Social Theory

In the space of a few short decades, Ireland has become one of the most globalised societies in the Western world. The full ramifications of this t...

In everyday life, people negotiate on issues, entertain offers and counteroffers, and gain or lose in terms of economic capital, political power, c...

Do things such as performance indicators, valuation formulas, consumer tests, stock prices or financial contracts represent an external reality? Or...

For over a decade, feminist studies have occupied an extraordinary position in the United States. On the one hand, they have contributed to the dev...

Jean Genet (1910–1986) resonates, perhaps more than any other canonical queer figure from the pre-Stonewall past, with contemporary queer sensibili...

Sociology of unintended consequences is commonly depicted as a framework for understanding the outcomes that run counter to the initial intentions ...

Policy action is driven, shaped and regulated by the ways in which cognitive frames and interests shape and define issues and analyses – and the in...

South Korea experienced a transition from authoritarianism to democracy in the late 1980s. Throughout the 1980s, hundreds of university students in...

Collaborations responds to the growing pressure on the humanities and social sciences to justify their impact and utility after cuts in public spen...

In the eloquent style for which he has become famous, Charles Lemert writes of social theory as no one else. Thinking the Unthinkable is offered as...

In this volume, Bernstein forsees and outlines the development of a social theory that is at once empirical, interpretive, and critical.

Out of Control promises to be a key supplemental textbook in criminology and sociology courses, both at the undergraduate and graduate level. Provi...

The monograph Social Clustering: Paradigm of Trust combines smart education strategies, social clustering and innovative educational practices. Net...

Out of Control promises to be a key supplemental textbook in criminology and sociology courses, both at the undergraduate and graduate level. Provi...

Culture, Class, and Critical Theory develops a theory of culture that explains how ideas create and legitimate class inequalities in modern society...

History of the Future presents a set of ideas about where we are in history. It focuses on the great majority of people in each society, and shows ...

The 2008 economic collapse in Iceland sent its residents into a destabilising crisis with far-reaching, temporal and affective consequences. Haun...

This edited collection takes a critical perspective on Norbert Elias’s theory of the "civilizing process," through historical essays and contempora...

First published in 1978, Issues in Social Policy is designed as a basic textbook for social administration students in universities, polytechnics a...

The Invisible Religion is a modern classic of social science. Its influence goes well beyond sociology as it continues to inspire research in such ...

In the eloquent style for which he has become famous, Charles Lemert writes of social theory as no one else. Thinking the Unthinkable is offered as...

The French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu had a broader theoretical agenda than is generally acknowledged. Introducing this innovative collection of e...

After the end of Euro-American hegemony and the return of the multi-centric world, Eurocentrism in philosophy and the social sciences has come unde...