Social theory

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

Critical Management Studies (CMS) has emerged as a movement that questions the authority and relevance of mainstream thinking and practice.

This book looks at conceptions of the individual in recent new approaches in economics.

In the past fifteen years, microsimulation models have become firmly established as vital tools for analysis of the distributional impact of changes in governmental programmes.

First published in 1976, Working Class Youth Culture offers a much-needed alternative viewpoint to the law-and-order lobby which treats the youth question as a dreadful pest to be exterminated or caged in.

Marx's Grundrisse is acknowledged as the vital link between Marx's early and late work.

This book opens up the debate on the interrelations between space and mobilities with regard to different dimensions of social inequality.

This book proposes operational approaches to public sector support to community-led development of urban low-income group social housing in the prevailing and medium-term.

Do criminal cultures generate drug use?

First published in 1971, Social Choice is both a text and reference containing the proceedings of a conference dealing with contemporary work on the normative and descriptive aspects of the social choice problem.

Rom Harre has pushed the boundaries of our thinking about people and societies and has challenged the orthodox philosophy of science and social psychology.

Criminology, the discipline that informs our understanding of crime and justice, is facing an identity crisis.

Marxism After Modernity is concerned with the ways in which Marxist theory has responded to the major social, economic and technological transformations of capitalism which have occurred in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

In contemporary society the idea of 'revolution' seems to have become obsolete.

Cross-border studies have become attractive for a number of fields, including international migration, studies of material and cultural globalization, and history.

A wide-ranging cultural history centered around the concepts of real estate, the family home, and the American dream, and how they evolved over the years, Home Ownership in America: A Socio-Cultural History of Housing in the United States traces narratives around home ownership from the 1920s to today.

This fourth volume of The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies finishes the series by exploring how class infuses people's past and present efforts to juggle family, work and leisure.

Engaging with the idea that the world reveals not one, but many routes to modernity, this volume explores the role of religion in the emergence of multiple forms of modernity, which evolve according to specific cultural conditions and interpretations of the 'modern project'.

Seafarer & Community (1973) examines life on shipboard and how the communities which rely on the sea for their livelihood exist.

This book examines the meaning of Brexit, the election of Trump and the rising tide of populist revolt on the right amidst the collapse of the left.

Uncovering how cash-in-hand economies are composed of not only the underground sector (work akin to formal employment conducted for profit-motivated purposes), but also a hidden economy of favours more akin to mutual aid, this book displays the need to transcend conventional market-oriented readings of cash-in-hand work and radically rethink whether seeking its eradication through tougher regulations is always appropriate.

While the notion of social harm has long interested critical criminologists it is now being explored as an alternative field of study, which provides more accurate analyses of the vicissitudes of life.

Unique study re-evaluating the role of emotions in social interaction.

The theory of crisis has always played a central role within Marxism, and yet has been one of its weakest elements.

This volume, first published in 1975, is concerned with the politics of race relations; it is divided into theoretical, empirical and methodological studies together with an extensive bibliography.

The Routledge Social Science Handbook of AI is a landmark volume providing students and teachers with a comprehensive and accessible guide to the major topics and trends of research in the social sciences of artificial intelligence (AI), as well as surveying how the digital revolution - from supercomputers and social media to advanced automation and robotics - is transforming society, culture, politics and economy.

Methods of visualising modernity and capitalism have been central to classical social science.

Telling Stories to Change the World is a powerful collection of essays about community-based and interest-based projects where storytelling is used as a strategy for speaking out for justice.

A historical economic analysis of US racial disparity across the alternative regimes of structural racism and economic development.

Anomie, strain and subcultural theories are among the leading theories of crime.

Martijn van Zomeren develops ''selvations theory'', and proposes that human motivation is based around changes in social relationships.

The teaching of history has long been the subject of partisan warfare.

In the light of intense international focus on ongoing forms of world poverty, this book examines the potential of the concept of recognition in contemporary political philosophy to respond morally to this dire condition.

The book describes, interprets, and analyzes the key features of European society and American society and major social trends in the United States and in the European Union in the last 50 years.

This selection, first published in 1973, compiles a fascinating study of crowd psychology as it examines the moral epidemics and fits of madness that have bewitched the cities of Europe and their citizens from the dark ages to modern times.

The idea of citizenship is widely used in daily life.

Two decades after the Brundtland Commission's Report "e;Our Common Future"e; adopted the concept of 'sustainable development', this book provides a renewal of the concept exploring the potential for new practices and fields for those involved in sustainability activity.

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.

Originally published in 1989, Reclaiming Reality still provides the most accessible introduction to the increasingly influential multi-disciplinary and international body of thought, known as critical realism.

This book systematically analyzes the economic dynamics of large emerging economies from an extended Comparative Capitalisms perspective.

Pierre Bourdieu was the most influential sociologist of the late 20th century.

Queering Desire explores, with unprecedented interdisciplinary scope, contemporary configurations of lesbian, bi, queer women's, and non-binary people's experiences of identity and desire.

This book, first published in 1986, presents a radical challenge to socialist orthodoxy, subjecting a key component of that orthodoxy - Marxism - to sustained criticism.

It is impossible to understand capitalism without analyzing slavery, an institution that tied together three world regions: Europe, the Americas, and Africa.

Institutions of Law offers an original account of the nature of law and legal systems in the contemporary world.

Edited volume that uniquely attempts to synthesize sociological and performance studies theories with conceptual frameworks.

This book explains how gossip contributes to knowledge.