Social Theory

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...

Social scientists seek to develop systematic ways to understand how people make meaning and how the meanings they make shape them and the world in ...

Part of the SAGE Social Thinker series, this book serves as a concise and inviting introduction to the life and works of Erving Goffman, one of the...

This book provides a new interpretation of ordoliberalism the influential German version of neoliberalism by exploring the political, legal, and ...

Creativity and Sociology: Doing Social Research with and on Artistic Sources explores the relationship between artistic and sociological narratives...