Social Theory

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Discourses of social justice, equity and inclusion are often pr...

In this collection of essays, leading cultural theorists consider the meaning and implications of world-scale humanist scholarship by engaging with...

This book examines the relationship between development economics, social protection and democratization in the specific context of Sub-Saharan Afr...

This book consists of a fundamental deconstruction and reconstruction of the key concepts of Criminology and The Sociology of Law, providing a cohe...

In this collection of essays, leading cultural theorists consider the meaning and implications of world-scale humanist scholarship by engaging with...

Using innovative empirical data, this book presents a unique approach to looking at moments, exploring the deeper meanings of why memories stand ou...

What is social visibility? How does it affect people and public issues? How are visibility regimes created, organized and contested? Tackling both ...

This study explores Englishness as a 'symbolic form' from the 1920s to the 1940s. Two case studies, focused on J.B. Priestley and Daphne du Maurier...

Globalization and changes to statehood challenge our understanding of space and territory. This book argues that we must understand that both the m...

Both sides in controversies tend to argue they have logic on their side. This book proposes that the interminable nature of these controversies sug...

This work highlights the Black American community's transition from a pathological-pathogenic community to an intersectional one, a model which dom...

This collection of essays highlights the topic of the ethics of care in times when it is difficult for human beings to ensure survival for themselv...

A major concern in Western countries today is the destabilising influence of radical right political forces which are intent on supplanting liberal...

A quite thorough and impressive work, not only a compelling defense of materialism but also a fair-minded if highly critical engagement with cultur...

Facebook claims that it is building a global community. Whether this sounds utopian, dystopian, or simply self-promotional, there is no denying tha...

Where else but in America, captains of industry are fond of saying, could a penniless immigrant like Andrew Carnegie achieve so much? Any place els...

Public space, both literally and figuratively, is foundationally important to political life. From Socratic lectures in the public forum, to Occupy...

Battered and bruised by injuries (often self-inflicted) sustained in the first half of the twentieth century since 1950 sociology in Australia has ...

Recent years have seen the rise of anti-politics as a political phenomenon. Beyond this new rejection of the political class there has long existed...

This book provides a short introduction to the emergence and development of sociology in Ireland until the present day. The institutionalization of...

This book persuasively argues the case that ethnography must be viewed as a full theoretical system, rather than just as a research method. Blommae...

Civility is desirable and possible, but can this fragile ideal be guaranteed? The Importance of Being Civil offers the most comprehensive look at t...

This book presents developments of discourse analysis in France and applies its tools to key texts from five theorists of structuralism: Lacan, Alt...

Multiple Normalities enhances sociological understandings of normality by illustrating it with the help of British novels. It demonstrates commonal...

This volume brings together a range of different specialists in the arts and cultural industries, as well as international academics and public int...

This book reconceptualises the concept of moral economy in its relevance for, and application to, the criminal justice system in England and Wales....

This book diagnoses the social, mental and political consequences of working and economic organizations that generate value from communication. It ...

This book argues for a modern version of liberal arts education, exploring first principles within the divine comedy of educational logic. By refor...

By exploring the concepts of 'crisis' and 'critique', this study offers a thought-provoking re-examination of the political and social thought of C...

The Promise of Happiness is a provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy. It asks what follows when we make our desires and even o...

This book studies the circulation of social knowledge by focusing on the reception of Niklas Luhmann's systems theory in Hispanic America. It shows...

Global Injustice Symbols and Social Movements examines our collective moral and political maps, dotted with symbols shaped by political dynamics be...

This book highlights an interdisciplinary terrain where the humanities and social sciences combine with digital methods. It argues that while disci...

Culture, Politics, and Governing: The Contemporary Ascetics of Knowledge Production is a critical, interdisciplinary approach to how the practices ...

This book proposes a historical-conceptual journey into the cluttered social formations that have remained outside of mainstream sociology. In part...

Remembering 9/11 recalls the afterlife of the tragedy and the shock that led many to ask 'why do they hate us so much?' Engaging with the different...

The analysis of social distinction cannot indefinitely remain confined to logics of reasoning that are markedly ethnocentric. Rather than just appl...

The study of altruism, morality, and social solidarity is an emerging field of scholarship and research in sociology. This handbook will function a...

Researchers in the new field of literary-and-cultural studies look at social issues especially issues of change and mobility through the lens of ...

In an age of rapid advances in behavioural genetics, this book applies a unique genetic-social framework to the study of crime and criminal behavio...

This book offers a unique and accessible way of conceptualizing the vocations of art, science, and politics in the capitalist world through an exam...

The past century of labor was definitively captured by theories like Fordism and Taylorism, or scientific managment, but how do we make sense of gl...

Norbert Elias has been recognized as one of the key social scientists of the 20th century at least in sociology, political science and history. Thi...

Everyday utopias enact conventional activities in unusual ways. Instead of dreaming about a better world, participants seek to create it. As such, ...

This book shows that a dialectical conceptual model underpins Georg Simmel's writings. The book provides key examples of social forms including fa...