Social theory

The book presents aspects of cross-currents of theorizing of self, culture and society in the contemporary Taiwan.

For most of the twentieth century, modernity has been characterised by the formalisation of social relations as face to face interactions are replaced by impersonal bureaucracy and finance.

The course of German philosophy in the twentieth century is one of the most exciting, diverse and controversial periods in the history of human thought.

The Origins of Criminological Theory offers a new sort of theory textbook, both in content and concept.

Neoliberalism remains a flashpoint for political contestation around the world.

This book explores and clarifies all the major issues and developments within 'family theorising'.

Discusses why and how the Egyptian judiciary was critically important in bringing down two vastly different regimes in three years.

This book is concerned with the significance of time in work and everyday life.

Life course analysis recognizes that, depending on the exact life stage, different factors and contexts can become important in shaping identity and experience, as well as the ability to accomplish and respond to certain life transitions and events.

This book, for the first time, brings Niklas Luhmann's work into dialogue with other theoretical positions, including Lacan, Derrida, Deleuze, gender studies, bioethics, translation, ANT, eco-theories and complexity theory.

This 1972 book is a collection of Durkheim''s writings drawing upon the whole body of his work.

European social movements have become increasingly visible in recent years, generating intense public debates.

'I have lost interest .

Although the art of rhetoric is central to the practice of politics it also plays an important role in civic and private life.

Engaging with some of the central issues in the sociology of religion, this volume investigates the role and significance of churches and religion in contemporary Western and Eastern Europe.

This book is a comparative study of the development of sociology in Britain and France between 1920 and 1940, taking a broad definition of the discipline to examine divergence across the channel in the interwar years.

This book uses Dialogical Self Theory to respond to the challenges of climate change, well-being, and disenchantment of the world.

This book illustrates how leisure, as with other complex ideas that hold currency in today's world, suffers at the level of common sense, due to a combination of oversimplification, moral depreciation, and even lack of recognition.

Renewable Energy normally refers to usable energy sources that are an alternative to fuel sources, but without the negatively evaluated consequences of the replaced fuels.

Social Identity explains how identification, seen as a social process, works: individually, interactionally and institutionally.

Surveillance and transparency are both significant and increasingly pervasive activities in neoliberal societies.

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.

During the 1960s the German philosopher Jurgen Habermas introduced the notion of a bourgeois public sphere in order to describe the symbolic arena of political life and conversation that originated with the cultural institutions of the early eighteenth-century; since then the public sphere itself has become perhaps one of the most debated concepts at the very heart of modernity.

While challenging traditional postcolonial accounts, Gabay places racial anxiety at the heart of imaginaries of Africa and international order.

Mapping the resonances, dissonances, and linkages between the thought of Gramsci and Foucault to uncover new tools for socio-political and critical analysis for the twenty-first century, this book reassesses the widely-held view that their work is incompatible.

This book provides a solution to the problem of social structure and individual agency, an intense debate in the social sciences.

This intriguing book re-evaluates a narrative of cultural decline that developed in the wake of Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.

Interweaving rich ethnographic descriptions with an innovative theoretical approach, this book explores and unsettles conventional maps and understandings of Europe and the Americas.

Bringing together the author's major scholarly work on Weber over the last thirty years, Max Weber's Comparative-Historical Sociology Today addresses major themes in Weber's thought, whilst also examining the mode of analysis practised in his comparative-historical writings.

This book undertakes a critique of the pervasive notion that human beings are separate from and elevated above the nonhuman world and explores its role in the constitution of modernity.

This book analyses everyday encounters with rudeness and asks what can be done to improve civic life in a world of strangers.

When speaking colloquially of political participation or civic action, one thinks, in the first instance, of groups and organizations such as political parties, social movements or various types of voluntary associations.

What is it like to work as a classical musician today?

The concept of Global Civil Society as an 'imagined global community' is raising questions that challenge perceptions of a border-free, footloose, global community.

An exploration of cuteness and its immense hold on us, from emojis and fluffy puppies to its more uncanny, subversive expressionsCuteness has taken the planet by storm.

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.

'Hugh Mackay is one of this country s most perceptive social commentators' - Sydney Morning HeraldInsightful and engaging, What Makes Us Tick?

This book is an introduction to the epistemology and practice of social science.

The expansion of social history that took place in the twentieth century has produced some of the most exciting works in the field of historical studies.

This book demonstrates the empirical gains and integrative potentials of social systems theory for the sociology of law.

Contributing to a lively dialogue with Anglo-American and French theorists, The Lonely Mirror (originally published in 1993) sets out to contextualize Italian feminist theory within the international debate.

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

Politics with a Human Face presents a holistic understanding of identity formation in post-Soviet Europe, arguing that since politics is fundamentally a human affair.

Following the crisis of the Special Period, Cuba promoted urban agriculture throughout its towns and cities to address food sovereignty and security.

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