Social Theory

Drawing on Polanyi, Austin and Lacan, Marie Pellegrin-Rescia and Yair Levi offer a powerful critique of the language and categories of thought that...

Freedom is commonly recognized as the struggle for basic liberties, societies based upon open dialogue, human rights and democracy. The idea of fre...

Undoubtedly Romantic love has come to saturate our culture and is often considered to be a, or even the, major existential goal of our lives, capab...

This book considers the lessons learnt so far from the emergence of the Internet and the development of the field of Internet studies, whilst also ...

Focusing on two concepts that were central to modernism and continue to be important, albeit in different ways, this book explores the nature of th...

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the major theoretical perspectives in contemporary sociology, covering schools of thought or intellect...

In Rhythmanalysis, Henri Lefebvre put forward his ideas on the relationship between time and space, particularly how rhythms characterize space. He...

Is violent conflict inevitable? What is it in our social nature that makes us conduct wars, genocides and persecutions? The answer lies in how we a...

Critical Theory and Social Transformation provides an exploration of the major themes in critical social theory of recent years. Delanty argues tha...

Anthropological Explorations in Queer Theory offers a wide ranging fusion of queer theory with anthropological theory, shifting away from the discu...

In recent years the body has become one of the most popular areas of study in the arts, social sciences and humanities. Transgressive Bodies offer...

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...