Social theory

This book argues that critical realism offers the theory of cognitive rationality a real way of overcoming the limitations of methodological individualism by recognising both the agents' - and the social structure's - causal powers and liabilities.

Originally published in 1895, this title provides fascinating insights into the development of socialism in the decades prior to the explosion of 20th century socialist revolutions.

Bourdieu's theory of social fields is one of his key contributions to social sciences and humanities.

This is a specially commissioned set of essays on the themes of Max Weber, culture, anarchy and politics.

For more than two decades, the law and economics movement has been one of the most influential and controversial schools of thought in American jurisprudence.

This book was shortlisted for the 2015 BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize.

Marx's approach to analyzing society and especially his critique of capitalist society, continues to influence the work of a large number of scholars world-wide.

The classic text for any student seeking to understand the three thinkers who established the basic framework of contemporary sociology.

Globalization and Social Change takes a refreshing new perspective on globalization and widening social and spatial inequalities.

Originally published in 1887, Edward Carpenter's England's Ideal and other Papers on Social Subjects is a collection of his essays in the field of Social Science with a focus on English society at the time of writing.

Interdisciplinary in approach, this book employs the key concepts of fragmentation and reconfiguration to consider the ways in which human experience and artistic practice can engage with and respond to the disintegration that characterises modern cities.

Over the past decade, Laos' exposure to global capitalism has resulted in extensive economic and social transformations.

Technology is rapidly changing the way we think about money.

Presenting a wide range of international case studies, the contributors to this book study the impact of Covid-19 on the risks faced by communities around the globe.

As a social space, the web provides researchers both with a tool and an environment to explore the intricacies of everyday life.

This book offers a critical analysis of consumer credit markets and the growth of outstanding debt, presenting in-depth interview material to explore the phenomenon of mass indebtedness through the life trajectories of self-identified debtors struggling with the pressures of owing money.

How does order emerge out of the multiplicity of bodies, objects, ideas and practices that constitute the urban?

During the 1920s a new generation of American sociologists tried to make their discipline more objective by adopting the methodology of the natural sciences.

First published in 1989, this Routledge Revival is a major collection of essays on the competing traditions of social and political theory.

In an era of dramatic environmental change, social change is desperately needed to curb burgeoning consumption.

This edited book emerges from the observation that the current literatures on migration in China are constrained by a series of shortfalls, including a relative topical homogeneity centred on domestic labour migration; relatively narrowly conceived and institutionalist conceptions of migration and migrants, without adequate attention paid to the identities, agencies and everyday experiences of migrants; and finally a lack of engagement with theoretical models and paradigms in the broad discipline of migration studies.

Originally published in 1927, An Introduction to Social Psychology represents an attempt at a more synthetic type of treatment of the field than had previously been given.

This book explains how the Columbia model of sociology, which was based on the methodology of P.

Diese Studie untersucht Professionalitätsentwicklung in der Erwachsenenbildung/Weiterbildung aus einer Mehrebenen-Perspektive.

This book examines a range of critical concepts that are central to a shift in the social sciences toward "e;pragmatic inquiry,"e; reflecting a twenty-first century concern with particular problems and themes rather than grand theory.

Is modernity being replaced by an opposite culture of postmodernity, or is postmodernism simply an internal critique of modernist culture?

Drawing on the empirical findings generated by researchers in science studies, and adopting Kropotkin's concept of anarchism as one of the social sciences, Red, Black, and Objective expounds and develops an anarchist account of science as a social construction and social institution.

This 1972 book is a collection of Durkheim''s writings drawing upon the whole body of his work.

artWork: Art, Labour and Activism brings together a variety of perspectives on contemporary cultural production and activism in order to interrogate how the concepts of art, labour and activism intersect in practices for social change.

New perspectives on the complex social dynamics of bullying practices through analyses of children''s experiences, and parents'' and teachers'' perspectives.

In Transmedia Work Karin Fast and Andre Jansson explore several key questions that frame the study of the social and cultural implications of a digital, connected workforce.

The financial/social cataclysm beginning in 2007 ended notions of a "e;great moderation"e; and the view that capitalism had overcome its systemic tendencies to crisis.

In some parts of the world spending on pharmaceuticals is astronomical.

This book provides a semiotic analysis of 'scenes', powerful vehicles for introducing new ideas, perspectives and behaviours, as a concept.

Contemporary bipartisan politics undermines socialist solidarity by ignoring class issues and pitting advocates of social justice against ethno-national chauvinists.

Central to discussions of multiculturalism and minority rights in modern liberal societies is the idea that the particular demands of minority groups contradict the requirements of equality, anonymity, and universality for citizenship and belonging.

This book is about how extreme situations appearing to have a destructive potential can actually be used to produce meaningful individual and social lives.

The sociology of knowledge is an area of social scientific investigation with major emphasis on the relations between social life and intellectual activity.

This handbook marks a key intervention in refugee studies in India-home to diverse groups of refugees, including an entire government in exile.

Since the early 2000s, social innovation has become increasingly relevant in the political and research debates on welfare state transformations.

Cultural Analysis and Bourdieu's Legacy explores the achievements and limitations of a Bourdieusian approach to cultural analysis through original contributions from distinguished international scholars.

Previously considered two different strands within continental thought, this book compares and contrasts Hegel's 'phenomenology' and Foucault's 'genealogy', contending that in spite of their differences, these approaches share important commonalities, most notably in the manner in which they dispense with distinctions between subject and object, theory and praxis, mind and body, and reason and nature, thus pointing the way to a form of social and political theorizing without presuppositions.

There is expanding global interest in the relationship between the psychological and the social.

International Student Mobility presents an autoethnographic study, which follows a group of non-English speaking international students from Taiwan during a period of study in Australia.

This book describes the transition in Indian healthcare system since independence and contributes to the ongoing debate within development and institutional economics on the approaches towards reform in the public health system.

This book aims to explain the self as understood decades ago and its evolution in the time of postmodernism.

This volume covers the evolution of the chartered company; contributions employ comparative methods, archival research, case studies, statistical analyses, computational models, network analyses, and new theoretical conceptualizations to map out the complex interactions that took place between state and commercial actors across the globe.

This book, first published in 2000, explores the intersections of race, gender and gay identities in writings by contemporary American lesbians of colour in order to show how this subject is sometimes ignored, sometimes brutalised and is very rarely able to survive on her own terms by constructing her own identity acts of cultural revision.

The Emotions in the Classics of Sociology stands as an innovative sociological research that introduces the study of emotions through a detailed examination of the theories and concepts of the classical authors of discipline.