Social theory

Gender and Cosmopolitanism in Europe combines a feminist critique of contemporary and prominent approaches to cosmopolitanism with an in-depth analysis of historical cosmopolitanism and the manner in which gendered symbolic boundaries of national political communities in two European countries are drawn.

Amidst the soot, stink and splendour of Victorian London, a coterie of citizen-sociologists set out to break up the British Empire.

The central argument of Japan and the Enemies of Open Political Science is that Eurocentric blindness is not a moral but a scientific failing.

Fully revised, with an updated bibliography and new, relevant illustrative examples based on work inspired by critical realism, this new edition of Explaining Society constitutes an up-to-date resource connecting methodology, theory, and empirical research.

For more than 40 years, researchers have explored the utility of Bourdieu's sociology for settings beyond the French and Algerian contexts of its origin.

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

This book uses an interdisciplinary inter-mediational approach to reflect on the relational complexity of unsettlement as a predominant sensibility of the present epoque.

Siblings and all the lateral relationships that follow from them are clearly important and their interaction is widely observed, particularly in creative literature.

Work and the nature of occupations are matters of central concern to the sociologist.

George Herbert Mead has long been known for his social theory of meaning and the 'self' - an approach which becomes all the more relevant in light of the ways we develop and represent ourselves online.

Relational-Cultural theory (RCT) proposes that all people grow through and toward relationships throughout the lifespan.

The book focuses on the status and role of the social sciences in the current millennium.

Drawing on contemporary and historical case studies from Finland, Sweden and Norway, Progress or Perish highlights the roles that art, culture and academic research play alongside technology and economics as bearers of change, approaching the study of progress from the human level.

"e;Political Power and Social Theory"e; is an annual review, committed to advancing our interdisciplinary, critical understanding of the linkages between social relations, political power, and historical development.

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The structure/agency debate has been among the central issues in recent discussions of social theory.

Practices of cosmetic surgery have grown exponentially in recent years in both over-developed and developing worlds.

George Orwell wrote in Nineteen Eighty Four that 'If there is hope, it lies in the proles.

Das Buch diskutiert aktuelle, politisch initiierte Veränderungen von (professioneller) Arbeit in den Feldern Bildung und Pflege mit dem Ziel, institutionellen Wandel auch unter den Gesichtspunkten von Legitimität und Gerechtigkeit zu erfassen.

Does contemporary anti-capitalism tend towards, as Slavoj Zizek believes, nihilism, or does it tend towards, as Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri believe, true egalitarian freedom?

This book is about war and popular culture, and war in popular culture.

An analysis, critique and evaluation of Vygotsky''s ideas based on close readings of primary and secondary sources.

This title was first published in 1990: This book is a study of past and present policies of the People's Republic of China towards its numerous and varied minority groups, a subject about which there is scant information in the West.

Offers a new framework for understanding how religion and nationalism interact across diverse countries and religious traditions.

Feminists have recently begun to challenge the powerful influence of the law on the social and cultural construction of women's roles, identities, and rights.

Bourdieusian Prospects considers the ongoing relevance of Bourdieu's social theory for contemporary social science.

This collection brings together for the first time a set of researchers whose research methodologies centre on Bourdieu's concept of habitus.

"e;Johnson revels in all the wicked things these great thinkers have done.

After many years in which it appeared to be losing the pre-eminent position it had occupied in the lexicon of the social and human sciences, the term 'capitalism' has once again become a matter of critical concern, both theoretically and substantively, in a range of disciplinary fields.

Written by one of the most eminent scholars in the field, Ethnographies of Reason is a unique book in terms of the studies it presents, the perspective it develops and the research techniques it illustrates.

Der Begriff der Erschütterung hat Hochkonjunktur, wenn es gilt, eine Reaktion auf Ereignisse wie (Terror-)Anschläge, Gewaltakte, Krisen und (Natur-)Katastrophen zu artikulieren.

Critique in a Neoliberal Age brings a critique of ideology to main debates within economic sociology, populism studies, the neoliberal university, therapy culture, contemporary intimacies and feminism.

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.

This 600-page volume of Luxemburg's Complete Works contains her writings On Revolution from 1906 to 1909 - covering the 1905-06 Russian Revolution, an epoch-making event, and its aftermath.

Evils, both large and small, are a constant feature of human life.

Combines classic and cutting-edge scholarship on personal social networks.

This accessible introductory text offers an engaging and thought-provoking discussion of class in relation to several cultural, sociological and political schools of thought and draws upon the works of a broad range of key theorists as well as contemporary thinkers to restate the ongoing importance of class as a sociological concept.

This book offers a genealogical account of the rise of consumer capitalism, tracing its origins in America between 1880 and 1930 and explaining how it emerged to become the dominant form of social organization of our time.

Following the rise of the zemiological movement, the concept of social harm has attracted a great deal of scholarly attention.

Drawing on the thought of Durkheim, this volume focuses on societal changes at the symbolic level to develop a new conceptualisation of the emergence of postsecular societies.

Criminology: Explaining Crime and Its Context, Eleventh Edition, offers a broad perspective on criminological theory.

Shifting from the idea that our current 'environmental question' arises from the history of metaphysics and its focus on 'Being' over 'Life'-and the attendant explorations of the thought of Heidegger and Heraclitus-this book unfolds a philosophical and sociological proposal for transitioning toward the sustainability of life.

Climate change is prompting an unprecedented questioning of the fundamental bases upon which society is founded.

Social theories of the new cosmopolitanism have called attention to the central importance of translation, in areas such as global democracy, human rights and social movements, but translation studies has not engaged systematically with theories of cosmopolitanism.

A look at how public relations has dominated public understanding of the natural environment for over one hundred years.

A systematic and original study of feminist issues, The Sceptical Feminist fights a battle on two fronts: against the view that little or nothing is wrong with women's position, and at the same time against much current feminist dogma.

Title first published in 2003.

This timely and powerful autoethnography traces the spread of and responses to Covid-19: from the uncertainty surrounding its outbreak, to its devastating and continued aftermath.