Social theory

Erving Goffman is considered by many to have been one of the most important sociologists of the post-war era.

The ongoing neoliberalisation of education is complex, varied and relentless.

Dialectic and Difference is the first systematic exploration of Roy Bhaskar's dialectical philosophy and its implications for ethics and justice.

This book is devoted to the reintroduction of the remarkable approach to sociological inquiry developed by Harvey Sacks.

In The Fragility of Things, eminent theorist William E.

Provides a new framework for reconceptualizing the historical and contemporary relationship between cultural diversity, political authority, and international order.

Transitional justice studies typically focuses on how nations remember, face and deal with histories of past violence.

Trotz unterschiedlicher Themen und Fragestellungen sind Forschende und Studierende bei der Durchführung eines Forschungsprojekts immer wieder mit vergleichbaren Herausforderungen konfrontiert: eine relevante Forschungsfrage muss entwickelt und der meist umfangreiche Forschungsstand prägnant präsentiert werden.

In Constituent Power, Violence, and the State, Dimitri Vouros examines the question of political violence by placing the thought of Georges Sorel, Walter Benjamin, and Hannah Arendt in conversation with contemporary theories of sovereignty and constituent power.

This book explores the uses and limits of Max Weber's work for thinking sociologically about capitalism today.

these are just two of the issues addressed by Les Johnston, who argues that policing, far from being the exclusive preserve of public personnel, is an activity undertaken by a mixture of public, private, and quasi-public agents.

A new, hands-on approach to social inquiry for social scientists who wish to make a difference to policy and practice.

This volume begins by challenging the bases of the recent scientization of sociology.

Aspects of Enlightenment is an attempt to reconfigure the terrain of contemporary social theory.

This book is abut the place of space in the study of class formation.

What does it mean to talk about everyday racism, and why should we do so?

Over the course of more than seventy years, symbolic interactionism as a resourceful and conceptually rich perspective has generated variegated lines of research.

Consider the vast array of things around you, from the building you are in, the lights illuminating the interior, the computational devices mediating your life, the music in the background, even the crockery, furniture and glassware you are in the presence of.

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 volume examines civilizations through the broad lens articulated by the works of Max Weber.

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

The first text to examine the concept of trust and the role that it played on the Industrial Revolution, this book is a key resource for students studying nineteenth century British history as well as historically minded sociologists.

Resisting Financialization with Deleuze and Guattari aims to provide a contribution in relation to three main areas: the understanding of contemporary capitalism and financialization from a critical perspective; the analysis of resistance to financialization; and the better understanding of the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari.

Meanings and Situations is an account of the 'interactionist' position.

Why are humans so different from each other and what makes the human species so different from all other living organisms?

First published in 1941, Marxism: Is it Science?

Antonio Gramsci was an Italian Marxist thinker whose radical ideas on how to build an alternative world from below remain vigorously relevant today.

What's Left after New Labour?

Long-running trends towards increasing inequality between the rich and poor across Europe have been exacerbated by the 2008 global financial crisis and its aftermath.

Information is regarded as a distinguishing feature of our world.

This 2005 book offers an assessment of the impact of women''s movements on public policy.

Transgression is truly a key idea for our time.

This handbook critically examines the three concepts of exclusion, inequality and stigma and their interrelationship in the Indian context.

In this book, after discussing the fundamental problems of current science and other philosophic concepts, beginning with controversies between Heraclitus and Parmenides, Ilya Prigogine launches into a message of great hope: the future has not been determined.

This book presents an integral, cross-cultural reflection on the social reality of children's rights and citizenship, giving an insight into new perspectives on the history and different concepts of children's rights in a contextualized and localized manner.

This book, originally published in 1940, is primarily intended to tell the English reader what is contained in the earlier works of Marx, with emphasis on what seemed to throw most light on the man and his systematic thought.

Students drop out of universities in large numbers, many graduate to jobs that do not require a degree and a large number learn little at university, whilst graduate salaries have shrunk over time and student loan debt and default have grown.

Unashamedly polemical, this reissue of Freedom & Equality, first published in 1986, presents a strong and persuasively argued case for democratic socialism.

Using George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four as a guide for interpreting the role of the American state in the twenty-first century - paying particular attention to how the government responded to the life and death issues of terrorism, COVID-19, and climate change - this book presents eye-opening and compelling documentary evidence that suggests Orwellian policies have already been implemented by Republicans and Democrats.

Reviewing Political Criticism examines the rise of the 'review' form of journal publication, from the early eighteenth to the early twenty-first centuries.

Henri Lefebvre is widely recognized as one of the most influential social theorists of the Twentieth Century.

This book explores the intertwining of politics and ontology, shedding light on the ways in which, as our ability to investigate, regulate, appropriate, 'enhance' and destroy material reality have developed, so new social scientific accounts of nature and our relationship with it have emerged, together with new forms of power.

Matt Dawson and Dmitri N.

This new edition brings this study of inner-city life up to date.

Designed to address practical questions, applied ethics is one of the most exciting areas in contemporary philosophy.

This volume explores the issues at the center of many historical and contemporary reflections on community and sociality in Continental philosophy.

Experience and Representation: Contemporary Perspectives on Migration in Australia provides a critical overview of influential theoretical perspectives and recent empirical material in the fields of migration, race, culture and politics.

During recent years, there has been a growing awareness that a better understanding of human activities and the behavioural components of environmental problems is needed.