Social Theory

Don Ross provides a concise and distinct introduction to the philosophy of economics for students in need of a short but engaging study of the main...

Don Ross provides a concise and distinct introduction to the philosophy of economics for students in need of a short but engaging study of the main...

Understanding Institutions proposes a new unified theory of social institutions that combines the best insights of philosophers and social scientis...

Published in 1918, The View of Life is Georg Simmel's final work. Famously deemed the brightest man in Europe by George Santayana, Simmel addressed...

The concept of transhumanism emerged in the middle of the 20th century, and has influenced discussions around AI, braincomputer interfaces, genetic...

Thug Criminology combines the urgent and as yet silenced voices of former gang/street-involved peoples turned academics, alongside their allies, in...

Why are human beings so attracted to information and communication technologies? Developments in this field have formed new social networks around ...

Winner of the 2022 Gradiva® Award for Best Edited Book!This book argues that the notion of wild analysis, a term coined by Freud to denote the use ...

The Male Body in Digital Culture explores different ways that the male body has been represented by, constructed in, and experienced through digita...

Social movements and popular struggle are a central part of today's world, but often neglected or misunderstood by media commentary as well as expe...

At its core this book is intellectual history, tracing the work of progressive historians as they in turn wrote the history of progressivism. In Pr...

In the last several decades, there has been a surge of interest in expertise in the social scientific, philosophical, and legal literatures. While ...

The first book to fully explore the multiple ways in which body work features in health and social care and the meanings of this work both for thos...

In the 1980s and 1990s, neoliberal forms of governance largely dominated Latin American political and social life. Neoliberalism, Interrupted exami...

Concern with authority is as old as human history itself. Eve's sin was to challenge the authority of God by disobeying his rule. Frank Furedi expl...

This book examines the different conceptions of the individual that have emerged in recent new approaches in economics, including behavioral econom...

What Morality Means examines the scientific theory of morality, drawing on zoological and physiological literatures in addition to contemporary soc...

A provocative sociological account of human relations with non-human animals, providing an innovative theorization of the social relations of speci...

John Dewey (18591952) was a major figure of the American cultural and intellectual landscape in the first half of the twentieth century. While not ...

This ambitious two-volume handbook of social theory consists of forty original contributions. The researchers take stock of the state of social the...

One of the worlds preeminent cultural anthropologists leaves a last work that fundamentally reconfigures how we study most other culturesFrom the p...