Social Theory

The book explores the stakes for the social sciences around four central problems: the challenges of context; modes of intervention; involvement; a...

The book explores the stakes for the social sciences around four central problems: the challenges of context; modes of intervention; involvement; a...

This book explores how narratives have been and can be used to facilitate radical transformations towards a more sustainable future.Scholars from v...

In The Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet, Gerald Roche sheds light on a global crisis of linguistic diversity that will see at least half of...

In The Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet, Gerald Roche sheds light on a global crisis of linguistic diversity that will see at least half of...

This book explains how the Columbia model of sociology, which was based on the methodology of P.F. Lazarsfeld, became a dominant sociological schoo...

This Palgrave Handbook showcases how the phenomenological approach, especially but not only as developed by Alfred Schutz, can make important contr...

In recent years, the relevance of religious freedom has spread well beyond academia, becoming a reference point for international relations, multi-...

TATE BOOK OF THE MONTH 2023A timely critique of consumer culture which captures this image-obsessed moment in history, perfect for fans of Zadie Sm...

This book takes a Marxist perspective to explore the dynamics of space. By employing dialectical materialist logic, it explains how a heterogeneous...

Attention is fundamental to how we experience reality, and yet this notion has been understood and practised in very different ways across history....

Thinking Systematics (TSS) is conceived as a toolkit for the mind  designed to improve how we think about the world, analyze information and pursue...

Herbert Marcuse (18981979) was a member of the Frankfurt School, a leading figure of 1960s counterculture, and a fundamental character for the New ...

Examining the wide-ranging implications of Ruskin's engagement with his contemporaries and followers, this collection is organized around three rel...

This ground-breaking volume is a follow-up to Intellectuals and Their Publics. In contrast to the earlier book, which was mainly concerned with the...

Twenty first century, flexible capitalism creates new demands for those who work to acknowledge that all aspects of their lives have come to be see...

In todays individualized, culturally diverse and globalized society, many sociologists have concluded that the conceptualizations developed by clas...

In recent years, the social sciences have taken a mobilities turn. There has been a developing realisation that mobilities do not just happen. Mobi...

While higher education is still far from universal in the United States, it plays an increasingly large role in shaping our collective understandin...

While higher education is still far from universal in the United States, it plays an increasingly large role in shaping our collective understandin...

This book offers a collection of 15 reflective biographical accounts of teachers, scientists, a childhood author, a philosopher, a dancer and other...

The core idea shared by all cosmopolitan views is that all human beings belong to a single community and the ultimate units of moral concern are in...

How do we, as human beings, come to understand ourselves and others around us? This question could not be more timely or pertinent to the issues fa...

Starting from the idea that economic relations are social relations, and every economic fact is first a social fact, this book explores one of the ...

In Constituent Power, Violence, and the State, Dimitri Vouros examines the question of political violence by placing the thought of Georges Sorel, ...

This book delves into the concept and definition of social movements from different perspectives with relevance to India. It offers critical insigh...

The Proactionary Imperative debates the concept of transforming human nature, including such thorny topics as humanity's privilege as a species, ou...

This book delves into the concept and definition of social movements from different perspectives with relevance to India. It offers critical insigh...

Originally published in 1924, Development of Social Theory was written to expand on an outline of the subject in order to turn it into a years cour...

The fourth edition of Criminology: The Basics has been fully revised and updated to offer an engaging and concise introduction to the main themes a...

The fourth edition of Criminology: The Basics has been fully revised and updated to offer an engaging and concise introduction to the main themes a...

This book offers an explorative analysis of the intersections between Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault that challenges the prevailing notion of in...

This book honors the diverse and path-breaking work of Michael Adler, a pioneer of socio-legal scholarship in the UK. The book brings together an i...

First published in 1977, Puritan, Paranoid, Remissive investigates the process of the transformation of Western society in the twentieth century. T...