Social Theory

In public debates, communication campaigns and public policies, it is increasingly common to attribute to consumers and their agency an ability to ...

In several branches of social science, interest in values and moral evaluations has increased in recent years, with group values taking centre-stag...

Are we as a species headed towards extinction? As our economic system renders our planet increasingly inhospitable to human life, powerful individu...

Originally published in 1988, The Rhythms of Society reflects the time-obsessed age we lived in when it was written. The contributors, drawn from a...

Jrgen Habermas has come to be viewed as the unofficial philosopher laureate of the European Union. But why have his contributions to contemporary p...

This book systematically addresses Bourdieus key ideas and concepts in the context of Marxist thought. In this book, Bourdieus central theoretical ...

Regimes of Capital in the Post-Digital Age provides a view of the current state of capitalism, through the interrogation of key diagnoses offered b...

In the light of intense international focus on ongoing forms of world poverty, this book examines the potential of the concept of recognition in co...

In a hyper-individualistic age and in the face of the narrowly focused, policy-oriented research ubiquitous in the social sciences, this book revis...

Corporate Totalitarianism reflects on the changing nature of economic, political, and social power in the global context and the ways in which this...

Drawing upon a wide variety of authors, approaches, and ideological contexts, this book offers a comprehensive and detailed critique of the distinc...

This book enquires from a sociological perspective into contemporary corporeal transformations brought about by exoskeletal devices.Challenging mat...

This book enquires from a sociological perspective into contemporary corporeal transformations brought about by exoskeletal devices.Challenging mat...

This book revolves around epistolary narratives of women political theorists and activists, following traces of Hannah Arendts philosophical approa...

This book revolves around epistolary narratives of women political theorists and activists, following traces of Hannah Arendts philosophical approa...

This book provides an original and compelling analysis of registration as a dynamic process which makes and unmakes legal identities.Critical legal...

Over the past thirty years, humanity has made a huge mistake. We handed over to big tech decisions that have allowed them to build what has become ...

Over the past thirty years, humanity has made a huge mistake. We handed over to big tech decisions that have allowed them to build what has become ...

Social Healing draws on a transdisciplinary approachbringing sociology, philosophy, psychology, and spirituality togetherto understand health, soci...

Producing, buying, selling, inventing, destroying, caring, imagining, failing with their everyday practices, people bring about what we call the e...

This volume explores a variety of harmful cultural practices: a term increasingly employed by organizations working within a human rights framework...