Social Theory

The Kaleidoscopic City explores the development of Pentecostalism in Hong Kong between 1907 to 1942. Focusing primarily on Pentecostal missionaries...

On July 27th, 2015, Colin Cremin overcame a lifetime of fear and repression and came to work dressed as a woman called Ciara. This book charts her ...

In Read My Desire, Joan Copjec stages a confrontation between the theories of Jacques Lacan and those of Michel Foucault, protagonists of two pow...

We are living in algorithmic times. From machine learning and artificial intelligence to blockchain or simpler newsfeed filtering, automated sys...

Whenever Bakhtin, in his final decade, was queried about writing his memoirs, he shrugged it off. Unlike many of his Symbolist generation, Bakhtin ...

The 1960s saw pioneering changes in the realms of international politics, science, culture and art. Turning this historical lens onto the study of ...

Winner of the 2020 Stephen Crook Memorial Prize fromThe Australian Sociological Association, a biennial prize for the best authored book in Austral...

Through an analysis of hundreds of Hollywood movies, this book examines some of the most contentious social issues of our time, including racism, s...

This book offers an unprecedented, integrative account of the shape of social order on the microsocial level. Dealing with the basic dimensions of ...

This book offers an unprecedented, integrative account of the shape of social order on the microsocial level. Dealing with the basic dimensions of ...

Drawing on a range of approaches from the social sciences and humanities, this handbook explores theoretical and empirical perspectives that addres...

Housed in one handy volume for the first time are several of the seminal essays on W.E.B. Du Bois's contributions to sociology and critical social ...

Global Marx coheres a collective assessment of Marx's account of capital's domination, through his critique of disciplinary languages, investigatio...

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

An exploration of public performance in everyday life, by the leading cultural and social thinkerThe Performer explores the relations between perfo...

Morland predicts the future of humanity in 10 illuminating statistics (could the Japanese and Italians now go the way of the dodo?) and looks back ...

Institutional ethnography (IE) originated as a feminist alternative to sociologies defining people as the objects of study. Instead, IE explores th...

The police response to protests erupting on America's streets in recent years has made the militarization of policing painfully transparent. Yet, p...

Most historians rely principally on written sources. Yet there are other traces of the past available to historians: the material things that peopl...

Social theory is a crucial resource for the social sciences. It provides rich insights into how human beings think and act and how contemporary soc...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023 A WATERSTONES BOOK OF YEAR FOR POLITICS ...