Social theory

This book sets out to define and consolidate the field of bioinformation studies in its transnational and global dimensions, drawing on debates in science and technology studies, anthropology and sociology.

The 'death of tragedy' in the modern era has been proposed and debated in recent years, largely in terms of literature and western culture in general.

In modern times, death is understood to have undergone a transformation not unlike religion.

For over twenty years, A History of Anthropological Theory has provided a strong foundation for understanding anthropological thinking, tracing how the discipline has evolved from its origins to the present day.

Higher education is increasingly unable to engage usefully with global emergencies, as its functions are repurposed for value.

Social Theory is more than a reader.

The Reflexive Initiative is an authoritative intervention in the practice and tradition of reflexive social theory.

Critical criminological theories and perspectives are typically major components of Criminology degree courses.

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.

Biological justification for all forms of inequality has a long history, with the claim that particular groups suffer disproportionately from inherited flaws of ability and character used to explain a remarkably wide variety of inequalities.

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.

Youth unemployment in the UK remains around the one million mark, with many young people from impoverished backgrounds becoming and remaining NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training).

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

Drawing on the thought of Durkheim, this volume focuses on societal changes at the symbolic level to develop a new conceptualisation of the emergence of postsecular societies.

Drought draws together contributions from over 75 leading international researchers in the field to present the most comprehensive body of research on the physical and social dimensions of drought to date.

This book provides a major assessment of the effectiveness of the concept of gender.

Intellectual struggles with the "e;animal question"e;-- how humans can rethink and reconfigure their relationships with other animals-- first began to take hold in the 1970s.

Blending critical theory, conjunctural cultural studies, and assemblage theory, Making Sport Great Again introduces and develops the concept of uber-sport: the sporting expression of late capitalism's conjoined corporatizing, commercializing, spectacularizing, and celebritizing forces.

This book provides a solution to the problem of social structure and individual agency, an intense debate in the social sciences.

In seiner Kompaktheit ist der Band speziell zugeschnitten auf die Bedürfnisse im Rahmen von BA- und MA-Studiengängen.

Dialectic: The Pulse of Freedom is now widely regarded as a classic of contemporary philosophy.

Examining the core sociological theories that have emerged in the first two decades of the current century, A Critical Introduction to Contemporary Social Theory outlines their attempts to answer the most fundamental questions of the discipline, from the nature of social order to the mechanisms of social change.

Angesichts großer Herausforderungen hat utopistisches Denken aktuell Konjunktur.

By examining intercultural relations in seventeen societies, this book answers the fundamental question: ''how shall we all live together?

This book applies Thorstein Veblen's cultural theory to a qualitative study of the charro cowboy culture and community in Mexico.

Fully revised, with an updated bibliography and new, relevant illustrative examples based on work inspired by critical realism, this new edition of Explaining Society constitutes an up-to-date resource connecting methodology, theory, and empirical research.

Knowledge and the Social Sciences takes as its point of departure the claims that all forms of knowledge, the social sciences included, must be seen and understood in their social context.

How are identities formed among social workers, many of whom perform complex, challenging and ambiguous public sector functions on a regular basis?

This comprehensive volume highlights and centers untold histories of education at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) from 1937 to 2020, using the critical voices of artists, scholars, designers, and educators.

Renowned Marxist scholar and critical media theorist Christian Fuchs provides a thorough, chapter-by-chapter introduction to Capital Volume 1 that assists readers in making sense of Karl Marx's most important and groundbreaking work in the information age, exploring Marx's key concepts through the lens of media and communication studies via contemporary phenomena like the Internet, digital labour, social media, the media industries, and digital class struggles.

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Since its original publication in 1979, The Possibility of Naturalism has been one of the most influential works in contemporary philosophy of science and social science.

Comprehensive and engaging, this textbook introduces students not only to foundational sociological work, but also to insights from contemporary sociological theory and research.

Emerging over the past ten years from a set of post-structuralist theoretical lineages, non-representational theories are having a major impact within Human Geography.

A pioneering analysis of agonistic democracy, its history, central thinkers and contribution to contemporary political theory.

Based upon George Ritzer's McDonaldization of Society thesis and incorporating aspects of social theory, this book examines the introduction of care management to social work practice.

Morley's book offers the first accessible guide for students to show how theories, models and concepts have been applied to ancient history.

An unrivalled overview of social theory and its development from 1945 to the present day.

Genealogies of Emotions, Intimacies and Desire excavates epistemologies which attempt to explain changes in emotional regimes from medieval society to late modernity.

This book provides an empirical study of the increasing importance of the concept of the entrepreneur in the context of the neoliberal cultural paradigm.

This accessible introductory text offers an engaging and thought-provoking discussion of class in relation to several cultural, sociological and political schools of thought and draws upon the works of a broad range of key theorists as well as contemporary thinkers to restate the ongoing importance of class as a sociological concept.

Gender and Cosmopolitanism in Europe combines a feminist critique of contemporary and prominent approaches to cosmopolitanism with an in-depth analysis of historical cosmopolitanism and the manner in which gendered symbolic boundaries of national political communities in two European countries are drawn.

After the end of Euro-American hegemony and the return of the multi-centric world, Eurocentrism in philosophy and the social sciences has come under attack.

This volume brings together papers inspired by the work of Duncan Foley, an extraordinarily productive economist who has made seminal contributions to a wide variety of areas.

Born Liquid is the last work by the great sociologist and social theorist Zygmunt Bauman, whose brilliant analyses of liquid modernity changed the way we think about our world today.

We are all citizens of the Biomedical Empire, though few of us know it, and even fewer understand the extent of its power.

Gerhard Preyer und Reuß-Markus Krauße geben einen Einblick in die chinesische Modernisierung und ihren selbstreferenziellen kulturellen Hintergrund seit den 1990er Jahren.

Influential popular philosopher Roman Krznaric argues our brains are wired for social connection: empathy is at the heart of who we are.