Social Theory

What is it like to have a baby in climate crisis? This book explores the experiences of pregnant women and their partners, pre- and post-birth, dur...

What is it like to have a baby in climate crisis? This book explores the experiences of pregnant women and their partners, pre- and post-birth, dur...

Marx argued that capitalist society acts against the core capacities, skills and talents of human beings, and that it also limits their realisation...

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

In this comprehensive, accessible handbook, acclaimed social theorist Anthony Elliott brings together internationally distinguished and emergent sc...

Technology often plays an ambiguous role in theories of social change. Viewed by Karl Marx as the driving force of historical progress, it has come...

On Social Closure reinvigorates the idea of social closure as a basic sociological concept for understanding the strategies powerful groups use to ...

Liquidate: How Money is Dissolving the World examines the emergence of money and its social and ecological repercussions. It views money as a new p...

With the message that everything in a sense is alive, thus allowing us to join forces with new politico-ethical communities stretching across human...

The idea of a critical theory is famous across the world, yet it is today rarely practised as originally conceived by the Frankfurt School. The wan...

Sociologist Jeffrey Guhin spent a year and a half embedded in four high schools in the New York City area -- two of them Sunni Muslim and two Evang...

This book examines the development and fundamental nature of legal pluralism. Legal pluralism evokes two distinctions: state vs non-state law; and ...

Is it legal to kill, or capture and confine, someone in war? Is this relevant or wise to ask in the reality of war? What does 'legal' actually mean...

Landschaft erscheint stabil und beständig. So lautet zumindest eine verbreitete Auffassung von Landschaft. Diese Auffassung ignoriert die Kontingen...

This book explores G.D.H Coles significant yet often overlooked role in the history of British Sociology from 1920-1960. Eager to achieve a sense o...

The term contagion and the theory of networks is nowadays employed to study increasingly diverse issues such as financial crises, epidemics, and fa...

This book provides an interdisciplinary series of essays on key social theorists of morality. It explores contributions to social moral theorising ...

Dieses Buch bietet nach einem niederschwelligen Einstieg eine Orientierung über verschiedene Theorien zum sozialen Konflikt und deren Potenziale, K...

Employing Gramscian conceptions of hegemony, this book demonstrates the inextricable links between politics, education, culture, and power.Based up...