Social Theory

The woman's place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it is ancient, and it is deepThe revolutionary writings of ...

The concept of a megamachine - a closed system operating to a pre-established utilitarian purpose which results in the machinization of humanity h...

Why acknowledging diverse eco-social relationships can help us overcome the political polarization that undermines our ability to protect the envir...

An exploration of cuteness and its immense hold on us, from emojis and fluffy puppies to its more uncanny, subversive expressionsCuteness has taken...

This book uses Norbert Eliass theory of the civilisational process to provide a sociological and historical study of Portuguese bullfighting. Its a...

For more than 40 years, researchers have explored the utility of Bourdieus sociology for settings beyond the French and Algerian contexts of its or...

This short critical introduction to Pierre Bourdieus thought has been comprehensively brought up to date for the third edition. Where Bourdieus own...

This short critical introduction to Pierre Bourdieus thought has been comprehensively brought up to date for the third edition. Where Bourdieus own...

Drawings are everywhere. Daubed on ancient cave walls and projected on screens. Drawings helps us describe science, depict emotions and discover. Y...

This book offers fresh perspectives on the history of biopolitics and the connection between this and the technology of sovereign power, which disr...

Considering Space demonstrates what has changed in the perception of space within the social sciences and how useful indeed indispensable this ca...

When speaking colloquially of political participation or civic action, one thinks, in the first instance, of groups and organizations such as polit...

The first wide-ranging, organic analysis of the sociology of unmarkedness and taken-for-grantedness, this volume investigates the asymmetry between...

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

This book stages a provocative dialogue between social work, health and social care and contemporary philosophy in order to inform theory and pract...

This book provides a philosophical analysis of the notion of selfhood that underlies identity politics. It offers a unique theory of the self that ...

This handbook presents a systematic and comprehensive overview of economic sociology, an exemplary interdisciplinary field which draws on theoretic...

This book analyses the multifaceted ways law operates in the context of human mobility, as well as the ways in which human mobility affects law.Mig...

Through a wide range of international and interdisciplinary case studies, this book develops the notion of legacy, and in particular, living legacy...

This handbook provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive review of the literature on inequality. It provides comprehensive overviews of the mai...

Postcolonial theory has mostly been confined to literary studies and the humanities, but it has been slowly making its way into social science. Thi...

Social structure is arguably the central concept of sociology, and in recent years a much wider public has taken up with fresh vigor the sociologic...

Oppression and resistance dialectically envelop everyday life, for both the privileged and the oppressed. The disenfranchised live under regimes in...

In this new volume of Studies in Symbolic Interaction Carl J. Couchs (1925-1994) memoir The Romance of Discovery, which has lain unpublished for th...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormons), often heralded as the fastest growing religion in American history, is facing a c...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormons), often heralded as the fastest growing religion in American history, is facing a c...

It is often claimed that the disjunction or opposition between action theories and structural theories rests on a misunderstanding of what social s...