Social Theory

Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America examines the idealisation of Asian America by its intellectuals, the saturation of As...

As nations reel from the effects of poverty, inequality, climate change and the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, it feels as though the world ha...

In "The Literary Mind" (OUP, 1996), Mark Turner offered a bold new theory about the role of story and projection in thought and in the origins of l...

Investigating the politics of seeing and its effects, this book draws on Slavoj Žižek’s notion of fetish and Walter Benjamin’s notion of the opti...

Nearly 20% of the population has a disability. Despite this, mainstream research often does not explicitly address the methodological and practical...

Scholars have conducted the study of culture in two general ways: as an observer science, where behavior and world-views are measurable, rational, ...

This wide-ranging guide to key concepts and debates in welfare uses an innovative, question-based narrative to highlight the importance of theory t...

Based on the four mega-trends of monetary instability, global greying (an ageing global population), the information revolution, and climate change...

Following the publication of the seminal Fear of Freedom, Erich Fromm applied his unique vision to a critique of contemporary capitalism in The San...

Theodor Adorno was no stranger to controversy. In The Jargon of Authenticity he gives full expression to his hostility to the language employed by ...

Theodor Adorno was no stranger to controversy. In The Jargon of Authenticity he gives full expression to his hostility to the language employed by ...

Development and Human Rights examines how United Nations agencies are following a "rights based approach to development" in India. It asks two ques...

Most contemporary moral and political philosophers would like to have an argument showing that morality is rationally required. In From Rationality...

Most contemporary moral and political philosophers would like to have an argument showing that morality is rationally required. In From Rationality...

After many years in which it appeared to be losing the pre-eminent position it had occupied in the lexicon of the social and human sciences, the te...

All around the world, societies are experiencing an explosion of organizations and organizing: community clubs, religious groups, social movements,...

What is a fair distribution of resources and other goods when individuals are partly responsible for their achievements? This book develops a theor...

Simone Weil was one of the foremost thinkers of the twentieth century: a philosopher, theologian, critic, sociologist and political activist. This ...

Anti-globalization activism world-wide attests to the tensionsbetween globalization and civil society. To better understand thisfraught relationshi...

This book, published in Europe and USA for the first time, looks specifically at addressing oppression in people. By narrowing the focus, Anne Bish...

This book proposes a novel approach to practising social and political analysis based on the role of logics. The authors articulate a distinctive p...

This book is designed as an introduction to recent social science work on risk and is intended primarily for students in sociology, social psycholo...

Our culture is one that speaks rather than listens. From reality TV to political rallies, there is a clamour to be heard, to narrate, and to receiv...

Hybridity, the interaction of people and media from different cultures, is a communication-based phenomenon. Drawing on original research from Leba...

First published in 1968, Demographic Analysis was written to provide a comprehensive account of demographic methods for those with a need to unders...

Not only does visibility matter to politics, but it is increasingly becoming an intrinsic constituent element and a crucial asset to it. According...

The Routledge International Handbook of Simmel Studies documents the richness, variety, and creativity of contemporary international research on Ge...

This volume unfolds the ebbs and flows of Muslim thought in different regions of the world, as well as the struggles between the different intellec...

This book introduces an events-based approach to understanding digital experience. Focusing on the event-ontologies of Bergson and Whitehead’s proc...

This lively and controversial collection of essays sets out to theorize and practice a ‘materialist-feminist’ criticism of literature and culture. ...

Feminist criticism has come a long way in the last twenty years. Its development has been rapid, its snowball progress picking up elements of struc...

Married to the Job examines an important but under-researched area: the relationships of wives to their husbands’ work. Janet Finch looks both at t...

This a collection of essays about women, by women, which examine the production of femininity within a patriarchal society. The essays show that ch...

Designed for students of social policy and women’s studies, this text gives a readable account of the wide range of feminist ideas about women and ...

Soldiers and Students (1975) adopts an original approach to the confrontation of deprived and possessing parties under conditions of scarcity. With...

Labouring Children (1980) is a study of child immigrants, based on numerous original sources, and presents new views on childhood, social work and ...

Originally published in 1973, this book examines the difficulties which sociologists have in providing useful scientific definitions of terms like ...

Productivity and Amenity (1974) considers social responsibility in business and the balance between the social requirements for enhancing productiv...

Feminist social scientists often find that carrying feminism into practice in their research is neither easy nor straightforward. Designed precisel...

Subordination presents a survey of some of the most important ideas developed within feminism since the 1970s. Among the central themes addressed a...

Matriliny and Modernity (1996) explores the situation both past and present of women living in the matrilineal society of Negeri Sembilan in a rapi...

Originally published in 1974, this book evaluates and compares three important styles of sociological research: positivism, symbolic interactionism...

'This magnificent book is the best recent treatment we have of the great Black Radical Tradition' - Cornel West Of Black Study explores how the id...