Social theory

For centuries, the trickster has been used in various narratives, including mythological, literary and cinematic, to convey the idea of agency, rebellion and, often turbulent, progress.

Record contracts have been the goal of aspiring musicians, but are they still important in the era of SoundCloud?

This book, first published in 1977, presents for the first time a serious and systematic assessment of Marx primarily as a philosopher.

First published in 1975, this collection of essays embodies a conception of sociological thought as a critical analysis of social theories and doctrines, of social institutions and political regimes, of recent social movements.

Today, public space has become a fruitful venue for surveillance of many kinds.

Drawing on the empirical findings generated by researchers in science studies, and adopting Kropotkin's concept of anarchism as one of the social sciences, Red, Black, and Objective expounds and develops an anarchist account of science as a social construction and social institution.

We are living in a time when social and political authoritarianism appear to be gaining ground around the world.

Originally published in 1994, this book considers one of the enduring themes of social science.

This book examines transborder Latin American sociocultural and spatial conditions across the globe and at different scales, from gendered and racialized individuals to national and transnational organizations.

In this comprehensive and clear introduction to contemporary social theory, Anthony Elliott and Charles Lemert explore the major theoretical traditions from the Frankfurt School to the digital revolution and beyond.

Professor Rex's controversial book concerns not only those who are professional sociologists but all thinking people who live in the modern world.

This sociological work examines the phenomenon of the Death Cafe, a regular gathering of strangers from all walks of life who engage in "e;death talk"e; over coffee, tea, and desserts.

This book surveys the growing field of Queer Criminology.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Max Weber, central thinkers to the discussion of political legitimacy, represent two very different stages and forms of social theory: early modern political philosophy and classical sociology.

Originally published in 1974, this book evaluates and compares three important styles of sociological research: positivism, symbolic interactionism and critique.

Deleuze & Guattari: Emergent Law is an exposition and development of Deleuze & Guattari's legal theory.

This volume puts ambiguity and its generative power at the centre of analytical attention.

The fourth edition of Criminology: The Basics has been fully revised and updated to offer an engaging and concise introduction to the main themes and concerns of this compelling and complex subject and gives an overview of the main theoretical and conceptual approaches to crime and justice.

Current research on social capital tends to focus on an economic reading of social relations.

The Absorption of Immigrants (1954) examines the assimilation of immigrants in the Yishuv (the Jewish Community in Palestine) and in the State of Israel.

Market Society provides an original and accessible review of changing conceptions of the market in modern social thought.

In our time of rampant inequality, imperial-capitalist plunder, violence and ecocide, when radical concepts from the past seem inadequate, how do researchers and students of ethnographic work decide what concepts to work with or renew?

After exposing the limitations of these conflicting perspectives, Maurice Pinard elaborates on an entirely new synthesis, one that involves several motivational components.

Migrant Labour in Europe (1987) examines the movement of workers from less prosperous parts of Europe to areas with demand for their services.

Obligations: New Trajectories in Law provides a critical analysis of the role of obligations in contemporary legal and social practices.

This book assesses how theorists explained processes of change set in motion by the rise of capitalism.

This text is designed for learners who have achieved basic proficiency and wish to progress to more complex language.

The limits of one-dimensional theory are strikingly revealed in the schools that the founders of the major sociological traditions established.

Europe Since 1989 charts the development of Europe east and west since the 1989 revolutions.

Few sociologists have commanded a larger readership than Erving Goffman.

All too often, mobility is evoked as a preferred indicator in explanations of space-time compression and its impact.

The core idea shared by all cosmopolitan views is that all human beings belong to a single community and the ultimate units of moral concern are individual human beings, not states or particular forms of human associations.

Two main criteria have guided the selection and presentation of the material for this text-book.

Paradoxes of Individualization addresses one of the most hotly debated issues in contemporary sociology: whether a process of individualization is liberating selves from society so as to make them the authors of their personal biographies.

An invisible pattern draws together most studies dealing with French cultural radicalism in the 1960s with intellectual creation reduced to individual creation and the role of semiotic and social factors that influence intellectual innovation minimized.

This book provides a comprehensive examination of the police role from within a broader philosophical context.

New materialism challenges the mechanistic models characteristic of early modern philosophy that regarded matter as largely passive and inert.

This book considers post-19th-century Athens as a unique instance of a secret side of metropolitan capitalism.

This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to criminological theory for students taking courses in criminology at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.

This volume provides a collection of critical new perspectives on social capital theory by examining how social values, power relationships, and social identity interact with social capital.

Care for the elderly, disabled and mentally-ill within and by the community forms a vital part of current social policy.

Nationalism is now the dominant narrative in Russian politics, and one with genuine popularity in society.

"Leser:innen, die den Anschluss an moderne Theorieentwicklung verpasst haben, werden behutsam und anspruchsvoll in die Theorie sozialer Systeme eingeführt und können den Theorieaufbau lektionsweise mitverfolgen.

these are just two of the issues addressed by Les Johnston, who argues that policing, far from being the exclusive preserve of public personnel, is an activity undertaken by a mixture of public, private, and quasi-public agents.

This book describes the rules governing international security decision-making and examines the different understandings of collective security in the post-Cold War world.

>Human reproduction is mediated through many technologies, both high- and low-tech.

Cosmopolitan Memory in Europe's 'Backwaters' reconsiders the definitional relationships of 'national character' and 'national heritage' in the context of Western industrial modernity.

This book is rooted in an epistemological approach to sociology in which the boundaries between Western and non-Western sociologies are acknowledged and built on.

Hannah Arendt is today widely regarded today as a political theorist, who sought to rescue politics from society, and political theory from the social sciences.