Social theory

This book argues that despite the many real advantages that industrial modernity has yielded-including large gains in wealth, longevity, and (possibly) happiness-it has occurred together with the appearance of a variety of serious problems.

Methodological Concepts: A Critical Guide clarifies many key terms and issues in social research methodology.

Leading International scholars are bought together in Debating Durkheim to discuss controversial issues in the work of this increasingly important founding father of sociology.

One of the predominant trends of modern society is the pervasive presence of competition.

This book consists of a fundamental deconstruction and reconstruction of the key concepts of Criminology and The Sociology of Law, providing a coherent expression of the relationships between these newly constructed concepts and thus a radically new statement of the relationship between society, crime and the law.

In today's world where other cultures are being tapped to a greater extent than ever before, the processes of mixing and matching are especially relevant in making sense of Russia.

This book offers a solution for the problem of structure and agency in sociological theory by developing a new pair of fundamental concepts: metric and nonmetric.

Fifty Key Sociologists: The Contemporary Theorists covers the life, work, ideas and impact of some of the most important thinkers in this discipline.

This practical handbook tackles what you need to know before, during, and after transcription.

"Posthumà" és un terme que vol descriure, des de múltiples perspectives, la mena de subjectes que estem esdevenint, més enllà de l'humanisme clàssic i de l'antropocentrisme.

'Identity' and 'selfhood' are terms routinely used throughout the human sciences that seek to analyze and describe the character of everyday life and experience.

Originally published in 1982, The Masterpiece of Nature examines sex as representative of the most important challenge to the modern theory of evolution.

This book offers an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to thinking about inequality, and to understanding how inequality is produced and reproduced in the global South.

This pioneering book demonstrates how different traditions of sociological thought can contribute to an understanding of the theory and practice of rights.

This volume provides a fascinating perspective on the social sciences through its examination of the leading proponents, their ideas and careers.

Planners necessarily use theories of how society works.

A group of leading social theorists re-examine Ernest Gellner''s central ideas in a contemporary context.

Financialization is a set of processes which has led to a financially driven and commodified economy with rising inequality, tax avoidance, and a lack of investment in the physical and social infrastructure.

James and Goetze bring together contributors of varied backgrounds, ranging from evolutionary theorists to game theorists to analysts of specific ethnic conflict.

Sociological explanations of racism tend to concentrate on the structures and dynamics of modern life that facilitate discrimination and hierarchies of inequality.

Title first published in 2003.

The science of criminology is at a crossroads.

The primary aim of the text is to introduce the reader to the relationship between economics and ethics and to the application of economic ethics in the evaluation of the market.

Les textes réunis dans cet ouvrage s'inscrivent dans le prolongement du Colloque international et interdisciplinaire organisé pour commémorer le 10e anniversaire de la tragédie de l'École Polytechnique.

Gino Germani's intellectual itinerary is a key step in the understanding of sociology in Latin America.

What if our financial system were organized to the benefit of the many rather than simply empowering the few?

This book presents the early existential phenomenology of Martin Heidegger as a way to reformulate academic disability studies and activist disability politics.

This book analyses the social and cultural status of high streets in the age of recession and austerity.

Since the 1980s, Ulrich Beck has worked extensively on his theories of second modernity and the risk society.

Most historians rely principally on written sources.

First published in 2003.

In the twenty-first century, humanity faces both unprecedented existential threats and remarkable possibilities for development.

This book, first published in 1973, explores the manner in which conceptions of deviancy arise and shows how the attitudes of non-deviants, of society and of authority, are as instrumental in forming these conceptions as the actions of the deviants themselves.

Individualism has been one of the driving forces in the rise of modern capitalism, and methodological individualism has been dominant in social science for many years.

This book examines the circulation of knowledge within globalization, focusing on the differences between centers and peripheries of knowledge production in the social sciences.

Zygmunt Bauman was one of the most important social theorists of recent decades.

First published in 1973, this book is concerned with the question of whether Sociology is, or ought to be, a theoretical science.

This interdisciplinary and cross-national volume brings together theory and research by prominent scholars within the areas of distributive and procedural justice, not only featuring work within each area separately, as is commonly done, but also showing how combinations of the two justice orientations might operate to affect justice judgments and guide behaviour.

Simon Susen examines the impact of the 'postmodern turn' on the contemporary social sciences.

Karl Mannheim's Ideology and Utopia has been a profoundly provocative book.

Hendrik Vollmer explores how disruption triggers social change, refocusing members of a collective on matters of membership, status and coalition.

An understanding of the complex consequences of social processes and social design activities necessitates a holistic systemic perspective, systematised in the classic structural-functional research tradition, which is presented in Functionalist Construction Work in Social Science.

This Handbook provides the requisite theoretical and methodological guidelines for undertaking social research addressing relevant contemporary social issues.

Tourism has become increasingly shaped by neoliberal policies, yet the consequences of this neoliberalisation are relatively under-explored.

Offers a wide-ranging roster of the social problems currently pressing for attention and amelioration.

Are children the passive recipients of influence from their parents and from society?

This book extends a previously published model of social evolution by using macroeconomic measures to indicate both the current state of the society, and its evolutionary trajectory.

This a collection of essays about women, by women, which examine the production of femininity within a patriarchal society.