Social theory

Winner of the 2020 Stephen Crook Memorial Prize fromThe Australian Sociological Association, a biennial prize for the best authored book in Australian sociologyFrom concerns of dwindling care and kindness for others to an excessive concern with self and consumerism, plenty of evidence has been provided for the claim that morality is in decline in the West, yet little is known about how people make-sense of and experience their everyday moral lives.

This book analyses the concept of community by critically exploring its many manifestations in leisure.

Biometric technologies, such as finger- or facial-scan, are being deployed across a variety of social contexts in order to facilitate and guarantee identity verification and authentication.

Ethno-national and religious identity and violence dominate modern politics, from Northern Ireland to terrorism in Sri Lanka, the former Yugoslavia or Afghanistan and Iraq.

Routledge Handbook of Counter-Narratives is a landmark volume providing students, university lecturers, and practitioners with a comprehensive and structured guide to the major topics and trends of research on counter-narratives.

Evolution is among the most central and most contested of ideas in the history of anthropology.

This seven volume set reissues a collection of out-of-print titles covering a range of responses to modern culture.

In the wake of an unparalleled housing crisis at the end of the Second World War, Glasgow Corporation rehoused the tens of thousands of private tenants who were living in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions in unimproved Victorian slums.

This volume is a collection of original studies based on one of the first research programs on comparative analysis of social capital.

This book challenges previous definitions of modernity by comparing Max Weber (1864-1920), often considered the most important sociologist of the 20th century, and Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), founder of Waldorfpadagogik and the esoteric social reform movement of anthroposophy.

After the end of Euro-American hegemony and the return of the multi-centric world, Eurocentrism in philosophy and the social sciences has come under attack.

This innovative text uses the lens of culture to examine the various theoretical perspectives and paradigms of urban analysis.

Whenever the topic of large jails and public hospitals in urban America is raised, a single idea comes to mind.

In this book Axel Honneth re-examines arguments put forward by Hegel and claims that the 'struggle for recognition' should be at the centre of social conflicts.

The Routledge Handbook of Crime Fiction and Ecology is the first comprehensive examination of crime fiction and ecocriticism.

This book is the first full length account of the significance of MacIntyre's work for the social sciences.

This is a book for all women writers, professional, amateur or aspiring, in which forty women talk about writing and the part it plays in their lives.

This book examines the nature of the conflict between right-wing populism and multiculturalism: the West's defining conflict in the modern age.

While various democratic theorists have looked at particular instances of recent social movements (Occupy or the Arab Spring, for example), none have yet attempted a more general theoretical take on what it is that relates all of these movements and what that running thread can tell us about democratic theory.

As one of the most renowned figures in the history of anthropology, Bronislaw Malinowski is recognised as having been central to the development of the discipline, with interpretations of his thought usually drawing attention to his work in founding the approach of functionalism and his innovative method of intensive field research.

This book outlines key developments in understanding social harm by setting out its historical foundations and the discussions which have proliferated since.

Modern institutional economics was created to study the institutions of pre-digital economies and is based on reductionist approaches.

Being and Worth extends recent depth-realist philosophy to the question of values.

The Ashgate Research Companion to Black Sociology provides the most up to date exploration and analysis of research focused on Blacks in America.

Disrupting, questioning and altering the taken-for-granted 'cosmos' of everyday life, the experiences of illness challenge the different ways in which social normalcy is remembered, maintained and expected.

This fully revised and updated edition of Happiness provides an accessible introduction to the concept of happiness and how it can be applied to public policy in order to help citizens achieve the good life.

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

This book, written by a philosopher interested in the problems of social science and scientific method, and a sociologist interested in the philosophy of science, presents a novel conception of how we should think about and carry out the scientific study of social life.

This book presents a cross-disciplinary and methodologically innovative study, combining historical macro-sociology and a sociology of emotions with historical anthropology and cultural studies.

The writings of Ibn Khaldun, particularly the Muqaddimah (Prolegomenon) have rightly been regarded as being sociological in nature.

On the Genealogy of Critique intervenes into both contemporary academic debates on critique, and today's mainstream criticism, by reflecting upon the relationship between criticality and social change in the age of post-politics.

This book shows how many previously contingent social processes have gradually been re-organised and transformed into entangled processes of 'discontinuance' and 'continuance' through the implementation of digital logic.

The Anthropocene has become a field of studies in which the influence of human activity on the Earth System and nature is both the main threat and the potential solution.

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The history of European economic thought has long been written by those seeking to prove or disprove the truth-value of the theories they describe.

Routledge Readings on Law and Social Justice: Dispossessions, Marginalities, Rights presents some of the finest essays on social justice, rights and public policy.

This book develops a new political economy, enabling us to see, understand and advocate a diverse economy beyond capitalism and socialism.

This volume focuses on three closely-connected aspects of A mile Durkheim's work: his sociology of justice, his sociology of morality and his political sociology.

Critically exploring the ways in which men and masculinities are commonly theorized, this multidisciplinary text opens up a discussion around such relationships, and shows that, as with feminisms, there is a diversity of theoretical traditions.

This title was first published in 2001.

Illuminating Dark Networks discusses new necessary methods to understand dark networks, because these clandestine groups differ from transparent organizations.

Der Begriff des Gemeinwohls gehört seit jeher zum Grundinventar des politischen Denkens und ist dabei so umstritten wie kaum ein anderer Begriff, dessen wir uns bei der Bewertung sozialer Verhältnisse und kollektiv verbindlicher Entscheidungen bedienen.

In this provocative analysis of the central issues and developments in modern social theory, Dr Strasser contends that enquiry into the function, tasks and mission of sociology as a discipline can be understood only in relation to the subject's historical development.

Drawing together philosophical, empirical and academic thinking, this book focuses on generating awareness of the relationship forged between self and surroundings.

The 'minority' feminist viewpoints have often been submerged in the interests of maintaining a mainstream, universal model of feminism.

Provides a penetrating examination of how political rhetoric from public officials creates tensions via microaggression cues due to changing demographics, campaign rhetoric, and the use of social media.

Under the global hegemony of the West, societies have interpreted the world and defined their identities through the frameworks of Eurocentric discourses.

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.