Social Theory

In his latest book, scholar-historian Murray G. Murphey exhaustively explores the life and theory of Thorstein Veblen (18571929), whom, many schola...

Beyond Description brings anthropologists and other social scientists together to examine the problem of explanation. What is an explanation? What ...

Written in response to the Hawks Nest Tunnel disaster of 1931 in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, The Book of the Dead is an important part of West Vi...

American Examples: New Conversations about Religion, Volume Three, is the third in a series of annual anthologies produced by the American Examples...

The topic of adolescent development in Europe is one which has received little academic attention in recent years. Developmental Tasks in Adolescen...

Navigating through classical Chinese fiction, Shakespearean characters, the arts, consumer society, psychoanalysis, evolutionary theories, interact...

This book explores the contemporary relevance of Charles H. Cooleys thought, bringing together scholars from the US, Europe and Australia to reflec...

This volume, from an international and interdisciplinary cohort of scholars, offers independent-minded essays about central Greek texts and about t...

Despite noteworthy exceptions, nursings literature largely disregards the ways in which social and sociological theory permeates, guides and shapes...

Social theorists speculate about large-scale social questions, asking of any phenomenon, how is it possible? This book addresses how various social...

Authored by the world-renowned sociologist, Dr. Irving Zeitlin, Classical Sociological Theory is an abridged version of the popular textbook, Ideol...

This comprehensive text highlights new developments in sociological, educational and psychological aspects of socialisation, examining how human be...

This book offers a political anthropological discussion of subversion, exploring its imbrication with technological and divinization practices, and...

The early 20th-century Russo-Polish legal thinker Leon Petraycki (18671931) developed a comprehensive social psychology of law. Because only a frac...

This book explores the concept of the stranger as a modern social form, identifying the differing conceptions of strangerhood presented in the lite...

This book examines the nature of unmasking in social theory, in revolutionary movements and in popular culture. Unmasking is not the same as scient...

How is scientific knowledge of social life possible? If there are social sciences, must they employ methods different from those of the natural sci...

Again, Dangerous Visions: Essays in Cultural Materialism brings together twenty-six essays charting the development of Andrew Milner's distinctivel...

In Acquiring Modernity, Paul B. Paolucci, updating classical theory, examines the nature of modern society. Investigated from a sociological perspe...

In Migration, Reproduction and Society, Alejandro I. Canales offers a theoretical model for understanding the dilemmas presented by migration in th...

Between the years 1964 and 1974, Ethiopian post-secondary students studying at home, in Europe, and in North America produced a number of journals....

As many can attest, the prevalence of sexual imagery has increased in modern society over the past half century. In this timely new study, Kenneth ...

Drawing on a range of theoretical perspectives and engaging with new empirical evidence from around the world, this collection examines how privile...