Social theory

This volume explores the constitutive role of rhetoric in socio-cultural relations, where discursive persuasion is so important, and contains both theoretical chapters as well as fascinating examples of the ambiguities and effects of rhetoric used (un)consciously in social praxis.

Complexity, complex systems and complexity theories are becoming increasingly important within a variety disciplines.

One reader has called this study, first published in 1984, 'easily the best book on the relation of Hegel to Marx'.

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.

Silence and Society addresses the reality that social sciences have ignored the importance of silence in human communication.

This volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of the field of more-than-human studies, bringing together contemporary and essential content from leading authors across the discipline.

Social theory is a crucial resource for the social sciences.

This book provides the first comprehensive sociological study of the contemporary National Socialist movement in Sweden, including how it has developed since the 1990s until the present.

Public debates over the last two decades about social memories, about how as societies we remember, make sense of, and even imagine and invent, our collective pasts suggest that grand narratives have been abandoned for numerous little stories that contest the unified visions of the past.

In this volume the author maintains that sociology must learn to combine the insights of both Durkheim and Marx and that it can only do so on the presuppositional ground that Weber set forth.

Presenting original research studies by leading scholars in the field, Orders of Ordinary Action considers how ethnomethodology provides for an 'alternate' sociology by respecifying sociological phenomena as locally accomplished members' activities.

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

Extremism is one of the most charged and controversial issues of the twenty-first century.

This study, first published in 1983, explores the connections between Marx's philosophy and his empirical analysis of society and state, by showing the different meanings of many of Marx's concepts as their role in his theory changes and the theory itself develops.

Utopian thought and experimental approaches to societal organization have been rare in the last decades of planning and politics.

Contemporary Economic Sociology closely examines critical and contemporary issues in the sociology of economic life.

Long sentenced young people are a small but significant part of the juvenile prison population.

Written by a team of experts on the contemporary global capitalist political economy who are able to shed light on the inner workings of global capitalism and the capitalist globalization process that has led to the growth and development of capitalism from the national to the global level, this groundbreaking volume provides critical analyses of the causes and consequences of the Great Recession of 2008-2009.

The conception of welfare services has changed to consider the more specialized needs of individual users or consumers.

Marx argued that capitalist society acts against the core capacities, skills and talents of human beings, and that it also limits their realisation or channels them into activities related to profit rather than need.

Shaun Gallagher presents a ground-breaking interdisciplinary account of human action, bringing out its essentially social dimension.

This book, a follow-up edition to International Perspectives on Exclusionary Pressures in Education (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), presents an overview of inequality and inequity along different dimensions of exclusionary practices in schools and other educational settings.

This book examines the processes through which public art museums, as modern Western institutions, were introduced to Japan in the late nineteenth century and how they subsequently developed distinctive national characteristics.

This book considers the lessons learnt so far from the emergence of the Internet and the development of the field of Internet studies, whilst also considering possible directions for the future.

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

Developing Cross-Cultural Measurement in Social Work Research and Evaluation, Second Edition is an applied practice-to-research text, with a focus on developing, assessing, and validating meaningful measurements across cultures and populations.

More extensive methodology is required to study the complexities of everyday life in the rapidly expanding urban areas around the globe, as well as to gain a better understanding of life in established urban areas.

This title was first published in 2002.

* What do we mean by discourse?

Media are fundamental to our sense of living in a social world.

First published in 1955, Studies in Class Structure contains six studies in problems of social structure, relating mainly to contemporary British society.

Practices of cosmetic surgery have grown exponentially in recent years in both over-developed and developing worlds.

This book offers a discussion of the origins of Latin American dependency theories and their implications for contemporary social theory.

Drawing on a wide range of social theory, as well as empirical inputs from studies of work, neighbourhoods, events, meeting places and online self-help groups, this book suggests that communal forms are constructed on the basis of communicative, material, biographic-cultural, practice-based, and situational layers.

Recently the scholarly community and popular media have highlighted the denial of science by conservative Christians, linking a low view of scientific expertise to the United States' current cultural turmoil.

 The Serious Leisure Perspective (SLP) is a theoretic framework developed by Robert A.

Over the last few decades, the academic and public gaze has increasingly focused on military veterans.

'Critical Management Studies', or 'CMS', describes a diverse group of work that has adopted a critical or questioning approach to the traditional concerns of Management Studies, and the growing interest in CMS has produced a vibrant and exciting body of research.

Marx's Grundrisse is acknowledged as the vital link between Marx's early and late work.

Social change in the twenty-first century is shaped by both demographic changes associated with ageing societies and significant technological change and development.

This book examines global governance through Foucaultian notions of governmentality and security, as well as the complex intersections between the two.

This book explores the role human rights law plays in the formation, and protection, of our personal identities.

Sociological Theories of Health and Illness reviews the evolution of theory in medical sociology beginning with the field's origins in medicine and extending to its present-day standing as a major sociological subdiscipline.

Decades of research on affect and emotion have brought out the paramount importance of affective processes for human lives.

This book intervenes in contemporary debates about climate activism, militancy, and strategy that have been gathering force in radical ecological circles.

Trust and Civil Society offers an original and accessible analysis of the meaning of 'trust' in a range of critical contexts: voluntary organizations, faith associations, the economy, the state and welfare, environmental issues and charity.

This title was first published in 2001.