Social theory

This book examines the circulation of knowledge within globalization, focusing on the differences between centers and peripheries of knowledge production in the social sciences.

Marxism is a theory which originated in the context of nineteenth-century industrialised Europe.

This book offers a sociological overview of the theories and research on economic innovation.

Cities have been missing from analyses of the global economic crisis and debates about how to generate a sustainable recovery.

Tamas Nyirkos provides a timely and essential reassessment of the concept of the "e;tyranny of the majority"e; for the study of democracy today.

At a time of growing concern over the fate of contemporary democracy this book shows how vast differences between countries in forms of political conduct, and taken for granted assumptions, determine what democracies actually accomplish.

Globalization has been subjected to a variety of analyses over the past thirty years, ranging from examinations of homogenizing cultural trends to the pressures of economic austerity and trade relations to the declining influence of states.

What can economics, the natural and the social sciences learn from each other in better understanding complex forms of change?

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

This book brings together some of the world''s leading writers to engage with the most profound question in penology: why prison?

The Routledge International Handbook of Valuation and Society builds on the growing research interest in practices of valuation throughout contemporary society, providing an up-to-date overview of the different facets of research in the sociology of valuation.

This book reassesses theories of agency and gender identity against the backdrop of changing relations between men and women in contemporary societies.

In recent years, millions of people have joined churches such as the Seventh-day Adventist which prosper enormously in different parts of the world.

In the light of globalization's failure provide the universal panacea expected by some of its more enthusiastic proponents, and the current status of neo-liberalism in Europe, a search has begun for alternative visions of the future; alternatives to the free market and to rampant capitalism.

Arguing that the politics of democracy is inseparable from a notion of dialogue that emerges from conflicting and often traumatic memories, Democracy, Dialogue, Memory examines the importance of dialogue for the achievement of understanding in civil society rather than consensus, so that democratic participation and inclusion can be strengthened.

The book focuses on the design of rigorous trials rather than their statistical underpinnings, with chapters on: pragmatic designs; placebo designs; preference approaches; unequal allocation; economics; analytical approaches; randomization methods.

Human capital theory, or the notion that there is a direct relationship between educational investment and individual and national prosperity, has dominated public policy on education and labor for the past fifty years.

Education is a crucial influence early in life and is therefore inextricably linked with power.

Exploring why South Africans rarely use activism to address food insecurity, this study proposes ways to reclaim the power of collective action.

This volume explores the potential of employing a relational paradigm for the purposes of interdisciplinary exchange.

This book offers a sociological analysis of globalised capitalist markets, advancing the notion of 'disembedded markets' to challenge the idea of 'social embeddedness' common in economic sociology.

Asia's Population Problems (1967) features papers written by specialists - demographers, economists and sociologists - examining the various population issues facing different Asian countries in the decades following the Second World War.

Mirrors of Destruction examines the relationship between total war, state-organized genocide, and the emergence of modern identity.

We are all modern today.

Culinary Man and the Kitchen Brigade offers an exploration of the field of normative subjectivity circulated within western fine dining traditions, presenting a theoretical analysis of the governing relationship between the chef, who embodies the Culinary Man, and the fine dining brigade.

This book explores Puritanism and its continuing influence on U.

Non-manual workers are fast becoming the largest occupational category in Western capitalist countries.

Grounded in the Foucauldian literature on governmentality and drawing on a broad range of disciplines, this book examines the government of childhood in the West from the early modern period to the present.

Race, Ethnicity and Social Theory provides a critical analysis of the main areas of scholarly research and debate about racial and ethnic relations over the past few decades.

This book explores G.

Marková offers a dialogical perspective to problems in daily life and professional practices involving communication, care, and therapy.

The Routledge Handbook of Social Work Theory provides an interdisciplinary and international introduction to social work theory.

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This book investigates the phenomenon of science communication events, as spectacles for legitimising and communicating science to the public.

Pierre Bourdieu has been making a distinguished contribution to European sociology for the past 25 years.

Trying to understand how the world looks through the eyes of individuals and groups and how it shapes the ways they think and act is something social workers do all the time.

"e;Volume 38 of Studies in Symbolic Interaction"e; is devoted exclusively to the "e;Blue Ribbon Papers Series"e;, which is under the intellectual leadership of Lonnie Athens.

This book radically re-examines Europe's imaginaries of its origin in the ancient Greek world.

This book argues for the centrality of Georg Simmel's social theory to the relational and processual emphases that are often considered as much more recent developments in social theory.

Can the criminal justice system achieve justice based on its ability to determine the truth?

What are the aims of sociology?

Community Development in an Uncertain World is an essential resource for students and professionals in the human services.

This book presents an overview of the life and work of Gustav Ichheiser, a social scientist in Vienna during the early 20th century.

Until recently, there has been a widespread view that we must give up amenities of modern life in order to achieve environmental sustainability.

In times when the social sciences have become increasingly fragmented and more focused on 'the pieces of the puzzle', the puzzle, as a topic in its own right, has slowly been moved towards the background.

As modern society's routine sequestration of death and grief is increasingly replaced by late-modern society's growing concern with existential issues and emotionality, this book explores grief as a social emotion, bringing together contributions from scholars across the social sciences and humanities to examine its social and cultural aspects.

This book presents an innovative framework for conceptualising families as complex systems and for understanding and supporting positive change, adaptation and resilience.

Drawing on data collected in London's precarious labour market during the COVID- 19 pandemic, this book explores the pragmatic actions of precarious work that produce simultaneous security and vulnerability.

Professions and Metaphors: Understanding Professions in Society explores the way that two traditions have contributed to our understanding of both theory and society over recent decades.