Social theory

This book, first published in 1992, examines the attitudes of local elites - the hinge between Indian state and rural society - towards protest and participation in development, illuminating arguments about the nature of the state as well as the development process.

Sociologists and historians are not always the best of neighbours, each group tending to perceive the other in terms of the crudest of stereotypes.

The late 1960s and early 1970s marked an era of profound social experimentation and cultural transformation.

First published in 1999, this book adopts an explicitly forward-looking and dynamic approach in trying to understand not only where the sociology of work has come from but of where it is likely to go next.

The concept of a relational self has been prominent in feminism, communitarianism, narrative self theories, and social network theories, and has been important to theorizing about practical dimensions of selfhood.

Left Universalism, Africacentric Essays presents a defense of universalism as the foundation of moral and political arguments and commitments.

In recent decades, the historical social sciences have moved away from deterministic perspectives and increasingly embraced the interpretive analysis of historical process and social and political change.

Engaging with the wide sociological literature on emotions, this book explores the social representation of emotions, their management and their effects by making reference to creative sources.

The second volume of The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies maps the distribution of social powers and associated properties and lifestyles in unparalleled detail by examining the results of a brand-new survey delivered in Sweden, Germany and the US.

Multi-Sited Ethnography has established itself as a fully-fledged research method among anthropologists and sociologists in recent years.

Once treated as the absence of knowledge, ignorance has now become a highly influential and rapidly growing topic in its own right.

The first book to fully explore the multiple ways in which body work features in health and social care and the meanings of this work both for those employed to do it and those on whose bodies they work.

Social decentering theory was developed in response to the confusion created by the use of the term empathy and to a lesser extent, perspective-taking, to reflect a wide and varied set of human cognitive processes and behaviors.

This is a systematic philosophical study of the notion of a social practice.

This book demonstrates how pop culture examples can be used to demystify complex social theory.

Culture, Class, and Critical Theory develops a theory of culture that explains how ideas create and legitimate class inequalities in modern society.

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.

'An urgent manifesto for collective healing.

This volume, from an international and interdisciplinary cohort of scholars, offers independent-minded essays about central Greek texts and about the relation of social theory and comparative method to the study of archaic and classical Greek literature.

Talcott Parsons was the leading theorist in American sociology-and perhaps in world sociology-from the 1940s to the 1970s.

Critical Sociology is a thoroughly revised, updated, and sophisticated introduction to the sociological perspective as a critical lens on society.

This book examines how legal institutions reify the value of death in the twenty-first century.

Philosophers and social scientists share a common goal: to explore fundamental truths about ourselves and the nature of the world in which we live.

Unequal life-chances became a key feature of cross-border migration to, and within, the enlarged Europe.

John Carroll contends that since 1918 sociology has distinguished itself by making society appear as dull as it is at its worst.

Modern political life is a confusing and disorientating terrain of competing ideologies.

This book explains how actions and inactions arise and change in social contexts, including social media.

This text links the complementary processes of research design and statistical analysis in assessing causal relationships in the social sciences.

A comprehensive new collection covering the principal traditions and critical contemporary issues of social theory.

The Lesbian Revolution argues that lesbian feminists were a vital force in the Women's Liberation Movement (WLM).

In the last decade lifestyle television has become one of the most dominant television genres, with certain shows now global brands with formats exploited by producers all over the world.

Bourdieu once commented that what was needed was a 'new gaze' on the social world - a metanoia.

Through a series of case studies by leading anthropologists, Cool Anthropology highlights the many different approaches that scholars have used to engage the public with their research.

In the Anthropocene sustainable development responds to socio-economic, environmental and political crises provoked by humankind due to global warming and the great acceleration of human intervention in ecosystems.

Looking back over the last 60 years of sociology in the UK, this book addresses the question of progress in the discipline.

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.

This is the first book to focus on governance and cultures of consumption, expanding the debate and raising new conceptions and policy agendas.

In our time of rampant inequality, imperial-capitalist plunder, violence and ecocide, when radical concepts from the past seem inadequate, how do researchers and students of ethnographic work decide what concepts to work with or renew?

In the 1980s and 1990s, neoliberal forms of governance largely dominated Latin American political and social life.

In this book David Mansley argues that the frequency with which violence intrudes on to the streets is related to both how society is governed and how it is policed.

This book argues that information communication technologies are not creating new forms of social structure, but rather altering long-standing institutions and amplifying existing trends of social change that have their origins in ancient times.

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

Under the weight of apparently growing consumer affluence, globalisation and post-modern social theory, many have proclaimed the declining significance of social class and place to young people's lives - and for social science.

This volume illustrates the diversity of populism globally.

This is the first collection of essays to be published on Durkheim's masterpiece The Elementary Forms of Religious Life.

Risks, Identities and the Everyday focuses on the individual and the lived experience of everyday risks - a departure from the focus on risk from a macro level.

Family Configurations develops current scholarship on families and intimate lives by demonstrating that family relationships, far from being fluid and inconsequential, are more structured and committed than ever.

This volume offers a cross-section of a good fifteen years of research in the sociology of technology and innovation at the Department of Sociology of Technology headed by Werner Rammert at the TU Berlin.