Social Theory

For most of the twentieth century, Auguste Comte, a controversial but highly influential nineteenth-century figure, and his vast treatises on posit...

The Anthem Companion to Everett Hughes is a comprehensive and updated critical discussion of Hughess contribution to sociology and his current lega...

The Anthem Companion to Gabriel Tarde offers the best contemporary work on Gabriel Tarde, written by the best scholars currently working in this fi...

The Companion is a collection of articles covering noted German sociologist Ferdinand Tönnies' full range of thinking. Topics include Tönnies and t...

Eminently readable, and anybody who cares about the future of American democracy in these perilous times can only hope that it will be widely read ...

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

For over twenty years, A History of Anthropological Theory has provided a strong foundation for understanding anthropological thinking, tracing how...

With a foreword by Richard Thaler, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics!New Updated Edition, 2019.Dr David Halpern, behavioural scientist and hea...

The Young Max Weber and German Social Democracy examines the formative years of the classic social thinker once called the 'bourgeois Marx,' specif...

A Best Book of 2023 by Inc.Social psychologist and Stanford professor Brian Lowery presents a provocative, powerful theory of identity, arguing tha...

Shaun Gallagher presents a ground-breaking interdisciplinary account of human action, bringing out its essentially social dimension. He explores an...

Cultural Analysis and Bourdieus Legacy explores the achievements and limitations of a Bourdieusian approach to cultural analysis through original c...

Michel Foucaults Discipline and Punish is one of the best-selling works of critical theory and a key text on many undergraduate courses. However, i...

While women have struggled to gain recognition in the discipline of philosophy, there is no shortage of brilliant female thinkers. What can these w...

Sex abuse happens in all communities, but American minority religions often face disproportionate allegations of sexual abuse. Why, in a country th...

Are we as a species headed towards extinction? As our economic system renders our planet increasingly inhospitable to human life, powerful individu...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

Robert H. Schullers ministryincluding the architectural wonder of the Crystal Cathedral and the polished television broadcast of Hour of Powercast ...

Social behavior has long puzzled evolutionary biologists, since the classical theory of natural selection maintains that individuals should not sac...

Updated to reflect the most current thinking on urban studies, The Blackwell City Reader, Second Edition features a comprehensive selection of mult...

In the social sciences today, students are taught theory by reading and analyzing the works of Karl Marx, Max Weber, and other foundational figures...

In this groundbreaking study of post-conflict Sierra Leone, Lyn Graybill examines the ways in which both religion and local tradition supported res...

This festschrift celebrates the accomplishments of renowned social scientist Irving Louis Horowitz as he turned sixty-five. Since Horowitz's views ...

This handbook sets out an innovative approach to the theory of law, reconceptualising it in a material, embodied, socially contextualised and polit...

In Retail and Social Change Steven Miles, presents a cross-disciplinary analysis of the evolution of retail and how in both its material and virtua...

The social scientific study of social movements remains largely shaped by categories, concepts and debates that emerged in North Atlantic societies...

Michel Foucault was one of the twentieth centurys most influential thinkers whose work has unsettled and transformed the field of social philosophy...

One of the country's most influential public intellectuals asks: What if the roots of the culture war lie not in the culture itself, but laws and r...

Five mysterious billionaires summoned Douglas Rushkoff to a desert resort for a private talk. The subject? How to survive the Event: the societal c...

This volume contains many of the most important texts in western political and social thought from the sixteenth to the end of the nineteenth centu...

This book offers a wide-ranging yet concise introduction to the many philosophical issues surrounding food production and consumption. It begins wi...

Through mapping the rights discourse and the transformations in transnational finance capitalism since the world wars, and interrogating the connec...

Establishes methodologies for the linkages between colonialism, postcoloniality and forced migration; Draws from a broad selection of case studies ...

Over the past fifty years, debates concerning race and college admissions have focused primarily on the policy of affirmative action at elite insti...

A Deadly Wind is a deeply researched historical account of the most powerful non-tropical windstorm to ever strike the West Coast: The Columbus Day...

This volume, originally published in 1889 with this edition published in 1912, contains Carpenter's famous essays on civilisation and his theory th...