Social theory

Featuring chapters from an international range of leading and emerging scholars, this Handbook provides a collection of cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research that sheds new light on contemporary futures studies.

Recent social and political developments in the EU have clearly shown the profound structural changes in European society and its politics.

Many theoretical publications make assumptions about the facts of globalization, and in particular about the role and autonomy of the nation state.

This unique work of evidence scholarship details the development of marketised forensic science provision in the UK.

What happens to traditional conceptions of heritage in the era of fluid media spaces?

The Explanation of Behaviour was the first book written by the renowned philosopher Charles Taylor.

Although public safety agencies protect our well-being, they also shape social problems and community inequities.

The French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu had a broader theoretical agenda than is generally acknowledged.

Fredric Jameson's pathbreaking essay "e;An American Utopia"e; radically questions standard leftist notions of what constitutes an emancipated society.

This book outlines key developments in understanding social harm by setting out its historical foundations and the discussions which have proliferated since.

Obligations: New Trajectories in Law provides a critical analysis of the role of obligations in contemporary legal and social practices.

This book criticizes recent performative solutions to racism ("e;diversity"e; programs at universities, for example) and White people's "e;Fragility"e; or intolerance of mature criticism.

Whilst Foucault's work has become a major strand of postmodern theology, the wider relevance of his work for theology still remains largely unexamined.

Social theory and social theorizing about Africa has largely ignored African literature.

Perverse Memory and the Holocaust presents a new theoretical approach to the study of Polish memory bystanders of the Holocaust.

This book introduces the sociology of philosophy as a research field, asking what can be gained by looking at the discipline of philosophy from a sociological perspective and how to go about doing it, as presented through three case studies of 20th-century Swedish and Scandinavian philosophy.

Classical liberalism regarded universal suffrage as a mortal threat to property.

Departing from a concern with certain 'hard' problems in social theory and focusing instead on the theoretical strategies employed in their solution, especially on how these strategies depend on what the author calls the theoretical attitude towards language, this book considers whether these strategies, far from being indispensable guides to thinking, might in fact lead social theorists to misunderstand the concepts constitutive of social life.

In this important volume of specially commissioned essays, nine leading sociologists present their answers to the question, 'What use are the sociological classics today?

Geography & Ethnic Pluralism (1984) examines the debate around pluralism - the segmentation of population by race and culture - as a social and state issue, and explores this issue in Third World and metropolitan contexts.

Henri Lefebvre was one of the most significant and influential social theorists of the 20th century.

This book is one of the first systematic examinations on the looming mental health crisis emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic from a psychoanalytic perspective.

In this compelling book, Anthony Elliott traces the rise of psychoanalysis from the Frankfurt School to postmodernism.

First published in 1978, Studying Society is a stimulating introductory text in sociology and social studies.

This unique and original collection by internationally renowned scholars uses critical engagements with Zygmunt Bauman's sociology to understand the challenges that face globalized human societies at the start of the 21st century.

An international textbook designed as a quick introduction for students from around the world studying sociology of family, this text provides comprehensive coverage of the major topics in the sociology of family life.

Awareness of peer-on-peer abuse is on the rise and is a matter of increasing international concern.

Maturity and Modernity is the first book to analyze Nietzsche, Weber and Foucault as a tradition of theorising and to chart the development of genealogy as a mode of critique.

The latest three- and four dimensional images produced by modern ultrasound technology offer strikingly realistic representations of the foetus - representations that have further transformed experiences of pregnancy, the public understanding of foetal existence and the rhetoric of the abortion debate.

Originally published in 1987, this edition in 1996, Sociologists on Sociology is a unique and sometimes controversial account of the development, disputes and the future of sociology as seen through the eyes of eleven of the world's leading sociologists at the time.

First published in French in 1943, Jean-Paul Sartre's L'Etre et le Neant is one of the greatest philosophical works of the twentieth century.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Max Weber, central thinkers to the discussion of political legitimacy, represent two very different stages and forms of social theory: early modern political philosophy and classical sociology.

This wide-ranging collection of essays elaborates on some of the most pressing issues in contemporary postcolonial society in their transition from conflict and contestation to dialogue and resolution.

While many analysts emphasize Trump's uniqueness, he can also be viewed as a symptom of a deeper systemic crisis.

Using Marxist and systems theory as guides, this book offers an entry point to the current debate on the role of economy in modern society, the change in work organizations and the effect of the economy on the individual.

What is a human?

Remembering 9/11 recalls the afterlife of the tragedy and the shock that led many to ask 'why do they hate us so much?

This volume examines minimality in cooperation and shared agency from various angles.

Georges Sorels reputation as a proponent of violence has helped to link his ideas to fascist and totalitarian thought.

This book examines how 'Therapeutic Recreation' transforms the social health of children enduring or recovering from life-threatening illnesses such as cancer and leukaemia.

Drawing on a range of data from across disciplines, this book explores a series of fundamental questions surrounding the nature, working and effects of democracy, considering the reasons for the emergence and spread of democratic government, the conditions under which it endures or collapses - and the role of wealth in this process - and the peaceful nature of dealings between democracies.

Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) was a member of the Frankfurt School, a leading figure of 1960s counterculture, and a fundamental character for the New Left.

This book addressees a timely and fundamental problematic: the gap between the aims that people attempt to realize democratically and the law and administrative practices that actually result.

Once the world's most technologically advanced civilisation, China is poised to yet again take this mantle, having made incredible technological strides over recent decades; but what does this in fact mean?

What is to be done when the future''s already ablaze?

Physicists regularly invoke universal laws, such as those of motion and electromagnetism, to explain events.

Originally published in 1987 this highly original work explores how the nature and institutions of society are determined by our unconscious as well as our conscious aims - how individuals join together in 'unconscious contracts'.

Criminology is at a crossroads.