Social theory

This book surveys and evaluates the sociological contribution to the study of sexuality.

This classic book is a powerful indictment of contemporary attitudes to race.

The Expression of Emotion contains cutting-edge essays on emotional expression written by leading philosophers, psychologists, and legal theorists.

From the end of the Revolution until 1851, the Virginia legislature granted most divorces in the state.

'Contagion' is a crucial term in the theory of networks, that is nowadays employed to study increasingly diverse issues such as financial crises, epidemics, and fake news.

This ambitious book outlines the theoretical and practical implications of the recent technological revolution of human/non-human relations for social researchers, and in so doing, seeks to develop more adequate theoretical and methodological models for social scientists to describe and investigate these social transformations and their consequences.

Football is undoubtedly the sport with the largest following in the world, attracting billions of fans across the globe.

With the rise of both populist parties and social movements in Europe, the role of emotions in politics has once again become key to political debates, and particularly in the Spanish case.

This book draws upon the work of Georg Simmel to explore the limits, tensions and dynamism of social life through a close analysis of the works produced in the final years of his life and reveals what they might still offer some 100 years later.

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This book investigates the relationship of secrecy as a social practice to contemporary media, news cultures and public relations.

Since China proposed its "e;Belt and Road Initiative"e; in 2013 to boost its influence on international affairs and "e;cultivate international contacts who are friendly toward China"e;, the number of foreign students in China has surge exponentially.

First published in 1985, this book provides a descriptive study of social activities in a neurosciences laboratory.

The marginalist revolution of the late nineteenth century consolidated what Karl Marx and Piero Sraffa called 'vulgar economy', bringing with it an emphasis on a scarcity theory that replaced the classical surplus theory.

Prior to the 1960s, when African Americans had little access to formal political power, black popular culture was commonly seen as a means of forging community and effecting political change.

Public speaking is a much coveted yet difficult art.

What's wrong with the world today and how might it become better (or worse)?

Consumer credit borrowing - using credit cards, store cards and personal loans - is an important and routine part of many of our lives.

Following Labour's defeat at the polls in 2015, and at time when the Party is attempting to redefine its meaning, values and even identity, there is an urgent need for fresh thinking.

This book is an introduction to Pablo Gonzalez Casanova, giant of Latin American sociology.

This textbook on the sociology of law is organised according to the theoretical traditions of sociology, and oriented towards providing an accessible, but sophisticated, introduction to, and overview of, the central themes, problems and debates in this field.

In the last decade lifestyle television has become one of the most dominant television genres, with certain shows now global brands with formats exploited by producers all over the world.

This book looks at how the ideas of freedom, property, and order are expressed in modern social contract theories (SCTs).

This book offers a political anthropological perspective on the problematic character of science, combining insights from historical sociology, political theory, and cultural anthropology.

Public space, both literally and figuratively, is foundationally important to political life.

Gino Germani's intellectual itinerary is a key step in the understanding of sociology in Latin America.

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

The originality and depth of Gramsci's theory of hegemony is now evidenced in the wide-ranging intellectual applications within a growing corpus of research and writings that include social, political and cultural theory, historical interpretation, gender and globalization.

Capitalism and Classical Social Theory offers a rigorous introduction to classical social theory, highlighting the enduring relevance of classical works for understanding the many crises of the contemporary world.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the field of the Sociology of Emotions, incorporating sociological, feminist and cultural perspectives.

This book is about how extreme situations appearing to have a destructive potential can actually be used to produce meaningful individual and social lives.

In Cultural Goods and the Limits of the Market , Russell Keat presents a theoretical challenge to recent extensions of the market domain and the introduction of commercially modelled forms of organization in areas such as broadcasting, the arts and academic research.

Globalization and Social Change takes a refreshing new perspective on globalization and widening social and spatial inequalities.

Michael Luntley provides a lively introduction to the debate over postmodernism.

This book elaborates a new framework for considering and understanding the relationship between law and memory.

The Routledge Handbook of the History and Sociology of Ideas establishes a new and comprehensive way of working in the history and sociology of ideas, in order to obviate several longstanding gaps that have prevented a fruitful interdisciplinary and international dialogues.

How crime and security are governed has become a critical issue in criminology over the first quarter of the twenty-first century.

The coronavirus pandemic forces us to rethink our contemporaneity.

From Lucretius's horror loci and Buddhist drowsiness to the religious boredom of acedia and the philosophical explorations of Kant, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, and Heidegger, boredom has long been a subject of philosophical fascination.

Explicitly comparative in its approach, Paradoxes of Cultural Recognition discusses central issues regarding multiculturalism in today's Europe, based on studies of Norway and the Netherlands.

This book is an important contribution to narrative research and highlights how narratives can produce social change.

Originally published in 1991, this volume discusses the urban working class, international migrants and the so-called lumpenproletariat.

This book offers a sociological overview of the theories and research on economic innovation.

Human Behavior and the Social Environment, Micro Level draws on a resilience model to explore the dynamics of human behavior across the life span.

According to David Halperin, sexuality in our time is typified by a "e;crisis in contemporary sexual definition"e;.

This companion explores ANT as an intellectual practice, tracking its movements and engagements with a wide range of other academic and activist projects.

While Georg Simmel is widely known, the impact of his work has been far from straightforward, with the ways in which his ideas have been taken up by later thinkers as complex and diverse as the ideas themselves.