Social theory

This book draws on core concepts coined by Adorno, such as identity thinking, the culture industry, and his critique of the autonomous and rational subject, to address the ills that plague neoliberal capitalist societies today.

Shifting Solidarities offers a comprehensive analysis of solidarity at a time when major social transformations have penetrated the heart of European societies, disrupting markets and labour relations, transforming social practices, and affecting the moral infrastructure of European welfare states.

This book offers a profoundly new examination of life strategies of migrants from regimes in crisis.

This Palgrave Pivot will present a comprehensive history of sociology in Britain, tracking the discipline's intellectual developments within the institutional and political context.

This book examines how 20th century theorists have used a discourse of "e;crisis"e; to frame their conceptualizations of modernity.

This book investigates death as part of contemporary everyday experience and practices.

This volume explores contemporary social conflict, focusing on a sort of violence that rarely receives coverage in the evening news.

This book seeks to bring understanding of both complexity and temporality into criminology.

This book presents an overview of the life and work of Gustav Ichheiser, a social scientist in Vienna during the early 20th century.

This is the first concise study to give full credit to the collaboration of works between French nobleman, writer and politician Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) and his travel companion and friend Gustave de Beaumont (1802-66), and puts this collaboration into its social, historical and theoretical context.

In this accomplished, comprehensive and accessible book Barry Smart explores these questions.

This book explores how changes that occurred around 1989 shaped the study of the social sciences, and scrutinizes the impact of the paradigm of neoliberalism in different disciplinary fields.

Although sociological research has examined the reproduction of Chile's elites, there is little empirical evidence as to how different forms of capital operate within them.

This book explores the idea of social class in the liberal tradition.

Examining the subtle forms of aggression, violence, and harassment that occur in our society and manifest in institutions and places of work, the expert contributors collected here describe the experience of social marginalization and expose how vulnerable individuals work to navigate exclusionary climates.

This book evaluates the consequences of economic, social, environmental and cultural change on people living and working within Teesside in the North-East of England.

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.

This book explains and theorises the ways in which family policy instruments come to shape the routine care arrangements of young children.

This book provides a detailed reconstruction of the process of formation of the modern concept of society as an objective entity from the 1820s onwards, thus helping to better understand the shaping of the modern world and the nature of the current crisis of modernity.

This book demonstrates how pop culture examples can be used to demystify complex social theory.

This volume presents recent developments in identity theory and research.

This book posits that a singular paradigm in social theory can be discovered by reconstructing the conceptual grammar of Gabriel Tarde's micro-sociology and by understanding the ways in which Gilles Deleuze's micro-politics and Michel Foucault's micro-physics have engaged with it.

What was Adam Smith's intellectual laboratory?

The book introduces Tadeusz Kotarbinski's philosophy of action into the mainstream of contemporary action-theoretical debates.

This sociological work examines the phenomenon of the Death Cafe, a regular gathering of strangers from all walks of life who engage in "e;death talk"e; over coffee, tea, and desserts.

This book explores the most important aspects of populism as a significant social phenomenon.

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.

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

This book analyses the legitimacy deficits in democratic welfare work using Habermas' theories of communicative action, law and  morality.

This book is a theoretically and historically informed exploration of 'secularism' in Muslim contexts.

In a critical, comparative study of the sociological literature, this book explores the term "e;time,"e; and the various interconnections between time and a broad cluster of topics that create a conceptual labyrinth.

Borders are essentially imaginary structures, but their effects are very real.

As a student and disciple of Karl Popper and longtime managing editor of Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Ian C.

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This book analyses the policies of recognition that were developed and implemented to improve the autonomy and socio-economic well-being of Maori in New Zealand and of indigenous and Afro-descendent people in Colombia.

This book argues that contemporary European politics creates new forms oftransnational power that challenge the traditional parameters of the nation-state.

This book suggests that applied linguistics research is inherently concerned with complexity, emergence and causality, and because of this it also requires a robust social ontology.

This book presents essays that address fundamental issues in social and cultural theory by viewing them through the lens of aesthetic theory.

In 1984, the celebrated sociologist and historian Norbert Elias convened a major conference on 'Civilisations and civilising processes' at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (University of Bielefeld).

This book conducts a critical investigation into everyday intercultural recognition and misrecognition in the domain of paid work, utilising social philosopher Axel Honneth's recognition theory as its theoretical foundation.

Identifying scientism as religion's secular counterpart, this collection studies contemporary contestations of the authority of science.

This book provides a comprehensive and thorough interpretation of Beck's theory of the (world) risk society, from its original formulation up to his sudden death on New Year's Day 2015.

This textbook examines interaction, reciprocity, dualism, conflict, and personality in the work of Georg Simmel.

This book investigates the impact of internet use on anti-government protesting under authoritarian rule.

This edited collection highlights the diversity and reach of global leisure studies and global leisure theory.

This volume examines Max Weber's pre-World War I thinking about bureaucracy.

This book argues that the breaking and re-making of frames of analysis underlie the history of theorizing in anthropology.

The diagnosis of social pathologies has long been a central concern for social researchers working within, and on the peripheries of, Critical Theory.

A brief commentary on the necessity and the impossibility of black men's participation in the development of black feminist theory and politics, Black Men, Black Feminism examines the basic assumptions that have guided-and misguided-black men's efforts to take up black feminism.

This book, the last volume in the Social Morphogenesis series, examines whether or not a Morphogenic society can foster new modes of human relations that could exercise a form of 'relational steering', protecting and promoting a nuanced version of the good life for all.