Social theory

While many analysts emphasize Trump's uniqueness, he can also be viewed as a symptom of a deeper systemic crisis.

To what extent is neoliberalism undermining democracy and distorting the values of science?

A central theme of this lively and accessible text is that theory helps us to understand policy, politics and practice.

First published in 1914, W.

Imaginative Methodologies in the Social Sciences develops, expands and challenges conventional social scientific methodology and language by way of literary, poetic and other alternative sources of inspiration, as sociologists, social workers, anthropologists, criminologists and psychologists all rethink, provoke and reignite social scientific methodology.

In this volume well-known scholars from India and Latin America - Enrique Dussel, Madhu Dubey, Walter D.

Originally published in 1957, The Unservile State looks at the theme of liberty in the Welfare State.

Most recent sociological work on the theory of class is based on a distinction between Weberian and Marxist approaches.

The book starts by discussing the significance of walking for the experience of being human, including a comparative study of the language and cultures of walking.

This Dictionary provides a unique and groundbreaking survey of both the historical and contemporary interrelations between ethics, theology and society.

Memories and Representations of Terror: Working Through Genocide explores how memories and representations shape our understanding of historical events, particularly the ways in which societies create narratives about genocide and its aftermath, using Argentina's last military dictatorship (1976-1983) and its contested legacy as a case study.

The first sociology of religion textbook to begin the task of diversifying and decolonizing the study of religion, Sociology of Religion develops a sociological frame that draws together the personal, political and public, showing how religion - its origins, development and changes - is understood as a social institution, influenced by and influencing wider social structures.

First published in 1989.

This book contends that Afrocentricity and other ideas birthed by major contemporary Black thinkers in the Diaspora are wellsprings for helping to build a new Africa.

Stories and storytelling are one of the primary ways that families and family members make sense of both everyday and difficult events, create a sense of individual and group identity, remember, connect generations, and establish guidelines for family behavior.

This book is a critique and provincialization of Western social science and Global Northern academia, by the author of The Digital Coloniality of Power.

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

How is labour changing in the age of computers, the Internet, and "e;social media"e; such as Facebook, Google, YouTube and Twitter?

Our political age is characterized by forms of description as big as the world itself: talk of public knowledge and public goods, the commons or global justice create an exigency for modes of governance that leave little room for smallness itself.

This Companion provides an authoritative source for scholars and students of the nascent field of media geography.

The rise of the "e;information society"e; offers not only considerable peril but also great promise.

The second edition of this seminal work includes the original text, first published in 1974, alongside two major new chapters.

Analysing emotions and emotion-management in the academic organization, Passion and Paranoia shows how focusing on emotions in organizations can offer insights into important aspects and the dynamics of organizational processes.

Dieses Buch handelt von Interessen und ihrer Rolle im sozialen Handeln.

The new 'mobilities turn' has become a powerful perspective in social theory.

This book brings together a collection of emergent research that moves the debate on desistance beyond a general consideration of individual and social structural influences.

This book argues that societies are complex dynamical systems that can be understood through the concept of emergence.

Cultural Analysis and Bourdieu's Legacy explores the achievements and limitations of a Bourdieusian approach to cultural analysis through original contributions from distinguished international scholars.

This book engages with the ethics and practices of identity formation in a world experiencing identity stress.

David Harvey is among the most influential Marxist thinkers of the last half century.

Foundations of Social Theory: A Critical Introduction accessibly introduces students to classical and contemporary social theory, exploring the foundational theories which shape the discipline while also engaging critically with their contribution and presenting the more progressive and contemporary theorists in dialogue with canonical figures.

This book asks whether there exists an essence exclusive to human beings despite their continuous enhancement - a nature that can serve to distinguish humans from artificially intelligent robots, now and in the foreseeable future.

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.

One of the greatest contributors to the field of Sociology, Jurgen Habermas has had a wide-ranging and significant impact on understandings of social change and social conflict.

Although human lives towards the second half of the twentieth century became increasingly mediated by objects and artifacts and have depended heavily on the functioning of technical systems, materiality in a broad sense became relatively marginalized as a topic of research interest.

The book examines the issues of sustainability in general.

We are all modern today.

This volume of cutting-edge research comparatively analyzes violent protest and rioting, furthering our understanding of this increasingly prevalent form of claim making.

This book addressees a timely and fundamental problematic: the gap between the aims that people attempt to realize democratically and the law and administrative practices that actually result.

In a world where frontiers are militarised and classifications systems defining rights and belonging are reinforced, transnational feminist agendas are fundamental.

Neoliberalism has been one of the most hotly contested themes in academic and political debate over the last 30 years.

This major theoretical work takes existing work on the emotions in significantly new directions.

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

This book brings together key essays from the career of social theorist John O'Neill, including his uncollected later writings, focusing on embodiment to explore the different ways in which the body trope informs visions of familial, economic, personal, and communal life.

Practicing Culture seeks to revitalize the field of cultural sociology with an emphasis not on abstract theoretical debates but on showing how to put theoretical sources to work in empirical research.

This book, first published in 1992, challenges the elitism and cultural pessimism of much Anglo-American and Continental cultural debate with regard to the role and power of transnational media practices.

De-centering queer theory seeks to reorient queer theory to a different conception of bodies and sexuality derived from Eastern European Marxism.