Social Theory

Embark on a new exploration of power dynamics through the book. The book challenges traditional notions of power, introducing a contemporary model ...

Embark on a new exploration of power dynamics through the book. The book challenges traditional notions of power, introducing a contemporary model ...

The notion of immaterial labor is, at the beginning of the 21st century, a central issue for understanding the transformations of late capitalism. ...

Media Sociology and Journalism is a dialogue on contemporary society as defined through news media, politics and contemporary sociological theory. ...

It seems clear that many formerly stable societies in wealthy developed countries appear to be falling into an apparent state of permacrisis' accom...

It seems clear that many formerly stable societies in wealthy developed countries appear to be falling into an apparent state of permacrisis' accom...

Leading migration researcher Louise Ryans topical and intersectional book provides rich insights into migrants social networks. It draws on more t...

When he was ten Nicholas Haggers dentist, Howard Carters brother, told him about the opening of Tutankhamuns tomb, and he was later given a shawabt...

The Bourgeois Charm of Karl Marx & the Ideological Irony of American Jurisprudence employs a well-known body of work, Marx's, to explain the in...

This ambitious volume examines revolutionary situations during a non-revolutionary historical conjuncture--the neoliberal era. The last three decad...

The Sinking Middle Class challenges the save the middle class rhetoric that dominates our political imagination. The slogan misleads us regarding c...

Using the historical-materialist method to unravel the promise and limits of critical practice since the Revolutionary Age, John E. O'Brien investi...

How to Critique Authoritarian Populism: Methodologies of the Frankfurt School offers a comprehensive introduction to the techniques used by the ear...

In A Companion to Antonio Gramsci some of the most important Italian scholars of Antonio Gramsci's thought combine their efforts to present an insi...

Taking an analytic and historical approach, this work develops and defends Althusserian critical theory. This theory, it is argued, produces knowle...

This innovative book hones in on key elements of Marx's vast oeuvre, focusing on his contribution to social theory. Themes addressed include: the d...

In this incisive new study, Milan Zafirovski identifies and investigates the resurgence of capitalist dictatorship in contemporary society, especia...

This timely volume brings together prominent sociologists from across the world to unravel the role played by contemporary narrations of the econom...

In Rethinking Marxist Theories of Transition, Onur Acaroglu traces the concept of transition across the tracts of Classical and Western Marxism. Ra...

In Caesarism and Bonapartism in Gramsci, Francesca Antonini offers a fresh insight into Antonio Gramsci's thought. Building on the achievements of ...

Influenced by anarchism and especially by anarcho-syndicalist Georges Sorel, the political praxis of Peruvian activist and scholar José Carlos Mari...

Once again, for the first time, Marx and Durkheim join forces while exploring the moral economy of neoliberalism. Resignation and Ecstasy provides ...

Constructing Social Research Objects is the third volume on theoretically driven methodology in the social sciences edited by Håkon Leiulfsrud and ...

The Sinking Middle Class challenges the save the middle class rhetoric that dominates our political imagination. The slogan misleads us regarding c...

During the Enlightenment, people from the middling sort organised themselves into 56 patriotic societies in Denmark, Norway, and the German duchies...

Capitalism and Classical Social Theory offers a rigorous introduction to classical social theory, highlighting the enduring relevance of classical ...

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

An essential read for activists, community organizers, justice scholars, and academic administrators, Critical Animal Studies and Social Justice: C...

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND license. This book offers a theory of trafficking and modern slavery with implications for polic...

Social theorists have argued that as the complexity of our ecosystems becomes more apparent, the line between nature and culture, human and nonhuma...

More-than-Human Sociology is a call for a bolder, more creative sociology. Olli Pyyhtinen argues that to make sociology responsive to life in the 2...

'The Anthem Companion to Pierre Bourdieu' provides an introduction to the French sociologists thought and an evaluation of the international signif...

Is our understanding of social capital consistent with development interventions and the digital world? Social Capital: Evolution, Contestation, Ap...

Acting as a follow up to Volume 41 of Studies in Symbolic Interaction (2013), Symbolic Interaction and Inequality explores further the concept of R...

In a present marked by planetary crisis, a radical rethinking of aesthetics is necessary. This inspirational collection proposes a new way of think...

We live in a tumbleweed society, where job insecurity is rampant and widely seen as inevitable. Companies are transforming the way they organize wo...

'The Anthem Companion to Georg Simmel' brings together new interpretations of the work of this sociologist and philosopher. The companion highlight...

Ungrateful. An accusation that will be instantly familiar to non-white people throughout majority-white states, levelled by everyone from online tr...

The Anthem Companion to Robert Park comes to terms with Robert Parks legacy. This companion focuses largely on the work rather than the man, a majo...