Social theory

The second edition of this influential book addresses how the experiences and claims of non-European 'others' have been rendered invisible to the standard narratives and analytical frameworks of sociological understandings of modernity.

Algorithms: Technology, Culture, Politics develops a relational, situated approach to algorithms.

Traditional theories suggest that developing countries lack influence in the trade regime.

Das Buch stellt die sozialtheoretische Frage nach der besonderen Qualität leiblicher Kopräsenz, verstanden als Urszene des Sozialen, und beantwortet sie mit den Mitteln einer leibphänomenologisch instruierten Praxistheorie.

Examining questions of statehood, biopolitics, sovereignty, neoliberal reason and the economy, Governmentality explores the advantages and limitations of adopting Michel Foucault's concept of governmentality as an analytical framework.

First Published in 1989.

China has been growing at over ten per cent annually since 1978, but this has only come to very widespread notice in the past decade.

This book analyses the Islamic State's (IS) media and governance strategy from a critical media and cultural studies perspective.

This book presents the case that there are forms of human interaction which should be understood as properly second-person plural.

What survives of the notions, principles and values of critical criminology?

Why did the 1989 Chinese student movement end in violent confrontation at Tiananmen Square, despite the fact that both the Chinese government and the students very much wanted to avoid violence?

This book presents a critical appraisal of the main theories of distributive justice.

Chile vive un momento histórico.

This book identifies the-now moribund-Modernist spirit of the twentieth century, with its "e;make it new"e; attitude in the arts, and its tendency towards abstraction and the scientific process, as the impetus behind the academic structures of universities and museums, together with the development of discrete scholarly disciplines such as literary theory, sociology, and art history based on quasi-scientific principles.

Originally published in 1927, An Introduction to Social Psychology represents an attempt at a more synthetic type of treatment of the field than had previously been given.

Theory and Practise in Sociology provide's students with a comprehensive, clear and accessible introduction to the main methods of research and the main theoretical approaches in sociology, and help's them examine the relationship between methods and theory.

This title was first published in 2001.

Decentering Biotechnology explores the nature of technology, objects and patent law.

Twenty years ago Ulrich Beck published Risk Society, a book that called our attention to the dangers of environmental catastrophes and changed the way we think about contemporary societies.

Social Media and Strategic Communications provides truly comprehensive and original scholarly research that exhibits the strategic implementation of social media in both advertising and public relations.

For the last five decades, Rodney Stark has been one of sociology's most prolific and important scholars of religion.

Designed for students of social policy and women's studies, this text gives a readable account of the wide range of feminist ideas about women and welfare.

Professor Rex's controversial book concerns not only those who are professional sociologists but all thinking people who live in the modern world.

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

Cruel Habitations (1974) looks at the pre-industrial background in which housing problems are rooted, with the decay of towns and the unsuccessful attempts to better their condition by public health reforms, by charitable agencies and by building societies - and with legislative action in Parliament towards housing reform.

This volume addresses how black, middle class, second generation Caribbean immigrants are often overlooked in contemporary discussions of race, black economic mobility, and immigrant communities in the US.

How should we think about immigration and what policies should democratic societies pursue?

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

Decades of research on affect and emotion have brought out the paramount importance of affective processes for human lives.

The EU''s crises have triggered a division between ''sovereignist'' and ''Europeanist'' forces.

Why is there currently such strong academic and popular interest in 'the body' in contemporary societies?

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The idea of a social capital research program has become increasingly significant within the social sciences.

Consider the vast array of things around you, from the building you are in, the lights illuminating the interior, the computational devices mediating your life, the music in the background, even the crockery, furniture and glassware you are in the presence of.

This international collection discusses how the individualised, reflexive, late modern era has changed the way we experience and act on our emotions.

This edited book emerges from the observation that the current literatures on migration in China are constrained by a series of shortfalls, including a relative topical homogeneity centred on domestic labour migration; relatively narrowly conceived and institutionalist conceptions of migration and migrants, without adequate attention paid to the identities, agencies and everyday experiences of migrants; and finally a lack of engagement with theoretical models and paradigms in the broad discipline of migration studies.

We are living in a world in which the existence of risk is constantly debated, misinformation and disinformation are rife and spread quickly and easily through online media, and where governments and institutions continue to avoid taking decisive action even when there is general agreement that a serious threat exists.

States of Crisis and Post-Capitalist Scenarios engages with the crisis of our capitalist world, with a view to explaining its origins, unravelling its symptoms, and demystifying the anodyne corrective solutions so far proposed.

A comparative analysis of both secular and religious communal groups in contemporary America, this study, originally published in 1978, shows that contemporary communalists stand in relation to collectivism much the same as early Protestants stood in relation to individualism - as the self-proclaimed pioneers of the new age.

This book analyzes the representations of movement that reflect time.

Anthony Smith's important work on the concept of social change, first published in 1973, puts forward the paradigm of historical change as an alternative to the functionalist theory of evolutionary change.

Neoliberalism in Context adopts a processual, relational and contextual framework, bringing together contributions from diverse national and disciplinary contexts, and bridging theoretical and methodological approaches to critiquing neoliberalism.

A practical guide to the art of theorizing in the social sciencesIn the social sciences today, students are taught theory by reading and analyzing the works of Karl Marx, Max Weber, and other foundational figures of the discipline.

Meanings and Situations is an account of the 'interactionist' position.

Most professional sociologists claim that sociology is, or ought to be, a theoretical science.

Those who are pursuing social justice too often fail to incorporate the insights of sociology, and when they do make use of sociology, they often draw heavily from claims that are highly contested, unsupported by the evidence, or outright false.

This book represents the first comprehensive century-long history of the disciplinary development of sociology in Serbia in English.