Social Theory

Women who migrate into domestic labour and care work are the single largest female occupational group migrating globally at present. Their particip...

What is online risk? How can we best protect children from it? Who should be responsible for this protection? Is all protection good? Can Internet ...

Drawing together philosophical, empirical and academic thinking, this book focuses on generating awareness of the relationship forged between self ...

This book explores the concept of the stranger as a modern social form, identifying the differing conceptions of strangerhood presented in the lite...

While highly respected among evolutionary scholars, the sociologist, anthropologist and philosopher Edward Westermarck is now largely forgotten in ...

Facing censorship and being confined to the fringes of the political debate of his time, Thomas Hobbes turned his attention to translating Homers I...

Originally published in 2003, Critical Visions develops a wide-ranging analysis of key issues and debates in contemporary social theory. Drawing so...

This book offers a novel sociological examination of the historical trajectories of Burundi and Rwanda. It challenges both the Eurocentric assumpti...

Neoliberalism has been one of the most hotly contested themes in academic and political debate over the last 30 years. Given the global and persist...

Common views of religion typically focus on the beliefs and meanings derived from revealed scriptures, ideas, and doctrines. David Morgan has led t...

This book offers a sociological analysis of globalised capitalist markets, advancing the notion of disembedded markets to challenge the idea of soc...

When hurricanes, earthquakes, wildfires, and other disasters strike, we count our losses, search for causes, commiserate with victims, and initiate...

Drawing on Actor-Network Theory (ANT) and its sibling notion of assemblage, this book offers a conceptual and methodological alternative to dominan...

This book outlines key developments in understanding social harm by setting out its historical foundations and the discussions which have prolifera...

Love and depression are key elements in the cultural script of emotions or affectual life within contemporary Western society, and the two have bec...

Far from being the preserve of a few elite thinkers, critique increasingly dominates public life in modernity, leading to a cacophony of accusation...

This book applies Thorstein Veblens cultural theory to a qualitative study of the charro cowboy culture and community in Mexico. Drawing on Veblens...

Inequality is one of the most discussed topics of our times. Yet, we still do not know how to tackle the issue effectively. The book argues that th...

How is the process of globalization effecting changes in the structure of knowledge in sociology? This path-breaking volume looks at the human dime...

Taking a broad view of social theory, this book demonstrates the importance of this theory for the study of contemporary law. Through studies of th...

Amidst the soot, stink and splendour of Victorian London, a coterie of citizen-sociologists set out to break up the British Empire. They were the f...

Feminist scholarship is sometimes dismissed as not quite proper knowledge its too political or subjective, many argue. But what are the boundaries...

First published in 1997, this study is an attempt to read and critique answers to that question, answers offered in policy and provision, and answe...

This title was first published in 2003.This book offers a challenging new approach to social theory, building on the concept of life-modes. Thomas ...