Social theory

This book provides the history and genealogy of an increasingly important subject: liminality.

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Perspectivism: A Contribution to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences advances the philosophy of perspectivism, showing how its capacity to assess competing views of a particular concept by approaching them as different 'sides' of a multi-dimensional object supports a concept of 'adequate' rather than 'absolute' truth.

This edited collection of essays on the conceptual, political and philosophical importance of stillness is positioned within a world that has increasingly come to be understood through the theoretical and conceptual lens of movement.

The Routledge Companion to Social Theory provides an authoritative, comprehensive and provocative introduction to the key traditions of thought in social theory today.

This volume addresses the pluralistic identity of the legal order.

The local public sector is deeply steeped in history.

A historical exploration of scientific disputes on the causation of so-called 'prion diseases', this fascinating book covers diseases including Scrapie, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) and Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE).

Canonical Authors in Consumption Theory is the first work to compile the contributions of the greatest social thinkers in the global conversation about consumption and consumer culture.

Community Justice discusses concepts of community within the context of justice policy and programs and addresses the important relationship between the criminal justice system and the community in the USA.

Vilfredo Pareto is a key figure in the history of economics and sociology.

This book examines the crossroads of quantum and critical approaches to International Relations and argues that these approaches share a common project of uncovering complexity and uncertainty.

This volume fills the gap in books dedicated to the ideas of ground-breaking theorist Juliet Mitchell.

This book provides the first dedicated introduction to the cultural writings and analyses of the radical West Indian thinker C.

Institutions are fundamental aspects for driving tourism and hospitality globally.

The first book to fully explore the multiple ways in which body work features in health and social care and the meanings of this work both for those employed to do it and those on whose bodies they work.

Questions of home and belonging have never been more topical.

This text offers the first book-length introduction to more-than-human geography, exploring its key ideas, main debates, and future prospects.

First published in 1983, this book examines the problems of concept formation in the social sciences, and in particular sociology, from the standpoint of a realistic philosophy of science.

The COVID-19 pandemic and the measures introduced to purportedly contain its spread have wrought an unprecedented global social transformation.

Materialist Feminism and the Politics of Discourse confronts the impasses in materialist feminist work on rethinking 'woman' as a discursively constructed subject.

This book examines the question of how our knowledge of social life affects, and ought to affect, our way of living it.

How can sociology inform our understanding of young people's experiences?

From the everyday and unnoticed to the newsworthy and cutting edge, technology is undoubtedly a fundamental element of our daily lives.

At the outset of the twentieth century, Lenin argued that materialism has to change its form with each new scientific discovery.

Originally published in 1971, this was the first text on community studies which analysed the major empirical work in this field in a comparative perspective.

What global future would ensure hope, justice and peace to the human mankind?

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.

This book explores the ancient question of why man seeks to go beyond his limits.

First published in 1990, this book was the first to explore Foucault's work in relation to education, arguing that schools, like prisons and asylums, are institutions of moral and social regulation, complex technologies of disciplinary control where power and knowledge are crucial.

This book develops a unique sociological approach to the analysis of transnational legal norms.

This book interrogates the philosophical backdrop of Clausewitzian notions of war, and asks whether modern, network-centric militaries can still be said to serve the 'political'.

Over the past decade there has been a remarkable flowering of interest in food and nutrition, both within the popular media and in academia.

This book analyzes civil society as a field of organizations mobilizing on collective goals.

Ralf Dahrendorf (1929 to 2009) has worked in sociology, political practice and political philosophy, and is associated with significant impulses in role theory and conflict theory.

The book starts by discussing the significance of walking for the experience of being human, including a comparative study of the language and cultures of walking.

Peter Berger (1929-2017) was one of the pre-eminent sociologists of the twentieth century.

A pioneering book that takes us beyond economic debate to show how inequality is returning us to a past dominated by empires, dynastic elites, and ethnic divisions.

In almost every human society some people get more and others get less.

What has become known as the Frankfurt School is often reduced to a small number of theorists in media communication and cultural studies.

Exploring the issues of class through in-depth studies of housing, sport, art, music and politics in Britain, Class and Everyday Life persuasively demonstrates the pervasive influence of class on everyday life and the need to centre a radical understanding of class within emancipatory political movements.

This book provides a bridge between Shakespeare studies and classical social theory, opening up readings of Shakespeare to a new audience outside of literary studies and the humanities.

How can we determine an acceptable level of risk?

This volume begins by challenging the bases of the recent scientization of sociology.

First published in 1964, The Psychology of Society deals with the idea of building up a social psychology or the science of human nature.

The Physiology of Industry is a remarkable work which set out to challenge contemporary theory surrounding the economics of labour, supply and demand.

The authors argue in this book that social theory can usefully be conceived in terms of four broad paradigms, based upon different sets of meta-theoretical assumptions with regard to the nature of social science and the nature of society.