Social Theory

In a world where more people know who Princess Di was than who their own senators are, where Graceland draws more visitors per year than the White ...

What are the processes and mechanisms involved in interpersonal behavior, and how are these constrained by human biology, social structure, and cul...

Representing the culmination of more than a decade of empirical research in post-Mao China, this collection of essays explores changes in the natur...

Technology as Human Social Tradition outlines a novel approach to studying variability and cumulative change in human technology prominent research...

What is the difference between right and wrong? What does it mean to lead a good life? How binding is the marriage vow? What are your obligations t...

This ambitious, interdisciplinary collection responds to present intellectual debates concerning the value and limits of privacy. Ever since the be...

Jeremy Bentham, the founder of utilitarianism, made a powerful impact on several major areas of thought and policy: ethics, jurisprudence, politica...

Technology as Human Social Tradition outlines a novel approach to studying variability and cumulative change in human technology prominent research...

Ignited by the infamous shooting of Amadou Diallo, unarmed and innocent, at the hands of New York City police officers, journalist Jill Nelson was ...

Inner-city black America is often stereotyped as a place of random violence, but in fact, violence in the inner city is regulated through an inform...

The late 1960s are remembered today as the last time wholesale social upheaval shook Europe and the United States. College students during that tum...

Against Essentialism presents a sociological theory of culture. This interdisciplinary and foundational work deals with basic issues common to curr...

Undisciplined is an odyssey into possibility. Challenging us to break free from limiting strictures and structures, it encourages readers to envisi...

The datafication of our world offers huge challenges and opportunities for social science. The ‘data-drivenness’ of computational research can occu...

The datafication of our world offers huge challenges and opportunities for social science. The ‘data-drivenness’ of computational research can occu...

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Comparative practices are integral to global security politics. The balance of power pol...

Max Weber's sociological theories of secularization have vastly influenced the study of Protestant belief. "Protestant Modernity" offers a multifac...

The first two decades of the new millennium brought with it a chain of crises and reaction headlined by the plane-bombing of New York's Trade Cente...

The landscape of social theory has changed significantly over the three decades since the publication of Anthony Giddens and Jonathan Turner’s semi...

Architecture is a constant presence in the study of human interaction—acting as both the ground on which human social behavior is performed and a m...

In this new study, Andrew Abbott presents a fresh and daring analysis of the evolution and development of the social sciences. "Chaos of Discipline...

In this new study, Andrew Abbott presents a fresh and daring analysis of the evolution and development of the social sciences. "Chaos of Discipline...

Durkheim is one of the founding fathers of modern sociology and a key figure in the development of social theory. And yet today his work is often m...

Critical social theory has long been marked by a deep, creative, and productive relationship with psychoanalysis. Whereas Freud and Fromm were impo...

Durkheim is one of the founding fathers of modern sociology and a key figure in the development of social theory. And yet today his work is often m...

Since the linguistic turn in Frankfurt School critical theory during the 1970s, philosophical concerns have become increasingly important to its ov...

Cultural Theory: An Introduction is a concise, accessible introduction to a complex field. Philip Smith provides a balanced, wide-ranging overview ...