Social Theory

This ground breaking work explores the genealogical analysis of the discourses of reflection. Barry Sandywell traces the differences between the tr...

In this provocative and timely new book, Alain Touraine explores the question of how we might live together in a truly globalized world society. Re...

The project to publish the works of Marx and Engels continues, and this book, published in 1984, puts together a comprehensive bibliography of thei...

L. T. Hobhouse (1864-1929) was fundamental to the New Liberal movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. He authored many importa...

There has been an upsurge in scholarship concerned with theories of social practices in various fields including sociology, geography and managemen...

these are just two of the issues addressed by Les Johnston, who argues that policing, far from being the exclusive preserve of public personnel, is...

This rich and assured book is a major contribution to the growing Weber industry. It reveals Weber's theory of modernity in a new and unexpected li...

This volume presents the long-anticipated results of several decades of inquiry into the social origins and social motivation of linguistic change....

Henri Lefebvre was one of the most significant and influential social theorists of the 20th century. His impressive body of work crosses multiple d...

This book, first published in 1983, with a second edition in 1992, investigates the emergence of the sociology of knowledge in Germany in the criti...

This book is an ethnographic investigation of punk subculture as well as a treatise on the importance of place: a location with both physical form ...

What has become known as the Frankfurt School is often reduced to a small number of theorists in media communication and cultural studies. Challeng...

This book focuses on security practices, civil liberties and the politics of borders in liberal democracies. In the aftermath of 9/11, security pra...

Anthony Giddens is one of the most respected and influential social theorists at work today. This wide-ranging and stimulating volume, first publis...

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to prod...

Originally published in 1915, this pioneer study has long occupied an important place in the literature of sociology. An exercise in the statistica...

In social theory and sociology, time and travel in technological cultures is one of the new and challenging research topics in the 'mobilities turn...

Everett C. Hughes had a great impact on the field of sociology as a whole and on an entire generation of sociologists. Some of Hughes' former stude...

This study of Weber's sociology, written by an eminent authority, is a clear and illuminating discussion of the most important elements of Weber's ...

First published in 1967, this essay in the interpretation of radical social thought deals mainly with the radical theorists rather than the doctrin...

An important literary and philosophical figure, Georges Bataille has had a significant influence on other French writers, such as Foucault, Derrid...

This new edition of a well-regarded book provides a concise and exceptionally clear introduction to Habermas's work, from his early writings on the...

This book introduces social scientists to the ideas of George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) - one of the most original yet neglected thinkers of early t...

This anthology on otherness and the media, first published in 1993, was prompted by the proliferation of writings centring on issues of ‘difference...