Social Theory

Examining the core sociological theories that have emerged in the first two decades of the current century, A Critical Introduction to Contemporary...

People who are “on the move,” particularly migrants and the displaced, often inhabit places that are considered temporary, peripheral, and remote...

Hermeneutics is a major theoretical and practical form of intellectual enquiry, central not only to philosophy but many other disciplines in the hu...

Central to the idea of a perfect society is the idea that communities must be strong and bound together with shared ideologies. However, while this...

Point of Arrival (1975) examines the experiences of the various immigrant groups – the Huguenots, Irish, Jews, Pakistanis – who have made their hom...

This book extends debates in the field of biographical research, arguing that causal explanations are not at odds with biographical research and th...

Cultural Conflict and Adaptation (1990) examines the alienation and cultural conflicts faced at school by the children of a small group of Hmong wh...

Foundations of Social Theory: A Critical Introduction accessibly introduces students to classical and contemporary social theory, exploring the fou...

Respecifying Lab Ethnography delivers the first ethnomethodological study of current experimental physics in action, describing the disciplinary or...

More extensive methodology is required to study the complexities of everyday life in the rapidly expanding urban areas around the globe, as well as...

The Poetics of Crime provides an invitation to reconsider and reimagine how criminological knowledge may be creatively and poetically constructed, ...

Colonial Immigrants in a British City (1979) analyses the relationship between West Indian and Asian immigrants and the class structure of a Britis...

Libertarians often bill their theory as an alternative to both the traditional Left and Right. The Routledge Handbook of Libertarianism helps reade...

Constructive Conflicts explains how large-scale conflicts—such as clashes between different ideological, religious, ethnic, and racial groups; civi...

Social Theory provides a sophisticated yet highly accessible introduction to classical and contemporary social theories. The author’s concise prese...

Having taken over the leadership of the French school of sociology after the death of his uncle, Emile Durkheim, in 1917, Mauss, celebrated autho...

This book systematically addresses Bourdieu’s key ideas and concepts in the context of Marxist thought. In this book, Bourdieu’s central theoretica...

Sharing Words may be an example of a new way of writing about educational theory and practice, one that results in a captivating and enjoyable expe...

With essays by today’s leading leftist social critics, Identity Trumps Socialism presents a rigorous and persuasive primer on the problems generate...

With essays by today’s leading leftist social critics, Identity Trumps Socialism presents a rigorous and persuasive primer on the problems generate...

The history of European economic thought has long been written by those seeking to prove or disprove the truth-value of the theories they describe....

The prevailing view among social scientists is that the psyche and the social reside in such disparate domains that their proper study demands mark...

This book, first published in 1987, is a landmark contribution to macrosociology that extends the tradition of Sorokin, Durkheim, Marx, Weber and o...

When groups feature in political philosophy, it is usually in one of three contexts: the redressing of past or current injustices suffered by ethni...

This volume provides a fascinating perspective on the social sciences through its examination of the leading proponents, their ideas and careers. I...

Marxism is not just a Euro-American preoccupation. It has had vibrant articulations around the world, particularly in Latin America, Africa, the Ca...

This book assesses the value and relevance of the literature on complex systems to policy-making, contributing to both social theory and policy ana...

This book examines the 2008 global economic crisis as a complex social phenomenon or "social hieroglyphic", arguing that the crisis is not fundamen...

The contrast between man’s amazing ability to manipulate his world and his pitiful incompetence in managing his own affairs is now as commonplace a...

The programmes of political parties and movements are attempts to formulate policies or guidelines in relation to social change. Social philosophy ...

The dynamics of trust and distrust are central to understanding modern society, social relations, and development processes. However, numerous stud...

Living at the dawn of a digital twenty-first century, people living in Western societies spend an increasing amount of time interacting with a term...

In this detailed investigation of ‘masculine’ gendered identity, first published in 1990, David Jackson uses his own personal history to look at th...

This is an exhilarating book, written by one of sociology’s most imaginative theorists and critics. Professor Corrigan proceeds by turning old answ...

Crossing Cultural Borders (1991) examines the day-to-day interaction of immigrant children with adults, siblings and peers in the home, school and ...

This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of the social practice of taste in the wake of Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology of taste. For the first t...

Karaoke. The word conjures all kinds of visions_possible stardom, abject performance terror, or just head-shaking bewilderment. Ten years ago when ...

The topics covered in this book are directly related to much of the misunderstanding of what sociology is about. It is usual nowadays to label as s...

Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big Topics In a world that is constantly changing, understanding the world has never been more important....

This book shows how Max Weber’s perceptions of the social and political world he inhabited in Wilhelmine Germany were characterized by a nationalis...

Social Theory provides a sophisticated yet highly accessible introduction to classical and contemporary social theories. The author’s concise prese...

Animals and Society uses a variety of historical sources and a coherent social theory to tell the story of the invention of animal rights. It moves...

Plural Masculinities offers a contemporary portrait of the plural dynamics and forms of masculinity, emphasizing the multiple, even contradictory, ...

From Society to System presents sociologist Michel Freitag’s (1935-2009) distinctive, multifaceted and interdisciplinary work. Elaborated within th...

The Philosophy of Social Science Reader is an outstanding, comprehensive and up-to-date collection of key readings in the philosophy of social scie...

The annual Conferences on Value Inquiry bring together philosophers, scientists and humanists to discuss the many facets of the problem of value in...

Metatheory for the 21st Century is one of the many exciting results of over four years of in-depth engagement between two communities of scholar-pr...