Social Theory

Jamaican Migrant (1965) is the honest and moving recollection of a Jamaican cabinet-maker who emigrated to a new life in Britain. This is the book ...

This book examines the role of collective violence in the achievement of solidarity, shedding light on the difficulty faced by sociology in theoriz...

Critical Theories and the Budapest School brings together new perspectives on the Budapest School in the context of contemporary developments in cr...

The monograph The Paradigm of Social Interaction presents a paradigmatic synthesis in sociology. This is a reaction to the growing paradigmatic div...

The benefits of modern technology often involve health, safety and environmental risks that produce public suspicion of technologies and aversion t...

Seki presents an ethnography of uncertainty and precarity experienced by people in urban, rural, and transnational, communities in the Philippines ...

Volume 53 of Studies in Symbolic Interaction is divided into three parts, providing contemporary readings of social situations. Part 1 includes thr...

Advertising and Cultural Politics in Global Times traces daringly transgressive convergences between cultural politics and global advertising media...

Pierre Bourdieu was one of the most influential social thinkers of the past half-century, known for both his theoretical and methodological contrib...

Bringing together authors from two intellectual traditions that have, so far, generally developed independently of one another – critical theory an...

This volume presents a broad range of studies on a variety of emotions from social scientific perspectives. Bringing together scholars from discipl...

Examining the core sociological theories that have emerged in the first two decades of the current century, A Critical Introduction to Contemporary...

Examining the core sociological theories that have emerged in the first two decades of the current century, A Critical Introduction to Contemporary...

People who are “on the move,” particularly migrants and the displaced, often inhabit places that are considered temporary, peripheral, and remote...

Hermeneutics is a major theoretical and practical form of intellectual enquiry, central not only to philosophy but many other disciplines in the hu...

Central to the idea of a perfect society is the idea that communities must be strong and bound together with shared ideologies. However, while this...

Point of Arrival (1975) examines the experiences of the various immigrant groups – the Huguenots, Irish, Jews, Pakistanis – who have made their hom...

This book extends debates in the field of biographical research, arguing that causal explanations are not at odds with biographical research and th...

Cultural Conflict and Adaptation (1990) examines the alienation and cultural conflicts faced at school by the children of a small group of Hmong wh...

Foundations of Social Theory: A Critical Introduction accessibly introduces students to classical and contemporary social theory, exploring the fou...

Respecifying Lab Ethnography delivers the first ethnomethodological study of current experimental physics in action, describing the disciplinary or...

More extensive methodology is required to study the complexities of everyday life in the rapidly expanding urban areas around the globe, as well as...

The Poetics of Crime provides an invitation to reconsider and reimagine how criminological knowledge may be creatively and poetically constructed, ...

Colonial Immigrants in a British City (1979) analyses the relationship between West Indian and Asian immigrants and the class structure of a Britis...

Libertarians often bill their theory as an alternative to both the traditional Left and Right. The Routledge Handbook of Libertarianism helps reade...

Constructive Conflicts explains how large-scale conflicts—such as clashes between different ideological, religious, ethnic, and racial groups; civi...

Social Theory provides a sophisticated yet highly accessible introduction to classical and contemporary social theories. The author’s concise prese...

Having taken over the leadership of the French school of sociology after the death of his uncle, Emile Durkheim, in 1917, Mauss, celebrated autho...

This book systematically addresses Bourdieu’s key ideas and concepts in the context of Marxist thought. In this book, Bourdieu’s central theoretica...

Sharing Words may be an example of a new way of writing about educational theory and practice, one that results in a captivating and enjoyable expe...

With essays by today’s leading leftist social critics, Identity Trumps Socialism presents a rigorous and persuasive primer on the problems generate...

With essays by today’s leading leftist social critics, Identity Trumps Socialism presents a rigorous and persuasive primer on the problems generate...

The history of European economic thought has long been written by those seeking to prove or disprove the truth-value of the theories they describe....

The prevailing view among social scientists is that the psyche and the social reside in such disparate domains that their proper study demands mark...

This book, first published in 1987, is a landmark contribution to macrosociology that extends the tradition of Sorokin, Durkheim, Marx, Weber and o...