Social Theory

First published in 1978, Studying Society is a stimulating introductory text in sociology and social studies. It discusses socially relevant themes...

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003146698, has been made available under a Creative Com...

Christian Democracy swept across parts of Latin America, gaining influence in Venezuela in the 1940s, Chile in the 1950s, El Salvador and Guatemala...

A comprehensive study of the Progressive movement, Reinventing "The People"contends that the persistence of class conflict in America challenged th...

Spanning over nine hundred years, Eight Women Philosophers is the first singly-authored work to trace the themes of standard philosophical theorizi...

Theory and Practise in Sociology provide's students with a comprehensive, clear and accessible introduction to the main methods of research and the...

First published in 1989, this Routledge Revival is a major collection of essays on the competing traditions of social and political theory. The con...

This book argues that critical realism offers the theory of cognitive rationality a real way of overcoming the limitations of methodological indivi...

Play is a foundational concept that animates life, work, creativity and organization; and while play is essential, it also dislodges the very meani...

The complete collected works of Georg Simmel are now available. Yet, the standing of Simmel’s sociological theory is still a subject of controversy...

This major theoretical work takes existing work on the emotions in significantly new directions. It gives a comprehensive account of emotions, begi...

This major theoretical work takes existing work on the emotions in significantly new directions. It gives a comprehensive account of emotions, begi...

Fusing two key concerns of contemporary sociology: globalization and its discontents, and the 'complexity turn' in social theory, authors Chesters ...

Andrew Collier is the boldest defender of objectivity - in science, knowledge, thought, action, politics, morality and religion. In this tribute an...

There has been, over the last decades, a deep crisis in the models which, for a long time, have been central metaphors governing thought and resear...

Memory is at the center of a diverse array of political conflicts, moral disputes, and power dynamics. This book illustrates how scholars use diff...

'My dears: this is but a brief note to welcome you to the new world, where you are now no longer all too far away from us. ‘ So begins Adorno’s let...

Social Theory and Health Education brings together health education scholarship with a diverse range of social theories to demonstrate the value an...

Media are fundamental to our sense of living in a social world. Since the beginning of modernity, media have transformed the scale on which we ac...

Few of us, amidst our daily chores and responsibilities, consider how mundane infrastructures—from electrical grids to sewage systems—have develope...

Social Theory and the Political Imaginary: Practice, Critique, and History is an innovative work of synthesis, critique and analysis. It presages a...

This book, first published in 1976, discusses four classical paradigms for sociology – the positivism of Saint-Simon and Comte, Durkheim, Marx and ...

This book asks how a more liberating economics could be constructed and taught. It suggests that if economists today are serious about emancipation...

Over the past several decades, Italian revolutionary politics has offered a model for new forms of political thinking. Radical Thought in Italy con...

An innovative collaborative research project conducted jointly at Durham University and the Istitut für deutsche Sprache in Mannheim, Germany. It...

This book investigates the phenomenon of science communication events, as spectacles for legitimising and communicating science to the public. With...

Black Scholars on the Line: Race, Social Science, and American Thought in the Twentieth Century explores the development of American social science...

Through analyses of three eventful years in Nazi Germany’s history – the Kristallnacht pogrom, the invasion of Poland and the invasion of Soviet Ru...

This book aims to recast the way that philosophers understand rhetoric. Rather than follow most philosophers in conceiving rhetoric as a specific w...

This book offers a new perspective on the issue of modernity through a series of interconnected essays. Drawing centrally on the works of Castoriad...

What is it like to work as a classical musician today? How can we explain ongoing gender, racial, and class inequalities in the classical music pro...

This book attempts to explore the effects of neoliberalism on particular forms of community. Guy Standing (2011) has popularised the notion of prec...

Few of us, amidst our daily chores and responsibilities, consider how mundane infrastructures—from electrical grids to sewage systems—have develope...

This book explores the dynamics of the "middle-class global rebellion" born of the frustration at declining living standards. Addressing narratives...