Social Theory

A core interest of social science is the study of stratification--inequalities in income, power, and prestige. Few persons would care about such in...

The eminent scholar Lewis R. Gordon offers a probing meditation on freedom, justice, and decolonization. What is there to be understood and done wh...

This volume explores the issues at the center of many historical and contemporary reflections on community and sociality in Continental philosophy....

This book offers a re-examination of art production in terms that understand the process of learning as the production of art itself. Drawing on th...

A core interest of social science is the study of stratification--inequalities in income, power, and prestige. Few persons would care about such in...

Prior to the 1960s, when African Americans had little access to formal political power, black popular culture was commonly seen as a means of forgi...

This book examines the nature of the conflict between right-wing populism and multiculturalism: the West’s defining conflict in the modern age. Dra...

Tang provides a coherent and systematic exploration of social evolution as a phenomenon and as a paradigm. He critically builds on existing discuss...

This collection of focused essays is directed at several levels of students of social problems. It is accessible to the uninitiated, who are not fa...

Theory and Practise in Sociology provide's students with a comprehensive, clear and accessible introduction to the main methods of research and the...

This volume of essays is dedicated to George Soros in honor of his seventieth birthday. The authors come from the different but intersecting worlds...

Institutions are fundamental aspects for driving tourism and hospitality globally. They are the socio-economic "rules of the game" that serve to sh...

This is a book about the tensions between Christian ideals of love and the concrete realities of everyday monastic life. Based on a study of Cister...

The book Profiles of Anthropological Praxis is something of a sequel to Anthropological Praxis: Translating Knowledge into Action, published in 1...

The Routledge International Handbook of Interactionism demonstrates the promise and diversity of the interactionist perspective in social science t...

This book provides an overview and analysis of the thought of figures across the human and social sciences on the character, causes, and consequenc...

Bringing together new research by leading scholars, this volume rethinks the role played by militaries in politics. It introduces new theories of...

This book is devoted to the reintroduction of the remarkable approach to sociological inquiry developed by Harvey Sacks. Sacks’s original analyses ...

Anthropologists have long explained social behaviour as if people always do what they think is best. But what if most of these explanations only ...

This book considers the current striking rise of ‘outsider’ political leaders, catapulted, apparently, from nowhere, to take charge of a nation. Ar...

This book presents a polemical account of the historical development of the neoliberal imagination. Inspired by the thought of Frederic Jameson, Be...

This book presents a comprehensive account of the socio-political thought of prominent modern Indian thinkers. It offers a clear understanding of t...

How do urban ruins provoke their cultural revaluation? This book offers a unique sociological analysis about the social agencies of material cultur...

In this ground-breaking new text, Patrick Baert analyses the central perspectives in the philosophy of social science, critically investigating the...

Through an analysis of hundreds of Hollywood movies, this book examines some of the most contentious social issues of our time, including racism, s...

When Theodor W. Adorno returned to Germany from his exile in the United States, he was appointed as a lecturer and researcher at the University of ...

From 2016-2018, teachers and students at the State University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil found themselves at the center of a crisis. A new right-w...

Why, Timothy Melley asks, have paranoia and conspiracy theory become such prominent features of postwar American culture? In Empire of Conspiracy, ...

This book presents a comprehensive account of the socio-political thought of prominent modern Indian thinkers. It offers a clear understanding of t...

This book explores the innovative, sociological approach adopted by Harriet Martineau in her efforts to develop a ‘scientific’ approach to understa...

This book explores death in contemporary society – or more precisely, in the ‘spectacular age’ – by moving beyond classic studies of death that emp...

In a society that aims above all to safeguard life, how might we reckon with ethical responsibility when we are complicit in sacrificial economies ...

Adopting a critical realist approach to morality, this book considers morality as an aspect of social reality, enquiring into the nature of moral a...

This book offers a re-examination of art production in terms that understand the process of learning as the production of art itself. Drawing on th...