Social theory

This book extends the approach that Murray and Schuler develop in their companion volume, False Moves in Philosophy and Social Theory: Losing Public Purpose.

This book dissects the reproductive intentions and behaviours of the one-child generation cohort in China, situated in the wider context of changing family life patterns and gendered lenses.

Metadata such as the hashtag is an important dimension of social media communication.

The Promise of Happiness is a provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy.

The 21st century has brought a cornucopia of new knowledge and technologies.

In this fascinating book, Ann Woodall investigates and compares the work and thought of William Booth and Karl Marx, who both arrived in London in 1849.

This book, first published in 1990, offers an in-depth analysis of the 'fundamental beliefs' of radio.

First published in 1987.

Crossing Cultural Borders (1991) examines the day-to-day interaction of immigrant children with adults, siblings and peers in the home, school and community at large as these families demonstrate their skill in using their culture to survive in a new society.

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.

The fourth edition of Criminology: The Basics has been fully revised and updated to offer an engaging and concise introduction to the main themes and concerns of this compelling and complex subject and gives an overview of the main theoretical and conceptual approaches to crime and justice.

Political protest and social movements are ubiquitous phenomena.

Collective identity creates a sense of "e;us-ness"e; in people.

The questions such as, 'why the focuses of national policies vary significantly across countries, although their sources of policies are to a great extent identical'; 'why national development experiences mostly cannot be transplanted successfully among countries'; 'why some ineffective institutions persist over long periods of time', have attracted numerous efforts.

If today students of social theory read Jurgen Habermas, Michael Foucault and Anthony Giddens, then proper regard to the question of culture means that they should also read Raymond Williams, Julia Kristeva and Slavoj Zizek.

Jeffrey Weeks has established an international reputation as one of the most original and influential writers on the social history of sexuality.

Die „Allgemeine Soziologie“ liefert einen fundierten Überblick über die Entwicklung der soziologischen Theorien von der französischen Revolution bis zur Gegenwart.

Applying the insights of Deleuze and Guattari's works to Israel-Palestine, Arab-Jewish Activism in Israel-Palestine sets out to re-conceptualise the relationship between resistance and power in ethnically segregated spaces in general, and the Israeli-Palestine context in particular.

Across the globe, political movements opposing privatisation, enclosures, and other spatial controls are coalescing towards the idea of the 'commons'.

Falk argues that the failure to achieve what he terms "e;humane global governance"e; is partially due to the exclusion of religious and spiritual dimensions of human experience from the study and practice of government.

This volume puts ambiguity and its generative power at the centre of analytical attention.

Non-manual workers are fast becoming the largest occupational category in Western capitalist countries.

Left Universalism, Africacentric Essays presents a defense of universalism as the foundation of moral and political arguments and commitments.

What Does 'Art' Mean Now?

Knowledge and the Social Sciences takes as its point of departure the claims that all forms of knowledge, the social sciences included, must be seen and understood in their social context.

Die Sozialkapitaltheorien von James Coleman und Pierre Bourdieu werden vergleichend vom Standpunkt ihres jeweiligen relationalen Ansatzes untersucht.

Challenging the assumption that the capitalist transformation includes a radical break with the past, this edited volume traces how historically older forms of social inequality are transformed but persist in the present to shape the social structure of contemporary societies in the global South.

Focusing on the use of text in relation to a specific category of image - the photographic image - this book argues for a new appreciation of the relationship between texts and photographs in an age that seems to be dominated by visual images.

This book expands the sociological canon by introducing non-Western and female voices, and subjects the existing canon itself to critique.

Why are people who live in liberal welfare regimes reluctant to support welfare policy?

Civilized Violence provides a social and historical explanation for the popular appeal of cinema violence.

This book, the last volume in the Social Morphogenesis series, examines whether or not a Morphogenic society can foster new modes of human relations that could exercise a form of 'relational steering', protecting and promoting a nuanced version of the good life for all.

Featuring contributions from scholars from across the globe, Routledge Handbook of Public Criminologies is a comprehensive resource that addresses the challenges related to public conversations around crime and policy.

This book brings together life stories from five generations of Balts, living through the diverse and recurring transformations of the twentieth century: occupations, war, independence, totalitarianism, and democratic rule and market economy.

Edward Shils was a central figure in twentieth century social thought.

Written by an established author in the field, this book explores the politics of modernisation and transformation of probation in the criminal justice system.

This book provides readers - students, researchers, academics, policy-makers, activists and interested non-specialists - with a sophisticated understanding of contemporary discussion, analysis and theorizing of issues pertaining to conflict, citizenship and civil society.

A practical guide to the art of theorizing in the social sciencesIn the social sciences today, students are taught theory by reading and analyzing the works of Karl Marx, Max Weber, and other foundational figures of the discipline.

Despite all the efforts to promote change, power and authority still seem to be permanently associated with the white, the straight and the masculine, both symbolically and in the everyday world of organizations.

Explores how security communities think about time and how this shapes the politics of security in the information age.

Engaging with the idea that the world reveals not one, but many routes to modernity, this volume explores the role of religion in the emergence of multiple forms of modernity, which evolve according to specific cultural conditions and interpretations of the 'modern project'.

There have been two "e;hands"e; exerting influence on China's resource allocation and economic development: one is tangible (government intervention), and the other intangible (market regulation).

This book studies the growth of social welfare systems in Latin America since 1979.

The Nexus of Practices: connections, constellations, practitioners brings leading theorists of practice together to provide a fresh set of theoretical impulses for the surge of practice-focused studies currently sweeping across the social disciplines.

This book describes relevant theories, such as task-centered and strength-perspective interventions for the practice of social group work, within contemporary India.

This book surveys the growing field of Queer Criminology.

When he died of an AIDS-related condition in 1984, Michel Foucault had become the most influential French philosopher since the end of World War II.