Social theory

Contemporary society is marked and defined by the ways in which mobile goods, bodies, vehicles, objects, and data are organized, moved and staged.

Religion lies near the heart of the classical sociological tradition, yet it no longer occupies the same place within the contemporary sociological enterprise.

Consumption studies are underrated in the social sciences.

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

This book systematically analyzes the economic dynamics of large emerging economies from an extended Comparative Capitalisms perspective.

Bewährte, einführende Lehrbuchdarstellung der soziologischen Theorie.

This is the first detailed study of anti-semitism, as an ideology, among the British.

Plural Masculinities offers a contemporary portrait of the plural dynamics and forms of masculinity, emphasizing the multiple, even contradictory, pathways through which men are remaking their identities.

A comprehensive exploration of the profound influence of Marxist ideas on the development of Cultural Studies in Britain, this volume covers a century of Marxist writing, balancing synoptic accounts of the various schools of Marxist thought with detailed analyses of the most important writers.

The six essays in this volume are designed to introduce the general reader to some of the main issues in the fields of education, industry, politics, family changes and the like, which concern British sociologists.

This book explores 'difficult conversations' in feminist theory as an integral part of social and theoretical transformations.

Originally published in 1971, this was the first text on community studies which analysed the major empirical work in this field in a comparative perspective.

This book is a critique and provincialization of Western social science and Global Northern academia, by the author of The Digital Coloniality of Power.

Sigmund Freud and Josef Breuer on hysteria, J.

Winner: Cheryl Frank Memorial Prize for innovative writing on critical realismThis new textbook offers a succinct yet broad introduction to critical realism, an increasingly popular approach to the philosophy of science that provides a holistic alternative to both positivism and postmodernism.

This book makes the case for recasting current theories of democracy, democratization and de-democratization.

Social Movements: The Key Concepts provides an insightful, contemporary introduction to some of the frequently encountered terms and groups that are central to the study of collective action and social and political activism.

This is an exhilarating book, written by one of sociology's most imaginative theorists and critics.

This fourth volume of The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies finishes the series by exploring how class infuses people's past and present efforts to juggle family, work and leisure.

This is the first book addressing explicitly and specifically the methodological issues of relational sociology, and more broadly of the new relational paradigm in social sciences.

Covering a topic applicable to fields ranging from education to health care to psychology, this book provides a broad critical analysis of the assumptions that researchers and practitioners have about causation and explains how readers can improve their thinking about causation.

This book examines how former, current and prospective Korean graduate students navigate American universities, especially with regard to the student-advisor relationship.

Originally published in 1972, this book is an important introduction to the analytical aspects of sociology.

This book examines how 'Therapeutic Recreation' transforms the social health of children enduring or recovering from life-threatening illnesses such as cancer and leukaemia.

The robots are coming!

Capitalism has made rationality into a pervasive feature of human action and yet, far from heralding a loss of emotionality, capitalist culture has been accompanied with an unprecedented intensification of emotional life.

Thoroughly revised, this new edition of Critical Theory of Technology rethinks the relationships between technology, rationality, and democracy, arguing that the degradation of labor--as well as of many environmental, educational, and political systems--is rooted in the social values that preside over technological development.

Reviewing Political Criticism examines the rise of the 'review' form of journal publication, from the early eighteenth to the early twenty-first centuries.

This book is a compendium of pragmatism in the social sciences.

During the 872-day siege of Leningrad from September 1941 to January 1944, civilians endured air raids, bread rations as low as 125 grams, food theft and speculation by opportunistic officials and shadow market traders, and death by starvation.

What are the psychological factors in operation when we form groups or crowds, and how are these affected by socio-historical circumstances?

Assessing Vilfredo Pareto's sociological reworkings of Machiavelli's Fox and Lion animal spirits as friend-enemy codings, this book offers a unique insight into the growing division today between relatively liberal elites and relatively conservative non-elites.

Love is a dominant theme in Western popular culture.

Since the beginning of social life human societies have faced the problem how to distribute the results of collaborative activities among the participants.

An essential A-Z guide to the full range of sociological thought, Sociology: The Key Concepts is an important addition to the established and successful Key Concepts series.

Three-year-old Kwara'ae children in Oceania act as caregivers of their younger siblings, but in the UK, it is an offense to leave a child under age 14 ears without adult supervision.

A significant contribution to memory studies and part of an emergent strand of work on global memory.

This book, first published in 1977, presents for the first time a serious and systematic assessment of Marx primarily as a philosopher.

The Explanation of Social Action is a sustained critique of the conventional understanding of what it means to "e;explain"e; something in the social sciences.

By exploring the concepts of 'crisis' and 'critique', this study offers a thought-provoking re-examination of the political and social thought of Cornelius Castoriadis in light of the current world crisis and with regard to his radical critique of both the traditional Left and contemporary capitalist societies.

This book puts in place the groundwork for an alternative theory of money in a sociological perspective, proceeding by way of a critique of existing theories.

The concept of well-being is one of the oldest and most important topics in philosophy and ethics, going back to ancient Greek philosophy.

This volume includes contributions from experts such as Gil Musolf, Michael Katovich, Joseph Kotarba, Norbert Wiley, Alina Pop, Marco Marzano, John Pruit, Amanda Pruit, Carol Rambo, Norman Conti, Laura Rosenberg, Krzysztof Konecki, Erick Laming, Christopher J.

This clear, student-friendly text offers a step-by-step introduction to the use of SPSS - easily the most widely used data analysis computer package in the social sciences.