Social Theory

A Treatise in Phenomenological Sociology: Object, Method, Findings, and Applications provides the first systematic approach to phenomenological soc...

An essential read for activists, community organizers, justice scholars, and academic administrators, Critical Animal Studies and Social Justice: C...

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND license. This book offers a theory of trafficking and modern slavery with implications for polic...

Social theorists have argued that as the complexity of our ecosystems becomes more apparent, the line between nature and culture, human and nonhuma...

More-than-Human Sociology is a call for a bolder, more creative sociology. Olli Pyyhtinen argues that to make sociology responsive to life in the 2...

'The Anthem Companion to Pierre Bourdieu' provides an introduction to the French sociologists thought and an evaluation of the international signif...

Is our understanding of social capital consistent with development interventions and the digital world? Social Capital: Evolution, Contestation, Ap...

Acting as a follow up to Volume 41 of Studies in Symbolic Interaction (2013), Symbolic Interaction and Inequality explores further the concept of R...

In a present marked by planetary crisis, a radical rethinking of aesthetics is necessary. This inspirational collection proposes a new way of think...

We live in a tumbleweed society, where job insecurity is rampant and widely seen as inevitable. Companies are transforming the way they organize wo...

'The Anthem Companion to Georg Simmel' brings together new interpretations of the work of this sociologist and philosopher. The companion highlight...

Ungrateful. An accusation that will be instantly familiar to non-white people throughout majority-white states, levelled by everyone from online tr...

The Anthem Companion to Robert Park comes to terms with Robert Parks legacy. This companion focuses largely on the work rather than the man, a majo...

For most of the twentieth century, Auguste Comte, a controversial but highly influential nineteenth-century figure, and his vast treatises on posit...

The Anthem Companion to Everett Hughes is a comprehensive and updated critical discussion of Hughess contribution to sociology and his current lega...

The Anthem Companion to Gabriel Tarde offers the best contemporary work on Gabriel Tarde, written by the best scholars currently working in this fi...

The Companion is a collection of articles covering noted German sociologist Ferdinand Tönnies' full range of thinking. Topics include Tönnies and t...

Eminently readable, and anybody who cares about the future of American democracy in these perilous times can only hope that it will be widely read ...

Leading migration researcher Louise Ryans topical and intersectional book provides rich insights into migrants social networks. It draws on more t...