Social theory

This book is the first to systematically reconstruct Michel Foucault's political and philosophical thought across his career.

This book examines the relationship of belonging and social policy in a historical-comparative perspective reconstructing individual arguments in favour of or opposed to the expansion of solidarities.

This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Fashion Theory: A Reader brings together and presents a wide range of essays on fashion theory that will engage and inform both the general reader and the specialist student of fashion.

Nicos Mouzelis argues against a marked tendency in present- day sociology to conflate philosophy and sociological theory.

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 investigates the hostile environment and politics of visceral and racial denigration which have characterised responses to refugees and migrants within the UK and Europe in recent years.

The current political climate of uncompromising neoliberalism means that the need to study the logic of our culture-that is, the logic of the capitalist system-is compelling.

Art and the Challenge of Markets Volumes 1 & 2 examine the politics of art and culture in light of the profound changes that have taken place in the world order since the 1980s and 1990s.

The scholarship of Ulf Hannerz is characterized by its extraordinary breadth and visionary nature.

The Ethical Foundations of Marxism, first published in 1962 and corrected and revised for a 1972 edition, examines carefully and critically the origin, precise nature and subsequent role of Marx's ethical beliefs.

This book explores the latest thinking about Max Weber and his continuing influence on theoretical and empirical interests today.

Barnard was prompted by Vilfredo Pareto's seminal four volume work Mind and Society to apply his theories of sociology to management studies.

Argues that sociology should be understood as a population science, focusing on establishing and explaining probabilistic regularities in human populations.

Embarking from a model of social capital hinging upon four social structures-work, family, social networks, and voluntary associations-Brian Jones empirically examines the widespread claims that American society is becoming less sociable, trusting, and cooperative.

Symbols matter, and especially those present in public spaces, but how do they exert influence and maintain a hold over us?

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

This book draws on the analytic and political dimensions of queer, alongside the analytic and political usefulness of emotion, to navigate legal interventions aimed at progressing the rights of LGBT people.

Since the legalisation of off-course cash betting in 1960, and the rise of varying forms of gambling, the British have come to be known as a nation of gamblers.

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

This book is a theoretically and historically informed exploration of 'secularism' in Muslim contexts.

Living in Transit: being in motion is an actual condition.

This book engages with the ethics and practices of identity formation in a world experiencing identity stress.

Objects and materials are on the move like never before, often at astonishing speeds and along hidden routeways.

In the past decade, Jeffrey Olick has established himself as one of the world's pre-eminent sociologists of memory (and, related to this, both cultural sociology and social theory).

In both Marxist and non-Marxist scholarship there has been a remarkable neglect of the managerial control of labour.

The path taken by German philosophy in the twentieth century is one of the most exciting and controversial in the history of human thought, by turns radical and conservative and secular and religious.

This book offers an original account of the good life in late modernity through a uniquely sociological lens.

Observing International Relations draws upon the modern systems theory of society, developed by Niklas Luhmann, to provide new perspectives on central aspects of contemporary world society and to generate theoretically informed insights on the possibilities and limits of regulation in global governance.

Originally published in 2004.

First published in 1988, Social Stratification and Economic Change brings together, for the first time in textbook form, some of the most significant work both theoretical and empirical on stratification in Britain.

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.

The Routledge Handbook of Collective Responsibility comprehensively addresses questions about who is responsible and how blame or praise should be attributed when human agents act together.

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

Geography in America at the Dawn of the 21st Century surveys American geographers' current research in their specialty areas and tracks trends and innovations in the many subfields of geography.

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.

Originally published in 1996, Post-Marxist Marxism is a discussion of realism in a Post-Marxist context.

This volume covers the evolution of the chartered company; contributions employ comparative methods, archival research, case studies, statistical analyses, computational models, network analyses, and new theoretical conceptualizations to map out the complex interactions that took place between state and commercial actors across the globe.

The Institute of Social Research, from which the Frankfurt School developed, was founded in the early years of the Weimar Republic.

This book explores the idea of social class in the liberal tradition.

The 2008 Olympic Games will be held in Beijing but many human rights activists support a boycott.

This volume addresses the pluralistic identity of the legal order.

This book addresses the problem of the transition to new forms of social order in the global world.

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.

This introductory text sets out to make the links between sociological theories of the body and actual human behaviour and experience.

This book reintroduces the work of Florian Znaniecki (1882-1958) as an innovative constructor of modern sociology who viewed the processes of modernity through the prism of culture and rediscovers his relational thought on the emergence and transformation of cultural and social systems.

First published in 1984, Human Nature and Biocultural Evolution aims to delineate a theory of human nature, viewed as an interrelated set of genetically programmed behavioral predispositions, and a theory of biocultural evolution.