Social Theory

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Everybody wants to know what makes people happy. Artistic takes on the topic in literature, popular songs and cinema are widespread, but not terri...

Text in Arabic. Social responsibility is a fundamental pillar of building a society and maintaining stable community life. Without it, public life ...

Ethnologe und Soziologe vom Beruf war Marcel Mauss (1872-1950) Philosoph, Philologe, Spezialist von alten Gesellschaften und der Neffe von Emile Du...

Love is fundamental to the flourishing of society and nature. However, the competition of the market economy has resulted in a fractured and trauma...

Love is fundamental to the flourishing of society and nature. However, the competition of the market economy has resulted in a fractured and trauma...

The writings of Karl Marx (18181883) have left an indelible mark not only on the understanding of economics and political thought but on the lives ...

In this book, the key concepts of social theory and social movement have been outlined. This book also explains the theories of political protests ...

The writings of Karl Marx (18181883) have left an indelible mark not only on the understanding of economics and political thought but on the lives ...

On the occasion of Habermass 80th birthday, the German publisher Suhrkamp brought out five volumes of Habermass papers that spanned the full range ...

WINNER OF THE SABEW MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP BUSINESS BOOK AWARD'Thought-provoking' Wall Street Journal'A must-read' Donald C. Hambrick'Insightful...

Offering a unique, comprehensive, and critical introduction to increasingly visible social inequalities, this textbook examines the political and e...

Offering a unique, comprehensive, and critical introduction to increasingly visible social inequalities, this textbook examines the political and e...

Approached through the literature and literary personalities of the period, this fascinating study examines sexual behaviour in the Elizabethan age...

In the eighteenth century, as the forms, practices and spaces of urban sociability emerged and took shape (such as salons, clubs, theatres, public ...

Recent historical studies on the Ottoman Empire have taken for granted that subjects of the Ottoman polity flourished under a so-called Pax Ottoman...

This book describes relevant theories, such as task-centered and strength-perspective interventions for the practice of social group work, within c...

Social Constructionism: Sources and Stirrings in Theory and Practice offers an introduction to the different theorists and schools of thought that ...

A new, counterintuitive theory for how social networks influence the spread of behaviorNew social movements, technologies, and public-health initia...

Facing the reality of the social transformation in contemporary China, this book analyzes the structure, nature and influence of social classes in ...