Social Theory

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

Consumption forms a major part of people’s lives. As such, geographers, historians of technology and sociologists have devoted much attention to tr...

Political protest and social movements are ubiquitous phenomena. This book focuses on the current theoretical approaches that aim at explaining the...

First published in 1971, Social Choice is both a text and reference containing the proceedings of a conference dealing with contemporary work on th...

First published in 1975, this collection of essays embodies a conception of sociological thought as a critical analysis of social theories and doct...

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

The Giddens phenomenon has been one of the most obvious and talked about features of world sociology since the late 1960’s. This book, first publis...

This book, first published in 1976, discusses four classical paradigms for sociology – the positivism of Saint-Simon and Comte, Durkheim, Marx and ...

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...

The first text to examine the concept of trust and the role that it played on the Industrial Revolution, this book is a key resource for students’ ...

Most recent sociological work on the theory of class is based on a distinction between Weberian and Marxist approaches. For the first part of this ...

This classic volume was originally designed as an introduction to social science perspectives on a broad range of social issues in American society...

Originally published in 1918, this enduring work by renowned sociologist and Liberal politician Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse encompasses a series of f...

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

How is labour changing in the age of computers, the Internet, and "social media" such as Facebook, Google, YouTube and Twitter? In Digital Labour a...

First published in 1973, this is a reissue of John Urry's important and influential study of the theory of revolution. Part 1 offers a detailed di...

Reflecting emerging research and ongoing reassessments of social theory, The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Major Social Theorists offers significant...

First published in 1983, this book examines the problems of concept formation in the social sciences, and in particular sociology, from the standpo...

Political protest and social movements are ubiquitous phenomena. This book focuses on the current theoretical approaches that aim at explaining the...

Sixteen leading international sociologists are brought together in this volume to share their experiences of becoming practitioners in the field. S...

Fin de Siècle Socialism, originally published in 1988, demonstrates the lively potential for cultural criticism in intellectual history. Professor ...

Maintains that poverty has become, to the peril of us all, an ordinary part of life

First published in 1989, this re-issue concerns itself with the relevance of Max Weber's sociology for the understanding of modern times. The book ...