Social theory

This edited collection highlights the diversity and reach of global leisure studies and global leisure theory.

This volume explores contemporary social conflict, focusing on a sort of violence that rarely receives coverage in the evening news.

This book provides a detailed reconstruction of the process of formation of the modern concept of society as an objective entity from the 1820s onwards, thus helping to better understand the shaping of the modern world and the nature of the current crisis of modernity.

This is the first concise study to give full credit to the collaboration of works between French nobleman, writer and politician Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) and his travel companion and friend Gustave de Beaumont (1802-66), and puts this collaboration into its social, historical and theoretical context.

Marking the 50th anniversary of Pitirim A.

Borders are essentially imaginary structures, but their effects are very real.

This book explores the idea of social class in the liberal tradition.

This book delivers a top-down understanding of relation as a macro-phenomenon in society.

Art and the Challenge of Markets Volumes 1 & 2 examine the politics of art and culture in light of the profound changes that have taken place in the world order since the 1980s and 1990s.

This book evaluates the consequences of economic, social, environmental and cultural change on people living and working within Teesside in the North-East of England.

In the Anthropocene sustainable development responds to socio-economic, environmental and political crises provoked by humankind due to global warming and the great acceleration of human intervention in ecosystems.

This book conducts a critical investigation into everyday intercultural recognition and misrecognition in the domain of paid work, utilising social philosopher Axel Honneth's recognition theory as its theoretical foundation.

This book brings together the work of scholars and writer-practitioners of psychoanalysis to consider the legacy of two of Sigmund Freud's most important metapsychological papers: 'On Narcissism: An Introduction' (1914) and 'Mourning and Melancholia' (1917 [1915]).

This volume presents for the first time a collection of historically important papers written on the concept of rationality in the social sciences.

This volume examines Max Weber's pre-World War I thinking about bureaucracy.

This volume addresses how black, middle class, second generation Caribbean immigrants are often overlooked in contemporary discussions of race, black economic mobility, and immigrant communities in the US.

This volume offers an unprecedented account of recent and future developments in the sociology of intellectuals.

This book offers a novel interdisciplinary approach to interpret the emergence of the Basque-Spanish nationalist conflict.

This book brings together a collection of work from emerging and established scholars who have put forth a vision of what critical sociology is and what it could be in the early decades of the 21st century.

This book tackles the important question of how we can understand and learn from the school rampage killings that have been prevented.

This book illustrates how leisure, as with other complex ideas that hold currency in today's world, suffers at the level of common sense, due to a combination of oversimplification, moral depreciation, and even lack of recognition.

This book re-evaluates New Left and Marxist texts from the 1980s, in order to explore problems facing the study of 'class' which have emerged within Australian and international theories.

This book posits that a singular paradigm in social theory can be discovered by reconstructing the conceptual grammar of Gabriel Tarde's micro-sociology and by understanding the ways in which Gilles Deleuze's micro-politics and Michel Foucault's micro-physics have engaged with it.

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.

The book presents insights from a mixed methodology study that examines recent mobility patterns exhibited by the middle classes.

This book is a theoretically and historically informed exploration of 'secularism' in Muslim contexts.

This book explores and explains the reasons why the idea of universal history, a form of teleological history which holds that all peoples are travelling along the same path and destined to end at the same point, persists in political thought.

This book is the first full critical history of incognito social investigation texts - in other words, works detailing their authors' experiences whilst pretending to be poor.

This book proposes a comprehensive theory of the loss of religion in human societies, with a specific and substantive focus on the contemporary United States.

This book extends current understandings of the effects of using locative social media on spatiality, the experience of time and identity.

This book, the last volume in the Social Morphogenesis series, examines whether or not a Morphogenic society can foster new modes of human relations that could exercise a form of 'relational steering', protecting and promoting a nuanced version of the good life for all.

The advent of social complexity has been a longstanding debate among social scientists.

This book provides a political, economic, and sociological investigation of how neoliberalism shapes 'working class capacities,' or the power of the working class to organize and struggle for its collective interests.

This book explains how gossip contributes to knowledge.

This book argues that the breaking and re-making of frames of analysis underlie the history of theorizing in anthropology.

This book draws on case examples of contemporary black activism in South Manchester and contrasts them with events that surrounded C.

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 book presents a collection of essays on institutional theory written by the German sociologist and Weber-expert M.

The book introduces Tadeusz Kotarbinski's philosophy of action into the mainstream of contemporary action-theoretical debates.

This book examines a basic problem in critical approaches to political and social inquiry: in what way is social inquiry animated by a practical intent?

The concept of a "e;megamachine"e; - a closed system operating to a pre-established utilitarian purpose which results in the machinisation of humanity - has existed in various forms since at least the late 19th century.

The Psychosocial Imaginaries of Defence Nationalism interrogates the emergence of far-right nationalist 'defence leagues' in Australia and the UK.

This book extends current understandings of the effects of using locative social media on spatiality, the experience of time and identity.

This book analyzes the social and contextual causes of suicide, the existential and philosophical reasons for committing suicide, and the prevention strategies that modern fictional literature places at our disposal.

This book is the first full critical history of incognito social investigation texts - in other words, works detailing their authors' experiences whilst pretending to be poor.

This book offers the first critical examination of the contributions of feminist new materialist thought to the study of sport, fitness, and physical culture.

The critical theory of the Frankfurt School has undergone numerous and at times fundamental changes over the last ninety years.

Anwendungen Künstlicher Intelligenz, Maschinellen Lernens sowie Robotik und weitere informatische Systeme spielen in immer mehr Bereichen der menschlichen Lebenswelt eine immer wichtigere Rolle.

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