Social theory

Alfred Marshall was anxious to do good.

The Humanities, the Social Sciences and the University is an intellectual history of research in the humanities and social sciences.

In the fiftieth anniversary of this book's first release, Winch's argument remains as crucial as ever.

First published in 1989, this book examines seven different localities, ranging from the outer suburbs of large northern cities to small freestanding town, which were prospering in the 1980s or struggling against the negative employment effects of restructuring.

Cross-border studies have become attractive for a number of fields, including international migration, studies of material and cultural globalization, and history.

In this book, first published in 1991, Colin Holmes examines responses to those immigrants and refugees who have been coming to Britain since the late nineteenth century as well as the perception and treatment of British-born minorities.

This festschrift commemorates the legacy of UK-based Portuguese sociologist Herminio Martins (1934-2015).

The second edition of this significant text has been thoroughly revised to take account of the latest literature, case studies and international developments in the field.

This book examines the utopian dimension of contemporary social and political thought.

The works of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) are widely acclaimed as being among the most original and provocative writings of twentieth-century critical thought, and have become required reading for scholars and students in a range of academic disciplines.

An exciting look at how archaeology has dealt with the bodily senses and how it can offer a richer glimpse into the human sensory experience.

This social theory text combines the structure of a print reader with the ability to tailor the course via an extensive interactive website.

What might it mean to queer the Human?

A historical economic analysis of US racial disparity across the alternative regimes of structural racism and economic development.

Recent debates about national identity, belonging and community cohesion can appear to suggest that ethnicity is a static entity and that ethnic difference is a source of conflict in itself - Ethnicities and Values in a Changing World presents an alternative account of ethnicity.

Research collaboration in the form of networks, projects and centers has become one of the dominant modes of engaging in research, especially funded research, across all academic domains.

Over the past thirty-five years the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement (MST), one of the largest social movements in Latin America, has become famous globally for its success in occupying land, winning land rights, and developing alternative economic enterprises for over a million landless workers.

This book explores violent and discriminatory values and beliefs and their interconnectedness between societal echelons.

This book offers a geneaological understanding of the condition of our time by reconstructing the complex story of the transition from the "e;cyclical time"e; of the classic era to the "e;linear and infuturant time"e; of the modern world.

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.

What does a good prison look like?

This book enquires into the state of health of contemporary democracies, offering a sociological reading of democracy to identify the causes of the current transformation of democracy from a social and cultural perspective.

A compelling account of how crowd dynamics, or social avalanches, are central to cities and financial markets.

The originality and depth of Gramsci's theory of hegemony is now evidenced in the wide-ranging intellectual applications within a growing corpus of research and writings that include social, political and cultural theory, historical interpretation, gender and globalization.

An exploration of the concept of utopia in Latin America from the earliest accounts of the New World to current cultural production, the carefully selected essays in this volume represent the latest research on the topic by some of the most important Latin Americanists working in North American academia today.

Emerging during the late nineteenth century in the diverse scholarship of US commentators such as Charles Sanders Peirce, William James and John Dewey, American pragmatism shaped many intellectual currents within a range of disciplines including politics, education, administrative science and religion.

This is the official account of the experiments carried out at the Hawthorne Works of the Eastern Electric Company in Chicago.

This book analyses three of the most prevalent illnesses of late modernity: anxiety, depression and Alzheimer's disease, in terms of their relation to cultural pathologies of the social body.

Criminology is at a crossroads.

The A-Z Guide to Modern Social and Political Theories is a companion volume to the already published A-Z Guide to Modern Literary and Cultural Theorists.

Research data are everywhere.

As modern societies become increasingly individualistic, this fascinating book examines how we can maintain and revive local communities and community life.

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.

Inequalities of opportunity affect a person's life expectancy and access to basic services and human rights through discrimination, abuse, and lack of access to justice.

This book proposes that community development has been increasingly influenced and co-opted by a modernist, soulless, rational philosophy - reducing it to a shallow technique for 'solving community problems'.

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.

Originally published in 1987 Modern German Sociology is a collection of essays containing sociological work published in German since World War II.

What is it like to work as a classical musician today?

Social scientists have long resisted the radical ideas known as postcolonial thought, while postcolonial scholars have critiqued the social sciences for their Euro-centric focus.

Jurgen Habermas is one of the most important German philosophers and social theorists of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century.

This book looks at the origins and the many contemporary meanings of the virtual.

What is technology?

Which practices count as resistance?

Written by members of the Social Imaginaries Editorial Collective, these programmatic essays showcase new critical interventions in understandings of social imaginaries and the human condition.

Theories and methods for analyzing multimodal relations connecting political entities, including voters, politicians, parties, events, and nations.

The aim of this book, in discussing Elias's theory, is not to refute it.

This book, first published in 1974, is the story of BBC Audience Research, a behind-the-scenes activity that has always been the subject of some curiosity.

Over the last ten years - especially with the 'no' votes in the French and Dutch referendums in 2010, and the victory for Brexit in 2016 - the issue of Europe has been placed at the centre of major political conflicts.