Social Theory

What defines the social practices we currently call norms? They make theft forbidden, eating with a fork advisable, and paintings beautiful. Norms ...

In the past four or so decades, a significant amount of research efforts has been made to examine the rapid and constant social changes in China. H...

An insightful examination of how intersecting individual motivations and social structures mobilize spontaneous mass protests. Between 15 and 26 mi...

This book is about tax and social policy and how they interact with each other. The impact of taxation as an instrument of social policy is centr...

This book is about tax and social policy and how they interact with each other. The impact of taxation as an instrument of social policy is centr...

'Regimes of Happiness' is a comparative and historical analysis of how human societies have articulated and enacted distinctive notions of human fu...

Given the rapid pace at which the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and other Asian economies are growing and the global volatility that thes...

How many sexes are there? What is the relationship between sex and gender? Is gender a product of nature, or nurture, or both? In Beyond the Binary...

Winner of the Spitz Prize, Conference for the Study of Political ThoughtWinner of the North American Society for Social Philosophy Book AwardWhy do...

There has been a long history of idealism concerning the potential of economic and political developments in Africa, the latest iteration of which ...

Earning an income in our time often involves ownership of or control over creative assets. Employing the law and philosophy of economics, this illu...

In this compelling new study, Whitney Cox presents a fundamental re-imagining of the politics of pre-modern India through the reinterpretation of t...

ePDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. How can public services and social interventions create and sustain good outcomes f...

'Timely, laser-sharp and unsettling... A must read' - Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk RoadsWe are in a new era.Authoritarian leaders have becom...

Why do authoritarian regimes survive? How do dictators fail? What role do political institutions play in these two processes? Many of the answers t...

The SAGE Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory expounds the development of critical theory from its founding thinkers to its contemporary fo...

Why are humans so different from each other and what makes the human species so different from all other living organisms? This introductory book p...

In this accomplished, sophisticated and up-to-date account of the state of critical social theory today, Craig Browne explores the key concepts in ...

In the Third Edition of Ken Allans highly-praised Contemporary Social and Sociological Theory book, sociological theories and theorists are explore...

Cosmopolitanism: Uses of the Idea offers an illuminating and dynamic account of an often confusing and widespread concept. Bringing together both h...

This volume analyses the ways in which the works of one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, Michel Foucault, have been r...

This book persuasively argues the case that ethnography must be viewed as a full theoretical system, rather than just as a research method. Blommae...