Social Theory

In today’s individualized, culturally diverse and globalized society, many sociologists have concluded that the conceptualizations developed by cla...

To paraphrase Marx, sociologists have only interpreted science; the point is to improve it. The Rational and the Social attempts both. It begins by...

This book, originally published in 1940, is primarily intended to tell the English reader what is contained in the earlier works of Marx, with emph...

The growth and health of the social sciences owe a good deal to the generally held belief that they are socially useful, but is this really so? Do ...

Racial Theories in Social Science: A Systemic Racism Critique provides a critique of the white racial framing and lack of systemic-racism analysis ...

Feminist social scientists often find that carrying feminism into practice in their research is neither easy nor straightforward. Designed precisel...

These original essays are planned to provide a coherent basis for an understanding of women’s social and historical situation. This achieved by out...

Drawing on the thought of Durkheim, this volume focuses on societal changes at the symbolic level to develop a new conceptualisation of the emergen...

A leading literary critic and psychoanalyst, Julia Kristeva is one of the most significant French thinkers writing today. In this up-to-date survey...

Globalization and Technocapitalism considers the global reach of a new capitalist era, exploring the nature of 'technocapitalism' as grounded in ne...

Contending that everyday sociability and social networks are central elements to an understanding of urban poverty, Opportunities and Deprivation i...

Pierre Bourdieu has been an extraordinarily influential figure in the sociology of music. For over four decades, his concepts have helped to genera...

Social Change and Social Work discusses and examines how social work is challenged by social, political and economic tendencies going on in current...

Making Culture, Changing Society proposes a challenging new account of the relations between culture and society focused on how particular forms of...

This book analyzes the World Social Forum (WSF) in a context of crisis and transition in the history of Western capitalist modernity. Based on ten ...

Although Marx’s concept of ideology has been a subject of considerable discussion, much of the debate has proved to be rather disappointing. There ...

One reader has called this study, first published in 1984, ‘easily the best book on the relation of Hegel to Marx’. With spirited argument, MacGreg...

This account of Talcott Parsons’s work clarifies his basic concepts and sets out their correlation. Dr Menzies believes that the philosophy of scie...

This book, first published in 1986, examines the activities and beliefs of right-wing Conservatives and overt Fascists in inter-war Britain. It ana...

This book, first published in 1991, demonstrates that Marx is the legitimate founder of what was to become the critical theory of society. It argue...

Marx’s written output was massive. Much of it remained unpublished in his own lifetime and there is still no complete edition of the extant works, ...

Materialist Feminism and the Politics of Discourse confronts the impasses in materialist feminist work on rethinking ‘woman’ as a discursively cons...

The ‘minority’ feminist viewpoints have often been submerged in the interests of maintaining a mainstream, universal model of feminism. This anthol...

Multiple killings by serial or spree killers and the mass violence seen in war crimes and other atrocities have typically been understood as discre...