Social Theory

Introducing the founders of sociological theory from Marx, Weber, Durkheim and Martineau through to Simmel, DuBois, Mead and others this accessib...

In one hundred lean and incisive statements, Douglas Rushkoff argues that we are essentially social creatures and that we achieve our greatest aspi...

Understanding Digital Societies provides a framework for understanding our changing, technologically shaped society and how sociology can help us m...

The SAGE Handbook of Global Sociology addresses the social, its various expressions globally, and the ways in which such understandings enable us t...

Ways of Being in the World is an anthology of the Indigenous philosophical thought of communities across Turtle Island, offering readings on a vari...

Drawing on never before used archival materials, Replacing the Dead exposes the history of Soviet and Russian abortion policy. It is not unusual f...

We are living in algorithmic times. From machine learning and artificial intelligence to blockchain or simpler newsfeed filtering, automated syst...

What do we mean by the word social? In The Centrality of Sociality, scholars respond to themes of The Concept of the Social in Uniting the Social S...

What do we mean by the word social? In The Centrality of Sociality, scholars respond to themes of The Concept of the Social in Uniting the Social S...

In The Culture Trap, Derron Wallace argues that the overreliance on culture to explain Black students' achievement and behavior in schools is a tra...

Written by leading social scientists working in and across a variety of analytic traditions, this ambitious, insightful volume explores interpretat...

Semiotics provides key analytical tools to understand the creation and reproduction of meaning in social life. Although some fields have productive...

When all that was solid melted into air... For decades, intellectuals from Benjamin to Bourdieu, Berman to Foucault, have been in thrall to this vi...

Catastrophic Diplomacy offers a sweeping history of US foreign disaster assistance, highlighting its centrality to twentieth-century US foreign rel...

Immigration is one of the most polarizing issues in contemporary politics. It raises questions about identity, economic well-being, the legitimacy ...

Study after study has shown that Scandinavia is the most trusting region in the world. Danes in particular trust other people and organizationsincl...

Political and economic models of society often operate at a level of abstraction so high that the connections between them, and their links to cult...

Modern social thought is largely the intellectual product of a number of great minds. Revisiting the central theories of Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Sim...

This book presents the results of Heide Goettner-Abendroths pioneering research in the field of modern matriarchal studies, based on a new definiti...

Marxism and Phenomenology: The Dialectical Horizons of Critique, edited by Bryan Smyth and Richard Westerman, offers new perspectives on the possib...

The Penn School of Social Policy and Practice enjoys a reputation as Penn's social justice school, for its faculty actively strives to translate th...

This second edition of Climate Change and Public Health comprehensively covers the health impacts of climate change, including heat-related and res...

There is an ideological war of words waging in America, one that speaks to a new fundamentalism rising not just within the American public, but acr...