Social theory

The politicization of Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism originated with the dual global dissemination of the nation-state alongside the western concept of religion.

This book examines Rousseau's conception of freedom and its significance for our modern technological world.

The 8th edition, already significantly updated, has now been further updated in 2023 to include the likely impact of the post-pandemic cutbacks, the overturning of Roe v Wade, and the Trump indictments on the 2024 national elections.

The sociology of Erving Goffman has inspired generations of sociologists throughout the world.

Following the rise of the zemiological movement, the concept of social harm has attracted a great deal of scholarly attention.

Central to most sociologists' self-image is the claim that their theories are based on research.

Examining the relationship between strangers, embodiment and community, Strange Encounters challenges the assumptions that the stranger is simply anybody we do not recognize and instead proposes that he or she is socially constructued as somebody we already know.

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

Routledge Readings on Law and Social Justice: Dispossessions, Marginalities, Rights presents some of the finest essays on social justice, rights and public policy.

This book evaluates the consequences of economic, social, environmental and cultural change on people living and working within Teesside in the North-East of England.

This book provides a theoretical framework for understanding the micropolitics of speed; a rich, nuanced, and embodied account of life in an accelerating world.

Emerging during the late nineteenth century in the diverse scholarship of US commentators such as Charles Sanders Peirce, William James and John Dewey, American pragmatism shaped many intellectual currents within a range of disciplines including politics, education, administrative science and religion.

Black Feminist Sociology offers new writings by established and emerging scholars working in a Black feminist tradition.

This book synthesises several decades of research to extend beyond the limitations of a traditional functionalist model, offering a twenty-first century theory of professions and professionalism for a new generation engaging in theorising and research.

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.

Volume 1 provides an overview of the core areas of sociology and the development of the discipline that is both comprehensive and up to date.

Carl Jung has always lain at the edge of sociology's consciousness, despite the existence of a long-established Freudian tradition.

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.

Beginning with a focus on the ethical foundations of caregiving in health and expanding towards problems of ethics and justice implicated in a range of issues, this book develops and expands the notion of care itself and its connection to practice.

Respecifying Lab Ethnography delivers the first ethnomethodological study of current experimental physics in action, describing the disciplinary orientation of lab work and exploring the discipline in its social order, formal stringency and skilful performance - in situ and in vivo.

Sous la direction de Christiane KègleAvec la collaboration de Richard Godin et la participation de Claudie Gagné, Karine Fortin et Émilie Martz KuhnPostface de Raymond LemieuxLes récits de survivance mettent en scène des sujets confrontés à des situations de crise individuelles ou sociétales, et à la perte de repères identitaires.

This book describes the rules governing international security decision-making and examines the different understandings of collective security in the post-Cold War world.

* What is citizenship?

This handbook gathers contributors from different disciplines of the social sciences, such as organization and management studies, sociology, anthropology and political science, to constructively discuss the kinds of transformations we need to see in coming years.

Fines and monetary damages account for the majority of legal sanctions across the whole spectrum of legal governance.

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.

For this important selection from Weber, sections of text from Weber's major works (Gesammelte, Aufsatze Zur Religionssoziologie, including The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism; General Economic History; and The Agrarian Sociology of Ancient Civilisations) have been carefully edited and substantially translated to form a coherent and integrated volume.

Digital Democracy, Social Media and Disinformation discusses some of the political, regulatory and technological issues which arise from the increased power of internet intermediaries (such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube) and the impact of the spread of digital disinformation, especially in the midst of a health pandemic.

This original and ambitious work looks anew at a series of intellectual debates about the meaning of democracy.

Using "e;risk"e; as a conceptual lens, this book analyzes how communities across East Asia responded to the disruption unleashed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Politics of Well-Being argues that the relationship between well-being and ethical life has been overlooked.

By the early twenty-first century, Americans had embraced a holistic vision of work, that one's job should be imbued with meaning and purpose, that business should serve not only stockholders but also the common good, and that, for many, should attend to the spiritual health of individuals and society alike.

This collection provides vivid ethnographic explorations of particular, local Christianities as they are experienced by different groups around the world.

While the impacts of climate change become increasingly severe, efforts to prevent them suffer one blow after the other, as seen in the rise of far-right populist parties in Western democracies.

In this important new work, J.

How is a social decision made out of individual members' decisions?

First Published in 1989.

This book brings together the work of scholars and writer-practitioners of psychoanalysis to consider the legacy of two of Sigmund Freud's most important metapsychological papers: 'On Narcissism: An Introduction' (1914) and 'Mourning and Melancholia' (1917 [1915]).

A compelling account of how crowd dynamics, or social avalanches, are central to cities and financial markets.

The past few decades have seen the beginnings of a convergence between religions and ecological movements.

Karl Marx probably had more influence on the political course of the last century than any other social thinker.

This volume brings together leading theorists to discuss the latest thinking on social justice - a central concern of contemporary politics and political philosophy.

A novel introduction to the thought and practice of international relations from premodern India, China and the Islamic world, and how it relates to modern IR.

Community Justice discusses concepts of community within the context of justice policy and programs and addresses the important relationship between the criminal justice system and the community in the USA.

Critical theory is one of the most important and exciting areas within the study of international relations.

This book brings together key essays from the career of social theorist John O'Neill, including his uncollected later writings, focusing on embodiment to explore the different ways in which the body trope informs visions of familial, economic, personal, and communal life.

This book contends that Afrocentricity and other ideas birthed by major contemporary Black thinkers in the Diaspora are wellsprings for helping to build a new Africa.

This book represents the first comprehensive century-long history of the disciplinary development of sociology in Serbia in English.