Social theory

The contrast between man's amazing ability to manipulate his world and his pitiful incompetence in managing his own affairs is now as commonplace as it is tragic.

Philosopher, sociologist and urban theorist, Henri Lefebvre (1901-1991) was one of the great social theorists of the twentieth century and pioneered the theorization of everyday life and space.

We are living in algorithmic times.

First published in 1941, Marxism: Is it Science?

What does political agency mean for those who don't know what to do or can't be bothered to do it?

Political Legitimacy: Realism in Political Theory and Sociology explores the concept of political legitimacy, the nature of the normative foundation of politics and the state.

This book analyses the waves of protests, from spontaneous uprisings to well-organized forms of collective action, which have shaken European cities over the last decade.

Vera Kopsel investigates the relevance of local perceptions of landscape and nature for the current topic of adaptation to climate change.

Soldiers and Students (1975) adopts an original approach to the confrontation of deprived and possessing parties under conditions of scarcity.

In this book, Stehr and Grundmann outline the theoretical significance and practical importance of the growing stratum of experts, counsellors and advisors in contemporary society, and claim that the growing spectrum of knowledge-based occupations has led to the pluralisation of expertise.

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

Examines the relationship between gender, discourse and deliberation, focusing on how far consensus achieved through deliberation can reflect gender differences.

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

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This Companion provides an authoritative source for scholars and students of the nascent field of media geography.

Barnard was prompted by Vilfredo Pareto's seminal four volume work Mind and Society to apply his theories of sociology to management studies.

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.

This book argues that the concept of care is a political and a moral concept.

Michel Foucault is recognized as one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers, however the authors in this volume contend that more use can be made of Foucault than has yet been done and that some of the uses to which Foucault has so far been put run the risk of and occasionally simply amount to misuse.

Chen, He and Yan present a range of applications of multiple-source big data to core areas of contemporary sociology, demonstrating how a theory-guided approach to macrosociology can help to understand social change in China, especially where traditional approaches are limited by constrained and biased data.

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.

Between 1919 and 1945 most countries in Europe spawned some form of fascism.

Contemporary theoretical discussions of exploitation are dominated by thinkers in the liberal and Marxian traditions.

This book engages with a traditional yet persistent question of legal theory - what is law?

This college-level handbook offers a comprehensive and accessible overview of sociological and cultural perspectives on the human body.

A systematic and critical assessment of the work of Michael Mann, one of the most influential sociologists of recent decades.

As a consequence of the rapid proliferation of commercial gambling in Western-style democracies, governments and communities are encountering a complex array of economic, social and cultural harms associated with this expansion.

Processes of collective decision making are seen throughout modern society.

The first book to fully explore the multiple ways in which body work features in health and social care and the meanings of this work both for those employed to do it and those on whose bodies they work.

This is the first book to discern the contribution of Du Bois' work to criminology and criminal justice through a comprehensive review of his papers, articles and books.

Exploring the value of photography and video as legitimate forms of social enquiry, An Applied Visual Sociology: Picturing Harm Reduction constitutes a guidebook for conducting applied visual sociology within health related or social science research projects, providing a full account of the visual research journey and presenting a tested template for conducting theoretically-driven, sociologically-informed research.

'Sometimes, 1+1 = changing the world.

European thought is often said to be a gift to the rest of the world, but what if there is no gift as such?

Recent years have seen a dramatic re-emergence of interest in ontology.

Collectivistic Religions draws upon empirical studies of Christianity in Europe to address questions of religion and collective identity, religion and nationalism, religion and public life, and religion and conflict.

Examining how people alter or customize various dimensions of their temporal experience, this volume discovers how we resist external sources of temporal constraint or structure.

Work and Society is an important new text about the sociology of work and employment.

This is the first book to focus on governance and cultures of consumption, expanding the debate and raising new conceptions and policy agendas.

**THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER**In twenty-one bite-sized lessons, Yuval Noah Harari explores what it means to be human in an age of bewilderment.

Analysing social change has too often been characterized by parochialism, either a Eurocentrism that projects European experience outwards or a disciplinary narrowness that ignores insights from other academic disciplines.

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

As the world undergoes huge demographic shifts with aging populations and increasing life expectancy, it is essential to recognize the importance of understanding aging in different international, cultural, social, and economic contexts.

"Posthumà" és un terme que vol descriure, des de múltiples perspectives, la mena de subjectes que estem esdevenint, més enllà de l'humanisme clàssic i de l'antropocentrisme.

This fourth volume of The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies finishes the series by exploring how class infuses people's past and present efforts to juggle family, work and leisure.

Making Gender, Making War is a unique interdisciplinary edited collection which explores the social construction of gender, war-making and peacekeeping.

This book focuses on the contribution of Marcel Mauss (1872-1950) to social theory and a theory of cooperation.

This book examines how 'Therapeutic Recreation' transforms the social health of children enduring or recovering from life-threatening illnesses such as cancer and leukaemia.

In recent years, cultural work has engaged the interest of scholars from a broad range of social science and humanities disciplines.

Reassembling the Social is a fundamental challenge from one of the world's leading social theorists to how we understand society and the 'social'.