Social theory

The key figure of the capitalist utopia is the individual who is ultimately free.

Relational-Cultural theory (RCT) proposes that all people grow through and toward relationships throughout the lifespan.

Michel Foucault refers to 1965-1970 as, in philosophical terms, 'the five brief, impassioned, jubilant, enigmatic years'.

This volume presents recent developments in identity theory and research.

This book offers a solution for the problem of structure and agency in sociological theory by developing a new pair of fundamental concepts: metric and nonmetric.

Examines the relationship between gender, discourse and deliberation, focusing on how far consensus achieved through deliberation can reflect gender differences.

First published in 1971, Social Choice is both a text and reference containing the proceedings of a conference dealing with contemporary work on the normative and descriptive aspects of the social choice problem.

What binds societies together and how can these social orders be structured in a fair way?

Modern societies and organizations are characterized by multiple kinds of observations, systems, or rationalities, rather than singular identities and clear hierarchies.

Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault are often cast as intellectual adversaries, their legacies marked by differences in method, lineages, and analytical priorities.

The first systematic account of how structures of justice led to the emergence of representative institutions and state-formation in Western Europe.

Surfing Life is a study of surfing and social change that also provides insights into other experience-based contemporary subcultures and the nature of the self and social formations in contemporary society.

Social decentering theory was developed in response to the confusion created by the use of the term empathy and to a lesser extent, perspective-taking, to reflect a wide and varied set of human cognitive processes and behaviors.

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

Relational-Cultural theory (RCT) proposes that all people grow through and toward relationships throughout the lifespan.

Fashion is bound up with promoting the 'new', concerned with constantly changing aesthetics.

Discusses the importance and development of analytical sociology, emphasizing the centrality of mechanisms in explaining social life.

Healing Multicultural America (1993) looks at a group of Mexican immigrants who managed to understand and use the US democratic system to gain access to the 'American Dream'.

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.

This book analyses the war against drugs, violence in streets, schools and families, and mining conflicts in Latin America.

Dissatisfaction with the present can cause people to gaze nostalgically back to an idealized past; that nostalgia pervades contemporary rhetoric.

* What is the extent and impact of white collar crime?

In this posthumous volume, renowned sociologist Herbert Blumer analyzes George Herbert MeadOs position in the study of human conduct.

In this volume of essays by leading socio-legal scholars, the dual concepts of consciousness and ideology are examined and used to expose law's presence and power in social life.

This is a work of social theory and philosophy which seeks to make the constitution of social theory a 'social' activity.

This book investigates the relationship of secrecy as a social practice to contemporary media, news cultures and public relations.

Originally published in 1988, The Rhythms of Society reflects the time-obsessed age we lived in when it was written.

This book offers a profoundly new examination of life strategies of migrants from regimes in crisis.

While many analysts emphasize Trump's uniqueness, he can also be viewed as a symptom of a deeper systemic crisis.

Individuals are equipped with a wide range of knowledge that enhances their employability, health, family life, and social engagement.

In the most complete, accurate and accessible presentation of Karl Marx's theory of capitalism to date, Johan Fornas presents a guide for anyone who wants to understand how today's crisis-ridden society has emerged and is able to sustain and intensify its own deep inner contradictions.

The Humanities, the Social Sciences and the University is an intellectual history of research in the humanities and social sciences.

The essays selected for this volume show how radical and Marxist criminology has established itself as an influential critique since it emerged in the late 1960s.

Social Researching (1984) examine the 'stories' about 'real' research in social sciences and its problems, and discusses funding, publication, the history of major projects, postgraduate work and issues raised by feminists doing research, as well as the practical, ethical and political difficulties.

We live in an ever-fragmenting society, in which distinctions between culture and nature, biology and politics, law and transgression, mobility and immobility, reality and representation, seem to be disappearing.

Drawing upon perspectives from across the globe and employing an interdisciplinary life course approach, this handbook explores the production and reproduction of different types of inequality across a variety of social contexts.

Modern institutional economics was created to study the institutions of pre-digital economies and is based on reductionist approaches.

First published in 1989.

This book examines how identities are formed and expressed in political, social and cultural contexts across South Asia.

Influenced by Thomas Kuhn's work on paradigm shifts in the social sciences, this overview of contemporary theory identifies major themes, charts the impact of social change on theories, acquaints readers with a sample of individual theorists (the "e;transitional giants"e; who shaped contemporary theories), explores the impact of contemporary theories on various areas of sociology, and traces how the great social theories of the past are being reinterpreted and incorporated into new theories.

Originally published in 1984, this study deals with a number of influential figures in the European tradition of Marxist theories of aesthetics, ranging from Lukacs to Benjamin, through the Frankfurt School, to Brecht and the Althusserians.

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

Der Begriff der Erschütterung hat Hochkonjunktur, wenn es gilt, eine Reaktion auf Ereignisse wie (Terror-)Anschläge, Gewaltakte, Krisen und (Natur-)Katastrophen zu artikulieren.

There is a strong but unreliable view that immigration is a marginal and recent phenomenon.

The new 'mobilities turn' has become a powerful perspective in social theory.

Do things such as performance indicators, valuation formulas, consumer tests, stock prices or financial contracts represent an external reality?

This book argues that the discourse of political Islam has strong connections to important, disturbing currents in Western philosophy and intellectual trends.