Social theory

It is often thought that the development of capitalism and the modernization of culture have brought about a profound decline of religious belief and commitment.

This a collection of essays about women, by women, which examine the production of femininity within a patriarchal society.

This book discusses the connotation and function of social governance and elaborates on social governance thought in classical Marxism, Mao Zedong's social governance thought, and social governance thought in socialism with Chinese characteristics, especially in Xi Jinping's New Era.

The authors examine the relationship between social science and philosophy and ask what sort of work social science and an accompanying philosophy should do.

This book argues that the breaking and re-making of frames of analysis underlie the history of theorizing in anthropology.

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

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the field of the Sociology of Emotions, incorporating sociological, feminist and cultural perspectives.

Philosophers and social scientists share a common goal: to explore fundamental truths about ourselves and the nature of the world in which we live.

The manuscript discusses the early days of communication research, explicitly the first works of Paul Lazarsfeld's radio and media research in Vienna, Newark, NJ, Princeton and New York during the years between the early 1930s, and the end of the 1940s.

Bringing together the work of scholars from across Europe, this book shows how Simmel's categories can be used to explore contemporary issues and further shed light on trends characteristic of global modernity.

Cultural Conflict and Adaptation (1990) examines the alienation and cultural conflicts faced at school by the children of a small group of Hmong who have settled in La Playa, California.

Change is inevitable, we are told.

What has become known as the Frankfurt School is often reduced to a small number of theorists in media communication and cultural studies.

This book offers a new and fresh approach to understanding social movements.

Very diverse societies pose real problems for Rawlsian models of public reason.

The work of Michel Foucault, one of the most influential of modern French social theorists and philosophers, has had a dramatic and far-reaching effect on many disciplines.

This book offers a new approach for theorising and undertaking childhood research.

This cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary analysis looks ahead to the direction which urban studies is likely to take during the twenty-first century.

From climate change to fossil fuel dependency, from the uneven effects of natural disasters to the loss of biodiversity: complex socio-environmental problems indicate the urgency for cross-disciplinary research into the ways in which the social, the natural and the technological are ever more entangled.

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.

Increasingly, we hear of 'smart' cities, communities, governance and people as constituting the basis of initiatives by which we might address various social and environmental problems, particularly those connected with sustainability, usually by means of an 'intelligent' connection with the 'network society'.

This controversial book shows that there is more to economics than dry models and esoteric equations.

Humanism is appealed to today whenever we want to tackle the conditions of dehumanization in the contemporary world.

The concept of transhumanism emerged in the middle of the 20th century, and has influenced discussions around AI, brain-computer interfaces, genetic technologies and life extension.

Winner of the 2016 Book Award from the American Society of Criminology, Division of Critical Criminology.

Nearly half a century after his death, Ernesto ';Che' Guevara remains a compelling and controversial figure.

This book analyses everyday encounters with rudeness and asks what can be done to improve civic life in a world of strangers.

There is expanding global interest in the relationship between the psychological and the social.

Originating in the popular Sociologia en Cuarantena blog, this volume provides a detailed and multifaceted analysis of the social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain.

Research collaboration in the form of networks, projects and centers has become one of the dominant modes of engaging in research, especially funded research, across all academic domains.

Setting the context for the upheavals and transformations of contemporary China, this text provides a re-assessment of Max Weber's celebrated sociology of China.

It is no secret that twentieth-century Britain was governed through a culture of secrecy, and secrecy was particularly endemic in military research and defence policy surrounding biological and chemical warfare.

Contemporary Western European Feminism is a ground-breaking history of feminism.

Focused on the German-speaking parts of the former Habsburg Empire, and on present-day Austria in particular, this book offers a series of highly innovative analyses of the interplay of nationalism s discursive and institutional facets.

This college-level handbook offers a comprehensive and accessible overview of sociological and cultural perspectives on the human body.

Hegemony: A Realist Analysis is a new and original approach to this important concept.

Critically exploring the ways in which men and masculinities are commonly theorized, this multidisciplinary text opens up a discussion around such relationships, and shows that, as with feminisms, there is a diversity of theoretical traditions.

David Harvey is among the most influential Marxist thinkers of the last half century.

The liberal use of the sedition law in recent years, mainly by state governments intolerant of dissenting opinion, has provoked justified controversy.

Video games are becoming culturally dominant.

Gender and Cosmopolitanism in Europe combines a feminist critique of contemporary and prominent approaches to cosmopolitanism with an in-depth analysis of historical cosmopolitanism and the manner in which gendered symbolic boundaries of national political communities in two European countries are drawn.

Die Beiträge des Bandes analysieren unter internationaler Perspektive transdisziplinär aktuelle Prekarisierungstendenzen in verschiedenen Ländern.

Bringing together theory and public health practice, this interdisciplinary collection analyses three forms of nonconventional or radical sexualities: bareback sex, BDSM practices, and public sex.

Elementary Forms of Social Relations introduces the reader to social life as a perpetual quest by individuals to gain attention, respect and regard (status) accompanied by an effort to marshal defensive and offensive means (power) to overcome the reluctance of others to grant status.

John Law argues that methods don't just describe social realities but are also involved in creating them.

Goldman examines the origins of social policies, focusing on the Social Science Association.

This book explores the sociology of hope.

A History of Capitalist Transformation: A Critique of Liberal-Capitalist Reforms highlights how, since the recent financial crises, the expression 'liberal reform' has entered common parlance as an evocative image of austerity and economic malaise, especially for the working classes and a segment of the middle class.

The book examines the issues of sustainability in general.