Social Theory

This is an exciting addition to the dynamic, multidisciplinary field of membership categorization analysis. Bringing together the biggest names in ...

This book is distinctive for extending the usual sociological reach, reopening territory that has lain fallow, set aside from the well-ploughed fie...

This is an exciting addition to the dynamic, multidisciplinary field of membership categorization analysis. Bringing together the biggest names in ...

Cosmopolitanism: Uses of the Idea offers an illuminating and dynamic account of an often confusing and widespread concept. Bringing together both h...

In Theoretical Times, Steve Redhead describes the post-crash economic, environmental, political and cultural condition we live in today. As the ris...

This social theory text combines the structure of a print reader with the ability to tailor the course via an extensive interactive website. Readin...

Beginning classical social theory introduces students and educated general readers to thirteen key social theorists by way of examining a single, e...

Like a lot of Americans, Steve Almond spent the weeks after the 2016 election lying awake, in a state of dread and bewilderment. The problem wasnt ...

Latinx (pronounced La-teen-ex) is the gender-neutral term that covers the largest racial minority in the United States, and the poorest but fastest...

A trenchant defense of hierarchy in different spheres of our lives, from the personal to the politicalAll complex and large-scale societies are org...

Presenting a ground-breaking revitalization of contemporary social theory, this book revisits the rise of the modern world to reopen the dialogue b...

Postmodern Geographies stands as the cardinal broadcast and defence of theory's spatial turn. From the suppression of space in modern social scienc...

Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was one of the most revolutionary technological visionaries of the 20th century. As an architect, engineer, entrepre...

History of the Future presents a set of ideas about where we are in history. It focuses on the great majority of people in each society, and shows ...

How did we become so divided and what do we do about it? ''Analytically incisive yet infectiously optimistic, ...

How did we become so divided and what do we do about it? ''Analytically incisive yet infectiously optimistic, ...

In this short book Peter Sloterdijk offers a genealogy of the concept of freedom from Ancient Greece to the present day. This genealogy is part of ...

Given the increasing centrality of identity to contemporary politics, James Skelly''s book provides a critical and useful analysis of the dominant ...

Winner of the Urban History Association's 2005 Best Book in Non-North American Urban History Award. In traditional Chinese cities, a lively stree...