Social Theory

The Routledge International Handbook of Simmel Studies documents the richness, variety, and creativity of contemporary international research on Ge...

This volume unfolds the ebbs and flows of Muslim thought in different regions of the world, as well as the struggles between the different intellec...

This book introduces an events-based approach to understanding digital experience. Focusing on the event-ontologies of Bergson and Whitehead’s proc...

This lively and controversial collection of essays sets out to theorize and practice a ‘materialist-feminist’ criticism of literature and culture. ...

Feminist criticism has come a long way in the last twenty years. Its development has been rapid, its snowball progress picking up elements of struc...

Married to the Job examines an important but under-researched area: the relationships of wives to their husbands’ work. Janet Finch looks both at t...

This a collection of essays about women, by women, which examine the production of femininity within a patriarchal society. The essays show that ch...

Designed for students of social policy and women’s studies, this text gives a readable account of the wide range of feminist ideas about women and ...

Soldiers and Students (1975) adopts an original approach to the confrontation of deprived and possessing parties under conditions of scarcity. With...

Labouring Children (1980) is a study of child immigrants, based on numerous original sources, and presents new views on childhood, social work and ...

Originally published in 1973, this book examines the difficulties which sociologists have in providing useful scientific definitions of terms like ...

Productivity and Amenity (1974) considers social responsibility in business and the balance between the social requirements for enhancing productiv...

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

Subordination presents a survey of some of the most important ideas developed within feminism since the 1970s. Among the central themes addressed a...

Matriliny and Modernity (1996) explores the situation both past and present of women living in the matrilineal society of Negeri Sembilan in a rapi...

Originally published in 1974, this book evaluates and compares three important styles of sociological research: positivism, symbolic interactionism...

'This magnificent book is the best recent treatment we have of the great Black Radical Tradition' - Cornel West Of Black Study explores how the id...

Dissatisfaction with the present can cause people to gaze nostalgically back to an idealized past; that nostalgia pervades contemporary rhetoric. I...

First Published in 1975 Blackmail: Publicity and Secrecy in Everyday Life examines why blackmail is often taken more seriously than murder and why ...

Are marriages made in heaven? In reality many people need a little help in the arrangement of such matters, whether from Jewish shadkhans (matchmak...

Originally published in 1971 and now reissued with a new Preface by John Offer this book examines the historical origins, (both institutional and a...

This volume is a collection of essays by Richard Wolin, a leading political theorist and intellectual historian. It is the follow up to Wolin’s two...