Social theory

This interdisciplinary, book-length study of the linguistics of organizational styling presents an innovative take on the notion of style.

First published in 1993, Crimes of Style investigates the politics of culture and crime through an in-depth case study of graffiti in Denver and the official response to it.

This book looks at the contested relationship between Adivasis or the indigenous peoples, migrants and the state in India.

Welcome to Social Theory is exactly what students want: a lucid and engaging introduction to social theory that carefully uses images, examples and quotations to illustrate new ways of examining contemporary social life.

In this comprehensive and clear introduction to contemporary social theory, Anthony Elliott and Charles Lemert explore the major theoretical traditions from the Frankfurt School to the digital revolution and beyond.

This book provides a lucid, rigorous and critical account of the commons, its history and its political potentialities as well as its limitations and ambiguities.

This book bridges the disciplines of legal studies and sociology in its engaging introduction to the history, purpose, function, and influence of the Supreme Court, demonstrating through ten landmark decisions the Court's impact on the five key sociological institutions in the United States: family, education, religion, government, and economy.

This book explores the thought of Olive Schreiner, the internationally famous writer, feminist theorist, social critic, opponent of imperialism and nationalism, and analyst of violence and war, best known for her novels and short stories, articles and critical commentaries, and her feminist treatise, Women and Labour.

The concepts of practice and institution are of longstanding importance across the social sciences.

This volume comprises three works originally published separately as Shop Management (1903), The Principles of Scientific Management (1911) and Testimony Before the Special House Committee (1912).

Drawing together leading international experts such as Knut Halvorsen, Robert Y.

In his investigation of the nature of madness and civilization, the French social theorist Michel Foucault expressed the difficulty most scholars have in addressing episodes of confusion that lead a society into acts of self-destruction and chaos.

In modernen Gesellschaften zeigt sich empirisch ein komplexes Geflecht von unterschiedlichen und hochgradig differenzierten Formen sozialer Bezugnahmen auf Vergangenes.

In this detailed investigation of 'masculine' gendered identity, first published in 1990, David Jackson uses his own personal history to look at the specific ways in which men become 'masculine'.

The first emphasis of the volume is on developments in the social theory of environmental issues, the environment, and the environmental crisis.

First published in 1985, this book provides a descriptive study of social activities in a neurosciences laboratory.

This Handbook surveys the contemporary state of the burgeoning field of metaethics.

The analysis of social distinction cannot indefinitely remain confined to logics of reasoning that are markedly ethnocentric.

This book examines the political consequences of growing religiosity in countries where politics are repressive and religious freedoms are in flux.

This book advances a counter-intuitive thesis: modern attacks on the global ecological balance are exclusively the result of processes of social domination, whether they are based on class, gender or nation.

In this volume leading international scholars elaborate upon the central issues of the analysis of ideology: the nature of dominant ideologies.

The shock waves of conservative advances have reached into every corner of American and British politics.

This volume outlines Max Weber's comparative-historical sociology of "e;interpretive understanding"e; (verstehen) in a manner that clarifies his complex mode of analysis and multi-causal focus.

Wie kaum eine andere soziologische Theorie der vergangenen Jahrzehnte bietet die Systemtheorie Niklas Luhmanns kulturwissenschaftliche Anschlussmöglichkeiten.

Discusses why and how the Egyptian judiciary was critically important in bringing down two vastly different regimes in three years.

First published in 1976, this A Theory of Group Structures is a study of the aggregation of individuals into groups, which cuts across many different social sciences.

Russia's Skinheads: Exploring and Rethinking Subcultural Lives provides a thorough examination of the phenomenon of skinheads, explaining its nature and its significance, and assessing how far Russian skinhead subculture is the 'lumpen' end of the extreme nationalist ideological spectrum.

Most professional sociologists claim that sociology is, or ought to be, a theoretical science.

First published in 1989, Guards Imprisoned provides an in-depth look into the work and working life of prison guards as they perceive and experience it.

This book, written by a philosopher interested in the problems of social science and scientific method, and a sociologist interested in the philosophy of science, presents a novel conception of how we should think about and carry out the scientific study of social life.

This book consists of a single essay that speculates on the question what is housing?

This original and pioneering study of how men relate to feminism will appeal to all men who are concerned about their response to the women's movement and to the women in their lives.

Disrupting, questioning and altering the taken-for-granted 'cosmos' of everyday life, the experiences of illness challenge the different ways in which social normalcy is remembered, maintained and expected.

Thinking and doing through a diverse set of theories, methodologies and writing registers, this edited collection explores the potential of creative disruption as psychosocial praxis.

A ground-breaking study of political transformations in non-Western societies, this book applies anthropological, sociological and political concepts to the recent history of Iran to explore the role played by a ritual theatrical performance (Ta'ziyeh) and its symbols on the construction of public mobilisations.

Emile Durkheim is one of the founding fathers of sociology and Professional Ethics and Civic Morals is one of his most neglected yet insightful works.

Focusing on the moment when social unrest takes hold of a populace, Law and Disorder offers a new account of sovereignty with an affective theory of public order and protest.

When groups feature in political philosophy, it is usually in one of three contexts: the redressing of past or current injustices suffered by ethnic or cultural minorities; the nature and scope of group rights; and questions around how institutions are supposed to treat a certain specific identity/cultural/ethnic group.

Love and Intimacy in Contemporary Society reflects on relationships in contemporary society and the role of love and intimacy in framing lives.

Understanding Weber provides an accessible and comprehensive explanation of the central issues of Weber's work.