Social theory

'Identity' and 'selfhood' are terms routinely used throughout the human sciences that seek to analyze and describe the character of everyday life and experience.

This book examines ''internal conversations'' and their influence on how people make their way through the world.

We see the modern State as the most rational form of governing yet devised, and one which properly recognises our inherent individual rights.

Work That Body: Male Bodies in Digital Culture explores the recent rise in different types of men using digital media to sexualise their bodies.

This book explores the effects of the gradual liberalisation of capital markets and the expansion of consumer credit on poorer households in the United Kingdom, with particular attention to the precariousness caused by a lack of savings and a reliance on debt.

In recent years, an increasing number of separation walls have been built around the world.

Getting Boys Up and Running in the Early Years addresses the fact that boys do less well than girls in all areas of learning in the Early Years and continue to lag behind girls in assessments throughout their school careers.

'Situational Analysis' represents Karl Popper's methodological proposal for the social sciences.

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

Utopian thought and experimental approaches to societal organization have been rare in the last decades of planning and politics.

The economic crisis has brought social differences to the fore, reinventing the old question of inequality as democracy's missed opportunity.

Listening closely to the religious pitch in Rousseau's voice, Cladis convincingly shows that Rousseau, when attempting to portray the most characteristic aspects of the public and private, reached for a religious vocabulary.

First Published in 1991, this book attempts to show the relevance of Durkheim's sociology to the debate on modernity and postmodernism.

Individualism has been one of the driving forces in the rise of modern capitalism, and methodological individualism has been dominant in social science for many years.

The work of the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has emerged as one of the most substantial and innovative bodies of theory and research in contemporary social science.

Using a unique combination of cultural studies research, neo-pragmatist philosophy, and psychoanalytic theory, the author sheds light on the formation of a social identity and the important role that mass media play in this process.

Utopias - whether philosophical, literary, or actual experiments - are attempts to solve all social problems.

Bringing together leading international scholars within the fields of social and political theory and philosophy, this book explores how we should understand work and its role(s) in our lives and wider society.

This book explores the latest thinking about Max Weber and his continuing influence on theoretical and empirical interests today.

As our society confronts the impacts of globalization and global systemic risks-such as financial contagion, climate change, and epidemics-what can studies of the past tell us about our present and future?

The growth and health of the social sciences owe a good deal to the generally held belief that they are socially useful, but is this really so?

In the last decade the study of multiculturalism has become an established field in political and social theory.

Sociology offers fascinating insights into social life that tell us so much about people and society.

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.

Surfing Life is a study of surfing and social change that also provides insights into other experience-based contemporary subcultures and the nature of the self and social formations in contemporary society.

The Anthropocene has become a field of studies in which the influence of human activity on the Earth System and nature is both the main threat and the potential solution.

In times when the social sciences have become increasingly fragmented and more focused on 'the pieces of the puzzle', the puzzle, as a topic in its own right, has slowly been moved towards the background.

This book examines diseases and disasters from the perspective of social and political theory, exploring the ways in which political leaders, social activists, historians, philosophers, and writers have tried to make sense of the catastrophes that have plagued humankind from Thucydides to the present COVID pandemic.

This book is a compendium of pragmatism in the social sciences.

The Genome Incorporated examines the proliferation of human genomics across contemporary media cultures.

Focusing on the work of Hartmut Rosa, this book provides an in-depth account of the extent to which we, as humans, are obliged to face up to the uncontrollability of the world.

Social cohesion has had different meanings for people depending on their background, their interests, where they live in the world, and at what time they lived.

Thug Criminology combines the urgent and as yet silenced voices of former gang/street-involved peoples turned academics, alongside their allies, in order to challenge and disrupt mainstream and academic knowledge about urban youth gangs specifically, and the "e;streets"e; more broadly.

Economics and the social sciences are, in fact, the "e;hard"e; sciences, as Herbert Simon argued, because the complexity of the problems dealt with cannot simply be reduced to analytically solvable models or decomposed into separate subprocesses.

Marking the 50th anniversary of Pitirim A.

This book addresses a question of importance for both theory and practice: Why are joint venture agreements preferred over other types of agreements such as concession agreements, service contracts, and production sharing agreements in the Qatari gas industry?

This book presents a unified set of arguments about the nature of jurisprudence and its relation to the jurist's role.

Economics has become polarised.

The Cultural Production of Social Movements offers a theory of cultural practices, protest tactics, strategic planning and deliberation, and movement organizational structures: "e;ideological contention.

Work Want Work considers in captivating detail how a logic of work has become integral to everything we do, even as the place of formal work has become increasingly precarious.

In this volume, leading scholars from around the world examine the social stratification of arts and culture in contemporary society.

Long sentenced young people are a small but significant part of the juvenile prison population.

First published in 1989, Guards Imprisoned provides an in-depth look into the work and working life of prison guards as they perceive and experience it.

We are often told that we are "e;living in an information society"e; or that we are "e;information workers.

Engaging with some of the central issues in the sociology of religion, this volume investigates the role and significance of churches and religion in contemporary Western and Eastern Europe.

Resisting Ethics is a new contribution to an ongoing debate on how the world can be improved.

Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault are often cast as intellectual adversaries, their legacies marked by differences in method, lineages, and analytical priorities.

This handbook is the first to bring together the latest theory and research on critical approaches to social psychological challenges.