Social Theory

This book offers a political anthropological discussion of subversion, exploring its imbrication with technological and divinization practices, and...

The early 20th-century Russo-Polish legal thinker Leon Petraycki (18671931) developed a comprehensive social psychology of law. Because only a frac...

This book explores the concept of the stranger as a modern social form, identifying the differing conceptions of strangerhood presented in the lite...

This book examines the nature of unmasking in social theory, in revolutionary movements and in popular culture. Unmasking is not the same as scient...

How is scientific knowledge of social life possible? If there are social sciences, must they employ methods different from those of the natural sci...

Again, Dangerous Visions: Essays in Cultural Materialism brings together twenty-six essays charting the development of Andrew Milner's distinctivel...

In Acquiring Modernity, Paul B. Paolucci, updating classical theory, examines the nature of modern society. Investigated from a sociological perspe...

In Migration, Reproduction and Society, Alejandro I. Canales offers a theoretical model for understanding the dilemmas presented by migration in th...

Between the years 1964 and 1974, Ethiopian post-secondary students studying at home, in Europe, and in North America produced a number of journals....

As many can attest, the prevalence of sexual imagery has increased in modern society over the past half century. In this timely new study, Kenneth ...

Drawing on a range of theoretical perspectives and engaging with new empirical evidence from around the world, this collection examines how privile...

Kaj Ilmonen was a pioneer in the third wave of the sociology of consumption. This book provides a balanced overview of the sociology of consumption...

This collection explores why powerful knowledge matters for social justice and discusses its implications for curriculum and pedagogy. The contribu...

Are reports of the 'death of deviance' premature? This collection brings together leading international scholars to analyse uses of the 'deviance' ...

All behaviours, indeed all forms of agency, are viewed as emotionally-driven. This book provides an approach to emotional experience and agency whi...

Ali Zaidi discloses a largely unnoticed dialogue between Muslim and Western social thought on the search for meaning and transcendence in the human...

What does it mean to talk about everyday racism, and why should we do so? Racism and Everyday Life brings together the sociologies of racism and ev...

This book provides the first English-language account of the history of Danish sociology, examining it from the late 19th century to the present da...

**AN ECONOMIST AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR**'Essential and definitive' CATHERINE BELTON, author of PUTIN'S PEOPLEWe are in a new era.From Trump,...

Powerfully persuasive and thought-provoking, Ending the Pursuit asks us to reimagine sexuality, romance and gender without the borders imposed by s...

Witch hunts are the result of gendered, cultural and socioeconomic struggles over acute structural, economic and social transformations in both the...

Can a human society suffer from illness like a living thing? And if so, how does such a malaise manifest itself? In this thought-provoking book, Fr...

Examining modern Muslim identity constructions, the authors introduce a novel analytical framework to Islamic Studies, drawing on theories of succe...

Examining modern Muslim identity constructions, the authors introduce a novel analytical framework to Islamic Studies, drawing on theories of succe...

In June 2016, more than 17 million people voted for Britain to leave the European Union. The fallout of this momentous referendum has been tumultuo...

The future has become a problem for the present. Almost every critical issue is now understood and experienced through the prism of the future sinc...

Although evangelicals and environmentalists at large still find themselves on opposing sides of an increasingly contentious issue, there is a count...

The authors are proud sponsors of the 2020 SAGE Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Awardenabling graduate students and early career faculty to at...

This handbook is the first to bring together the latest theory and research on critical approaches to social psychological challenges. Edited by a ...

This volume outlines Max Webers comparative-historical sociology of interpretive understanding (verstehen) in a manner that clarifies his complex m...

The rich archive of twentieth-century debates on fascism can steer a path through an increasingly authoritarian present. Developing anti-fascist th...

Known for his most famous works, such as The Myth of the Lazy Native (1977) and The Problem of Corruption (1986), as well as his concept of the cap...

Despite their many disagreements when it comes to the subject of capitalism, Marxist and market-liberal perspectives seem to agree about one thing:...

'Phenomenal' Angela Y. Davis 'An elegantly written masterpiece' Barbara Ransby Become Ungovernable is a provocative new work of political thought...

Focusing on the work of Hartmut Rosa, this book provides an in-depth account of the extent to which we, as humans, are obliged to face up to the un...

What are the building blocks of the new societal architectures after COVID-19? What are the evolving lifestyle patterns, social connections and rel...

How is social work shaped by global issues and international problems and how should it address them? This book employs a radical perspective to ex...

How is social work shaped by global issues and international problems and how should it address them? This book employs a radical perspective to ex...

Edward Shils was a central figure in twentieth century social thought. He held appointments both at Chicago and Cambridge and was a crucial link be...

Rethinking Class and Social Difference brings together contributions from scholars developing new social scientific and theoretical approaches to a...

What does a good prison look like? More than eleven million people are currently locked up in prisons across the world, but does that mean that pri...