Social theory

Local leaders don't need to become professional facilitators or hire expensive consultants to run a great meeting.

Contemporary bipartisan politics undermines socialist solidarity by ignoring class issues and pitting advocates of social justice against ethno-national chauvinists.

Confrontado, por un lado, con las condiciones que imponía la guerra en Argelia y, por otro, con las barreras inconscientes que levantaba la cotidianidad en Béarn, el joven investigador Pierre Bourdieu notó que ni los métodos de trabajo que había adquirido en su formación como filósofo ni los procedimientos habituales de la investigación etnográfica o estadística eran suficientemente aplicables para emprender un estudio confiable y objetivo de la realidad social en cuestión.

Leadership is inherent in every being despite one's job profile.

This book examines the importance of flat ontologies for law and sociolegal theory.

This book examines the importance of flat ontologies for law and sociolegal theory.

First published in 1932, Studies in Sociology consists of essays that fall into three groups, the first concerned with the scope and method of sociology and its relation to history and social philosophy; the second devoted to an analysis of the theory of evolution as applied to society, and to a number of problems in social psychology, such as the nature of social purpose, the place of instinct in social science, the relation between instinct and emotion, and the inheritance of mental characters; while the third group deals with the claims of Eugenics, and social classes and social mobility.

This book revisits social theory with a view to highlighting certain essential features of 'good' social theory: its ability to raise certain questions, its explanatory power, its critical and reflexive interrogation of concepts, its search for objectivity, its concern to make sense of empirical data and its aim of projecting some degree of generality and abstraction.

This book revisits social theory with a view to highlighting certain essential features of 'good' social theory: its ability to raise certain questions, its explanatory power, its critical and reflexive interrogation of concepts, its search for objectivity, its concern to make sense of empirical data and its aim of projecting some degree of generality and abstraction.

Georges Sorels reputation as a proponent of violence has helped to link his ideas to fascist and totalitarian thought.

Socionomics: How Social Mood Shapes Society explores the main principles and applications of socionomic theory as elaborated by Robert Prechter.

Socionomics: How Social Mood Shapes Society explores the main principles and applications of socionomic theory as elaborated by Robert Prechter.

First published in 1932, Studies in Sociology consists of essays that fall into three groups, the first concerned with the scope and method of sociology and its relation to history and social philosophy; the second devoted to an analysis of the theory of evolution as applied to society, and to a number of problems in social psychology, such as the nature of social purpose, the place of instinct in social science, the relation between instinct and emotion, and the inheritance of mental characters; while the third group deals with the claims of Eugenics, and social classes and social mobility.

Questioning society and one's place in it is a common theme in both comedy and sociology.

Questioning society and one's place in it is a common theme in both comedy and sociology.

This book provides solid sociological foundations to computational social science (CSS).

This book provides solid sociological foundations to computational social science (CSS).

We now live in a world where all aspects of everyday life are thoroughly mediated by digital technologies.

We now live in a world where all aspects of everyday life are thoroughly mediated by digital technologies.

This book introduces the readers to the dynamics of various kinds of social movements.

Building upon the idea that our current "e;environmental question"e; arises from the history of metaphysics-which privileged thought about Being (or ontology) over the conditions of life-this book reinterprets Heraclitus's notion of physis as the fundamental, emergent potency of life, as the category to-be-thought by thinkers.

Through a variety of studies in the emerging field of attentional studies, this book examines and seeks alternatives to the current attention economy.

Building upon the idea that our current "e;environmental question"e; arises from the history of metaphysics-which privileged thought about Being (or ontology) over the conditions of life-this book reinterprets Heraclitus's notion of physis as the fundamental, emergent potency of life, as the category to-be-thought by thinkers.

Through a variety of studies in the emerging field of attentional studies, this book examines and seeks alternatives to the current attention economy.

First published in 1964, The Psychology of Society deals with the idea of building up a social psychology or the science of human nature.

First published in 1964, The Psychology of Society deals with the idea of building up a social psychology or the science of human nature.

Of the philosophical movements of the twentieth century existentialism is one of the most powerful and thought-provoking.

First published in 1985, Corporations, Classes and Capitalism raises some crucial questions - how important are large multinational companies?

First published in 1985, Corporations, Classes and Capitalism raises some crucial questions - how important are large multinational companies?

Originally published in 1974 and with a new introduction for the 1981 edition, this book is a clear and vivid history of the role of organized labour in the politics of Nigeria.

Originally published in 1974 and with a new introduction for the 1981 edition, this book is a clear and vivid history of the role of organized labour in the politics of Nigeria.

Transatlantic policing is experiencing an unprecedented crisis of legitimacy, epitomised by public responses to the murders of George Floyd and Sarah Everard during the COVID-19 pandemic.

What does a good prison look like?

What does a good prison look like?

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

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

This book engages the field of practice theory in order to consider law as a social practice.

This book presents a novel theoretical account of the claim that sexed and gendered bodies are socially constructed.

In the twenty-first century, humanity faces both unprecedented existential threats and remarkable possibilities for development.

This book uses Norbert Elias’s theory of the civilising process to provide a sociological and historical study of Portuguese bullfighting.

This book presents a novel theoretical account of the claim that sexed and gendered bodies are socially constructed.

This book uses Norbert Elias’s theory of the civilising process to provide a sociological and historical study of Portuguese bullfighting.

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

Cases of ex-Muslims in Europe being punished by their former fellow Muslims constitute an unacceptable practice from the standpoint of democratic societies in which human rights are respected and individuals have the freedom to choose their religion, or none at all.