Social Theory

How have our emotions shaped the course of human history? And how have our experience and understan...

A classic book that analyzes and defines media appeals specific to American pro-fascist and anti-Semite agitators of the 1940s, such as the applica...

Anomie, strain and subcultural theories are among the leading theories of crime. Anomie theories state that crime results from the failure of soc...

In this seminal book, Krumer-Nevo introduces the Poverty-Aware Paradigm: a radical new framework for social workers and professionals working with ...

A sweeping, farsighted study of the changing nature of public culture and urban society, The Fall of Public Man spans more than two centuries of We...

Should a citizens right to social welfare be contingent on their personal behaviour? Welfare conditionality, linking citizens eligibility for soci...

Problems confronting the financial-industrial system, or the ills of the casino economy, have never been more urgent than they are today. This is b...

The fourth edition of Gender and Elections offers a systematic, lively, multi-faceted account of the role of gender in the electoral process throug...

What does collectivism mean in social policy? What does thinking collectively imply for policy? In this book, well-respected author Paul Spicker...

The development of happiness as an explicit theme in social research and policy worldwide has been rapid and remarkable, posing fundamental questio...

An Introduction to Sociology is your essential guide to understanding the social forces that shape our lives and the world around us. This innov...

What does political agency mean for those who don't know what to do or can't be bothered to do it? This book develops a novel account of collecti...

Will Storr is one of our best journalists of ideas The Status Game might be his best yet James Marriott, Books of the Year, The Times ...

Shortlisted for the 2021 Royal Society Science Book Prize Unconscious bias: persistent prejudiced behaviour that clashes with our consciously held...

In this incisive account, leading scholar of Islamophobia Deepa Kumar traces the history of anti-Muslim racism from the early modern era to the War...

From unemployment to Brexit to climate change, capitalism is in trouble and ill-prepared to cope with the challenges of the coming decades. How did...

Although Tijuana has historically been one of the primary crossing points between Mexico and the United States for undocumented migrants, represent...

The grounded theory method is founded on a view of analysis whereby the research and potential hypotheses are not articulated at the outset; rather...

We are becoming less intelligent. This is the shocking yet fascinating message of At Our Wits'' End. The authors take us on a journey through the g...

A guide to the thinkers and the ideas that will shape the futureWhat happened to the public intellectuals that used to challenge and inform us? Who...

The crisis of global capitalism that has unfolded since 2008 is more than an economic crisis. It is structural and multidimensional. The sequence o...