Social Theory

Rethinking Contemporary Feminist Politics puts forward a timely analysis of contemporary feminism. Critically engaging with both narratives of femi...

A collection of 18 contributions by well-known scholars in and outside the US, The Unhappy Divorce of Sociology and Psychoanalysis shows how sociol...

A collection of 18 contributions by well-known scholars in and outside the US, The Unhappy Divorce of Sociology and Psychoanalysis shows how sociol...

Leading sociologists outline the historical development of the discipline in Britain and document its continuing influence in this essential and co...

Using Europe as an example, this book readdresses and updates the concept of 'society', exploring society in the context of both globalization and ...

While the historical development of symbolic power has benefitted humanity enormously, there is an insidious and seldom recognised price that goes ...

This book explores the social and political significance of contemporary recognition contests in areas such as disability, race and ethnicity, nati...

This book provides the first dedicated introduction to the cultural writings and analyses of the radical West Indian thinker C.L.R. James. It lays ...

A robust defense of democratic populism by one of Americas most renowned and controversial constitutional scholarsthe award-winning author of We th...

If Marxism was the apparent loser in the Cold War, it cannot be said that liberalism was the winner, at least not in Russia. Oleg Kharkhordin is no...

'This century's most compelling theorist of racism and colonialism' Angela Davis'Fanon is our contemporary ... In clear language, in words that can...

Society and Economya work of exceptional ambition by the founder of modern economic sociologyis the first full account of Mark Granovetters ideas a...

In theorizing on the causes, preconditions, dynamics and internal conflicts of the Greek Revolution of 1821, John Milios's analysis tackles the iss...

Jean-Numa Ducange is Professor of Contemporary History at the Université de Rouen Normandie and a member of the Institut Universitaire de France. H...

Research skills are as critical to social work practitioners as skills in individual and group counselling, policy analysis, and community developm...

What Work Means goes beyond the stereotypes and captures the diverse ways Americans view work as a part of a good life. Dispelling the notion of Am...

What Work Means goes beyond the stereotypes and captures the diverse ways Americans view work as a part of a good life. Dispelling the notion of Am...

Mit diesem Buch wird eine Neuübersetzung der vor 50 Jahren erschienenen, richtungsweisenden Biografie von Karl Marx vorgelegt. Isaiah Berlins Biogr...

Navigating through classical Chinese fiction, Shakespearean characters, the arts, consumer society, psychoanalysis, evolutionary theories, interact...

This volume puts ambiguity and its generative power at the centre of analytical attention. Rather than being cast negatively as a source of confusi...

Intersectionality is a term coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989. Crenshaw, a scholar of law, critical race theory, and Black feminist legal theory,...

'A celebration of human idiosyncrasy and of our talent for building shared meaning and solidarity out of the strangest material' TLSFans takes the...

'A celebration of human idiosyncrasy and of our talent for building shared meaning and solidarity out of the strangest material' TLSFans takes the...

World-leading political economist Maja Göpel shows us how we can set the course for the future in times of upheaval, and why this concerns us all. ...

For centuries, the trickster has been used in various narratives, including mythological, literary and cinematic, to convey the idea of agency, reb...

The complete collected works of Georg Simmel are now available. Yet, the standing of Simmels sociological theory is still a subject of controversy....

Are children the passive recipients of influence from their parents and from society? Is their development determined by their genes and their neur...

The book starts by discussing the significance of walking for the experience of being human, including a comparative study of the language and cult...

In his latest book, scholar-historian Murray G. Murphey exhaustively explores the life and theory of Thorstein Veblen (18571929), whom, many schola...

Beyond Description brings anthropologists and other social scientists together to examine the problem of explanation. What is an explanation? What ...

Written in response to the Hawks Nest Tunnel disaster of 1931 in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, The Book of the Dead is an important part of West Vi...

American Examples: New Conversations about Religion, Volume Three, is the third in a series of annual anthologies produced by the American Examples...

The topic of adolescent development in Europe is one which has received little academic attention in recent years. Developmental Tasks in Adolescen...

Navigating through classical Chinese fiction, Shakespearean characters, the arts, consumer society, psychoanalysis, evolutionary theories, interact...

This book explores the contemporary relevance of Charles H. Cooleys thought, bringing together scholars from the US, Europe and Australia to reflec...

This volume, from an international and interdisciplinary cohort of scholars, offers independent-minded essays about central Greek texts and about t...

Despite noteworthy exceptions, nursings literature largely disregards the ways in which social and sociological theory permeates, guides and shapes...

Social theorists speculate about large-scale social questions, asking of any phenomenon, how is it possible? This book addresses how various social...

Authored by the world-renowned sociologist, Dr. Irving Zeitlin, Classical Sociological Theory is an abridged version of the popular textbook, Ideol...

This comprehensive text highlights new developments in sociological, educational and psychological aspects of socialisation, examining how human be...