Social theory

Explores the rise of Al Qaeda-influenced movements and militant Salafism, the most significant form of terrorism facing Western countries.

In the decades following World War II, factories in many countries not only provided secure employment and a range of economic entitlements, but also recognized workers as legitimate stakeholders, enabling them to claim rights to participate in decision making and hold factory leaders accountable.

Central to discussions of multiculturalism and minority rights in modern liberal societies is the idea that the particular demands of minority groups contradict the requirements of equality, anonymity, and universality for citizenship and belonging.

A powerful theory of the symbolic embedded within a remarkable and original theory of practice is a nodal aspect of the work of Pierre Bourdieu, who was a leading social thinker of our times (1930-2002).

The years between 1865 and 1920 were eventful ones for the sake of Missouri.

This book, first published in 1977, presents for the first time a serious and systematic assessment of Marx primarily as a philosopher.

This lively and engaging text introduces students to the major debates and data on the information society, and at the same time teaches them how to research it.

This book examines the nature of unmasking in social theory, in revolutionary movements and in popular culture.

The course of German philosophy in the twentieth century is one of the most exciting and controversial in the history of human thought.

In social theory and sociology, time and travel in technological cultures is one of the new and challenging research topics in the 'mobilities turn'.

With essays by today's leading leftist social critics, Identity Trumps Socialism presents a rigorous and persuasive primer on the problems generated by postmodern and neoliberal challenges to the legacy of emancipatory universality.

Unashamedly polemical, this reissue of Freedom & Equality, first published in 1986, presents a strong and persuasively argued case for democratic socialism.

This volume studies the reception of the works of the acclaimed post-colonial philosopher Michel Foucault by South Asian scholars.

This collection reflects the French influence on literary and representational theory which has been predominant in recent years.

This book provides a semiotic analysis of 'scenes', powerful vehicles for introducing new ideas, perspectives and behaviours, as a concept.

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

The chapters in this volume represent steps in the direction of demonstrating the importance of efforts to theorize the dynamics of specific social, cultural, political, and/or economic processes to the social sciences in general.

This book analyses the ability of individuals to create meaning through communicative interaction and of what seems to constrain and enable actors in taking collectively binding political decisions.

This book explores the contribution to recent developments in post-secularism, philosophical realism and utopianism made by key thinkers in the Hegelian tradition.

Max Weber (1864-1920) is generally recognised as one of the founding fathers of modern sociology.

Max Weber (1864-1920) has long been considered a founding figure of sociology.

This book examines the crossroads of quantum and critical approaches to International Relations and argues that these approaches share a common project of uncovering complexity and uncertainty.

In The Global Left: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, Immanuel Wallerstein takes stock of the practices of the left, historically in the time of its great ideals and today in the midst of the global crisis of capitalism.

This volume examines Max Weber's pre-World War I thinking about bureaucracy.

This book provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the key aspects of Norbert Elias''s work.

For sociologists, making, distributing, and using art and cultural products constitute social practices, yet, sociologists disagree on how to investigate these practices.

By using a linguistic and anthropological framework, this pioneering book offers a natural history of intensity in the Anthropocene.

This volume considers the challenges of democracy building in post-Soviet Armenia, and the role of civil society in that process.

This book examines the role of collective violence in the achievement of solidarity, shedding light on the difficulty faced by sociology in theorizing violence and warfare as a result of the discipline's tendency to idealize society in an attempt to legitimize the idea of progressive social change.

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.

This Palgrave Pivot will present a comprehensive history of sociology in Britain, tracking the discipline's intellectual developments within the institutional and political context.

First published in 1985, Corporations, Classes and Capitalism raises some crucial questions - how important are large multinational companies?

This book investigates the hostile environment and politics of visceral and racial denigration which have characterised responses to refugees and migrants within the UK and Europe in recent years.

The introduction of market reforms has radically transformed China.

In this thought-provoking volume, leading scholars address the multifaceted concept of agency, dissecting its significance, applications, and challenges across various domains, and situate agency in changing socio-historical contexts in which individuals as members of larger groups try to reconcile guiding norms and values with the material conditions of their lives.

This book highlights how online networking offers potential for new forms of activist mobilizing, repertoires, participatory democracy, direct action, fundraising, and civic engagement.

The diagnosis of social pathologies has long been a central concern for social researchers working within, and on the peripheries of, Critical Theory.

This book examines how, in response to crises, law tends to construct singular 'events' that obscure the underlying structural causes that any adequate response needs to acknowledge and address.

First published in 1972, this book on Weber's methodological writings is today regarded as a modern classic in its field.

This book suggests that applied linguistics research is inherently concerned with complexity, emergence and causality, and because of this it also requires a robust social ontology.

This book presents an interpretive, macro-historical, and sociological account of martyrdom.

This interdisciplinary volume of thirty original essays engages with four key concerns of queer theoretical work - identity, discourse, normativity and relationality.

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The Element presents a timely evidence-based approach to a much-needed study on temporary migrants and their political and social rights.

This book engages with the classic philosophical question of mind and matter, seeking to show its altered meaning and acuteness in the era of the Anthropocene.

Exploring more than 80 big ideas and key theories in a clear and simple way, this is the perfect introduction to the study of how humans live and interact with one another.

This fourth volume of Michael Mann''s analytical history of social power covers the period from 1945 to the present.

In an era where new areas of life and new problems call for normative solutions while the plurality of values in society challenge the very basis for normative solutions, this book looks at a growing field of research on the relations between social and legal norms.

This edited collection offers an empirical exploration of social memory in the context of politics, war, identity and culture.