Social theory

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.

Seven decades since Indian Independence, education takes the centre stage in every major discussion on development, especially when we talk about social exclusion, Dalits and reservations today.

This book addresses the genealogy and consequences of nihilism, attempts at 'sociologizing' the concept of nihilism by relating nihilism to capitalism, post-politics and terrorism, and considers the possibilities of overcoming nihilism.

Democracy as Creative Practice: Weaving a Culture of Civic Life offers arts-based solutions to the threats to democracies around the world, practices that can foster more just and equitable societies.

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

This book explores the empirical manifestations of the paradoxical features of reproductive technologies and provides in-depth understandings of solo motherhood through assisted reproduction and by recognising the complex experiences and the lived realities of forming donor-conceived families.

John Law argues that methods don't just describe social realities but are also involved in creating them.

Non-knowledge should not be simply regarded as the opposite of knowledge, but as complementary to it: each derives its character and meaning from the other and from their interaction.

What does Lyotard's thought offer contemporary theory?

Race and Racism in Russia identifies the striking changes in racial ideas, practices, exclusions and violence in Russia since the 1990s, revealing how 'Russianness' has become a synonym for racial whiteness.

The field of digital technology in education has long been under-theorised.

This is Volume of VII twenty-two on a series on Social Theory and Methodology.

Healing Multicultural America (1993) looks at a group of Mexican immigrants who managed to understand and use the US democratic system to gain access to the 'American Dream'.

"e;It is simply too much"e; is a common complaint of the modern age.

This textbook on the sociology of law is organised according to the theoretical traditions of sociology, and oriented towards providing an accessible, but sophisticated, introduction to, and overview of, the central themes, problems and debates in this field.

Das 2017 erschienene Buch von Hubert Knoblauch »Die kommunikative Konstruktion der Wirklichkeit« enthält den Entwurf einer eigenen, über den bisherigen sozialen Konstruktivismus hinausgehenden soziologischen Theorie.

The structure/agency debate has been among the central issues in recent discussions of social theory.

Dangerous Others, Insecure Societies examines the turn in post-industrial societies towards a fear of cultural, racial or religious externality, adopting a ground-breaking analysis which considers 'insecurity' a constituent part of 'otherness', rather than something separate or following from it.

This book considers how the UK government's response to the recent COVID-19 pandemic disadvantages the working class, and how mutual aid, based on anarchist principles, can be used as a force for social change.

First published in 1987.

This edited collection takes a critical perspective on Norbert Elias's theory of the "e;civilizing process,"e; through historical essays and contemporary analysis from sociologists and cultural theorists.

This book provides a philosophical analysis of the notion of selfhood that underlies identity politics.

Social Researching (1984) examine the 'stories' about 'real' research in social sciences and its problems, and discusses funding, publication, the history of major projects, postgraduate work and issues raised by feminists doing research, as well as the practical, ethical and political difficulties.

At times of triumphant neo-liberalism cities increasingly become objects of financial speculation.

This volume presents a series of illustrative and critical perspectives upon the developing study of men and masculinities and its importance for sociological theory.

First published in 1977, Puritan, Paranoid, Remissive investigates the process of the transformation of Western society in the twentieth century.

Community is the dark shadow of sociology - an issue around which sociologists always duck and dive.

David R.

Falk argues that the failure to achieve what he terms "e;humane global governance"e; is partially due to the exclusion of religious and spiritual dimensions of human experience from the study and practice of government.

"e;[Hogan's] goal is not merely to explain but to provide tools of understanding that will be of practical value to those who struggle for justice and freedom.

Some goods are freely traded as commodities without question or controversy.

Pathbreaking theoretically and innovative in treatment, Populism in Global Perspective is a seminal addition to the literature on arguably the most controversial and fervently discussed topic in political science today.

How does order emerge out of the multiplicity of bodies, objects, ideas and practices that constitute the urban?

This book explores the transformation of youth and urban culture in neoliberal Britain.

Changing relations between science and democracy - and controversies over issues such as climate change, energy transitions, genetically modified organisms and smart technologies - have led to a rapid rise in new forms of public participation and citizen engagement.

Drawing together philosophical, empirical and academic thinking, this book focuses on generating awareness of the relationship forged between self and surroundings.

"e;An important work of scholarship, with powerful, concise, and objective insights into the complicated history of alcohol use among Native American peoples.

Norms of embodied behaviour for males and females, as promoted in mainstream Western public arenas of popular culture and the everyday, continue to work, overtly and covertly, as definitive and restrictive barriers to the realm of possibilities of embodied gender expression and appreciation.

Humans are accustomed to being tool bearers, but what happens when machines become tool bearers, calculating human labour via the use of big data and people analytics by metrics?

The Routledge International Handbook of Interactionism demonstrates the promise and diversity of the interactionist perspective in social science today, providing students and practitioners with an overview of the impressive developments in interactionist theory, methods and research.

This collection provides an innovative and multifaceted reflection on the impact and inspiration Marilyn Strathern''s scholarship has for contemporary anthropology.

Foundations of Critical Media and Information Studies lays down foundations for the analysis of media, information, and information technology in 21st century information society, as well as introducing the theoretical and empirical tools necessary for the critical study of media and information.

Explains how actors control access to international resources, creating a stratified international system of political equals and unequals.

While Georg Simmel is widely known, the impact of his work has been far from straightforward, with the ways in which his ideas have been taken up by later thinkers as complex and diverse as the ideas themselves.

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.

This book comprehensively collects the thinking - over the last 25 years - of one the most important contemporary scholars in the field of ideology studies.

In the latter part of the C20th, a series of seminal books were written which examined Los Angeles by the likes of Reyner Banham, Mike Davis, Edward Soja, Allen Scott, Michael Dear, Frederick Jameson, Umberto Eco, Bernard-Henri Levy, and Jean Baudrillard which have been hugely influential in thinking about cities more broadly.

Disasters of the 21st century differ substantially from other kinds of hazards that previous societies have had to cope with because of the twin forces of globalization and the communications revolution.