Social theory

This book explores how changes that occurred around 1989 shaped the study of the social sciences, and scrutinizes the impact of the paradigm of neoliberalism in different disciplinary fields.

Both the force and the limitations of the globalizing forces operating in the world today can best be understood through an analysis of their concrete manifestations.

Structure and Agency in Young People's Lives brings together different takes on the possible combinations of agency and structure in the life course, thus rejecting the notion that young individuals are the single masters of their lives, but also the view that their social destinies are completely out of their hands.

Explains what is at stake in calling societies ''ill'' and the meanings and consequences of characterizing social problems as illnesses.

The notion of common sense and abiding by its implications is something that, seemingly, everyone agrees is a good way of making behavioral decisions and conducting one's daily activities.

This book provides a solution to the problem of social structure and individual agency, an intense debate in the social sciences.

Community Change in Action guides students through the process of turning their personal passion into goal-driven action for community development.

Politics with a Human Face presents a holistic understanding of identity formation in post-Soviet Europe, arguing that since politics is fundamentally a human affair.

This new edition of a well-regarded book provides a concise and exceptionally clear introduction to Habermas's work, from his early writings on the public sphere, through his work on law and the state, to his more recent discussion of science, religion and contemporary Europe.

Ten years after Libya descended into conflict, the contours of a new society are emerging.

Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish is one of the best-selling works of critical theory and a key text on many undergraduate courses.

In Poetics of Listening, renowned sound studies scholar Brandon LaBelle brings critical attention to listening as a practice, one that can wield significant impact onto individual, interpersonal and community wellbeing.

This book proposes a comprehensive theory of the loss of religion in human societies, with a specific and substantive focus on the contemporary United States.

The transition to twenty-first century post-industrial capitalism from the 'welfare' industrial capitalism of the twentieth century, has affected the ways in which class is lived in terms of relational inequality and the factors that structure identity.

Examining the mimetic theory of Rene Girard, this book investigates the development of society as a result of an original crime (a murder) that shaped the way the earliest humans organized the social structures we live with today - an analysis that reveals the dangerous structure of the most basic social relationships.

Comprehensive and engaging, this textbook introduces students not only to foundational sociological work, but also to insights from contemporary sociological theory and research.

This book reiterates pluralism as the basic feature of the Indian social sphere.

Jeder von uns kennt das schöne und erfüllende Gefühl, wenn man etwas Gutes getan und Menschen eine Freude gemacht hat.

Innovative study examining how relationships and personal networks evolve throughout life, and how these connect individuals and society.

This book examines the economy of contemporary Catholic monasticism from a sociological perspective, considering the ways in which monasteries engage with the capitalist world economy via a model which aims less at 'performance' per se, than at the fulfilment of human and religious values.

Denise Dazert befasst sich mit Distinktion und dem unweigerlich daraus resultierenden, immerwährenden gesellschaftlichen Phänomen sozialer Ungleichheit.

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.

A new translation and introduction make this classic of social and political theory readily accessible.

Understanding where ageing occurs, how it is experienced by different people in different places, and in what ways it is transforming our communities, economies and societies at all levels has become crucial for the development of informed research, policy and programmes.

This book documents recent and historical events in the theoretically-based practice of peace development.

Violence is an inescapable through-line across the experiences of institutional residents regardless of facility type, historical period, regional location, government or staff in power, or type of population.

Campus Sexual Violence: A State of Institutionalized Sexual Terrorism conceptualizes sexual violence on college campuses as a form of sexual terrorism, arguing that institutional compliance and inaction within the neoliberal university perpetuate a system of sexual terrorism.

La société investit dans la production de cadres normatifs, en même temps qu'elle construit des moyens de les transgresser, en proposant des cadres alternatifs ou contre-normatifs.

In the past decade, post-structural policy analysis in education has evolved, primarily focusing on disrupting dominant narratives about education policy research, development and implementation, and the aims and outcomes of the policy-research nexus.

This international collection discusses how the individualised, reflexive, late modern era has changed the way we experience and act on our emotions.

Using theory and method, this book seeks to critique and illuminate rural matters.

Offers a new framework for understanding how religion and nationalism interact across diverse countries and religious traditions.

How ordinary urban objects influence our behavior, exacerbate inequality, and encourage social changeAssumptions about human behavior lie hidden in plain sight all around us, programmed into the design and regulation of the material objects we encounter on a daily basis.

The studies which comprise this book are essentially organized around a critical encounter with European social theory in its 'classical period' - i.

Philosophers, anthropologists and biologists have long puzzled over the question of human nature.

Embarking from a model of social capital hinging upon four social structures-work, family, social networks, and voluntary associations-Brian Jones empirically examines the widespread claims that American society is becoming less sociable, trusting, and cooperative.

Sometimes social theory can seem dry and intimidating - as if it is something completely apart from everyday life.

Edmund Burke's iconic stance against the French Revolution and its supposed Enlightenment inspiration, has ensured his central role in debates about the nature of modernity and freedom.

A new appreciation of Durkheim, now into its fourth decade, has extended our grasp of his intellectual ambitions beyond standard academic boundaries.

Atmosphere, the elusive ambiance of a place, enables or hinders its mobility in global consumption contexts.

If today students of social theory read Jurgen Habermas, Michael Foucault and Anthony Giddens, then proper regard to the question of culture means that they should also read Raymond Williams, Julia Kristeva and Slavoj Zizek.

The concepts of rationality that are used by social scientists in the formation of hypotheses, models and explanations are explored in this collection of original papers by a number of distinguished philosophers and social scientists.

Focused on the German-speaking parts of the former Habsburg Empire, and on present-day Austria in particular, this book offers a series of highly innovative analyses of the interplay of nationalism s discursive and institutional facets.

This book illuminates an important dimension of the work of Max Weber.

The image of surfing is everywhere in American popular culture - films, novels, television shows, magazines, newspaper articles, music, and especially advertisements.

In recent years, an increasing number of separation walls have been built around the world.

Theory Conspiracy provides a state-of-the-art collection that takes stage on the meeting and/or battlegrounds between conspiracy theory and theory-asconspiracy.

This book combines pieces of work on Europe and Latin America, the two continents where football arouses the most ardent passions among its spectators.