Social Theory

*Shortlisted for the JQ Wingate Literary Prize, 2017* 'Belonging' is both a fundamental human emotion and a political project that affects millio...

*Shortlisted for the JQ Wingate Literary Prize, 2017* 'Belonging' is both a fundamental human emotion and a political project that affects millio...

What happened to the public intellectuals that used to challenge and inform us? Who is the Sartre or De Beauvoir of the internet age? General Intel...

If you wanted to build a machine that would distribute propaganda to millions of people, distract them from important issues, energize hatred and b...

Sociological Theory in the Contemporary Era, Third Edition is a text/reader that introduces students to the ideas and writings of key twentieth and...

Value is seldom discussed in its own right, though it is of utmost importance to our relations with media texts and cultural objects, as we constan...

Bringing together the author's major scholarly work on Weber over the last thirty years, Max Weber's Comparative-Historical Sociology Today address...

This comprehensive and authoritative statement of fundamental principles of sociological analysis integrates approaches that are often seen as mutu...

In this thought-provoking and engaging book, Mike Michael brings us a powerful overview of Actor-Network Theory. Covering a breadth of topics, Mich...

Grounded Theory is by far the most widely used research method across a wide range of disciplines and subject areas, including social sciences, nur...

A powerful treatise that demonstrates the existence of altruism in nature, with surprising implications for human society Does altruism exist? Or i...

The Disunity of American Culture describes culture now, when different forces are influencing it than in the past, altering it to near incomprehens...

Do we really know how words actually refer to things, how they describe the world? These questions are not limited to the study of language. They q...

It's not enough to have great ideas. You also need to know how to communicate them.What makes someone charismatic? Why do some people captivate a r...

What if our financial system were organized to the benefit of the many rather than simply empowering the few? Robert Hockett and Fred Block argue t...