Social Theory

This book analyzes the sociobiology debate and details a number of contested issues that have emerged. These issues focus on the interpretations an...

A vivid depiction of the lives of a Scottish fur trader and his far-flung family on both sides of the Atlantic

In Economies of Abandonment, Elizabeth A. Povinelli explores how late liberal imaginaries of tense, eventfulness, and ethical substance make the gl...

Today, cosmopolitanism can be identified with ideas, practices and representations that are among our most important resources as we grapple with t...

What induces groups to commit political suicide? This book explores the decisions to surrender power and to legitimate this surrender: collective a...

Influenced by Thomas Kuhn's work on paradigm shifts in the social sciences, this overview of contemporary theory identifies major themes, charts th...

This book by one of Latin America’s leading cultural theorists examines the place of the subject and the role of biographical and autobiographical ...

A Stanford University Press classic.

What induces groups to commit political suicide? This book explores the decisions to surrender power and to legitimate this surrender: collective a...

This ambitious, interdisciplinary collection responds to present intellectual debates concerning the value and limits of privacy. Ever since the be...

A Stanford University Press classic.

This book by one of Latin America’s leading cultural theorists examines the place of the subject and the role of biographical and autobiographical ...

In a world of vertiginous inequality, escalating ecological disaster, and extraordinary political and economic turbulence generated by a winner-tak...

The Western cultural consensus based on the ideas of free markets and individualism has led many social scientists to consider poverty as a persona...

Raise any number of public issues—health care, education, welfare—and religious beliefs inevitably shape Americans' viewpoints. On certain topics t...

Shortly before his death, Zygmunt Bauman spent several days in conversation with the Swiss journalist Peter Haffner. Out of these conversations eme...

In a world where more people know who Princess Di was than who their own senators are, where Graceland draws more visitors per year than the White ...

What are the processes and mechanisms involved in interpersonal behavior, and how are these constrained by human biology, social structure, and cul...

Representing the culmination of more than a decade of empirical research in post-Mao China, this collection of essays explores changes in the natur...

Technology as Human Social Tradition outlines a novel approach to studying variability and cumulative change in human technology prominent research...

What is the difference between right and wrong? What does it mean to lead a good life? How binding is the marriage vow? What are your obligations t...