Social theory

Universal basic income is a controversial policy which is causing a stir amongst academics, politicians, journalists and policy-makers all over the world.

The Routledge Social Science Handbook of AI is a landmark volume providing students and teachers with a comprehensive and accessible guide to the major topics and trends of research in the social sciences of artificial intelligence (AI), as well as surveying how the digital revolution - from supercomputers and social media to advanced automation and robotics - is transforming society, culture, politics and economy.

First published in 1991, this title provides a comprehensive and objective account of the basis of 'green' arguments and their social and political implications.

An incisive study of situated learning, analyzed through a critical theory of social practice as transformational change in everyday life.

A comprehensive guide for management and social science researchers to achieve a deeper understanding of the nature of explanation.

First published in 1945, Maurice Merleau-Ponty's monumental Phenomenologie de la perception signalled the arrival of a major new philosophical and intellectual voice in post-war Europe.

Immigration in Post-War France (1987) presents a collection of articles, illustrations and other data, covering everything from politics and education to religion and rock music, that examine the experience of North African immigrants to France.

This set gathers together a collection of out-of-print titles, all classics in their field.

Freedom is commonly recognized as the struggle for basic liberties, societies based upon open dialogue, human rights and democracy.

This book examines a range of critical concepts that are central to a shift in the social sciences toward "e;pragmatic inquiry,"e; reflecting a twenty-first century concern with particular problems and themes rather than grand theory.

The history of the sex guide for adolescents documents the quite unconscious movement of Western culture's ideas about sex and youth, revealing the heritage of our own sexual beliefs and codes of behaviour.

The Expression of Emotion contains cutting-edge essays on emotional expression written by leading philosophers, psychologists, and legal theorists.

The power of love has become a renewed matter of feminist and non-feminist attention in the 21st century's theory debates.

This book examines the future of the social sciences and the reconstruction of society in contemporary times.

How is a social decision made out of individual members' decisions?

What for decades could only be dreamt of is now almost within reach: the widespread provision of free online education, regardless of a geographic location, financial status, or ability to access conventional institutions of learning.

A look at how public relations has dominated public understanding of the natural environment for over one hundred years.

This is the first comprehensive study of Russian political and social thought in the post-Communist era.

Identifying scientism as religion's secular counterpart, this collection studies contemporary contestations of the authority of science.

This volume illustrates the diversity of populism globally.

What Does 'Art' Mean Now?

Herbert Spencer remains a significant but poorly understood figure in 19th century intellectual life.

Subordination presents a survey of some of the most important ideas developed within feminism since the 1970s.

In The Shoup Doctrine: Essays Celebrating Donald Shoup and Parking Reforms, edited by Daniel Baldwin Hess, 37 city planners, economists, journalists, and parking professionals analyze three major parking reforms proposed by Donald Shoup, a Distinguished Research Professor of Urban Planning at UCLA.

Ours is the era of "e;reinvention"e;.

A comprehensive one-stop reference text, The Routledge Companion to Criminological Theory and Concepts (the 'Companion') will find a place on every bookshelf, whether it be that of a budding scholar or a seasoned academic.

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 title was first published in 2000: Complex Life argues for the importance of the new perspective of non modern social theory in understanding human agency.

This timely and powerful autoethnography traces the spread of and responses to Covid-19: from the uncertainty surrounding its outbreak, to its devastating and continued aftermath.

At a time when most of the innovative techniques in empirical sociology concern themselves with networks of relations among variables (such as indices of occupational prestige, education and income), the central theme of this volume is that there is much substantive insight and analytical leverage to be gained from a conceptualization of social structure directly, as regularities in the patterning of relations among concrete entities.

International Perspectives on Social Theory opens with an identification of the characteristics that define contemporary social movements, including: a blurring and overlapping of taxonomical categories, an evolution towards a post-post-political stage, a great variety and hybridization of organizational structures, an extension of activism to new social and cultural dimensions as the postmodern worldview and agendas become hegemonic, a trend to become global through the reticulated architecture of the space of flows and a capacity for action enhanced by the use of new communication technologies.

In this concise text, Roy Bhaskar sets out to diagnose, explain and resolve the "e;problems of philosophy"e;.

This radical appraisal of Durkheim's method, first published in 1988, argues that fundamental errors have been made in interpreting Durkheim.

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.

How should we understand the personal and social impacts of complex mobility systems?

Are marriages made in heaven?

Routledge Handbook of Counter-Narratives is a landmark volume providing students, university lecturers, and practitioners with a comprehensive and structured guide to the major topics and trends of research on counter-narratives.

Dan Webb explores an undervalued topic in the formal discipline of Political Theory (and political science, more broadly): the urban as a level of political analysis and political struggles in urban space.

In an innovative contribution to the challenging of disciplinary boundaries, Edward J.

Thirty years ago, modernization theory contended that notions of honor would become obsolete in modern democracies.

While the need for effective action toward a greener and socially inclusive economy has long been evident, health promotion in the context of sustainable development has faltered.

This short critical introduction to Pierre Bourdieu's thought is a model of clarity and insight.

Understand how multigenerational family relationships can benefit all generations!

The concept of everyday struggles can enliven our understanding of the lives of young people and how social class is made and remade.

Capitalism and its Critics offers an accessible account of major theories of capitalism from the industrial revolution to the present day.

This book explores how gentrification often reinforces traditional gender roles and spatial constructions during the process of reshaping the labour, housing, commercial and policy landscapes of the city.

Marx's written output was massive.