Social theory

Examining the ontological nature of social groups and the way in which groups should be regarded within moral deliberation this book makes an original contribution to the field of social philosophy.

Volume 36 of "e;Studies in Symbolic Interaction"e; is solely devoted to the "e;Blue-Ribbon Papers"e;.

Living at the dawn of a digital twenty-first century, people living in Western societies spend an increasing amount of time interacting with a terminal and interacting with others at the terminal.

In the neoliberal world of the twenty-first century, the progressive academy urgently needs a vehicle for normative social research.

This book describes a way of sharing dreams in a group, called 'social dreaming'.

This book is a dialectic and multi-perspective examination of classed traumas in late modernity.

This book proposes operational approaches to public sector support to community-led development of urban low-income group social housing in the prevailing and medium-term.

By the early twenty-first century, Americans had embraced a holistic vision of work, that one's job should be imbued with meaning and purpose, that business should serve not only stockholders but also the common good, and that, for many, should attend to the spiritual health of individuals and society alike.

This book explores the demise of the grand narrative of European modernity.

Cultural Conflict and Adaptation (1990) examines the alienation and cultural conflicts faced at school by the children of a small group of Hmong who have settled in La Playa, California.

This textbook offers a new approach to understanding social theory.

Urban Change and Citizenship in Times of Crisis addresses the fact that in the beginning of the twenty-first century the majority of the world's population is urbanised, a social fact that has turned cities more than ever into focal sites of social change.

Recent work on rent and rentierism has offered a distinctive and fresh approach to understanding and explaining contemporary capitalism.

Space is the first accessible text which provides a comprehensive examination of approaches that have crossed between such diverse fields as philosophy, physics, architecture, sociology, anthropology, and geography.

This book investigates the iconic architectural cultural spaces of the contemporary cityscape as engines of regeneration.

This book illustrates how social meanings provided by music are experienced throughout the course of life.

How well can democratic decision making incorporate the knowledge and expertise generated by public policy analysts?

Psychology and the Conduct of Everyday Life moves psychological theory and research practice out of the laboratory and into the everyday world.

Social philosophy can be considered the study of what unifies mankind and the study of values and ideals and what their meaning and worth is to human existence.

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

Work and the nature of occupations are matters of central concern to the sociologist.

The course of German philosophy in the twentieth century is one of the most exciting and controversial in the history of human thought.

Dialectic: The Pulse of Freedom is now widely regarded as a classic of contemporary philosophy.

An incisive exploration of why acts of mass annihilation take place and how people become mass killers By historical standards, the early years of the twenty-first century have been remarkably peaceful.

Taking its inspiration from Michel Foucault, this volume of essays integrates the analysis of security into the study of modern political and cultural theory.

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This book explores the elective affinity of religion and post-secularism with neoliberalism.

This book interrogates the idea of equity in the context of India's Northeast region.

A striking feature of the human condition is its dual, contradictory, inherently split character; on the one hand, autonomy and freedom; on the other, constraint and dependence on social structure.

Kant casts a long shadow over contemporary debates in political philosophy.

How can we rethink ideas of policy failure to consider its paradoxes and contradictions as a starting point for more hopeful democratic encounters?

This book investigates the sociohistorical making of place and people in Copenhagen from around 1900 to the present day.

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.

This book will give unique insight into how a new generation of Bourdieusian researchers apply Bourdieu to contemporary issues.

Zygmunt Bauman was one of the most important social theorists of recent decades.

Both the Christian right and right-wing white supremacist groups aspire to overcome a culture they perceive as hostile to the white middle class, families, and heterosexuality.

This book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the correlates and consequences of residential relocation.

Simultaneously a critique of Foucauldian governmentalist interpretations of neoliberalism and a historical materialist reading of contemporary South Asian fictions, Allegories of Neoliberalism is a probing analysis of literary representations of capitalism's "e;forms of appearance.

On the Genealogy of Critique intervenes into both contemporary academic debates on critique, and today's mainstream criticism, by reflecting upon the relationship between criticality and social change in the age of post-politics.

This book shows how Max Weber's perceptions of the social and political world he inhabited in Wilhelmine Germany were characterized by a nationalist commitment which coloured practically every aspect of his thought, including his social scientific writings and the formulations they expound.

This book provides a rigorous and cross-disciplinary analysis of this Melanesian nation at a critical juncture in its post-colonial and post-conflict history, with contributions from leading scholars of Solomon Islands.

First published in 1983, Women's Imprisonment explores the meanings of women's imprisonment and, in particular, the wider meanings of the 'moment' of prison.

This book covers a varied spectrum of ethical topics, ranging from the fundamental considerations regarding ethical values, to the rationale of obligation, and the ethical management of societal and personal affairs.

This selection, first published in 1973, compiles a fascinating study of crowd psychology as it examines the moral epidemics and fits of madness that have bewitched the cities of Europe and their citizens from the dark ages to modern times.

First published in 1982, this book examines anti-semitism in the Western world.

Social movements and popular struggle are a central part of today's world, but often neglected or misunderstood by media commentary as well as experts in other fields.