Social theory

This book examines the contributions made by Talcott Parsons to sociology over the course of a career spanning half a century.

From "e;getting loose"e; to "e;letting it all hang out,"e; the 1970s were filled with exhortations to free oneself from artificial restraints and to discover oneself in a more authentic and creative life.

This thoughtful examination of incarceration in the United States from the 1980s to the current time offers for consideration a transparent and humane correctional model for the future.

The cultural authority of science is the authority that is granted to science in any particular context.

European thought is often said to be a gift to the rest of the world, but what if there is no gift as such?

Many scholars have documented how migration from Latin America to the United States shapes the interconnected spheres of religious participation, political engagement, and civic formation in host countries.

In today's individualized, culturally diverse and globalized society, many sociologists have concluded that the conceptualizations developed by classical sociology are no longer sufficient to promote social cohesion.

Is mankind alone in the universe?

Critical Theory and Social Transformation provides an exploration of the major themes in critical social theory of recent years.

Este libro es una muestra de la ampliación de los horizontes reflexivos en torno a la interculturalidad.

Professions and Metaphors: Understanding Professions in Society explores the way that two traditions have contributed to our understanding of both theory and society over recent decades.

This book, first published in 1989, addresses an issue that stood at the centre of sociological concern - the changing character of industrial societies.

It is over 40 years since we began to reflect upon risk in a more social than technological and economic fashion, firstly making sense of the gap between expert and public assessment of risks, such as to our health and environment.

The Genome Incorporated examines the proliferation of human genomics across contemporary media cultures.

Investigating Karl Popper's philosophy of critical rationalism, Critical Rationalism and the Theory of Society, Volume 1, explores a non-justificationist conception of critical reason and its fundamental outcomes for the theory of society.

This ambitious book outlines the theoretical and practical implications of the recent technological revolution of human/non-human relations for social researchers, and in so doing, seeks to develop more adequate theoretical and methodological models for social scientists to describe and investigate these social transformations and their consequences.

Against the background of growing uncertainty about the future development of capitalism, and in the face of war, terror and poverty, this book asks: What do we have to know to prevent misery?

Sociology Projects: A Students' Guide is a no-nonsense, practical guide to project work for Sociology students.

This book reconsiders Habermas's critique of capitalism as a foundation for a critical theory of neoliberalism.

Academic autonomy has been a dominant issue among Latin American social studies, given that the production of knowledge in the region has been mostly suspected for its lack of originality and the replication of Euro-American models.

At the heart of Stripping, Sex, and Popular Culture lies a very personal story, of author Catherine Roach's response to the decision of her life-long best friend to become an exotic dancer.

Originally published in 1942, during the Second World War and a time of great social and economic upheaval, Henry A.

The book analyses the two decades of the brutal civil war of northern Uganda.

The Birth of the Gods is dedicated to Durkheim's effort to understand the basis of social integration.

Morality and Moral Controversies, 10th Edition challenges students to critically assess today's leading moral, social, and political issues.

Hailed as the 'Guru of the New Left' and a leading figure of 1960s counterculture and liberation movements, the philosopher Herbert Marcuse is amongst the most renowned and controversial thinkers of the twentieth century.

First published in 1920, Social Theory endeavours to put together the social contents of various experiences of the ordinary man, and to make them, as far as they form one, a coherent and consistent whole.

No concept has been more central to the emergence and evolution of identity studies than social justice.

Across central and eastern Europe after World War II, the newly established communist regimes promised a drastic social revolution that would transform the world at great pace and pave the way to a socialist future.

This book illuminates an important dimension of the work of Max Weber.

Der Begriff des Gemeinwohls gehört seit jeher zum Grundinventar des politischen Denkens und ist dabei so umstritten wie kaum ein anderer Begriff, dessen wir uns bei der Bewertung sozialer Verhältnisse und kollektiv verbindlicher Entscheidungen bedienen.

Contagion Capitalism situates the COVID-19 pandemic within the systems of global political economy and their attendant cultural modes and theorizes that these systems act as facilitators and drivers of global pandemic risk.

A reinterpretation of world politics drawing on Chinese cultural and philosophical traditions to argue for a focus on relations amongst actors, rather than on the actors individually.

Festivals and the Cultural Public Sphere provides the first major social scientific study of these festivals in the wake of their explosion in popularity over the past decade.

In attempting to understand the psychological aspects of the developmental process and socialisation, the distinct disciplines of sociology and psychology were brought together for the first time.

Today, an increasing number of people from all over the world travel to Buenos Aires to dance tango.

The Development of British Immigration Law (1986) examines the policies and laws of immigration law in the UK.

From the Foundations in Global Studies series, this text offers students a fresh, comprehensive, multidisciplinary entry point to the study of the social and cultural aspects of global studies.

This highly original book challenges social choice theory by arguing for the importance of dynamic preferences and context in understanding important social phenomena.

This book provides a comprehensive and thorough interpretation of Beck's theory of the (world) risk society, from its original formulation up to his sudden death on New Year's Day 2015.

Drawing from extensive ethnographic research on abortion debates in public spaces, this book explores the beliefs, motivations and practices of UK anti-abortion activists.

This book examines social inclusion in the education sector in India for scheduled tribes (ST), denotified tribes and nomadic tribes.

This book argues that modern governance is performed by actors who seek social change epistemically, by drawing on widespread, public views of reality.

All too often, mobility is evoked as a preferred indicator in explanations of space-time compression and its impact.

The past decades have seen significant advances in the sociological understanding of human emotion.

Contributing to feminist approaches to masculinities, this book examines men's contextual experiences of masculine identity.

This title was first published in 2001.

Based on the re-discovery of a lost sociological project led by Norbert Elias at the University of Leicester, this book re-visits the project: The Adjustment of Young Workers to Work Situations and Adult Roles.

This provocative, intellectually charged treatise serves as a concise introduction to emancipatory gerontology, examining multiple dimensions of persistent and hotly debated topics around aging, the life course, the roles of power, politics and partisanship, culture, economics, and communications.