Social Theory

The Routledge Handbook of Sport, Gender and Sexuality brings together important new work from 68 leading international scholars that, collectively,...

T. E. Lawrence once observed that Saudi Arabia had so little art that it could be said to have no art at all.  Whether that was once the case is ar...

Mainstream notions of the American Dream usually revolve around the ownership of private property, a house of ones own. Yet for the past 400 years,...

South Africa is a rapidly urbanising society. Over 60% of the population lives in urban areas and this will rise to more than 70% by 2030. However,...

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

The growing urgency, complexity and wickedness of sustainability problemsfrom climate change and biodiversity loss to ecosystem degradation and per...

Left Universalism, Africacentric Essays presents a defense of universalism as the foundation of moral and political arguments and commitments. Con...

This breakthrough scientific masterwork - and INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - reveals the underlying forces that have shaped human history and will secu...

How ordinary urban objects influence our behavior, exacerbate inequality, and encourage social changeAssumptions about human behavior lie hidden in...

Township Economy provides a unique insight into township informal business and entrepreneurship. It is set in the post-apartheid period, in the thi...

In the context of sustained economic and environmental crises, marked by extreme inequalities of wealth, rising xenophobia, racism and precarity, n...

Policies intended to bring stability to fragile states tend to focus almost exclusively on building institutions and systems to get governance righ...

One is not born a worker or a boss, one becomes one from father to son... or almost. Social reproduction is not an iron law; it admits of exception...

An eye for an eye, the balance of the scales for centuries, these and other traditional concepts exemplified the publics perception of justice. To...

Using an intersectional approach, Marriage, Divorce, and Distress in Northeast Brazil explores rural, working-class, black Brazilian womens percept...

Thug Criminology combines the urgent and as yet silenced voices of former gang/street-involved peoples turned academics, alongside their allies, in...

Don Ross provides a concise and distinct introduction to the philosophy of economics for students in need of a short but engaging study of the main...

Don Ross provides a concise and distinct introduction to the philosophy of economics for students in need of a short but engaging study of the main...

Understanding Institutions proposes a new unified theory of social institutions that combines the best insights of philosophers and social scientis...

Published in 1918, The View of Life is Georg Simmel's final work. Famously deemed the brightest man in Europe by George Santayana, Simmel addressed...

The concept of transhumanism emerged in the middle of the 20th century, and has influenced discussions around AI, braincomputer interfaces, genetic...

Thug Criminology combines the urgent and as yet silenced voices of former gang/street-involved peoples turned academics, alongside their allies, in...

Why are human beings so attracted to information and communication technologies? Developments in this field have formed new social networks around ...

Winner of the 2022 Gradiva® Award for Best Edited Book!This book argues that the notion of wild analysis, a term coined by Freud to denote the use ...

The Male Body in Digital Culture explores different ways that the male body has been represented by, constructed in, and experienced through digita...

Social movements and popular struggle are a central part of today's world, but often neglected or misunderstood by media commentary as well as expe...

At its core this book is intellectual history, tracing the work of progressive historians as they in turn wrote the history of progressivism. In Pr...

In the last several decades, there has been a surge of interest in expertise in the social scientific, philosophical, and legal literatures. While ...

The first book to fully explore the multiple ways in which body work features in health and social care and the meanings of this work both for thos...

In the 1980s and 1990s, neoliberal forms of governance largely dominated Latin American political and social life. Neoliberalism, Interrupted exami...

Concern with authority is as old as human history itself. Eve's sin was to challenge the authority of God by disobeying his rule. Frank Furedi expl...

This book examines the different conceptions of the individual that have emerged in recent new approaches in economics, including behavioral econom...

What Morality Means examines the scientific theory of morality, drawing on zoological and physiological literatures in addition to contemporary soc...

A provocative sociological account of human relations with non-human animals, providing an innovative theorization of the social relations of speci...

John Dewey (18591952) was a major figure of the American cultural and intellectual landscape in the first half of the twentieth century. While not ...

This ambitious two-volume handbook of social theory consists of forty original contributions. The researchers take stock of the state of social the...

One of the worlds preeminent cultural anthropologists leaves a last work that fundamentally reconfigures how we study most other culturesFrom the p...

Architecture and the Origins of Preclassic Maya Politics highlights the dramatic changes in the relationship of ancient Maya peoples to the landsca...

What does it take for warnings about violent conflict and war to be listened to, believed and acted upon? Why are warnings from some sources notice...

Presenting a ground-breaking revitalization of contemporary social theory, this book revisits the rise of the modern world to reopen the dialogue b...

Resilience refers to the ability of individuals, groups and societies to withstand and recover from external shocks. This pioneering book-length co...

Individuality and collectivity are central concepts in sociological inquiry. Incorporating cultural history, social theory, urban and economic soci...

Meaning Is Everywhere sketches a theory of meaning from the ground upwith potentially profound consequences. In a sweeping narrative that arcs from...