Social Theory

Kaj Ilmonen was a pioneer in the third wave of the sociology of consumption. This book provides a balanced overview of the sociology of consumption...

This collection explores why powerful knowledge matters for social justice and discusses its implications for curriculum and pedagogy. The contribu...

Are reports of the 'death of deviance' premature? This collection brings together leading international scholars to analyse uses of the 'deviance' ...

All behaviours, indeed all forms of agency, are viewed as emotionally-driven. This book provides an approach to emotional experience and agency whi...

Ali Zaidi discloses a largely unnoticed dialogue between Muslim and Western social thought on the search for meaning and transcendence in the human...

What does it mean to talk about everyday racism, and why should we do so? Racism and Everyday Life brings together the sociologies of racism and ev...

This book provides the first English-language account of the history of Danish sociology, examining it from the late 19th century to the present da...

**AN ECONOMIST AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR**'Essential and definitive' CATHERINE BELTON, author of PUTIN'S PEOPLEWe are in a new era.From Trump,...

Powerfully persuasive and thought-provoking, Ending the Pursuit asks us to reimagine sexuality, romance and gender without the borders imposed by s...

Witch hunts are the result of gendered, cultural and socioeconomic struggles over acute structural, economic and social transformations in both the...

Can a human society suffer from illness like a living thing? And if so, how does such a malaise manifest itself? In this thought-provoking book, Fr...

Examining modern Muslim identity constructions, the authors introduce a novel analytical framework to Islamic Studies, drawing on theories of succe...

Examining modern Muslim identity constructions, the authors introduce a novel analytical framework to Islamic Studies, drawing on theories of succe...

In June 2016, more than 17 million people voted for Britain to leave the European Union. The fallout of this momentous referendum has been tumultuo...

The future has become a problem for the present. Almost every critical issue is now understood and experienced through the prism of the future sinc...

Although evangelicals and environmentalists at large still find themselves on opposing sides of an increasingly contentious issue, there is a count...

The authors are proud sponsors of the 2020 SAGE Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Awardenabling graduate students and early career faculty to at...

This handbook is the first to bring together the latest theory and research on critical approaches to social psychological challenges. Edited by a ...

This volume outlines Max Webers comparative-historical sociology of interpretive understanding (verstehen) in a manner that clarifies his complex m...