Social theory

Socionomics: How Social Mood Shapes Society explores the main principles and applications of socionomic theory as elaborated by Robert Prechter.

Elias Canetti is a key thinker in the trend towards the renewal of social theory for the 21st century.

Micro social theory covers a rich tradition in sociological thinking and research that focuses on the self or actor and social interaction.

The focus of this book is to examine the growing impact of globalization on education policy and development in the Asia Pacific region.

Debt is often thought of as a mere economic variable governed by a simplistic mechanical logic, ignoring its other facets.

This book seeks to reaffirm the importance of systematic philosophical inquiry into the foundations of political life.

Common views of religion typically focus on the beliefs and meanings derived from revealed scriptures, ideas, and doctrines.

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.

Taking inspiration from the classic text by Raymond Williams, Keywords in Criminology reflects on the language used by criminologists and offers a one stop guide to core concepts in the discipline.

This collection of essays brings together Zygmunt Bauman and a number of internationally distinguished legal scholars who examine the influence of Bauman's recent works on social theory of law and socio-legal studies.

Most people take the conditions they work and live in as a given, believing it to be normal that societies are stratified and that organisations are hierarchical.

This book provides the groundwork for a general theory of modern capitalism by reinterpreting Max Weber's work on the origins and institutional underpinnings of modern capitalism, and Joseph Schumpeter's thought on the mechanisms and functioning of the capitalist economy.

Two decades after the Brundtland Commission's Report "e;Our Common Future"e; adopted the concept of 'sustainable development', this book provides a renewal of the concept exploring the potential for new practices and fields for those involved in sustainability activity.

This book, first published in 1991, demonstrates that Marx is the legitimate founder of what was to become the critical theory of society.

Drawings are everywhere.

Ninety percent of the world's youth live in Africa, Latin America and the developing countries of Asia.

A Finnish journalist, now a naturalized American citizen, asks Americans to draw on elements of the Nordic way of life to nurture a fairer, happier, more secure, and less stressful society for themselves and their childrenMoving to America in 2008, Finnish journalist Anu Partanen quickly went from confident, successful professional to wary, self-doubting mess.

How do intellectuals engage with and affect their publics?

À bas bruit et à l'ombre des nouvelles formes de vulnérabilité sociale, les professionnel(le)s de l'éducation spécialisée accompagnent au quotidien des sujets en grande souffrance, pour leur permettre en finalité de se réapproprier un rapport à la vie et aux autres plus apaisé, juste et responsable.

The book presents insights from a mixed methodology study that examines recent mobility patterns exhibited by the middle classes.

In this volume of essays by leading socio-legal scholars, the dual concepts of consciousness and ideology are examined and used to expose law's presence and power in social life.

In spite of their differing rhetorics and cognitive strategies, sociology and literature are often concerned with the same objects: social relationships, action, motivation, social constraints and relationships, for example.

This book delves into the impacts and consequences of the policy of co-residence at the University of Oxford, investigating why and how women were kept at the periphery of the university and how Oxford responded to the growing demand for women's higher education.

In September 1781, the captain of the British slave ship Zong ordered 133 slaves thrown overboard, enabling the ship's owners to file an insurance claim for their lost "e;cargo.

Utopia should be understood as a method rather than a goal.

Exploring notions of the person through a wide range of anthropological literature, Cathrine Degnen analyses how personhood is built, affirmed, and maintained during various life stages and via multiple cultural forms and practices.

This book looks at conceptions of the individual in recent new approaches in economics.

This book introduces the sociology of philosophy as a research field, asking what can be gained by looking at the discipline of philosophy from a sociological perspective and how to go about doing it, as presented through three case studies of 20th-century Swedish and Scandinavian philosophy.

This book explores the ways in which criminological methods can be imaginatively deployed and developed in a world increasingly characterized by the blurred nature of social reality.

The Penn School of Social Policy and Practice enjoys a reputation as Penn's social justice school, for its faculty actively strives to translate the highest ideals into workable programs that better people's lives.

This collection of essays brings together Zygmunt Bauman and a number of internationally distinguished legal scholars who examine the influence of Bauman's recent works on social theory of law and socio-legal studies.

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.

This edited collection brings together scholars who draw on phenomenological approaches to understand the experiences of young people growing up under contemporary conditions of globalization.

Focusing on the moment when social unrest takes hold of a populace, Law and Disorder offers a new account of sovereignty with an affective theory of public order and protest.

Critical thinking values, skills, and knowledge are integral to evidence-based practice in the helping professions.

This book makes an original contribution to reconnecting criminological inquiry to the core concerns of the classical sociological imagination and to the intellectual resources of comparative and historical sociology.

In this new collection of essays, a range of established and emerging cultural critics re-evaluate Richard Hoggart's contribution to the history of ideas and to the discipline of Cultural Studies.

What survives of the notions, principles and values of critical criminology?

Following Labour's defeat at the polls in 2015, and at time when the Party is attempting to redefine its meaning, values and even identity, there is an urgent need for fresh thinking.

The human life course is filled with and subject to a wide range of personal difficulties, many of which are shared by others.

This volume explores the issues at the center of many historical and contemporary reflections on community and sociality in Continental philosophy.

In this two-volume set, Larry D.

This book aims to recast the way that philosophers understand rhetoric.

An essential A-Z guide to the full range of sociological thought, Sociology: The Key Concepts is an important addition to the established and successful Key Concepts series.

The first emphasis of the volume is on developments in the social theory of environmental issues, the environment, and the environmental crisis.