Social theory

As the concept of recognition shifts from philosophical theory to other fields of the humanities and social sciences, this volume explores the nature of this border category that exists in the space between sociological and philosophical considerations, related as it is to concepts such as status, prestige, the looking-glass self, respect, and dignity - at times being used interchangeably with these terms.

This book interrogates the idea of equity in the context of India's Northeast region.

This innovative publication maps out the broad and interdisciplinary field of contemporary European social theory.

What is the role of sociological theory in the information age?

How has reason, believed since the Enlightenment to be the ally of freedom in the search for a better, more humanly satisfying world, been reduced to a technical rationality that has actually impoverished the bases of human freedom?

The concept of industrial society plays a dominant role in the social sciences.

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.

"e;This book is unusually rewarding in that its author has pulled off the rare trick of providing deep philosophical and theoretical underpinnings to a comprehensive reconsideration of childhood.

The aim of the book is to examine the transformation of the city in the late 20th century and explore the ways in which city life is structured.

This volume presents a series of illustrative and critical perspectives upon the developing study of men and masculinities and its importance for sociological theory.

One is not born a worker or a boss, one becomes one from father to son.

First published in 1972, this book on Weber's methodological writings is today regarded as a modern classic in its field.

'Like Louis Theroux channelling Margaret Atwood' - New Statesman'A tour of the lurid fringes of the tech world' - The Times'A moreish page-turner of a book' - HeraldImagine if it was possible to have the perfect sexual relationship without compromise, eat meat without killing animals, have babies without the need to bear them, and choose the time of our painless death.

Market Society provides an original and accessible review of changing conceptions of the market in modern social thought.

Has evolution made men promiscuous skirt chasers?

The first extended study of Bruno Latour's legal theory, this book presents a critical reconstruction of the whole of Latour's oeuvre to date, from Laboratory Life to An Inquiry into the Modes of Existence.

When the Matrix trilogy was published in the mid-1980s, it introduced to mass culture a number of post-human tropes about the conscious machines that have haunted our collective imaginaries ever since.

Hermeneutics is a major theoretical and practical form of intellectual enquiry, central not only to philosophy but many other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.

John Urry has been discussing and writing on these and similar questions for the past fifteen years.

Originally published in 1924, Development of Social Theory was written to expand on an outline of the subject in order to turn it into a year's course of graduate study.

The dream of a cosmopolitical utopia has been around for thousands of years.

Social Movements: The Key Concepts provides an insightful, contemporary introduction to some of the frequently encountered terms and groups that are central to the study of collective action and social and political activism.

'Essential reading for decision makers and those on the front-line concerned with the provision of housing fit for the new millennium.

Wilhelm 'Gi' Baldamus (1908-1991) was one of the most distinctive voices in British sociology in the second half of the twentieth century.

Classical and Contemporary Social Theory: Investigation and Application, 1/e, is the most comprehensive, informative social theory book on the market.

All behaviours, indeed all forms of agency, are viewed as emotionally-driven.

Is another future possible?

Globalisation is heavily dependent on physical transport, as people and goods travel over longer distances and with higher frequency.

The work of the great literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin is an audacious plotting of history, art, and thought; a reservoir of texts, commentaries, scraps, and fragments of everyday life, art, and dreams.

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This book applies Thorstein Veblen's cultural theory to a qualitative study of the charro cowboy culture and community in Mexico.

Comprehensively collects the essential theoretical ideas of ''sociological neo-institutionalism'', one of the leading approaches in social theory.

The issue of sexual consent has stimulated much debate in the last decade.

The triangular relationship between the social, the political, and the cultural has opened up social and political theory to new challenges.

The latest contribution to one of the most distinguished and important series in political thought in the world.

Drawing upon unique and unprecedented survey data, this book shows how and why Brexit has changed British politics.

This book is a comprehensive introduction to Dalits in India from their origin to the present day.

This volume critically engages with the work of the acclaimed Australian sociologist John Carroll.

This book examines how child protection law has been shaped by the transition to late modernity and how it copes with the ever-changing concept of risk.

The volume provides a field-analytical methodology for researching knowledge-based sociopolitical processes of transnationalization.

It is said that movies have encroached upon social realities creating tourism enclaves based on distortions of history and heritage, or simulations that disregard both.

With essays by today's leading leftist social critics, Identity Trumps Socialism presents a rigorous and persuasive primer on the problems generated by postmodern and neoliberal challenges to the legacy of emancipatory universality.

We see the modern State as the most rational form of governing yet devised, and one which properly recognises our inherent individual rights.

Few studies of Foucault have examined his thought from a sustained interdisciplinary perspective.

Originally published in 1973, this book examines the difficulties which sociologists have in providing useful scientific definitions of terms like 'prejudice' and 'discrimination'.

Russia's Skinheads: Exploring and Rethinking Subcultural Lives provides a thorough examination of the phenomenon of skinheads, explaining its nature and its significance, and assessing how far Russian skinhead subculture is the 'lumpen' end of the extreme nationalist ideological spectrum.

Based upon George Ritzer's McDonaldization of Society thesis and incorporating aspects of social theory, this book examines the introduction of care management to social work practice.