Social theory

Media technologies do not simply record or represent trauma but transform trauma into a cultural form that is multifariously commodified in different contexts.

The idea of citizenship is widely used in daily life.

This volume is the first collection of Martha Albertson Fineman's most important and influential work.

For the past decade European countries have undergone a severe economic crisis, with severe consequences both for individuals and for governments.

This book extends debates in the field of biographical research, arguing that causal explanations are not at odds with biographical research and that biographical research is in fact a valuable tool for explaining why things in social and personal lives are one way and not another.

In Football and Accelerated Culture, Steve Redhead offers a new and challenging theorisation of global football culture, exploring the relationship between sport and culture in a rapidly shifting world.

Kathy Charmaz (1939-2020) was the developer of Constructivist Grounded Theory (CGT), a key method in qualitative research internationally and across many disciplines and professions.

Over the course of more than 70 years, students of symbolic interactionism have demonstrated how a resourceful and conceptually rich perspective can generate variegated lines of research.

First published in English in 1953, this volume represents a collection of three essays written by seminal sociologist and philsopher Emile Durkheim in which he puts forward the thesis that society is both a dynamic system and the seat of moral life.

Social theory is open to many passing currents.

Democracy, States, and the Struggle for Social Justice draws on the fields of geography, political theory, and cultural studies to analyze experiments with novel forms of democracy, highlighting the critical issue of the changing nature of the state and citizenship in the contemporary political landscape as they are buffeted by countervailing forces of corporate globalization and participatory politics.

This book is a dialectic and multi-perspective examination of classed traumas in late modernity.

The latest three- and four dimensional images produced by modern ultrasound technology offer strikingly realistic representations of the foetus - representations that have further transformed experiences of pregnancy, the public understanding of foetal existence and the rhetoric of the abortion debate.

As a discipline, social work needs an inclusive metatheory for both research and practice that goes beyond positivism and constructivism.

Big Data, gathered together and re-analysed, can be used to form endless variations of our persons - so-called 'data doubles'.

Shows that the acquisition of political power and demand for rights by ascendant minority groups in Eastern Europe has precipitated a backlash of radical right mobilization.

This book is an introductory guide to the work of Talcott Parsons, designed specifically for students and those new to his work.

Exposes the tension between the legal status of immigrants and the government emphasis on integration.

Public policy thinking and implementation is both a process of intellectual thought and rationale for governing.

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

Unexceptional Politics develops a vocabulary of terms drawn from a wide range of media (political fiction, art, film, and TV serials), highlighting the scams, imbroglios, information trafficking, brinkmanship, and parliamentary procedures that obstruct and block progressive politics.

Recent work on rent and rentierism has offered a distinctive and fresh approach to understanding and explaining contemporary capitalism.

Watching people protest, one hypothesis is that underlying these actions for specific justifiable causes is a sense of wishing to belong, of wishing not to be alone.

The Routledge Handbook of Sport, Gender and Sexuality brings together important new work from 68 leading international scholars that, collectively, demonstrates the intrinsic interconnectedness of sport, gender and sexuality.

Figurational sociology offers an important set of conceptual and methodological tools for helping us to understand sport, leisure and health and their relationship to wider society.

Prophets and Patriots takes readers inside two of the most active populist movements of the Obama era and highlights cultural convergences and contradictions at the heart of American political life.

This book presents a novel approach to framing the concept of stigma, and understanding why and how it functions.

From the rise of far-right regimes to the tumult of the COVID-19 pandemic, recent years have brought global upheaval as well as the sedimentation of longstanding social inequalities.

When the Matrix trilogy was published in the mid-1980s, it introduced to mass culture a number of post-human tropes about the conscious machines that have haunted our collective imaginaries ever since.

Sociological explanations of racism tend to concentrate on the structures and dynamics of modern life that facilitate discrimination and hierarchies of inequality.

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

This book provides a theoretical framework for understanding the micropolitics of speed; a rich, nuanced, and embodied account of life in an accelerating world.

Reproductive Governance and Bodily Materiality explores the growing centrality and power of the medical professional and lay practices within the field of human reproduction as they entangle with political economic processes, providing examples from multiple countries.

The dominant economic explanations of the 20th century are not comprehensive enough to describe the complexity of economy and society and their reliance on the biosphere.

This cutting-edge research volume advances the widely accepted perspective that cultural factors are central elements in shaping trajectories, organizational forms, recruitment, protest strategies and ideologies of social movements.

What binds societies together and how can these social orders be structured in a fair way?

All social scientists learn the celebrated theories and frameworks of their predecessors, using them to inform their own research and observations.

Seki presents an ethnography of uncertainty and precarity experienced by people in urban, rural, and transnational, communities in the Philippines as a case study of social protection without the possibility of a robust welfare state.

What makes for good societies and good lives in a global world?

Modern social science is largely pessimistic about social life and inquiry and this text traces the reasons for this.

In light of an unprecedented constitutional acknowledgement of diverse epistemologies and stipulation making the protection and advancement of so-called 'ancestral knowledges' a duty of the state, this research provides an analysis of the uptake of historically subalternised knowledges by the state during the government of Rafael Correa (2007-2017), as well as of the strive for epistemic justice by peoples and nationalities' organisations in the context of struggles for social change, decolonisation, and self-determination.

First published in 1964, The Psychology of Society deals with the idea of building up a social psychology or the science of human nature.

Edward Carpenter's Towards Democracy is well-known as a starting point of his later work.

There is a growing interest within law schools in the intersections between law and different areas of social theory.

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.