Social theory

In this book, first published in 1991, Colin Holmes examines responses to those immigrants and refugees who have been coming to Britain since the late nineteenth century as well as the perception and treatment of British-born minorities.

In Comte's original work on positivism, he attempted to outline a general perception of positivism, how it can be applied to society and how society would work should positivism be applied.

In this two-volume set, Larry D.

Volume 1: Theories, Methods and Ideas explores the mobility of ideas through time and space and how interdisciplinary theories and methodological approaches used in mobilities studies can be profitably utilised within the humanities and social sciences.

Making Gender, Making War is a unique interdisciplinary edited collection which explores the social construction of gender, war-making and peacekeeping.

In our time of rampant inequality, imperial-capitalist plunder, violence and ecocide, when radical concepts from the past seem inadequate, how do researchers and students of ethnographic work decide what concepts to work with or renew?

This book presents a novel theoretical account of the claim that sexed and gendered bodies are socially constructed.

Research collaboration in the form of networks, projects and centers has become one of the dominant modes of engaging in research, especially funded research, across all academic domains.

Max Weber is one of the founding fathers of sociology.

An Age of Limits outlines a new social theory for understanding contemporary society.

Recent debates have highlighted the importance of the self to a better understanding of the nature of culture and its relation to power.

On the Southern border of the United States in 2018, the decision was made to implement a separation policy among refugees and migrant families arriving at the border - and so a group of government employees left their homes, bidding farewell to their families as they went to work, and began to separate hundreds of children from their families, forcefully taking them to holding centres.

This book breaks new ground in demystifying the relationship between architecture, nationhood, and other forms of collective identity.

Presenting legal and philosophical essays on money, this book exploresthe conditions according to which an object like a piece of paper, or anelectronic signal, has come to be seen as having a value.

We frequently hear that we live in an age of anxiety, from 'therapy culture', the Atkins diet and child anti-depressants to gun culture and weapons of mass destruction.

Bringing together two topics of wide and growing sociological interest, The Body, Childhood and Society examines how children's bodies are constructed in schools, families, courts, hospitals and in film.

The Routledge Handbook of Sport, Gender and Sexuality brings together important new work from 68 leading international scholars that, collectively, demonstrates the intrinsic interconnectedness of sport, gender and sexuality.

Sex work is a subject of significant contestation across academic disciplines, as well as within legal, medical, moral, feminist, political and socio-cultural discourses.

This book addresses the current crisis of democratic politics and its phase of 'interregnum' - in which the past finds it hard to die and the future finds it difficult to be born - by proposing a radical redefinition of the concept of the Political.

This book explores violent and discriminatory values and beliefs and their interconnectedness between societal echelons.

First Published in 1989.

First published in 1973, this book is concerned with the question of whether Sociology is, or ought to be, a theoretical science.

In this study of politics in capitalist society Bryan Turner explores the development of citizenship as a way of demonstrating the effective use of political institutions by the working class and other subordinate groups to promote their interests.

We frequently hear that we live in an age of anxiety, from 'therapy culture', the Atkins diet and child anti-depressants to gun culture and weapons of mass destruction.

Amidst the soot, stink and splendour of Victorian London, a coterie of citizen-sociologists set out to break up the British Empire.

This work explores the question of defining ideology from a Marxist perspective.

When it comes to crime, everyone seems to take evil seriously as an explanatory concept - except criminologists.

In the contemporary context of increasing inequality and various forms of segregation, this volume analyzes the transition to neoliberal politics in Santiago de Chile.

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

A substantially revised edition of Jon Elster''s critically acclaimed book exploring the nature of social behavior and the social sciences.

Emerging during the late nineteenth century in the diverse scholarship of US commentators such as Charles Sanders Peirce, William James and John Dewey, American pragmatism shaped many intellectual currents within a range of disciplines including politics, education, administrative science and religion.

Protests at summit meetings have inspired intense debate over the nature and significance of the 'anti-globalization' or 'anti-capitalist' movement.

This book offers a theoretical investigation into the general problem of reality as a multiplicity of 'finite provinces of meaning', as developed in the work of Alfred Schutz.

Anwendungen Künstlicher Intelligenz, Maschinellen Lernens sowie Robotik und weitere informatische Systeme spielen in immer mehr Bereichen der menschlichen Lebenswelt eine immer wichtigere Rolle.

Saskia Sassen is Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago and Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics.

This book provides an original and compelling analysis of registration as a dynamic process which makes and unmakes legal identities.

Goldman examines the origins of social policies, focusing on the Social Science Association.

a multi-disciplinary 2007 book on network theory for graduate students and researchers in sociology and econophysics.

Reframing the American story from the vantage point of the nation's watery edges, Jamin Wells shows that disasters have not only bedeviled the American beach--they created it.

A timely revision in this global age, Human Behavior and the Social Environment, Macro Level develops a sophisticated and original view of the cultural, global, spiritual, and natural worlds that people inhabit, and explores the impact of these worlds on human behavior.

How do scholars transform qualitative data into analysis?

This book examines racial and ethnic politics outside of the traditional context and questions the models used to understand mobility and government responsiveness.

'Postmodernity' is often claimed as a great transformation in society and culture.

Of all the scholarly work on the countryside done in pre-1917 Russia and in the Soviet Union in the 1920s, that of L.

This book explores the shift in sociology away from the shared aspiration of the classical transition, of transcending partiality through the construction of a "e;science of society"e;, in the face of challenges to the notion of objectivity.

This accessible text provides a comprehensive overview of globalization and its consequences from the perspective of social and political critical theory.