Social Theory

This title was first published in 2001. An investigation of the new wave of militant political activity emerging across Europe. The book examines t...

This book examines how identities are formed and expressed in political, social and cultural contexts across South Asia. It is a comprehensive inte...

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

Can heterotopia help us make sense of globalisation? Against simplistic visions that the world is becoming one, Heterotopia and Globalisation in th...

This book presents a clear and precise account of the structure and content of Max Weber's sociology of law: situating its methodological and epist...

Throughout history mankind has struggled to reconcile itself with the inescapability of its own mortality. This book explores the themes of immorta...

Originally published in 1999 Social Theory and Psychoanalysis in Transition is a benchmark critique of Freudian theory in which a dialogue between ...

This title was first published in 2000. Rethinking Prejudice offers the first philosophical monograph on the concept of prejudice. It takes its sta...

Challenging the classical conception of Goffmans sociology, this book offers a new interpretation based on a comprehensive examination of previous ...

The concept of society sui generis society as a level of reality which could be studied scientifically crystallized in the middle of the nineteen...

At the start of the twentieth century, when Germany, among other nations, was undergoing industrialization, Max Weber famously characterized modern...

This book provides an illuminating perspective on alcohol use, drawing on approaches from both anthropological research and historical sociology to...

Genealogies of Emotions, Intimacies and Desire excavates epistemologies which attempt to explain changes in emotional regimes from medieval society...

This book examines the role of collective violence in the achievement of solidarity, shedding light on the difficulty faced by sociology in theoriz...

This book offers a critical analysis of consumer credit markets and the growth of outstanding debt, presenting in-depth interview material to explo...

Drawing on the thought of Max Weber, in particular his theory of stratification, this book engages with the question of whether the digital divide ...

In modern times, death is understood to have undergone a transformation not unlike religion. Whereas in the past it was out in the open, it now res...

The current discourse of globalization is overwhelmingly centred upon the interconnectedness, or connectivity, of the contemporary world; to the gr...

Gabriel Tarde was a highly influential figure in 19th century French sociology: a prolific and evocative writer whose understanding of the social d...

This book analyses the ability of individuals to create meaning through communicative interaction and of what seems to constrain and enable actors ...

Guilt is the dark force behind haunting anxiety, obsessive-compulsive behaviour, life meaninglessness, and depression a force to be kept in check....

Title first published in 2003. This timely and original book is the most comprehensive and authoritative analysis of Russia's risk society to date....

This book examines the meaning of Brexit, the election of Trump and the rising tide of populist revolt on the right amidst the collapse of the left...

New materialism challenges the mechanistic models characteristic of early modern philosophy that regarded matter as largely passive and inert. Inst...

What does Lyotard's thought offer contemporary theory? By focusing on key concepts and themes from his later texts, such as affect, aesthetics, And...

The Social Thought of Talcott Parsons offers an insightful new reading of the work of Talcott Parsons, keeping in view at once the important influe...

This title was first published in 2001: For over 30 years it has been argued that contemporary society is undergoing a fundamental transformation. ...

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.routledge.com/9781472482587, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-No...

The Brexit vote; the election of Trump; the upsurge of European nationalism; the devolution of the Arab Spring; global violence; Chinese expansioni...

This book examines the processes through which public art museums, as modern Western institutions, were introduced to Japan in the late nineteenth ...

Emerging over the past ten years from a set of post-structuralist theoretical lineages, non-representational theories are having a major impact wit...

This volume focuses on three closely-connected aspects of Ãmile Durkheim's work: his sociology of justice, his sociology of morality and his politi...

Queer Methods and Methodologies provides the first systematic consideration of the implications of a queer perspective in the pursuit of social sci...

In an era where new areas of life and new problems call for normative solutions while the plurality of values in society challenge the very basis f...

Informed by the thought of Pierre Bourdieu and framed by the philosophy of harm reduction, Habitus and Drug Using Environments provides a sociologi...

First published in 1997, this volume is concerned primarily, though not exclusively, with one particular vulnerable group: unqualified young men on...

Sociologists Ãmile Durkheim, Erving Goffman and Randall Collins broadly suppose that ritual is foundational for social life. By contrast, this book...

Women who migrate into domestic labour and care work are the single largest female occupational group migrating globally at present. Their particip...

What is online risk? How can we best protect children from it? Who should be responsible for this protection? Is all protection good? Can Internet ...

Drawing together philosophical, empirical and academic thinking, this book focuses on generating awareness of the relationship forged between self ...

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

While highly respected among evolutionary scholars, the sociologist, anthropologist and philosopher Edward Westermarck is now largely forgotten in ...

Facing censorship and being confined to the fringes of the political debate of his time, Thomas Hobbes turned his attention to translating Homers I...

Originally published in 2003, Critical Visions develops a wide-ranging analysis of key issues and debates in contemporary social theory. Drawing so...

This book offers a novel sociological examination of the historical trajectories of Burundi and Rwanda. It challenges both the Eurocentric assumpti...

Neoliberalism has been one of the most hotly contested themes in academic and political debate over the last 30 years. Given the global and persist...

Common views of religion typically focus on the beliefs and meanings derived from revealed scriptures, ideas, and doctrines. David Morgan has led t...

This book offers a sociological analysis of globalised capitalist markets, advancing the notion of disembedded markets to challenge the idea of soc...