Social theory

In Retail and Social Change Steven Miles, presents a cross-disciplinary analysis of the evolution of retail and how in both its material and virtual guises it has come to reframe our relationship with the social world.

Histories of Portugal s transition to democracy have long focused on the 1974 military coup that toppled the authoritarian Estado Novo regime and set in motion the divestment of the nation s colonial holdings.

Although sociology is present as a discipline or as a social practice in most countries in the world, its future as a not-only Western social science has hardly been addressed before.

Ninety percent of the world's youth live in Africa, Latin America and the developing countries of Asia.

Finding ways to understand the nature of social change and social order-from political movements to market meltdowns-is one of the enduring problems of social science.

This study, by a sociologist, provides the most rigorous and comprehensive review to appear so far of R.

The social sciences are still predominantly modernist disciplines and, as such, products of the Enlightenment.

The idea of a social capital research program has become increasingly significant within the social sciences.

Why did the 1989 Chinese student movement end in violent confrontation at Tiananmen Square, despite the fact that both the Chinese government and the students very much wanted to avoid violence?

This book discusses how to develop green transitions which benefit, include and respect marginalised social groups.

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In spite of the fact that crime is an emotive topic, the question of emotion has been largely overlooked in criminological research, which has tended instead to examine criminal conduct in terms of structural background variables or rational decision-making.

Wilhelm 'Gi' Baldamus (1908-1991) was one of the most distinctive voices in British sociology in the second half of the twentieth century.

The expansion of social history that took place in the twentieth century has produced some of the most exciting works in the field of historical studies.

The grounded theory method is founded on a view of analysis whereby the research questions and potential hypotheses are not articulated at the outset; rather, the researcher initially seeks to gain familiarity with a research context, and only in later stages does the process become progressively more focused and targeted.

This book analyzes the nature and experience of childhoods around the world at the beginning of the 21st century.

Tracing a series of key debates in and against the psy-complex.

Designed to address practical questions, applied ethics is one of the most exciting areas in contemporary philosophy.

The structure/agency debate has been among the central issues in recent discussions of social theory.

The concept of society sui generis - society as a level of reality which could be studied scientifically - crystallized in the middle of the nineteenth century in Europe, with the work of Durkheim, Marx and Weber and today, more than at any other period in history, the idea of the social has gained a foothold in philosophy, biology, and neuroscience.

Using Europe as an example, this book readdresses and updates the concept of 'society', exploring society in the context of both globalization and conflict theory to develop a new theory of society for our times.

Interest in Fromm is increasing: as a prominent Marxist, sociologist, psychoanalytic theorist, and public intellectual, the unique normative-humanist thrust of his writings provides a crucial critical reference point for those seeking to understand and transcend the societal pathologies of our age.

Metadata such as the hashtag is an important dimension of social media communication.

The COVID-19 pandemic and the measures introduced to purportedly contain its spread have wrought an unprecedented global social transformation.

Zygmunt Bauman is one of the most inspirational and controversial thinkers on the scene of contemporary sociology.

The 1980s saw constant reports of an information revolution.

In recent decades, environmental issues have increasingly been incorporated into liberal democratic thought and political practice.

This book presents a series of ontological investigations into an adequate theory of embodiment for the social sciences.

In both Marxist and non-Marxist scholarship there has been a remarkable neglect of the managerial control of labour.

This important text argues for a 'strong' notion of structuration theory in contrast to the seminal but more abstract and relatively under-developed project represented by Anthony Giddens's writings.

Explicitly comparative in its approach, Paradoxes of Cultural Recognition discusses central issues regarding multiculturalism in today's Europe, based on studies of Norway and the Netherlands.

This book explores the place of art in the modern world, but instead of asking what art is, it begins with the question of art's appeal in modernity.

With the advent of colonialism and the monetarized market economy, the gift economy, once a widely embedded cultural and economic practice, has become a niche of modern diplomacy, often serving as the means for corruption rather than human connection.

Understood historically, culturally, politically, geographically, or philosophically, the idea of Europe and notion of European identity conjure up as much controversy as consensus.

In a society where youthfulness and vitality are highly valued, the quest for anti-aging solutions has become increasingly popularized in bio-medical gerontology.

Soziale Arbeit trägt einerseits dazu bei, dass demokratische Prozesse in ihren Arbeitsfeldern fachgerecht implementiert und kritisch begleitet werden.

While certain aspects of Henri Lefebvre's writings have been examined extensively within the disciplines of geography, social theory, urban planning and cultural studies, there has been no comprehensive consideration of his work within legal studies.

Why are people who live in liberal welfare regimes reluctant to support welfare policy?

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.

This book aims to recast the way that philosophers understand rhetoric.

Defining markets has never been an easy task.

Manuel DeLanda is a distinguished writer, artist and philosopher.

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.

Presenting a survey of the social, cultural and theoretical issues which surround and inform our understanding of masculinity, this book explores the interface between traditional sociological approaches and the work covered by more post-structural, media-driven or cultural perspectives.

From the everyday and unnoticed to the newsworthy and cutting edge, technology is undoubtedly a fundamental element of our daily lives.

A comprehensive account of the wide-ranging impact of Max Weber''s ideas on German and American intellectuals in the twentieth century.

Ireland's history of contested language systems has always been linked to its political realities; Language, Identity and Liberation attends to a movement of contemporary Irish writing that considers the significance of the region's tumultuous cultural, social and political history in portrayals of contemporary Ireland's everyday life and speech.

This book provides a bridge between Shakespeare studies and classical social theory, opening up readings of Shakespeare to a new audience outside of literary studies and the humanities.