Social theory

One of the strengths of this book is that it expresses occupational segregation from multidimensional viewpoints using correspondence analysis.

This book examines global governance through Foucaultian notions of governmentality and security, as well as the complex intersections between the two.

While higher education is still far from universal in the United States, it plays an increasingly large role in shaping our collective understanding of what knowledge counts as legitimate and important.

This second edition of Cultural Theory provides a concise introduction to cultural theory, placing major figures, traditional concepts, and contemporary themes within a sharp conceptual framework.

The second edition of this significant text has been thoroughly revised to take account of the latest literature, case studies and international developments in the field.

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

This book draws together debates from two burgeoning fields, liminality and informality studies, to analyze how dynamics of rule-bending take shape in Rome today.

This book offers the first comprehensive and critical investigation of the specific modes of risk calculation that are emerging in the so-called War on Terror.

In times when the social sciences have become increasingly fragmented and more focused on 'the pieces of the puzzle', the puzzle, as a topic in its own right, has slowly been moved towards the background.

This book brings together leading figures in history, sociology, political science, feminism and critical theory to interpret, evaluate, criticize and update Weber's legacy.

In Learning at the Museum Frontiers, Viv Golding argues that the museum has the potential to function as a frontier - a zone where learning is created, new identities are forged and new connections made between disparate groups and their own histories.

This book explores the multiform and shifting location of borders and boundaries in social life, related to difference and belonging.

Applies sociological concepts to international relations by examining how influential social ideas contribute to global governance.

The critical theory of the Frankfurt School has undergone numerous and at times fundamental changes over the last ninety years.

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?

This clear, student-friendly text offers a step-by-step introduction to the use of SPSS - easily the most widely used data analysis computer package in the social sciences.

Since the late 1990s, development institutions have increasingly used the language of rights in their policy and practice.

This book addresses the genealogy and consequences of nihilism, attempts at 'sociologizing' the concept of nihilism by relating nihilism to capitalism, post-politics and terrorism, and considers the possibilities of overcoming nihilism.

Consumption research is burgeoning across a wide range of disciplines.

NGOs, Knowledge Production and Global Humanist Advocacy is an empirically and theoretically rich account of how international non-governmental organisations produce knowledge of and formulate understandings about the world around them.

This book centres the voices and agency of migrants by refocusing attention on the diversity and complexity of human mobility when seen from the perspective of people on the move; in doing so, the volume disrupts the binary logics of migrant/refugee, push/pull, and places of origin/destination that have informed the bulk of migration research.

This book offers the reader a comprehensive understanding and the multitude of methods utilized in the research of urban mobilities with cities and 'the urban' as its pivotal axis.

A New York Times New and Noteworthy BookFrom the bestselling author ofWaking UpandThe End of Faith, an adaptation of his wildly popular, often controversial podcastSam Harris is the most intellectually courageous man I know, unafraid to speak truths out in the open where others keep those very same thoughts buried, fearful of the modish thought police.

Rather than contributing to the long-standing discussion about the characteristics of the society that socialism proposes to establish, this Routledge Revival, initially published in 1976, aims to explore the impact of the 'living utopia' of socialism on the development of modern society.

In recent years, the social sciences have taken a 'mobilities turn'.

This 2003 book explores the links between social theory and the social scientific study of religion.

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

We are spurred into action by our troubles and fears; but all too often our action fails to address the true causes of our worries.

By using a linguistic and anthropological framework, this pioneering book offers a natural history of intensity in the Anthropocene.

Arguably sociology's first classic and one of Durkheim's major works, The Division of Labour in Society studies the nature of social solidarity, exploring the ties that bind one person to the next so as to hold society together in conditions of modernity.

Available in paperback for the first time, Welfare Policy from Below is the most comprehensive study available of social exclusion in contemporary Europe.

This book features a selection of the published writings and public presentations of Jim Dator.

In a world beset with problems, how can we encourage people to act differently?

TRANSLATED BY CONSTANCE BORDE AND SHEILA MALOVANY-CHEVALLIERANNOTATED AND INTRODUCED BY MARTINE REID'Everyone who cares about freedom and justice for women should read The Second Sex' GuardianSimone de Beauvoir famously wrote, 'One is not born, but rather becomes, woman'.

The writings of Ibn Khaldun, particularly the Muqaddimah (Prolegomenon) have rightly been regarded as being sociological in nature.

First published in 2002.

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.

Algorithms: Technology, Culture, Politics develops a relational, situated approach to algorithms.

Capitalism and its Critics offers an accessible account of major theories of capitalism from the industrial revolution to the present day.

This book studies memories of the Second World War articulated in novels to raise important political questions.

The Explanation of Social Action is a sustained critique of the conventional understanding of what it means to "e;explain"e; something in the social sciences.

What does Lyotard's thought offer contemporary theory?

First published in 1978, Issues in Social Policy is designed as a basic textbook for social administration students in universities, polytechnics and similar institutions, and for students in allied fields such as medicine, nursing and public administration.

This book investigates the phenomenon of science communication events, as spectacles for legitimising and communicating science to the public.

This book introduces relational thinking to political analysis.

Food is increasingly traded internationally, thereby transforming the organization of food production and consumption globally and influencing most food-related practices.

The Explanation of Behaviour was the first book written by the renowned philosopher Charles Taylor.

The stature of Max Weber (1864-1920) as an interdisciplinary, historical-comparative social scientist has grown steadily.

The liberal use of the sedition law in recent years, mainly by state governments intolerant of dissenting opinion, has provoked justified controversy.

This book presents essays that address fundamental issues in social and cultural theory by viewing them through the lens of aesthetic theory.