Social theory

Thinkers from the Classical Greeks to the First World War are represented in this collection of key international relations texts.

How does Bauman understand the concept of freedom, and how does this understanding relate to the political traditions of conservatism, liberalism and socialism?

How can social theory help us all design solutions to address the social, political and ecological challenges that confront us, and build more sustainable communities?

The problem of the nature of values and the relation between values and rationality is one of the defining issues of twentieth-century thought and Max Weber was one of the defining figures in the debate.

This book offers the first critical examination of the contributions of feminist new materialist thought to the study of sport, fitness, and physical culture.

This book takes the form of intellectual histories of eight major representative figures of the twentieth century, who inherited and responded to the spiritual problematic left by Nietzsche.

Decades after his death, the figure of Erving Goffman (1922-82) continues to fascinate.

What is a fair distribution of resources and other goods when individuals are partly responsible for their achievements?

This book provides a multidisciplinary approach for studying the management of change under conditions of complexity.

Current research on social capital tends to focus on an economic reading of social relations.

Social functions and functional explanations play a prominent role not only in our everyday reasoning but also in classical as well as contemporary social theory and empirical social research.

This book discusses the connotation and function of social governance and elaborates on social governance thought in classical Marxism, Mao Zedong's social governance thought, and social governance thought in socialism with Chinese characteristics, especially in Xi Jinping's New Era.

Taking inspiration from the classic text by Raymond Williams, Keywords in Criminology reflects on the language used by criminologists and offers a one stop guide to core concepts in the discipline.

Im vorliegenden Sammelband wird untersucht, wie die Potenziale innovativer Formen nachhaltigen Konsums – wie kollaborativer Konsums und Gemeingüter-Ökonomie, Prosuming und Produsing, Upcycling und ReUse – zur Förderung einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung entfaltet werden können.

This book provides solid sociological foundations to computational social science (CSS).

This comprehensive volume explores various forms of violence in health care settings.

Tang provides a coherent and systematic exploration of social evolution as a phenomenon and as a paradigm.

Is sociology best understood as simply chipping away at our ignorance about society, or does it have broader roles and responsibilities?

Citizenship studies is at a crucial moment of globalizing as a field.

This book analyses the political significance of soccer for Arab-Jewish relations.

Since the 1970s, various sociological approaches have tried to understand and conceptualize "e;the global,"e; yet few of them have systematically addressed the full spectrum of social relationships.

Practices - specific, recurrent types of human action and activity - are perhaps the most fundamental "e;building blocks"e; of social reality.

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This book situates sociological research as a vital tool for understanding, and responding to, the multispecies entanglements that cause, inform and arise from states of crisis involving the environment, climate and zoonotic disease transmission.

Throughout history mankind has struggled to reconcile itself with the inescapability of its own mortality.

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

The debate over religious lawmaking pits respect for religious pluralism against moral identity-with liberal theorists contending that religious lawmaking is generally suspect in a morally and religiously diverse polity like the United States, and communitarian ones arguing that lawmakers cannot, and should not, be expected to suppress their religious commitments in their public policy making.

This book explores the ancient question of why man seeks to go beyond his limits.

Consciousness and the Neoliberal Subject outlines a theory of ideological function and a range of ideological positions according to which individuals rationalise and accept socio-economic conditions in advanced consumer capitalist societies.

Renowned Marxist scholar and critical media theorist Christian Fuchs provides a thorough, chapter-by-chapter introduction to Capital Volume 1 that assists readers in making sense of Karl Marx's most important and groundbreaking work in the information age, exploring Marx's key concepts through the lens of media and communication studies via contemporary phenomena like the Internet, digital labour, social media, the media industries, and digital class struggles.

This book explores the thought of the three 'founding' members of the Austrian School of economics: Carl Menger, Friedrich von Wieser, and Eugen Bohm-Bawerk, considering the overlapping and specialization of their work on money, value, and capital.

This volume considers the rise of a new mode of creating, spreading, and encountering moral claims and ideas as they are expressed within spectacles.

This book outlines a new account of the tacit, meaning tacit knowledge, presuppositions, practices, traditions, and so forth.

The primary concern of this study is to present, elucidate and analyse the developments which have characterized the sociology of knowledge, and which have set for it the outlines of its major problematics.

This book extends debates in the field of biographical research, arguing that causal explanations are not at odds with biographical research and that biographical research is in fact a valuable tool for explaining why things in social and personal lives are one way and not another.

Provides a new framework for reconceptualizing the historical and contemporary relationship between cultural diversity, political authority, and international order.

This bold and illuminating study examines the role of archaeology in the formation of modern Japanese national identity.

Local leaders don't need to become professional facilitators or hire expensive consultants to run a great meeting.

Social Theory is more than a reader.

This edited collection highlights the diversity and reach of global leisure studies and global leisure theory.

In this fifth edition of the best-selling core introductory textbook, Pete Alcock and Lee Gregory provide a comprehensive and engaging introduction to social policy.

In 2008 another economic crisis emerged in the long history of capitalism which created a period of 'austerity economics' across many nations.

Media studies needs richer and livelier intellectual resources.

This book is full of ideas about how social work education can confront the individualising and often blaming form of social work that neoliberalism ushered in four decades ago.

Multiple killings by serial or spree killers and the mass violence seen in war crimes and other atrocities have typically been understood as discrete category types, which can foster the view that there are fundamentally different kinds of human beings, including "e;deviants"e; who are born evil and innately given to sadism or a callous lack of empathy.