Social Theory

The contrast between man’s amazing ability to manipulate his world and his pitiful incompetence in managing his own affairs is now as commonplace a...

The programmes of political parties and movements are attempts to formulate policies or guidelines in relation to social change. Social philosophy ...

The dynamics of trust and distrust are central to understanding modern society, social relations, and development processes. However, numerous stud...

Living at the dawn of a digital twenty-first century, people living in Western societies spend an increasing amount of time interacting with a term...

In this detailed investigation of ‘masculine’ gendered identity, first published in 1990, David Jackson uses his own personal history to look at th...

This is an exhilarating book, written by one of sociology’s most imaginative theorists and critics. Professor Corrigan proceeds by turning old answ...

Crossing Cultural Borders (1991) examines the day-to-day interaction of immigrant children with adults, siblings and peers in the home, school and ...

This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of the social practice of taste in the wake of Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology of taste. For the first t...

Karaoke. The word conjures all kinds of visions_possible stardom, abject performance terror, or just head-shaking bewilderment. Ten years ago when ...

The topics covered in this book are directly related to much of the misunderstanding of what sociology is about. It is usual nowadays to label as s...

Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big Topics In a world that is constantly changing, understanding the world has never been more important....

This book shows how Max Weber’s perceptions of the social and political world he inhabited in Wilhelmine Germany were characterized by a nationalis...

Social Theory provides a sophisticated yet highly accessible introduction to classical and contemporary social theories. The author’s concise prese...

Animals and Society uses a variety of historical sources and a coherent social theory to tell the story of the invention of animal rights. It moves...

Plural Masculinities offers a contemporary portrait of the plural dynamics and forms of masculinity, emphasizing the multiple, even contradictory, ...

From Society to System presents sociologist Michel Freitag’s (1935-2009) distinctive, multifaceted and interdisciplinary work. Elaborated within th...

The Philosophy of Social Science Reader is an outstanding, comprehensive and up-to-date collection of key readings in the philosophy of social scie...

The annual Conferences on Value Inquiry bring together philosophers, scientists and humanists to discuss the many facets of the problem of value in...

Metatheory for the 21st Century is one of the many exciting results of over four years of in-depth engagement between two communities of scholar-pr...

Drawing on philosophical, neurological and cultural answers to the question of what constitutes a body, this book explores the interaction between ...

There is today widespread recognition of the fact that the future of human civilization depends to a high degree upon Man’s capacity to understand ...

This qualitative study explores the meaning of working-class origin in the life and career of university graduates. Social transition from a workin...

After a period in which sociology was torn apart by the polarized claims of micro- and macro-methodology, an increasing number of sociologists are ...

The recent debate about biopolitics in International Relations (IR) theory may well prove to be one of the most provocative and rewarding engagemen...