Social theory

Individualismand holism, the concepts embedded in the title of this book, represent two keytheoretical perspectives that have for many decades steered and shapedsociological thought.

Pierre Bourdieu is arguably the most influential sociologist of the twentieth century, especially since the once common criticisms of his determinism and reproductionism have receded.

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 presents the case that there are forms of human interaction which should be understood as properly second-person plural.

This book contains five chapters centered around the topic of social capital, defined as the networks of relationships among people who live and work in a particular society, enabling that society to function effectively.

In World-Systems Analysis, Immanuel Wallerstein provides a concise and accessible introduction to the comprehensive approach that he pioneered thirty years ago to understanding the history and development of the modern world.

Since the turn of the twenty-first century, the field of positive psychology has sought to implement a science of human flourishing so that we may lead happier, more fulfilling lives.

This book offers a novel interdisciplinary approach to interpret the emergence of the Basque-Spanish nationalist conflict.

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Housed in one handy volume for the first time are several of the seminal essays on W.

This book analyzes the representations of movement that reflect time.

This anthology on otherness and the media, first published in 1993, was prompted by the proliferation of writings centring on issues of 'difference', 'diversity', 'multiculturalism', 'representation' and 'postcolonial' discourses.

First Published in 2008.

This book explores the most important aspects of populism as a significant social phenomenon.

In contemporary society the idea of 'revolution' seems to have become obsolete.

Pierre Bourdieu was one of the most influential social thinkers of the past half-century, known for both his theoretical and methodological contributions and his wide-ranging empirical investigations into colonial power in Algeria, the educational system in France, the forms of state power, and the history of artistic and scientific fields-among many other topics.

Watching Murder shines a light onto the dark world of jihadi murder videos and the people who watch and share them on the internet.

This book analyses the war against drugs, violence in streets, schools and families, and mining conflicts in Latin America.

This book advances a counter-intuitive thesis: modern attacks on the global ecological balance are exclusively the result of processes of social domination, whether they are based on class, gender or nation.

This book, written by a philosopher interested in the problems of social science and scientific method, and a sociologist interested in the philosophy of science, presents a novel conception of how we should think about and carry out the scientific study of social life.

Crossing Cultural Borders (1991) examines the day-to-day interaction of immigrant children with adults, siblings and peers in the home, school and community at large as these families demonstrate their skill in using their culture to survive in a new society.

Sociology is in crisis.

The concept of social capital refers to the ways in which people make use of their social networks in "e;getting ahead.

Well-being studies is an exciting and relatively new multi-disciplinary field, with data being gathered from different domains in order to improve social policies.

To what extent is neoliberalism undermining democracy and distorting the values of science?

Contributors to this highly original book address the many questions raised by researchers and policymakers about the complex and often uneasy relationship between evidence and policy from an international and interdisciplinary perspective.

This book examines the connection between central-local government relations and the transition of contemporary China, the urbanization process and social development.

In recent years, cultural work has engaged the interest of scholars from a broad range of social science and humanities disciplines.

Any study of contemporary industrial societies must take into account the role of power, ideology and class, and the degree to which these determine the development of social structures.

This edited collection calls for renewed attention to the concept of the sociological imagination, allowing social scientists to link private issues to public troubles.

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.

Recent years have seen a dramatic re-emergence of interest in ontology.

Risks, Identities and the Everyday focuses on the individual and the lived experience of everyday risks - a departure from the focus on risk from a macro level.

This book explores the empirical evidence for Mocombe's consciousness field theory, which describes the origins and nature of consciousness in the universe/multiverse in his overall structurationist theory of phenomenological structuralism.

This book examines the 2008 global economic crisis as a complex social phenomenon or "e;social hieroglyphic"e;, arguing that the crisis is not fundamentally economic, despite presenting itself as such.

This book analyzes the World Social Forum (WSF) in a context of crisis and transition in the history of Western capitalist modernity.

"e;Atom,"e; "e;byte"e; and "e;gene"e; are metonymies for techno-scientific developments of the 20th century: nuclear power, computing and genetic engineering.

This new book compiles biographical sketches of top professionals in the field of sociology, as well as research summaries from a number of different focuses in this important field.

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.

Love and depression are key elements in the cultural script of emotions or affectual life within contemporary Western society, and the two have become intertwined to such an extent that it is informative to talk about depressive love.

An exciting look at how archaeology has dealt with the bodily senses and how it can offer a richer glimpse into the human sensory experience.

In his newest book, Stehr builds on his classic book Knowledge Societies (1994) to expand the concept toward one of knowledge capitalism for a now, much-changed era.

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

In this lively and entertaining book, Gordon Marshall explores ten classic studies of British society to demonstrate the valuable qualities of British sociology, and its importance for understanding contemporary society.

This book examines how identities are formed and expressed in political, social and cultural contexts across South Asia.

In Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America, Viet Nguyen argues that Asian American intellectuals have idealized Asian America, ignoring its saturation with capitalist practices.

The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Mental Health offers the most comprehensive collection of theoretical and applied writings to date with which students, scholars, researchers and practitioners within the social and health sciences can systematically problematise the practices, priorities and knowledge base of the Western system of mental health.