Social Theory

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Ist libertarische Handlungsfreiheit eine Voraussetzung moralischer Verantwortung im tugendethischen Sinn? Um diese Frage zu beantworten, wird die l...

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This work challenges the dominant pejorative view of myth by showing how myth is implicated in the deepest layers of society, politics, individuali...

In the 1970s and 1980s, identities seemed to be 'fixed' through categories of class, 'race', ethnicity, gender, sexualities and religion. These day...

While the notion of social harm has long interested critical criminologists it is now being explored as an alternative field of study, which provid...

Treating social theory as an exciting intellectual journey in its own right, this new introductory-level textbook presents the key ideas and concep...

While the notion of social harm has long interested critical criminologists it is now being explored as an alternative field of study, which provid...

Interdisciplinary in approach, this book employs the key concepts of fragmentation and reconfiguration to consider the ways in which human experien...

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003108436, has been made available under a Creative Com...

How did a thirteenth-century Italian friar become one of the best-loved saints in America? Around the nation today, St. Francis of Assisi is embrac...

The India Migration Report 2017 examines forced migration caused by political conflicts, climate change, disasters (natural and man-made) and devel...

This title was first published in 2001. This book tackles the important issue of the tasks that confront sociology in the third millennium. It exam...

Examining the organization of everyday life inside the regiments of the French Foreign Legion, this book takes its theoretical point of departure i...

In the West the Japanese house has reached iconic status in its architecture, decoration and style. Is this neat, carefully constructed version of ...

While we have become increasingly vulnerable to the ebb and flow of global finance, most of us know very little about it. This book focuses on the ...

Central to the idea of a perfect society is the idea that communities must be strong and bound together with shared ideologies. However, while this...

This title was first publiished in 2000: A hierarchy is an organization system that is structured in a treelike manner, with levels of status or au...

This book explores the design, communication and implementation of social change programmes aimed at solving various social problems, from reducing...

This book illuminates an important dimension of the work of Max Weber. Webers theory of meaning and modernity is articulated through an understandi...

This book looks at the contested relationship between Adivasis or the indigenous peoples, migrants and the state in India. It delves into the natur...

This is not a conventional biography but an attempt to explore the motives and intentions that underpin Talcott Parsons published work by exploring...

In spite of their differing rhetorics and cognitive strategies, sociology and literature are often concerned with the same objects: social relation...

Departing from a concern with certain hard problems in social theory and focusing instead on the theoretical strategies employed in their solution,...

Written by a team of experts on the contemporary global capitalist political economy who are able to shed light on the inner workings of global cap...

Social robotics is a cutting edge research area gathering researchers and stakeholders from various disciplines and organizations. The transformati...

Humans are accustomed to being tool bearers, but what happens when machines become tool bearers, calculating human labour via the use of big data a...

Cool Britannia and Multi-Ethnic Britain: Uncorking the Champagne Supernova attempts to move away from the melancholia of Cool Britannia and the dis...

If catastrophes are, by definition, exceptional events of such magnitude that worlds and lives are dramatically overturned, the question of timing ...

This book explores the intertwining of politics and ontology, shedding light on the ways in which, as our ability to investigate, regulate, appropr...

This book presents an overview of new approaches to the study of social movements emerging out of Latin America, based on original and innovative a...

This volume explores possibility of constructing a political outcome from the theory of the early years of the Frankfurt School, countering the com...

How do humans behave when under threat of attack or disaster? How does the social context affect individual behavior? Anthony Mawson provides an il...

Departing from the scholarly treatment of addiction as a form of rhetoric or discursive formation, Wasted: Performing Addiction in America focuses ...

This title was first published in 2001: For over 30 years it has been argued that contemporary society is undergoing a fundamental transformation. ...

This title was first published in 2001: This book examines the liberal-communitarian debate from a new perspective. Communitarians argue that liber...

What is the relationship between economic crises and protest behaviour? Does the experience of austerity, or economic hardship more broadly defined...

This third edition of Social Theory Re-Wired is a significantly revised edition of this leading text and its unique web learning interactive progra...