Social theory

Extremism is one of the most charged and controversial issues of the twenty-first century.

One of the key scientific challenges is the puzzle of human cooperation.

Across sociology and cultural studies in particular, the concept of authenticity has begun to occupy a central role, yet in spite of its popularity as an ideal and philosophical value authenticity notably suffers from a certain vagueness, with work in this area tending to borrow ideas from outside of sociology, whilst failing to present empirical studies which centre on the concept itself.

This book is based on the understanding that the diversity and heterogeneity of science and society are not only issue of critique, but engender experimental forms of collaboration.

Written by two practising clinicians, this book is a guide for those who work with children.

Atmosphere, the elusive ambiance of a place, enables or hinders its mobility in global consumption contexts.

The 1960s saw pioneering changes in the realms of international politics, science, culture and art.

Colonial Pathologies is a groundbreaking history of the role of science and medicine in the American colonization of the Philippines from 1898 through the 1930s.

More extensive methodology is required to study the complexities of everyday life in the rapidly expanding urban areas around the globe, as well as to gain a better understanding of life in established urban areas.

This book proposes a comprehensive theory of the loss of religion in human societies, with a specific and substantive focus on the contemporary United States.

Socionomics: How Social Mood Shapes Society explores the main principles and applications of socionomic theory as elaborated by Robert Prechter.

Drawing on a range of theorists and competing perspectives, this substantially updated and expanded second edition places social theory at the heart of social work pedagogy.

The nature of the contemporary global political economy and the significance of the current crisis are a matter of wide-ranging intellectual and political debate, which has contributed to a revival of interest in Marx's critique of political economy.

Neoliberalism is easily one of the most powerful discourses toemerge within the social sciences in the last two decades, and the number of scholars who write about this dynamic and unfolding process of socio-spatial transformation is astonishing.

Liberals smirk at Trumps narcissism, but, as renowned theorist Anselm Jappe explains, contemporary capitalism has turned everyone into a narcissist.

This study, first published in 1983, explores the connections between Marx's philosophy and his empirical analysis of society and state, by showing the different meanings of many of Marx's concepts as their role in his theory changes and the theory itself develops.

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is predicted to be one of the greatest threats to public health in the twenty-first century.

This best-selling text emphasizes why social and cultural changes are the pervasive realities of our time.

The second edition of the Routledge International Handbook of Globalization Studies offers students clear and informed chapters on the history of globalization and key theories that have considered the causes and consequences of the globalization process.

In the face of complex, interwoven, planet-scale problems, many cite the need for more integrated knowledge-especially across the natural and social sciences.

Dieses Buch setzt sich kritisch mit einer Reihe von provokanten Fragen auseinander: Warum sind die heutigen Gesellschaften so abhängig von den konstruktiven und destruktiven Auswirkungen der Individualisierung?

With a new foreword by Charles Lemert'Its greatness.

Over the last few decades, the academic and public gaze has increasingly focused on military veterans.

This book examines key trends, debates, and challenges in twenty-first-century sociology.

Emile Durkheim, along with Karl Marx and Max Weber, is one of the three 'founding fathers of sociology'.

Using an innovative framework, this reader examines the most important and influential writings on modern class relations.

This book is abut the place of space in the study of class formation.

The rise of cognitive neuroscience is the most important scientific and intellectual development of the last thirty years.

Social Ghosts and the Dead of World History looks at the global phenomena of the dead in world history, examining the phantasms and spirits of classical social science and philosophy.

A Land of Dreams, first published in 1993, explores two events in recent English history: the settlement of East European Jews in the East End of London, and the growth of an African-Caribbean community in Birmingham.

This is the first book addressing explicitly and specifically the methodological issues of relational sociology, and more broadly of the new relational paradigm in social sciences.

Feminists have recently begun to challenge the powerful influence of the law on the social and cultural construction of women's roles, identities, and rights.

First Published in 2004.

This book is the first to systematically reconstruct Michel Foucault's political and philosophical thought across his career.

A succinct and highly imaginative contribution to one of the great intellectual debates of our times.

John Hobson challenges the ethnocentric bias of mainstream accounts of the Rise of the West.

Does contemporary anti-capitalism tend towards, as Slavoj Zizek believes, nihilism, or does it tend towards, as Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri believe, true egalitarian freedom?

Originally published in 1981 Law, State and Society confronts many of the most important issues within the developing field of law and society.

Ein Plädoyer für eine neue Debattenkultur und eine Öffentlichkeit, die sich ihrer Verantwortung bewusst istDie Öffentlichkeit unserer zerstrittenen Spätmoderne ist in einer desolaten Lage.

In recent years, methodological debates in the social sciences have increasingly focused on issues relating to epistemology.

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

Social philosophy can be considered the study of what unifies mankind and the study of values and ideals and what their meaning and worth is to human existence.

We are living in algorithmic times.

This book has two interlocking ambitions.

This book provides a political, economic, and sociological investigation of how neoliberalism shapes 'working class capacities,' or the power of the working class to organize and struggle for its collective interests.

Drawing on Polanyi, Austin and Lacan, Marie Pellegrin-Rescia and Yair Levi offer a powerful critique of the language and categories of thought that dominate the contemporary intellectual and political landscape.

Festivals and the Cultural Public Sphere provides the first major social scientific study of these festivals in the wake of their explosion in popularity over the past decade.

Modern political life is a confusing and disorientating terrain of competing ideologies.