Social theory

This 2004 book is an exploration of the volunteer networks for moral reforms of late Georgian and Victorian England.

In this volume well-known scholars from India and Latin America - Enrique Dussel, Madhu Dubey, Walter D.

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

An overview of research methodologies in social science, historical and cultural studies which proposes transdisciplinary approach.

The Oxford Handbook of Consumption consolidates the most innovative recent work conducted by social scientists in the field of consumption studies and identifies some of the most fruitful lines of inquiry for future research.

Now in its third edition, Anthony Elliott's comprehensive, stylish and accessible introduction continues to be the indispensable guide to social theory.

An Ordered Love is the first detailed study of sex roles in the utopian communities that proposed alternatives to monogamous marriage: The Shakers (1779-1890), the Mormons (1843-90), and the Oneida Community (1848-79).

Meanings and Situations is an account of the 'interactionist' position.

What will be the fate of childhood in the twenty-first century?

Feministische Traditionen und Geschlechterforschung haben in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten gesellschaftliches Wissen und eine Vielzahl neuer theoretischer Erkenntnisse hervorgebracht.

Since the beginning of social life human societies have faced the problem how to distribute the results of collaborative activities among the participants.

This volume challenges prevailing understanding of the two great founders of sociological thought.

Of all the scholarly work on the countryside done in pre-1917 Russia and in the Soviet Union in the 1920s, that of L.

This book constitutes a practical guide to the important skills of both theorizing and writing in social scientific scholarship, focusing on the importance of identifying relations between concepts that are useful for explaining social entities and of producing a text that convincingly advances the theory that has been constructed.

This lively and highly original study explores the link between visual culture and religion in terms of tales, memory and character.

Kalle Hauss nimmt die Erfahrungen junger Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler mit Konferenzen empirisch in den Blick und fragt nach den Erträgen der Teilnahme.

"e;Volume 38 of Studies in Symbolic Interaction"e; is devoted exclusively to the "e;Blue Ribbon Papers Series"e;, which is under the intellectual leadership of Lonnie Athens.

This book analyses the legitimacy deficits in democratic welfare work using Habermas' theories of communicative action, law and  morality.

This book offers a new perspective on the issue of modernity through a series of interconnected essays.

Based on a comparative study of the theories of such sociologists as Ward, Sumner, Keller, Giddings, Ross, Small and Cooley, this is a systematic and rigorous analysis of the main features of earlier sociological theory in the USA.

The Humanities, the Social Sciences and the University is an intellectual history of research in the humanities and social sciences.

Weber's Rationalism and Modern Society rediscovers Max Weber for the twenty-first century.

Drawing on never before used archival materials, Replacing the Dead exposes the history of Soviet and Russian abortion policy.

Drawing on a broad range of approaches in the fields of sociology, anthropology, political science, history, philosophy, medicine and nursing, Power and the Psychiatric Apparatus exposes psychiatric practices that are mobilized along the continuum of repression, transformation and assistance.

Conspiracy Theories in the Time of Covid-19 provides a wide-ranging analysis of the emergence and development of conspiracy theories during the Covid-19 pandemic, with a focus on the US and the UK.

The Cultural Production of Social Movements offers a theory of cultural practices, protest tactics, strategic planning and deliberation, and movement organizational structures: "e;ideological contention.

Climate change is prompting an unprecedented questioning of the fundamental bases upon which society is founded.

What was Adam Smith's intellectual laboratory?

In the late 1950s the psychiatrist R.

This book brings together a collection of emergent research that moves the debate on desistance beyond a general consideration of individual and social structural influences.

Since 9/11 interest in Islamophobia has steadily increased - as has the number of academic publications discussing the phenomenon.

Criminology is at a crossroads.

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

This book extends Max Weber's theory of the value-spheres of modernity into wholly new areas, showing that the addition of home, nature and sport to Weber's own list of five spheres (economic, scientific/intellectual, political/legal, erotic and aesthetic) yields original insights into these aspects of modernity and modernity itself.

First published in 1988, Social Stratification and Economic Change brings together, for the first time in textbook form, some of the most significant work both theoretical and empirical on stratification in Britain.

Central to the idea of a perfect society is the idea that communities must be strong and bound together with shared ideologies.

Given the propensity of contemporary protection measures such as counterterrorism efforts and fierce protection strategies against viral threats, as well as physical and legal barriers against migration, a number of political philosophers, including Peter Sloterdijk and Roberto Esposito, have claimed that contemporary (political) culture can be characterised by a so-called 'immunisation paradigm'.

The permanent struggle for optimisation can be seen as one of the most significant cultural principles of contemporary Western societies: the demand for improved performance and efficiency as well as the pursuit of self-improvement are con-sidered necessary in order to keep pace with an accelerated, competitive modern-ity.

Through a variety of studies in the emerging field of attentional studies, this book examines and seeks alternatives to the current attention economy.

Originally published in 1970, Race and Racialism aims to bring race discussions into the mainstream of sociological discussion through scrutinizing concepts that defines theoretical issues.

This book outlines a compelling new agenda for feminist theories of identity and social relations.

This Routledge Revival sees the reissue of a seminal work by British economist, sociologist and academic John A.

The role of the policeman in the community and attitudes towards the police are now matters of active public concern.

The revised edition of this widely acclaimed textbook provides a clear, accessible and comprehensive introduction to modern social theory.

With a new foreword by Charles Lemert'Its greatness.

Critical Theory and Film brings together critical theory and film to enhance the critical potential of both.

Until recently little of Simmel's work was available in translation and certain key texts were unknown outside Germany.

Until recently the subject of suffering and evil was neglected in the sociological world and was almost absent in Durkheimian studies as well.

Any study of contemporary industrial societies must take into account the role of power, ideology and class, and the degree to which these determine the development of social structures.