Social theory

Taking a sociological approach, this text provides a sophisticated, highly readable introduction to Japanese society.

Reassembling the Social is a fundamental challenge from one of the world's leading social theorists to how we understand society and the 'social'.

Since the early 1960s, the internationally acclaimed and highly distinguished Swedish geographer Gunnar Olsson has made substantial contributions to his own discipline.

Auguste Comte proclaimed himself the founder of sociology and, on the whole, this claim is accepted.

This book examines the connections between the psycho-social difficulties and challenges faced by children and younger people in their online lives; the structure, character, and motivations of the corporate system 'behind' the screen; and the possibility that the digital technostructure may come to form the backbone of a new post-democratic system of technocratic governance.

The problem of the nature of values and the relation between values and rationality is one of the defining issues of twentieth-century thought and Max Weber was one of the defining figures in the debate.

Fragility is a condition that inhabits the foundations of social life.

The contributions to Urban neo- liberalisation bring together critical analyses of the dynamics and processes neo- liberalism has facilitated in urban contexts.

This book, first published in 1991, demonstrates that Marx is the legitimate founder of what was to become the critical theory of society.

This study of citizenship and migration policies in the Gulf shows how temporary residency can become a permanent citizenship status.

With contributions from around the world, this book brings together inter-related research from three fields: social capital, place management and lifelong learning regions.

This ambitious two-volume handbook of social theory is both current and will stand the test of time.

This volume straddles between being a compilation of chapters exploring the fundamental conceptual categories within Marxism while engaging with those categories at the same time demonstrating the dynamic ability of the Marxian theoretical paradigm to evolve.

This book considers how the UK government's response to the recent COVID-19 pandemic disadvantages the working class, and how mutual aid, based on anarchist principles, can be used as a force for social change.

Is our understanding of social capital consistent with development interventions and the digital world?

Caste is a contested terrain in India's society and polity.

This book examines how relationships between guardians and companion animals were challenged during a large-scale disaster: the tsunami of March 2011 and the following nuclear disaster in Fukushima.

China has been growing at over ten per cent annually since 1978, but this has only come to very widespread notice in the past decade.

An extended historical and philosophical argument, this book will be a valuable text for all students of the philosophy of the social sciences.

The topics covered in this book are directly related to much of the misunderstanding of what sociology is about.

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

We are living in a time when social and political authoritarianism appear to be gaining ground around the world.

Philippine political history, especially in the twentieth century, challenges the image of democratic evolution as serving the people, and does so in ways that reveal inadequately explored aspects of many democracies.

Niklas Luhmann offers an accessible introduction to one of the most important sociologists of our time.

The SAGE Handbook of Global Sociology addresses the 'social', its various expressions globally, and the ways in which such understandings enable us to understand and account for global structures and processes.

This edited collection brings together academics, artists and members of civil society organizations to engage in a discussion about the ideas of living with others, through concepts such as cosmopolitanism, solidarity, and conviviality, and the practices of doing so.

Adam Kuper's iconoclastic intellectual history argues that the idea of "e;primitive society"e; is a western myth.

This book is a fascinating investigation into how communalism plays out in everyday India.

In Molecular Red, McKenzie Wark creates philosophical tools for the Anthropocene, our new planetary epoch, in which human and natural forces are so entwined that the future of one determines that of the other.

Proposes a new approach to causal analysis in international relations by exploring the concept''s roots and uses in the field.

As our society confronts the impacts of globalization and global systemic risks-such as financial contagion, climate change, and epidemics-what can studies of the past tell us about our present and future?

Fifty Key Scholars in Black Social Thought is a collaborative volume that uplifts and explores the intellectual activism and scholarly contributions of Black social thinkers.

This book offers both a philosophical and sociological model for understanding the constitution of identity in general, and black social identity in particular, without reverting to either a social or racial deterministic view of identity construction.

Employing law and philosophy of economics, this book explores how copyright shapes ownership of ideas in the social media age.

The volumes in this set, originally published between 1969 and 2001, is comprised of original books published in conjunction with the British Sociological Association.

In a world of increasing mobility and migration, population size and composition come under persistent scrutiny across public policy, public debate, and film and television.

It is impossible to imagine contemporary critical theory without the work of Michel Foucault.

Chen, He and Yan present a range of applications of multiple-source big data to core areas of contemporary sociology, demonstrating how a theory-guided approach to macrosociology can help to understand social change in China, especially where traditional approaches are limited by constrained and biased data.

This special issue of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society examines how law understands the past.

Social theory and social theorizing about Africa has largely ignored African literature.

This book examines transborder Latin American sociocultural and spatial conditions across the globe and at different scales, from gendered and racialized individuals to national and transnational organizations.

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

Crowds in the 21st Century presents the latest theory and research on crowd events and crowd behaviour from across a range of social sciences, including psychology, sociology, law, and communication studies.

Richard Roberts explores the religious consequences of the imposition of managerial modernity upon successive sectors of society.

Traditionally, Euroamerican cultures have considered that human status was conferred at the conclusion to childbirth.