Social Theory

In the social sciences today, students are taught theory by reading and analyzing the works of Karl Marx, Max Weber, and other foundational figures...

In this groundbreaking study of post-conflict Sierra Leone, Lyn Graybill examines the ways in which both religion and local tradition supported res...

This festschrift celebrates the accomplishments of renowned social scientist Irving Louis Horowitz as he turned sixty-five. Since Horowitz's views ...

This handbook sets out an innovative approach to the theory of law, reconceptualising it in a material, embodied, socially contextualised and polit...

In Retail and Social Change Steven Miles, presents a cross-disciplinary analysis of the evolution of retail and how in both its material and virtua...

The social scientific study of social movements remains largely shaped by categories, concepts and debates that emerged in North Atlantic societies...

Michel Foucault was one of the twentieth centurys most influential thinkers whose work has unsettled and transformed the field of social philosophy...

One of the country's most influential public intellectuals asks: What if the roots of the culture war lie not in the culture itself, but laws and r...

Five mysterious billionaires summoned Douglas Rushkoff to a desert resort for a private talk. The subject? How to survive the Event: the societal c...

This volume contains many of the most important texts in western political and social thought from the sixteenth to the end of the nineteenth centu...

This book offers a wide-ranging yet concise introduction to the many philosophical issues surrounding food production and consumption. It begins wi...

Through mapping the rights discourse and the transformations in transnational finance capitalism since the world wars, and interrogating the connec...

Establishes methodologies for the linkages between colonialism, postcoloniality and forced migration; Draws from a broad selection of case studies ...

Over the past fifty years, debates concerning race and college admissions have focused primarily on the policy of affirmative action at elite insti...

A Deadly Wind is a deeply researched historical account of the most powerful non-tropical windstorm to ever strike the West Coast: The Columbus Day...

This volume, originally published in 1889 with this edition published in 1912, contains Carpenter's famous essays on civilisation and his theory th...

The Routledge Handbook of Sport, Gender and Sexuality brings together important new work from 68 leading international scholars that, collectively,...

T. E. Lawrence once observed that Saudi Arabia had so little art that it could be said to have no art at all.  Whether that was once the case is ar...

Mainstream notions of the American Dream usually revolve around the ownership of private property, a house of ones own. Yet for the past 400 years,...

South Africa is a rapidly urbanising society. Over 60% of the population lives in urban areas and this will rise to more than 70% by 2030. However,...

The French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu had a broader theoretical agenda than is generally acknowledged. Introducing this innovative collection of e...

The growing urgency, complexity and wickedness of sustainability problemsfrom climate change and biodiversity loss to ecosystem degradation and per...