Social Theory

Over the past several decades, Italian revolutionary politics has offered a model for new forms of political thinking. Radical Thought in Italy con...

An innovative collaborative research project conducted jointly at Durham University and the Istitut für deutsche Sprache in Mannheim, Germany. It...

This book investigates the phenomenon of science communication events, as spectacles for legitimising and communicating science to the public. With...

Black Scholars on the Line: Race, Social Science, and American Thought in the Twentieth Century explores the development of American social science...

Through analyses of three eventful years in Nazi Germany’s history – the Kristallnacht pogrom, the invasion of Poland and the invasion of Soviet Ru...

This book aims to recast the way that philosophers understand rhetoric. Rather than follow most philosophers in conceiving rhetoric as a specific w...

This book offers a new perspective on the issue of modernity through a series of interconnected essays. Drawing centrally on the works of Castoriad...

What is it like to work as a classical musician today? How can we explain ongoing gender, racial, and class inequalities in the classical music pro...

This book attempts to explore the effects of neoliberalism on particular forms of community. Guy Standing (2011) has popularised the notion of prec...

Few of us, amidst our daily chores and responsibilities, consider how mundane infrastructures—from electrical grids to sewage systems—have develope...

This book explores the dynamics of the "middle-class global rebellion" born of the frustration at declining living standards. Addressing narratives...

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...