Social Theory

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

This book exemplifies the nurturing spirit of inter-discursive debate with a view to opening up new theoretical and empirical insights, understandi...

The book is written with a multidisciplinary ethos in mind. Hence, it may be useful for undergraduates studying biology, social biology, epidemiolo...

Sadness is now a design problem. The highs and lows of melancholy are coded into social media platforms. After all the clicking, browsing, swiping ...

Indigenous education is a local decision-making framework in food security, human and animal health, education, natural resource management, and ot...

How to approach social theory actively and tie it to practical work and method has long been a challenge for professional scholars and students. Th...

Today, more mediated information is available to more people than at any other time in human history. New and revitalized sense-making strategies m...

According to Matteo Battistini, The 'middle class' has become a fetish forged by the social sciences to legitimize American capitalism. In this inv...

Disenchantment is a key term in the self-understanding of modernity. But what exactly does this concept mean? What was its original meaning when Ma...

Die Beiträge dieses Bands kartographieren das soziologische und kulturwissenschaftliche Feld in Bezug auf Drogen und die mit ihnen verbundenen sozi...

From the COVID-19 pandemic to uprisings over police brutality, we are living in the greatest social crisis of a generation. But the roots of thes...

Crisis is a buzzword, but what does it actually mean? Many argue that multiple crises coexist, but how are they actually related? If crises are def...

This book brings together the work of the late Anders Petersen, presenting his exciting and innovative transdisciplinary paradigm that offers insig...

How Popular Culture Destroys Our Political Imagination: Capitalism and Its Alternatives in Film and Television explores the representations of capi...

How Popular Culture Destroys Our Political Imagination: Capitalism and Its Alternatives in Film and Television explores the representations of capi...

This book revisits Paul Ricoeurs classification of Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Sigmund Freud as the masters of suspicion, and provides a th...

Machine learning algorithms are widely presumed to herald a world in which the crippling burdens of anxiety can be left behind.  The digital revolu...

Machine learning algorithms are widely presumed to herald a world in which the crippling burdens of anxiety can be left behind.  The digital revolu...

This book delves into the impacts and consequences of the policy of co-residence at the University of Oxford, investigating why and how women were ...

In The Development of a Theory of Social Structure and Personality Melvin Kohn, a pioneer in the cross-national, comparative and collaborative stud...

Brexit traces the implications of the UKs projected withdrawal from the EU, placing short-term political fluctuations in a broader historical and s...

Brexit traces the implications of the UKs projected withdrawal from the EU, placing short-term political fluctuations in a broader historical and s...