Social theory

In this book, important works and approaches of policy-oriented emotion research are brought into a systematic context.

Marchak argues that liberalism and socialism have many commonalities, such as the goals of equality and freedom for citizens.

Judging and Emotion investigates how judicial officers understand, experience, display, manage and deploy emotions in their everyday work, in light of their fundamental commitment to impartiality.

This book is about war and popular culture, and war in popular culture.

Criminology: Explaining Crime and Its Context, Eleventh Edition, offers a broad perspective on criminological theory.

Contemporary society is marked and defined by the ways in which mobile goods, bodies, vehicles, objects, and data are organized, moved and staged.

A unique historical and comparative analysis of the place of religion in the emergence of modern secular society.

What is Europe?

Housed in one handy volume for the first time are several of the seminal essays on W.

This comprehensive study of Marcuse's thought concentrates on his theory of freedom, arguing that it is this which supplies the key to all his writings.

Work and the nature of occupations are matters of central concern to the sociologist.

Borders are essentially imaginary structures, but their effects are very real.

At a time of growing concern over the fate of contemporary democracy this book shows how vast differences between countries in forms of political conduct, and taken for granted assumptions, determine what democracies actually accomplish.

First published in 1921 and then reprinted in 2003.

Most texts on classical social theory offer exhaustive coverage of every possible theorist, making it difficult to use the book in one semester.

What is the nature of the modern state?

Where does theory come from in educational research and how is it operationalized in diverse, interdisciplinary contexts and professional settings?

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

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.

Applies network science to contemporary social policy problems for researchers and policy makers in social network analysis and economic policy.

Sex work is a subject of significant contestation across academic disciplines, as well as within legal, medical, moral, feminist, political and socio-cultural discourses.

Volume 53 of Studies in Symbolic Interaction is divided into three parts, providing contemporary readings of social situations.

Winner of the 2020 British Sociological Association Philip Abrams PrizeProviding a theory of moral practice for a contemporary sociological audience, Owen Abbott shows that morality is a relational practice achieved by people in their everyday lives.

In the past fifteen years, microsimulation models have become firmly established as vital tools for analysis of the distributional impact of changes in governmental programmes.

This book comprehensively collects the thinking - over the last 25 years - of one the most important contemporary scholars in the field of ideology studies.

This book explores three worlds shared by the humans in their collective experiences.

Presenting a clear, comprehensive review of theoretical thinking on crime, this book encourages students to develop a deeper understanding of classic and contemporary theories and provides an interdisciplinary approach to criminology through the contributions of sociology, psychology and biology.

This book considers how the UK government's response to the recent COVID-19 pandemic disadvantages the working class, and how mutual aid, based on anarchist principles, can be used as a force for social change.

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.

The Social Thought of Talcott Parsons offers an insightful new reading of the work of Talcott Parsons, keeping in view at once the important influences of Max Weber on his sociology and the central place occupied by methodology - which enables us to better understand the relationship between American and European social theory.

In Read My Desire, Joan Copjec stages a confrontation between the theories of Jacques Lacan and those of Michel Foucault, protagonists of two powerful modern disciplines-psychoanalysis and historicism.

This title was first published in 2003.

The "e;secular age"e; is not a smooth, untroubled process of accumulation and advance but an uneven and unpredictable series of clashes of interest.

The critical theory of the Frankfurt School has undergone numerous and at times fundamental changes over the last ninety years.

Marilyn Strathern is among the most creative and celebrated contemporary anthropologists, and her work draws interest from across the humanities and social sciences.

Europeans use 'social models' to refer to the combination of welfare state, industrial relations, and educational institutions jointly structuring what we can think of as the supply-side of the labor market.

Bourdieusian Prospects considers the ongoing relevance of Bourdieu's social theory for contemporary social science.

From fox-hunting to farming, the vigor with which rural activities and living are defended overturns received notions of a sleepy and complacent countryside.

This Palgrave Handbook showcases how the phenomenological approach, especially but not only as developed by Alfred Schutz, can make important contributions to the theoretical analysis of macro-social phenomena such as the state, history, culture and interculturality, class relations and struggles, social movements and protests, capitalism, democracy, and digitalization processes.

The Routledge Handbook of Sport, Gender and Sexuality brings together important new work from 68 leading international scholars that, collectively, demonstrates the intrinsic interconnectedness of sport, gender and sexuality.

Migrant Labour in Europe (1987) examines the movement of workers from less prosperous parts of Europe to areas with demand for their services.

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.

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

Discussing money is always accompanied by controversy as well as enchantment.