Social Theory

The COVID-19 pandemic, Black Lives Matter movement and renewed action against climate change all highlight the increasing gulf between narrowly bas...

A trenchant defense of hierarchy in different spheres of our lives, from the personal to the politicalAll complex and large-scale societies are org...

This book opens with an identification of the characteristics that define contemporary social movements, including: a blurring and overlapping of t...

Understanding Society: A Survey of Modern Social Theory, second edition, introduces the major streams of contemporary social theory and traces thei...

Siegfried Kracauer was one of the foremost representatives of the Frankfurt School of critical theory, and his influence is felt in the work of man...

This is a book about who we are today, and how we have become who we are. It is about the engineers of the modern soul, the entrepreneurial self. I...

European thought is often said to be a gift to the rest of the world, but what if there is no gift as such? What if there is only an economy whe...

The contemporary world has reached a pivotal moment of escalating injustices and apocalyptic risks, but also of unprecedented opportunities. Mounti...

The contemporary world has reached a pivotal moment of escalating injustices and apocalyptic risks, but also of unprecedented opportunities. Mounti...

In a world beset with problems, how can we encourage people to act differently? It seems almost daily that new studies emerge telling us how human ...

Drawing on evolutionary epistemology, process ontology, and a social-cognition approach, this book suggests cognitive evolution, an evolutionary-co...

Shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize Bias affects us all, every day of our lives. It shapes how we see each other, and how we are ...

A companion volume to core texts targeting introductory social statistics courses, The Statistics Coach: Learning Through Practice helps students b...

With numerous examples to supplement her rich theoretical discussion, Nel Noddings builds a compelling philosophical argument for an ethics based o...

Individuality and collectivity are central concepts in sociological inquiry. Incorporating cultural history, social theory, urban and economic soci...