Social theory

Using a broad definition of the Durkheimian tradition, this book offers the first systematic attempt to explore the Durkheimians engagement with art.

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

Deciding what user impacts are natural or unnatural has inspired much debate.

In this book questions about definitions and demarcations of sport science are discussed.

This volume offers insights into ongoing global socioeconomic transformations by directing attention to the significance of labour, work, craft, community, social institutions, social movements and emergent subjectivities in different parts of the world.

Examining the relationship between strangers, embodiment and community, Strange Encounters challenges the assumptions that the stranger is simply anybody we do not recognize and instead proposes that he or she is socially constructued as somebody we already know.

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.

In recent years geographers interested in ethnicity, 'race' and racism have extended their focus from examining geographies of segregation and racism to exploring cultural politics, social practice and everyday geographies of identity and experience.

Taking a sociological approach, this text provides a sophisticated, highly readable introduction to Japanese society.

In the light of globalization's failure provide the universal panacea expected by some of its more enthusiastic proponents, and the current status of neo-liberalism in Europe, a search has begun for alternative visions of the future; alternatives to the free market and to rampant capitalism.

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

Resisting Financialization with Deleuze and Guattari aims to provide a contribution in relation to three main areas: the understanding of contemporary capitalism and financialization from a critical perspective; the analysis of resistance to financialization; and the better understanding of the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari.

Three-year-old Kwara'ae children in Oceania act as caregivers of their younger siblings, but in the UK, it is an offense to leave a child under age 14 ears without adult supervision.

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

First published in 1989, this re-issue concerns itself with the relevance of Max Weber's sociology for the understanding of modern times.

Metatheory for the 21st Century is one of the many exciting results of over four years of in-depth engagement between two communities of scholar-practitioners: critical realism and integral theory.

The Anthropology of Morality in Melanesia and Beyond examines how Melanesians experience and deal with moral dilemmas and challenges.

Drawing on never before used archival materials, Replacing the Dead exposes the history of Soviet and Russian abortion policy.

Alongside globalization, the sense of vulnerability among people and populations has increased.

Of the philosophical movements of the twentieth century existentialism is one of the most powerful and thought-provoking.

In this concise introduction, Chad Kautzer demonstrates the shared emancipatory goals and methods of several radical philosophies, from Marxism and feminism to critical race and queer theory.

This Palgrave Handbook showcases how the phenomenological approach, especially but not only as developed by Alfred Schutz, can make important contributions to the theoretical analysis of macro-social phenomena such as the state, history, culture and interculturality, class relations and struggles, social movements and protests, capitalism, democracy, and digitalization processes.

Once again, unfettered capitalism has failed.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the range of themes which make up the field of Historical Sociology.

This volume traces the origins and evolution of the idea of human extinction, from the ancient Presocratics through contemporary work on "e;existential risks.

For decades, evolutionary analysis was overlooked or altogether ignored by sociologists.

In Transmedia Work Karin Fast and Andre Jansson explore several key questions that frame the study of the social and cultural implications of a digital, connected workforce.

In Poetics of Listening, renowned sound studies scholar Brandon LaBelle brings critical attention to listening as a practice, one that can wield significant impact onto individual, interpersonal and community wellbeing.

The essays presented in this volume examine knowledge mobilisation and its relation to research impact and engagement.

In this comprehensive and engaging study Georges Bataille's central ideas - the sacred, community and eroticism - are explored in detail.

Sociologist Jeffrey Guhin spent a year and a half embedded in four high schools in the New York City area -- two of them Sunni Muslim and two Evangelical Christian.

For architecture and urban space to have relevance in the 21st Century, we cannot merely reignite the approaches of thought and design that were operative in the last century.

A social science which has become so remote from the society which pays for its upkeep is ultimately doomed, threatened less by repression than by intellectual contempt and financial neglect.

Originally published in 1915, this pioneer study has long occupied an important place in the literature of sociology.

This book explores a variety of interconnected themes central to contemporary Marxist theory and its further development as a critical social theory.

This astonishing book presents a distinctive approach to the politics of everyday life.

The connections between the emergence of modern society and the experience of melancholy are explored through a comprehensive re-examination of Soren Kierkegaard's rich and insightful writings.

This book analyzes the social and contextual causes of suicide, the existential and philosophical reasons for committing suicide, and the prevention strategies that modern fictional literature places at our disposal.

This book offers a new account of Freud's work by reading him as the social theorist and philosopher he always aspired to be, and not as the medical scientist he publicly claimed to be.

The concepts of practice and institution are of longstanding importance across the social sciences.

This book explores the dynamics of the recent 'progressive cycle' in Latin American politics, associated with a red and pink tide of regime change.

Sociologists have not neglected the study of relationships, but there remains no central definition of what a relationship is.

Lisa McCormick considers the history of classical music competitions and their role in society today by examining highlights and controversies.

This edited collection offers an empirical exploration of social memory in the context of politics, war, identity and culture.

This book examines the intellectual contribution made by Frankfurt School Critical Theory to our understanding of modern life.

This book locates the historical origins of modern global humanitarianism in the recurrent conflict over the ethical treatment of non-Europeans.

Ali Zaidi discloses a largely unnoticed dialogue between Muslim and Western social thought on the search for meaning and transcendence in the human sciences.

The Logical Foundations of Social Theory describes Gert Mueller's argument that physical, biological, social, moral, and cultural reality form an asymmetrical hierarchy of founding and controlling relationships that condition social reality rather than mechanically determining it.