Social theory

This thoughtful examination of incarceration in the United States from the 1980s to the current time offers for consideration a transparent and humane correctional model for the future.

This book offers a new perspective on sociological studies of the consumer society, introducing neglected normative questions relating to the good life and human flourishing - subjects more commonly discussed in fields of moral, political, and social philosophy.

Video games are becoming culturally dominant.

This Handbook offers an authoritative, up-to-date introduction to the rich scholarly conversation about anarchy-about the possibility, dynamics, and appeal of social order without the state.

Rights of Passage: Sidewalks and the Regulation of Public Flow documents a powerful and under-researched form of urban governance that focuses on pedestrian flow.

This book extends the approach that Murray and Schuler develop in their companion volume, False Moves in Philosophy and Social Theory: Losing Public Purpose.

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

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to juvenile delinquency by defining and describing juvenile delinquency, examining explanations for delinquent behavior, and considering contemporary efforts to control delinquency through prevention and juvenile justice.

Victor Kempf konfrontiert in seiner sozialphilosophischen Studie zwei konträre Paradigmen der Kapitalismuskritik.

Some studies estimate that each year, around a quarter of the population of Western countries will suffer from at least one mental disorder.

This book addresses the current crisis of democratic politics and its phase of 'interregnum' - in which the past finds it hard to die and the future finds it difficult to be born - by proposing a radical redefinition of the concept of the Political.

This book presents a comprehensive, lucid, and accessible approach to environmental sociology.

This lively and controversial collection of essays sets out to theorize and practice a 'materialist-feminist' criticism of literature and culture.

According to David Halperin, sexuality in our time is typified by a "e;crisis in contemporary sexual definition"e;.

Crises have been studied in many disciplines and from diverse perspectives for at least 150 years.

This reintroduction to the life and work of Marcel Mauss highlights his coherent and original thought both as an academic and an engaged intellectual of his time.

Originating in the popular Sociologia en Cuarantena blog, this volume provides a detailed and multifaceted analysis of the social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain.

The question of agency is a key issue in social theory and research.

With the rise of both populist parties and social movements in Europe, the role of emotions in politics has once again become key to political debates, and particularly in the Spanish case.

How do we, as human beings, come to understand ourselves and others around us?

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.

The book presents aspects of cross-currents of theorizing of self, culture and society in the contemporary Taiwan.

This textbook delivers a new thematic introduction to social theory that explores theoretical issues in their contemporary social contexts.

Critical thinking values, skills, and knowledge are integral to evidence-based practice in the helping professions.

Designed for students of social policy and women's studies, this text gives a readable account of the wide range of feminist ideas about women and welfare.

New perspectives on the complex social dynamics of bullying practices through analyses of children''s experiences, and parents'' and teachers'' perspectives.

Kristen Deede Johnson explores how we can live together in the midst of our differences.

What's Critical About Critical Realism?

This volume fills the gap in books dedicated to the ideas of ground-breaking theorist Juliet Mitchell.

Internationally renowned media and literature scholars, social scientists, game designers and artists explore the cultural potential of computer games in this rich anthology, which introduces the latest approaches in the central fields of game studies and provides an extensive survey of contemporary game culture.

The Routledge Handbook of Henri Lefebvre,The City and Urban Society is the first edited book to focus on Lefebvre's urban theories and ideas from a global perspective, making use of recent theoretical and empirical developments, with contributions from eminent as well as emergent global scholars.

The second edition of the Routledge International Handbook of Globalization Studies offers students clear and informed chapters on the history of globalization and key theories that have considered the causes and consequences of the globalization process.

This book accessibly surveys the conceptual advances in economics for a broad social sciences audience.

Fifty Key Sociologists: The Contemporary Theorists covers the life, work, ideas and impact of some of the most important thinkers in this discipline.

Jamaican Migrant (1965) is the honest and moving recollection of a Jamaican cabinet-maker who emigrated to a new life in Britain.

A central problem in contemporary social theory is that of providing an account of social interaction that does justice both to the self-monitoring capacities of the individuals involved and to the society that 'frames' the interaction.

This book shows how former President Donald Trump''s attack on the ''deep state'' severely damaged America''s political institutions.

In the early 1800s, Robert Owen was a mill owner, political figure, and an advocate for social reform, and his publications attained considerable circulation.

In this exciting new book, Mike Michael uses case studies of mundane technologies such as the walking boot, the car and the TV remote control to question some of the fundamental dichotomies through which we make sense of the world.

This book dissects the reproductive intentions and behaviours of the one-child generation cohort in China, situated in the wider context of changing family life patterns and gendered lenses.

Bringing together the author's major scholarly work on Weber over the last thirty years, Max Weber's Comparative-Historical Sociology Today addresses major themes in Weber's thought, whilst also examining the mode of analysis practised in his comparative-historical writings.

This book explores the intersubjective nature of disgust, the fascination that often accompanies it-along with repulsion-and the ethical implications of the experience.

This volume is the first of a trilogy which investigates, from a broadly realist perspective, the place, and challenges, of the human in contemporary social orders.

This volume of Studies in Law, Politics and Society explores issues around hatred and the law.

This book provides a short introduction to the emergence and development of sociology in Ireland until the present day.

'This is a quite remarkable book, a pleasure to read.

How are identities formed among social workers, many of whom perform complex, challenging and ambiguous public sector functions on a regular basis?

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