Social theory

This book explores the influence of Freudian psychoanalysis on Norbert Elias' theory of the civilizing process - an influence acknowledged by Elias himself - conducting a dialogue with a view to analyzing points of contact and distance between them.

Originally published in 1957, The Unservile State looks at the theme of liberty in the Welfare State.

This book is an important contribution to narrative research and highlights how narratives can produce social change.

Providing a comprehensive engagement with the work of Hans-Herbert Kögler, this is the first volume to expand upon and critique his distinctive approach to critical theory: critical hermeneutics.

Examining questions of statehood, biopolitics, sovereignty, neoliberal reason and the economy, Governmentality explores the advantages and limitations of adopting Michel Foucault's concept of governmentality as an analytical framework.

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.

In the 1980s and 1990s, neoliberal forms of governance largely dominated Latin American political and social life.

Migration and Mobility (1984) examines the biological aspects of population movement, including genetic, anthropometric and psychological aspects.

This book explores how narratives have been and can be used to facilitate radical transformations towards a more sustainable future.

Daniel Bell is perhaps the most famous sociologist of his generation.

Cross-border studies have become attractive for a number of fields, including international migration, studies of material and cultural globalization, and history.

This book investigates the sociohistorical making of place and people in Copenhagen from around 1900 to the present day.

This book provides the first English-language account of the history of Danish sociology, examining it from the late 19th century to the present day.

Informed by the thought of Pierre Bourdieu and framed by the philosophy of harm reduction, Habitus and Drug Using Environments provides a sociological analysis of public environments affected by injecting drug use.

Karl Marx probably had more influence on the political course of the last century than any other social thinker.

We see the modern State as the most rational form of governing yet devised, and one which properly recognises our inherent individual rights.

The volume provides a field-analytical methodology for researching knowledge-based sociopolitical processes of transnationalization.

What's Left after New Labour?

In spite of the attention that Latin American women writers have attracted in recent years, a book dedicated exclusively to those writers whose work primarily articulates a lesbian perspective was until now missing.

This book presents the early existential phenomenology of Martin Heidegger as a way to reformulate academic disability studies and activist disability politics.

This book provides an insight into how modern society and contemporary living affects our ability to remember things.

This highly original book challenges social choice theory by arguing for the importance of dynamic preferences and context in understanding important social phenomena.

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main, in 1923, this book aims at shedding light on the archives of some of the key thinkers of Critical Theory of Society, also well known as "e;Frankfurt School"e;.

Shedding light on the relationship between violence and contemporary society, this volume explores the distinctive but little-known theories of violence in the work of Georges Bataille and Jean Baudrillard, applying these to a range of violent events - events often labelled 'inexplicable' - in order to show how even the most extreme of acts can be seen as socially meaningful.

In attempting to understand the psychological aspects of the developmental process and socialisation, the distinct disciplines of sociology and psychology were brought together for the first time.

Feminism and transgender, as social factions or collective subjectivities, have historically evaded, vilified or negated each other's philosophy and subjectivities.

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.

 Raimo Tuomela, late Professor Emeritus at the Centre for Philosophy of Social Sciences (TINT), University of Helsinki, is widely regarded as one of the most important philosophers of our time.

This book offers a model to bridge the differences between political theorists and social scientists, focusing on deliberative practices.

This title was first published in 2003.

In this timely book about the current state of research and practice of emergency management in China, the authors take as their basic premises that we now live in a risk society and that our collective ability to deal with disasters and their aftermath is more important than ever.

Whatever else they may be doing, human beings are also and always expressing themselves whenever they are in the awareness of others.

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

In recent decades the rise of the so-called "e;global obesity epidemic"e; has led to fatness and fat bodies being debated incessantly in popular, professional, and academic arenas.

This illustrated reference work covers a wide range of festivals that have sacred origins and are, or have been, part of a folk tradition, a world religion, or a major civilization.

This book is a comprehensive introduction to Dalits in India from their origin to the present day.

First published in 1988, this book provides students with a way to increase their understanding of the role of science and technology in society.

Polish Immigrant Organizations in Germany examines the situation of Polish immigrant organizations in Germany.

Social Sequence Analysis is a comprehensive guide to analytic methods that brings together foundational, theoretical and methodological work on social sequences.

In spite of the fact that crime is an emotive topic, the question of emotion has been largely overlooked in criminological research, which has tended instead to examine criminal conduct in terms of structural background variables or rational decision-making.

This book describes a way of sharing dreams in a group, called 'social dreaming'.

The studies which comprise this book are essentially organized around a critical encounter with European social theory in its 'classical period' - i.

This book examines diseases and disasters from the perspective of social and political theory, exploring the ways in which political leaders, social activists, historians, philosophers, and writers have tried to make sense of the catastrophes that have plagued humankind from Thucydides to the present COVID pandemic.

Objects and materials are on the move like never before, often at astonishing speeds and along hidden routeways.

In the last decade the study of multiculturalism has become an established field in political and social theory.

This is an important account of the development of the 'field-theory' approach in the social sciences.

This book is an ethnographic investigation of punk subculture as well as a treatise on the importance of place: a location with both physical form and cultural meaning.