Social Theory

Research skills are as critical to social work practitioners as skills in individual and group counselling, policy analysis, and community developm...

What Work Means goes beyond the stereotypes and captures the diverse ways Americans view work as a part of a good life. Dispelling the notion of Am...

What Work Means goes beyond the stereotypes and captures the diverse ways Americans view work as a part of a good life. Dispelling the notion of Am...

Mit diesem Buch wird eine Neuübersetzung der vor 50 Jahren erschienenen, richtungsweisenden Biografie von Karl Marx vorgelegt. Isaiah Berlins Biogr...

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

This volume puts ambiguity and its generative power at the centre of analytical attention. Rather than being cast negatively as a source of confusi...

Intersectionality is a term coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989. Crenshaw, a scholar of law, critical race theory, and Black feminist legal theory,...

'A celebration of human idiosyncrasy and of our talent for building shared meaning and solidarity out of the strangest material' TLSFans takes the...

'A celebration of human idiosyncrasy and of our talent for building shared meaning and solidarity out of the strangest material' TLSFans takes the...

World-leading political economist Maja Göpel shows us how we can set the course for the future in times of upheaval, and why this concerns us all. ...

For centuries, the trickster has been used in various narratives, including mythological, literary and cinematic, to convey the idea of agency, reb...

The complete collected works of Georg Simmel are now available. Yet, the standing of Simmels sociological theory is still a subject of controversy....

Are children the passive recipients of influence from their parents and from society? Is their development determined by their genes and their neur...

The book starts by discussing the significance of walking for the experience of being human, including a comparative study of the language and cult...

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...