Social theory

Institutions are fundamental aspects for driving tourism and hospitality globally.

Globalization and Technocapitalism considers the global reach of a new capitalist era, exploring the nature of 'technocapitalism' as grounded in new forms of accumulation, commodification, and corporate organization.

In Europe welfare state provision has been subjected to 'market forces'.

The topics covered in this book are directly related to much of the misunderstanding of what sociology is about.

Within a variety of practice environments, health professionals often experience feelings of disgust and repulsion towards the presence of an abject object.

New Perspectives of the Philosophy of Social Science provides a comprehensive history, explanation and critique of empiricism and positivism within the natural and social sciences, as well as an overview of the interpretivist/hermeneutic tradition in social science.

During the 1920s a new generation of American sociologists tried to make their discipline more objective by adopting the methodology of the natural sciences.

This title was first published in 2001.

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

Shades of Deviance is a turbo-driven guide to crime and deviance.

Feminist approaches to international law have been mischaracterised by the mainstream of the discipline as being a niche field that pertains only to women's lived experiences and their participation in decision-making processes.

Influenced by Thomas Kuhn's work on paradigm shifts in the social sciences, this overview of contemporary theory identifies major themes, charts the impact of social change on theories, acquaints readers with a sample of individual theorists (the "e;transitional giants"e; who shaped contemporary theories), explores the impact of contemporary theories on various areas of sociology, and traces how the great social theories of the past are being reinterpreted and incorporated into new theories.

The book introduces Tadeusz Kotarbinski's philosophy of action into the mainstream of contemporary action-theoretical debates.

This volume explores the foundations of trust, and whether social and political trust have common roots.

The second edition of this influential book addresses how the experiences and claims of non-European 'others' have been rendered invisible to the standard narratives and analytical frameworks of sociological understandings of modernity.

Implicit conceptions of time associated with progress and linearity have influenced scholars and practitioners in the fields of transitional justice and peacebuilding, but time and temporality have rarely been systematically considered.

''Who is in authority?

Originally published in 1973, this book examines the difficulties which sociologists have in providing useful scientific definitions of terms like 'prejudice' and 'discrimination'.

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.

Since the structuralist debates of the 1970s the field of textual analysis has largely remained the preserve of literary theorists.

Since the end of the Second World War, society has been characterised by rapid and extensive political, economic, scientific, and technological change.

This book provides a comprehensive and thorough interpretation of Beck's theory of the (world) risk society, from its original formulation up to his sudden death on New Year's Day 2015.

Shows how the problem of social order has shaped concept formation, theory, and normative argument in political science.

As many can attest, the prevalence of sexual imagery has increased in modern society over the past half century.

Scaling Impact introduces a new and practical approach to scaling the positive impacts of research and innovation.

Wangari Muta Maathai was a scholar-activist known for founding the Green Belt Movement, an environmental campaign that earned her the Nobel Peace Prize.

What is technology?

In tackling emergentist Marxism in depth, this well-written volume demonstrates that critical realism and materialist dialectics are indispensable to theorizing the functioning of complex social and physical systems.

Presenting new insights into reciprocity, this book combines Marcel Mauss's well-known gift theory with Barrington Moore's idea of mutual obligations linking rulers and the ruled.

In the provocative opening essay Kenway and Fahey explore ways in which the notion of the imagination itself might be mobilized by researchers.

This book examines the 2008 global economic crisis as a complex social phenomenon or "e;social hieroglyphic"e;, arguing that the crisis is not fundamentally economic, despite presenting itself as such.

This collection examines human-animal relations and the different ways in which they can be understood, exploring animal rights and animal welfare; whether and under what circumstances animals are regarded as social actors with agency; media representations of human-animal relations; and the relation between animals and national identity.

The idea of cosmopolitanism has informed some of the most important developments in current sociology.

Although many contemporary scholars have deepened our understanding of civil society through critiquing the limits of civil society discourse or seeking to offer empirical analyses of existing civil societies, none have attempted anything as bold or original as Jeffrey C.

This book unearths new knowledge and challenges existing paradigms in relation to the integration of minority communities.

Nothing really matters.

If we are serious about finding a different way to run the post-credit crunch society, we must start by introducing alternatives to undergraduates.

Practical Reason and Norms focuses on three problems: In what way are rules normative, and how do they differ from ordinary reasons?

Hanna Haag untersucht erstmals die familiale Tradierung DDR-bezogener Orientierungen im Beisein der Nachwendegeneration.

Shows that economic concerns about jobs, costs, and consumption, rather than climate change, are likely to drive energy transition in developing countries.

This Element evaluates the role of intergroup contact in democracy and proposes a method for studying contact more generally.

Class in the New Millennium paints a fresh and comprehensive picture of social class in Britain today.

What Does 'Art' Mean Now?

This book analyzes the social and contextual causes of suicide, the existential and philosophical reasons for committing suicide, and the prevention strategies that modern fictional literature places at our disposal.

In an innovative contribution to the challenging of disciplinary boundaries, Edward J.

This book explores the ancient question of why man seeks to go beyond his limits.

This book examines racial and ethnic politics outside of the traditional context and questions the models used to understand mobility and government responsiveness.

Increasingly, we hear of 'smart' cities, communities, governance and people as constituting the basis of initiatives by which we might address various social and environmental problems, particularly those connected with sustainability, usually by means of an 'intelligent' connection with the 'network society'.