Social Theory

With the advent of colonialism and the monetarized market economy, the gift economy, once a widely embedded cultural and economic practice, has bec...

At the turn of the twentieth century, black fraternities and sororities, also known as Black Greek-Letter Organizations (BGLOs), were an integral p...

Rebuilding in Louisiana and Mississippi after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita presented some very thorny issues. Certain cultural projects benefited fr...

Using George Orwells novel Nineteen Eighty-Four as a guide for interpreting the role of the American state in the 21st century paying particular a...

Using George Orwells novel Nineteen Eighty-Four as a guide for interpreting the role of the American state in the 21st century paying particular a...

Erving Goffman is the most cited American sociologist. There is no shortage of studies exploring Goffmans scholarship but no extant biography of Er...

Erving Goffman is the most cited American sociologist. There is no shortage of studies exploring Goffmans scholarship but no extant biography of Er...

Over the course of more than 70 years, students of symbolic interactionism have demonstrated how a resourceful and conceptually rich perspective ca...

The Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa (DRC) played a key role in developing apartheid theology, syncretizing Reformed theology with race-based ...

This text is a representative sample of my research focus in contemporary rhetoric since the mid-1970s. It highlights work that explores themes exp...

Contributions by Ryan L. Fletcher, Darren E. Grem, Paul Harvey, Alicia Jackson, Ted Ownby, Otis W. Pickett, Arthur Remillard, Chad Seales, and Rand...

Written by leading social scientists working in and across a variety of analytic traditions, this ambitious, insightful volume explores interpretat...

Semiotics provides key analytical tools to understand the creation and reproduction of meaning in social life. Although some fields have productive...

This edited collection harnesses a diversity of interpretivist perspectives to provide a panoramic view of the production, experiences, contexts, a...

Erich Fromm was one of the most influential and creative public intellectuals of the twentieth century. He was a mentor to David Riesman and an ins...

Erich Fromm was one of the most influential and creative public intellectuals of the twentieth century. He was a mentor to David Riesman and an ins...

In this book, leading sociologists explore how, in our digital age of connectivity, temporal acceleration and real-time simultaneity impact persona...

At the heart of capitalism lies the idea of homo economicus: an ever-rational human being motivated by self-interest which arguably leads societies...

The Routledge Handbook of Henri Lefebvre,The City and Urban Society is the first edited book to focus on Lefebvre's urban theories and ideas from a...

At the heart of capitalism lies the idea of homo economicus: an ever-rational human being motivated by self-interest which arguably leads societies...

The idea of public sociology, as introduced by Michael Burawoy, was inspired by the sociological practice in South Africa known as critical engagem...