Social Theory

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Ist libertarische Handlungsfreiheit eine Voraussetzung moralischer Verantwortung im tugendethischen Sinn? Um diese Frage zu beantworten, wird die l...

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This work challenges the dominant pejorative view of myth by showing how myth is implicated in the deepest layers of society, politics, individuali...

In the 1970s and 1980s, identities seemed to be 'fixed' through categories of class, 'race', ethnicity, gender, sexualities and religion. These day...

While the notion of social harm has long interested critical criminologists it is now being explored as an alternative field of study, which provid...

Treating social theory as an exciting intellectual journey in its own right, this new introductory-level textbook presents the key ideas and concep...

While the notion of social harm has long interested critical criminologists it is now being explored as an alternative field of study, which provid...

Interdisciplinary in approach, this book employs the key concepts of fragmentation and reconfiguration to consider the ways in which human experien...

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003108436, has been made available under a Creative Com...

How did a thirteenth-century Italian friar become one of the best-loved saints in America? Around the nation today, St. Francis of Assisi is embrac...

The India Migration Report 2017 examines forced migration caused by political conflicts, climate change, disasters (natural and man-made) and devel...

This title was first published in 2001. This book tackles the important issue of the tasks that confront sociology in the third millennium. It exam...

Examining the organization of everyday life inside the regiments of the French Foreign Legion, this book takes its theoretical point of departure i...