Social Theory

Seafarer & Community (1973) examines life on shipboard and how the communities which rely on the sea for their livelihood exist. The main theme...

A must-read that reshapes how we think about the social underpinnings of our financial choices. In Irrational Together, economic sociologist Adam S...

Of all species, human beings are uniquely capable of coordinating on long-term, large-scale cooperative projects with unfamiliar and genetically un...

In many Asian societies, the process of modernization often took place in a rapid and highly compressed fashion – not over centuries, as had happen...

This book presents the case that there are forms of human interaction which should be understood as properly second-person plural. It engages with ...

The Rise and Fall of Citizenship brings together many of Turner’s publications on the topic of citizenship and includes three new chapters reflecti...

This volume seeks to restore Vilfredo Pareto to his rightful place in the history of social and economic thought, bringing together studies by lead...

In many Asian societies, the process of modernization often took place in a rapid and highly compressed fashion – not over centuries, as had happen...

Men at Work (1974) examines the effects of various environmental factors on the efficiency and well-being of men at work. It looks at how physical ...

Based on Ethnographic research in England, Doubting Ghosts explores the paradoxes faced by paranormal investigators or ‘ghost hunters’: in spite of...

Over the course of more than seventy years, symbolic interactionism as a resourceful and conceptually rich perspective has generated variegated lin...

Dialogue interpreting is a generic term covering a diverse range of fields of interpreting which have in common the basic feature of face-to-face i...

Competition and competitiveness are roundly celebrated as public values and key indicators of a dynamic and forward-thinking society. But the headl...

Shattering the Illusion is the first book to gather and comparatively analyze policies addressing child sexual abuse complaints in a selection of ...

In Liberal White Supremacy, Angie Beeman argues that white supremacy is maintained not only by right-wing conservatives or stereotypically uneducat...

This book reconsiders Habermas’s critique of capitalism as a foundation for a critical theory of neoliberalism. Taking criticisms into account, the...

In Liberal White Supremacy, Angie Beeman argues that white supremacy is maintained not only by right-wing conservatives or stereotypically uneducat...

Advocates of rational choice theory in political science have been perceived by their critics as attempting to establish an intellectual hegemony i...

Youth homelessness increased rapidly during the late 1980s and early 1990s, at a time when street homelessness in particular became increasingly as...

Economics as a Social Science is a highly readable critique of economic theory, based on a wide range of research, that endeavors to restore econom...