Social Theory

Montesquieu is often considered the first social thinker. Today, when 'the end of the social' has been proclaimed, it is time to reconsider its beg...

The peace process in Northern Ireland is often posited as the poster child for successful post-conflict social and political reform. Yet the sustai...

This book challenges contemporary criminological thinking, providing a thorough critique of mainstream criminology, including both liberal criminol...

This book challenges contemporary criminological thinking, providing a thorough critique of mainstream criminology, including both liberal criminol...

Do you have a Third Place? Your first place is home, your second place is work, and your third place is where you go to socialize. As more of our l...

This book provides a novel approach to the social scientific study of violence. It argues for an 'extended' definition of violence in order to avoi...

In recent times, there has been a substantial push by people to escape the metropolis for lifestyles in small coastal, country, or mountainside loc...

In recent times, there has been a substantial push by people to escape the metropolis for lifestyles in small coastal, country, or mountainside loc...

Contemporary capitalism produces more and more money, debt, and inequality. These three trends have a common cause: the privilege of private banks ...

The reality of runaway climate change is inextricably linked with the mass consumerist, capitalist society in which we live. And the cult of endles...

Prompted by the 'affective turn' within the entire spectrum of the social sciences, this books brings together the twin disciplines of political ps...

In the Nineteenth-century, English textile workers responded to the introduction of new technologies on the factory floor by smashing them to bits....

Bertrand Russell (18721970) was a logician, a philosopher, and one of the twentieth centurys most visible public intellectuals. Science and Apocaly...

A Treatise in Phenomenological Sociology: Object, Method, Findings, and Applications provides the first systematic approach to phenomenological soc...

The media of a society always dynamically interacts with current popular ideas and myths (myths which narrate, explain and often justify social rea...

The climate crisis is humanmade. Its main cause is the burning of fossil fuels. To combat climate change, we have to understand how we arrived at w...

The climate crisis is humanmade. Its main cause is the burning of fossil fuels. To combat climate change, we have to understand how we arrived at w...

Theodor W. Adorno was a German sociologist, philosopher and musicologist known for his critical theory of society. In the Hotel Abyss is a critical...

The Sociogony re-examines the social ontology of what Durkheim calls 'social facts' in the light of critical and progressive hostilities to the fac...

Theory on the Edge brings together some of the foremost specialists working at the interdisciplinary interface between Irish Studies, feminist theo...

Why does contemporary calculation develop as calculation of the quality of everything? How should we consider calculation of quality and the relati...

Grounded in the Foucauldian literature on governmentality and drawing on a broad range of disciplines, this book examines the government of childho...

This book presents an integral, cross-cultural reflection on the social reality of children's rights and citizenship, giving an insight into new pe...

This collection is an engaging exploration of how Bourdieu's key concepts - field, habitus and capital - help us re-think the status of childhood. ...

A candid exploration of sadomasochistic practices driving contemporary culture, covering the demoralizing socioeconomic and political conditions th...

Ironic Freedom asserts that freedom from governmental interference may make people vulnerable to other sources of coercion; these affects vary by g...

This book examines the relationship of belonging and social policy in a historical-comparative perspective reconstructing individual arguments in f...

This collection explores how the dominant risk agenda is being embedded across welfare policy and practice contexts in order to redefine social pro...

We live in a time of multiple challenges to our rights and freedoms not only in authoritarian regimes but also in liberal democracies around the g...

Yar examines the autobiographies of fallen sports stars, exploring their fall from grace and the stigma it entails. Drawing upon sociological and c...

This book examines neighbourhoods and networks between the diverse people of contemporary Europe who live in a globalized and globalizing world, ac...

The past 50 years have witnessed a transformation in the structure and function of families and households. The social and demographic catalysts fo...

Morland predicts the future of humanity in 10 illuminating statistics (could the Japanese and Italians now go the way of the dodo?) and looks back ...

Through a series of case studies by leading anthropologists, Cool Anthropology highlights the many different approaches that scholars have used to ...

Beyond Citizenship? Feminism and the Transformation of Belonging pushes debates about citizenship and feminist politics in new directions, challeng...

Exploring the ambivalent grammar of empathy where questions of geo-politics and social justice are at stake - in popular science, international dev...

The return of interest in socialism and the critique of capitalism make Beyond Post-Socialism a timely work. The book explores the critical-theoret...

Influenced most notably by Émile Durkheim and Zygmunt Bauman, Dawson outlines how this long neglected stream of socialist theory can help us more f...

From bestselling author and longtime New York Times columnist Frank Bruni comes a lucid, powerful examination of the ways in which grievance has co...

Bertrand Russell (18721970) was a logician, a philosopher, and one of the twentieth centurys most visible public intellectuals. Science and Apocaly...

This book re-examines political, conceptual and methodological concerns of 'intersectionality', bringing these into conversation with sexuality stu...

Can society operate without gender and even biological sex classifications? Queer Post-Gender Ethics argues that we could exist, formulate our rela...

Philosophy was born out of discussion, out of the rivalry between world views. From the philosophical ferment of the Enlightenment arose the idea o...

Contributing to feminist approaches to masculinities, this book examines men's contextual experiences of masculine identity. Drawing on new data wh...

A well-rounded, well-informed critique of the Pacific island nation of Japan, its society, economy, demography, and politics Following a crushing d...