Social Theory

This book presents three social action models - rational, normative and emotional. It proposes the emotional model of social action and shows the m...

This book analyzes the sociobiology debate and details a number of contested issues that have emerged. These issues focus on the interpretations an...

A vivid depiction of the lives of a Scottish fur trader and his far-flung family on both sides of the Atlantic

In Economies of Abandonment, Elizabeth A. Povinelli explores how late liberal imaginaries of tense, eventfulness, and ethical substance make the gl...

Today, cosmopolitanism can be identified with ideas, practices and representations that are among our most important resources as we grapple with t...

What induces groups to commit political suicide? This book explores the decisions to surrender power and to legitimate this surrender: collective a...

Influenced by Thomas Kuhn's work on paradigm shifts in the social sciences, this overview of contemporary theory identifies major themes, charts th...

This book by one of Latin America’s leading cultural theorists examines the place of the subject and the role of biographical and autobiographical ...

A Stanford University Press classic.

What induces groups to commit political suicide? This book explores the decisions to surrender power and to legitimate this surrender: collective a...

This ambitious, interdisciplinary collection responds to present intellectual debates concerning the value and limits of privacy. Ever since the be...

A Stanford University Press classic.

This book by one of Latin America’s leading cultural theorists examines the place of the subject and the role of biographical and autobiographical ...

In a world of vertiginous inequality, escalating ecological disaster, and extraordinary political and economic turbulence generated by a winner-tak...

The Western cultural consensus based on the ideas of free markets and individualism has led many social scientists to consider poverty as a persona...

Raise any number of public issues—health care, education, welfare—and religious beliefs inevitably shape Americans' viewpoints. On certain topics t...

Shortly before his death, Zygmunt Bauman spent several days in conversation with the Swiss journalist Peter Haffner. Out of these conversations eme...

In a world where more people know who Princess Di was than who their own senators are, where Graceland draws more visitors per year than the White ...

What are the processes and mechanisms involved in interpersonal behavior, and how are these constrained by human biology, social structure, and cul...

Representing the culmination of more than a decade of empirical research in post-Mao China, this collection of essays explores changes in the natur...

Technology as Human Social Tradition outlines a novel approach to studying variability and cumulative change in human technology prominent research...

What is the difference between right and wrong? What does it mean to lead a good life? How binding is the marriage vow? What are your obligations t...

This ambitious, interdisciplinary collection responds to present intellectual debates concerning the value and limits of privacy. Ever since the be...

Jeremy Bentham, the founder of utilitarianism, made a powerful impact on several major areas of thought and policy: ethics, jurisprudence, politica...

Technology as Human Social Tradition outlines a novel approach to studying variability and cumulative change in human technology prominent research...

Ignited by the infamous shooting of Amadou Diallo, unarmed and innocent, at the hands of New York City police officers, journalist Jill Nelson was ...

Inner-city black America is often stereotyped as a place of random violence, but in fact, violence in the inner city is regulated through an inform...

The late 1960s are remembered today as the last time wholesale social upheaval shook Europe and the United States. College students during that tum...

Against Essentialism presents a sociological theory of culture. This interdisciplinary and foundational work deals with basic issues common to curr...

Undisciplined is an odyssey into possibility. Challenging us to break free from limiting strictures and structures, it encourages readers to envisi...

The datafication of our world offers huge challenges and opportunities for social science. The ‘data-drivenness’ of computational research can occu...

The datafication of our world offers huge challenges and opportunities for social science. The ‘data-drivenness’ of computational research can occu...

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Comparative practices are integral to global security politics. The balance of power pol...

Max Weber's sociological theories of secularization have vastly influenced the study of Protestant belief. "Protestant Modernity" offers a multifac...

The first two decades of the new millennium brought with it a chain of crises and reaction headlined by the plane-bombing of New York's Trade Cente...

The landscape of social theory has changed significantly over the three decades since the publication of Anthony Giddens and Jonathan Turner’s semi...