Social theory

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In Economies of Abandonment, Elizabeth A.

This book examines how legal institutions reify the value of death in the twenty-first century.

This is the only comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the political economy of the five Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden).

Wilderness provides a multidisciplinary introduction into the diverse ways in which we make sense of wilderness: how we conceptualise it, experience it, interact with, and imagine it.

This volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of the field of more-than-human studies, bringing together contemporary and essential content from leading authors across the discipline.

Roger Holme's work in social and industrial psychology is widely respected.

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.

The phenomenon of consumption has increasingly drawn attention from economists.

For many scholars, the study of community and community development is at a crossroads.

Raising to the challenge of how to grasp such forms of inequalities that are mediated affectively, Affective Inequalities in Intimate Relationships focuses on subtle inequalities that are shaped in everyday affective encounters.

Mapping the resonances, dissonances, and linkages between the thought of Gramsci and Foucault to uncover new tools for socio-political and critical analysis for the twenty-first century, this book reassesses the widely-held view that their work is incompatible.

Niklas Luhmann is recognised as a major social theorist, and his treatise on the sociology of law is a classic text.

Social robotics is a cutting edge research area gathering researchers and stakeholders from various disciplines and organizations.

This book offers a new approach to the problem of evil through an examination of the anthropological figure of the 'trickster'.

Searching explains how to make the fundamental cultural change required for a desirable sustainable future.

Through comparative historical research, this book offers a novel theory explaining the emergence of boredom in modernity.

This book suggests that escapism - the desire to leave one's physical or emotional circumstances for an ideal alternative - is a way to understand the social conflicts that structure our world.

This volume clearly communicates that Weber's influence is of great significance to the history of social science, and to appreciating the theoretical work of other social scientists in the modern age.

In recent years, many disciplines have become interested in the scientific study of morality.

Until today, Western, European sociology contributes to the social reality of colonial modernity, and gender knowledge is a paradigmatic example of it.

While various democratic theorists have looked at particular instances of recent social movements (Occupy or the Arab Spring, for example), none have yet attempted a more general theoretical take on what it is that relates all of these movements and what that running thread can tell us about democratic theory.

This book will give unique insight into how a new generation of Bourdieusian researchers apply Bourdieu to contemporary issues.

In this compelling book, Anthony Elliott traces the rise of psychoanalysis from the Frankfurt School to postmodernism.

The past few decades have seen the beginnings of a convergence between religions and ecological movements.

This cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary analysis looks ahead to the direction which urban studies is likely to take during the twenty-first century.

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Contemporary understandings of inter-generational relations assume that the balance of power has shifted from adults towards children in recent years.

This is a new and revised edition of a book which has had a major impact upon the social sciences and public political debate.

The Survival Regime explores the concept of survival to describe the effects on politics of the fusion of war and capital in globalization.

Marxism is a theory which originated in the context of nineteenth-century industrialised Europe.

First published in 1985, this book provides a comprehensive reappraisal of the diverse Communist development strategies that shaped the twentieth century.

All around the world, societies are experiencing an explosion of organizations and organizing: community clubs, religious groups, social movements, as well as schools, hospitals, businesses and government agencies, increasingly take the form of complex and formal organization.

Globalisation is heavily dependent on physical transport, as people and goods travel over longer distances and with higher frequency.

Originally published in England in 1959, this book evolves a new theory of conflict in industrial society.

Originally published in 1987 Modern German Sociology is a collection of essays containing sociological work published in German since World War II.

Michel Foucault refers to 1965-1970 as, in philosophical terms, 'the five brief, impassioned, jubilant, enigmatic years'.

Informed by 'critical religion' perspective in Religious Studies and postcolonial self-reflection in Sociology, this book interrogates the ideas of 'religion' and 'the secular' in social theory and Sociology.

It is often claimed that the disjunction or opposition between 'action' theories and 'structural' theories rests on a misunderstanding of what social structure is.

Social Healing draws on a transdisciplinary approach-bringing sociology, philosophy, psychology, and spirituality together-to understand health, social suffering and healing in our contemporary world.

 The Serious Leisure Perspective (SLP) is a theoretic framework developed by Robert A.

This book delivers a top-down understanding of relation as a macro-phenomenon in society.

This comprehensive handbook synthesizes the often-fractured relationship between the study of biology and the study of society.

Scientific Knowledge and Sociological Theory centres on the problem of explaining the manifest variety and contrast in the beliefs about nature held in different groups and societies.

In this book David Mansley argues that the frequency with which violence intrudes on to the streets is related to both how society is governed and how it is policed.

Rethinking Contemporary Feminist Politics puts forward a timely analysis of contemporary feminism.

Wilderness provides a multidisciplinary introduction into the diverse ways in which we make sense of wilderness: how we conceptualise it, experience it, interact with, and imagine it.

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.