Social Theory

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...

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...