Social theory

The theory of crisis has always played a central role within Marxism, and yet has been one of its weakest elements.

Any serious attempt to explain social life has to come to terms with sociology's positivist legacy.

In this seminal book, Krumer-Nevo introduces the Poverty-Aware Paradigm: a radical new framework for social workers and professionals working with and for people in poverty.

Questioning society and one's place in it is a common theme in both comedy and sociology.

It has often been suggested that a resolution of issues generated by the sociological study of ideas might be reached through a synthesis of specific insights to be found in the works of Karl Marx and George Herbert Mead.

Today, public space has become a fruitful venue for surveillance of many kinds.

Many argue that globalization and its discontents explain the strength of populism and nativism in contemporary Europe, Latin America, and the United States.

Ein Plädoyer für eine neue Debattenkultur und eine Öffentlichkeit, die sich ihrer Verantwortung bewusst istDie Öffentlichkeit unserer zerstrittenen Spätmoderne ist in einer desolaten Lage.

In recent years, under the impression and the burden of globalization and neoliberalism, debates about the relationship between the theory and practice of progress - including the theory and practice of social critique - have gone through an unexpected and momentous revival, renewal and rejuvenation.

How is the process of globalization effecting changes in the structure of knowledge in sociology?

This powerful book explicates the many ways in which colonial encounters continue to shape forced migration, ever evolving with times and various geographical contexts.

Sport and Modern Social Theorists is an innovative and exciting new collection.

First published in 1987.

What do we mean by the word "e;social?

Masculinity, Sexuality and Illegal Migration makes use of extensive new empirical material to explore the phenomena of migration, human smuggling and illegal work, in order to develop a compelling account of international migration, linking it with irrational, risky economic behaviour and male sexual desire.

Married to the Job examines an important but under-researched area: the relationships of wives to their husbands' work.

Matriliny and Modernity (1996) explores the situation both past and present of women living in the matrilineal society of Negeri Sembilan in a rapidly modernising Malaysia.

Exploring, clarifying, and moving beyond the distinction between 'community' and 'society' for which he is best known, this book rediscovers the work of Ferdinand Tonnies, providing fresh insights into his thought, which are often overlooked for want of a grasp of his background in philosophy.

Debt is often thought of as a mere economic variable governed by a simplistic mechanical logic, ignoring its other facets.

This is the only comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the political economy of the five Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden).

This book explores the effects of the gradual liberalisation of capital markets and the expansion of consumer credit on poorer households in the United Kingdom, with particular attention to the precariousness caused by a lack of savings and a reliance on debt.

This book examines the phenomenon of prime time soap operas on Indian television.

Technology and In/equality explores the diverse implications of the new information and communication technologies through case studies of their applications in three main areas - media, education and training, and work.

Is our understanding of social capital consistent with development interventions and the digital world?

This book, originally published in 1923, embodies two related and yet distinct types of sociological endeavour.

This book reinvigorates the philosophical treatment of the nature, purpose, and meaning of thought in today's universities.

Alongside globalization, the sense of vulnerability among people and populations has increased.

Neoliberalism has been one of the most hotly contested themes in academic and political debate over the last 30 years.

Work That Body: Male Bodies in Digital Culture explores the recent rise in different types of men using digital media to sexualise their bodies.

This book constitutes a practical guide to the important skills of both theorizing and writing in social scientific scholarship, focusing on the importance of identifying relations between concepts that are useful for explaining social entities and of producing a text that convincingly advances the theory that has been constructed.

It is widely apparent in our hyper-globalized world that the epistemologies, institutions, and practices underwriting it have reached a state of profound crisis.

This book provides an interdisciplinary series of essays on key social theorists of morality.

This book explores the inter-relationship between religious groups and wider society and examines the way religious groups change in relation to societal norms, potentially to the point of undergoing processes of 'internal secularisation' within secular and secularist cultures.

This book is an introductory guide to the work of Talcott Parsons, designed specifically for students and those new to his work.

Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras are a prominent, if increasingly familiar, feature of urbanism.

The connections between the emergence of modern society and the experience of melancholy are explored through a comprehensive re-examination of Soren Kierkegaard's rich and insightful writings.

Subordination presents a survey of some of the most important ideas developed within feminism since the 1970s.

First published in 1989, this re-issue concerns itself with the relevance of Max Weber's sociology for the understanding of modern times.

In this important volume of specially commissioned essays, nine leading sociologists present their answers to the question, 'What use are the sociological classics today?

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.

This book explores the Janus-faced features of privacy, and looks at their implications for the control of personal information, for sexual and reproductive freedom, and for democratic politics.

Drawing on the non-individualistic perspective of social representations theory, this book presents an alternative view of social identity by articulating the inseparable dynamic relationships that exist between content, process and power relations when social identity is embedded in social knowledge.

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Activism on the Web examines the everyday tensions that political activists face as they come to terms with the increasingly commercialized nature of web technologies and sheds light on an important, yet under-investigated, dimension of the relationship between contemporary forms of social protest and internet technologies.