h...

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main, in 1923, this book aims at sh...

Power needs abstraction, to make the unwieldy complexity of the social world legible and manageable. The proposition at the heart of Seeing Like a ...

Power needs abstraction, to make the unwieldy complexity of the social world legible and manageable. The proposition at the heart of Seeing Like a ...

A sense of participation and opportunities to share and participate in activities or groups that are important to them are crucial factors in human...

This is the first book to situate the territories and collective identities of former Yugoslavia within the politics of race not just ethnicity a...

Rainer Bauböck is the worlds leading theorist of transnational citizenship. He opens this volume with a question that is crucial to our thinking on...

Rainer Bauböck is the worlds leading theorist of transnational citizenship. He opens this volume with a question that is crucial to our thinking on...

Legal decisions continue to mystify: why was this person sentenced to 20 years in prison, but that person to just 10 years for the same crime? Why ...

This is the first book to situate the territories and collective identities of former Yugoslavia within the politics of race not just ethnicity a...