Social theory

This book explores the idea that alternatives to our present condition are available in the present, such that a search for alternatives must involve rigorous study of some of its central texts, events, and thinkers.

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

Welcome to Social Theory is exactly what students want: a lucid and engaging introduction to social theory that carefully uses images, examples and quotations to illustrate new ways of examining contemporary social life.

Welcome to Social Theory is exactly what students want: a lucid and engaging introduction to social theory that carefully uses images, examples and quotations to illustrate new ways of examining contemporary social life.

This book by Jonathan Turner and Anthony Roberts proposes a new theoretical approach for explaining the dynamics of inter-societal systems.

Wir leben in einer Welt verschiedener Sprachen, Schöpfungsgeschichten und GeSetzestexte und haben als Einzelne an Kultur und Gesellschaft teil, indem wir unterschiedliche Dialekte oder Sprachen sprechen, lieber Theater als Oper mögen, an den Gott der Bibel und nicht an Zeus glauben, einen Ladendieb bei der Polizei anzeigen und ihm nicht die Hände abhacken, oder lieber Android als iOS benutzen.

Wir leben in einer Welt verschiedener Sprachen, Schöpfungsgeschichten und GeSetzestexte und haben als Einzelne an Kultur und Gesellschaft teil, indem wir unterschiedliche Dialekte oder Sprachen sprechen, lieber Theater als Oper mögen, an den Gott der Bibel und nicht an Zeus glauben, einen Ladendieb bei der Polizei anzeigen und ihm nicht die Hände abhacken, oder lieber Android als iOS benutzen.

As one of the most renowned figures in the history of anthropology, Bronislaw Malinowski is recognised as having been central to the development of the discipline, with interpretations of his thought usually drawing attention to his work in founding the approach of functionalism and his innovative method of intensive field research.

In an age of anxiety, Toope makes the case for a revitalised rule of law to bolster collective resilience and restore our capacity to build healthier societies.

Regimes of Capital in the Post-Digital Age provides a view of the current state of capitalism, through the interrogation of key diagnoses offered by philosophers and social theorists.

This book explores the ways in which memories of Stalin-era repression and displacement manifest across times and places through diverse forms of materialization.

Regimes of Capital in the Post-Digital Age provides a view of the current state of capitalism, through the interrogation of key diagnoses offered by philosophers and social theorists.

This edited collection focuses on the comparative analysis of the application of Shari'a in countries with Muslim minorities (e.

Histories of Portugal s transition to democracy have long focused on the 1974 military coup that toppled the authoritarian Estado Novo regime and set in motion the divestment of the nation s colonial holdings.

Starry Nights: Critical Structural Realism in Anthropology offers nothing less than a reinventing of the discipline of anthropology.

This text, first published in 2006, presents the most important and influential social psychological theories and research programs in contemporary sociology.

In the 1980s and 1990s, neoliberal forms of governance largely dominated Latin American political and social life.

This leading resource is a specifically designed curriculum for family child-care providers.

Recent debates surrounding children in State care, parental rights, and abuse in Ireland's industrial schools, concern issues that are rooted in the historical record.

Recent debates surrounding children in State care, parental rights, and abuse in Ireland's industrial schools, concern issues that are rooted in the historical record.

Erving Goffman (1922-82) was arguably one of the most influential American sociologists of the twentieth century.

What is a model?

This handbook is the first to bring together the latest theory and research on critical approaches to social psychological challenges.

This volume examines minimality in cooperation and shared agency from various angles.

Modern institutional economics was created to study the institutions of pre-digital economies and is based on reductionist approaches.

This edited collection brings together academics, artists and members of civil society organizations to engage in a discussion about the ideas of living with others, through concepts such as cosmopolitanism, solidarity, and conviviality, and the practices of doing so.

This book examines the crossroads of quantum and critical approaches to International Relations and argues that these approaches share a common project of uncovering complexity and uncertainty.

This book draws on case examples of contemporary black activism in South Manchester and contrasts them with events that surrounded C.

This book analyses the social and cultural status of high streets in the age of recession and austerity.

This book presents a collection of essays on institutional theory written by the German sociologist and Weber-expert M.

The book analyses the two decades of the brutal civil war of northern Uganda.

The advent of social complexity has been a longstanding debate among social scientists.

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

Der Band bietet einen Querschnitt durch gut fünfzehn Jahre technik- und innovationssoziologischer Forschungen am von Werner Rammert geleiteten Fachgebiet für Techniksoziologie an der TU Berlin.

Psychosocial studies in the UK is a diverse area of work characterised by innovation in theory and empirical research.

This book brings feminist theories and concepts to the sociology of risk in an attempt to carve out a framework for intersectional risk theories in times of ambivalence.

This book examines the utopian dimension of contemporary social and political thought.

This book explores and explains the reasons why the idea of universal history, a form of teleological history which holds that all peoples are travelling along the same path and destined to end at the same point, persists in political thought.

This book explains how gossip contributes to knowledge.

This book proposes a comprehensive theory of the loss of religion in human societies, with a specific and substantive focus on the contemporary United States.

This book explores and provides an overview of the Norwegian psychologist Jan Smedslund's life work on Psycho-logic.

This book is grounded in psychosocial research that explores the complex intergenerational transmission of memories within families and the transgenerational social issues that form a part of those memories.

In the face of complex, interwoven, planet-scale problems, many cite the need for more integrated knowledge-especially across the natural and social sciences.

This book honors the work of Ruut Veenhoven, who has been a pioneer and leader in the field of happiness studies for the past 50 years.

This book offers a novel interdisciplinary approach to interpret the emergence of the Basque-Spanish nationalist conflict.

This volume offers an unprecedented account of recent and future developments in the sociology of intellectuals.

This book re-evaluates New Left and Marxist texts from the 1980s, in order to explore problems facing the study of 'class' which have emerged within Australian and international theories.

This book offers a practical, methodological guide to conducting arts-based research with children by drawing on five years of the authors' experience carrying out arts-based research with children in Australia and the UK.

This book discusses and theorizes Achille Mbembe's necropolitics, the politics of death, in the specific context of North America.