Social Theory

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Discourses of social justice, equity and inclusion are often pr...

In this collection of essays, leading cultural theorists consider the meaning and implications of world-scale humanist scholarship by engaging with...

This book examines the relationship between development economics, social protection and democratization in the specific context of Sub-Saharan Afr...

This book consists of a fundamental deconstruction and reconstruction of the key concepts of Criminology and The Sociology of Law, providing a cohe...

In this collection of essays, leading cultural theorists consider the meaning and implications of world-scale humanist scholarship by engaging with...

Using innovative empirical data, this book presents a unique approach to looking at moments, exploring the deeper meanings of why memories stand ou...

What is social visibility? How does it affect people and public issues? How are visibility regimes created, organized and contested? Tackling both ...

This study explores Englishness as a 'symbolic form' from the 1920s to the 1940s. Two case studies, focused on J.B. Priestley and Daphne du Maurier...

Globalization and changes to statehood challenge our understanding of space and territory. This book argues that we must understand that both the m...

Both sides in controversies tend to argue they have logic on their side. This book proposes that the interminable nature of these controversies sug...

This work highlights the Black American community's transition from a pathological-pathogenic community to an intersectional one, a model which dom...

This collection of essays highlights the topic of the ethics of care in times when it is difficult for human beings to ensure survival for themselv...

A major concern in Western countries today is the destabilising influence of radical right political forces which are intent on supplanting liberal...

A quite thorough and impressive work, not only a compelling defense of materialism but also a fair-minded if highly critical engagement with cultur...

Facebook claims that it is building a global community. Whether this sounds utopian, dystopian, or simply self-promotional, there is no denying tha...

Where else but in America, captains of industry are fond of saying, could a penniless immigrant like Andrew Carnegie achieve so much? Any place els...

Public space, both literally and figuratively, is foundationally important to political life. From Socratic lectures in the public forum, to Occupy...

Battered and bruised by injuries (often self-inflicted) sustained in the first half of the twentieth century since 1950 sociology in Australia has ...

Recent years have seen the rise of anti-politics as a political phenomenon. Beyond this new rejection of the political class there has long existed...

This book provides a short introduction to the emergence and development of sociology in Ireland until the present day. The institutionalization of...

This book persuasively argues the case that ethnography must be viewed as a full theoretical system, rather than just as a research method. Blommae...