Social theory

Written in the temporal and political context of the British New Labour Government's ongoing reliance on the word community, academics and activists critically engage here with the range of ways in which contemporary ideas of community are being used and contested.

Sigmund Freud and Josef Breuer on hysteria, J.

First Published in 2004.

Society' is one of the most frequently used words in public life; it is also a foundational term in the social sciences.

A rethinking of contemporary social theory that provides a vision about the modern world through key ideas developed by ''maverick'' anthropologists.

This book offers a new account of Freud's work by reading him as the social theorist and philosopher he always aspired to be, and not as the medical scientist he publicly claimed to be.

Critical Sociology is a thoroughly revised, updated, and sophisticated introduction to the sociological perspective as a critical lens on society.

The press called Martin's actions a "e;crime spree.

There is hardly any discussion of class that does not in some way relate to the theories of Marx and Weber.

Towards Relational Sociology argues that social worlds comprise networks of interaction and relations.

State formation in post-colonial societies differed greatly from the formation of the Western capitalist state.

This book explores the idea that alternatives to our present condition are available in the present, such that a search for alternatives must involve rigorous study of some of its central texts, events, and thinkers.

Incorporating autobiography as well as reflections on relations between mothers and daughters, psychoanalysis, feminist theorizing, race, and modernist political theories and philosophies, renowned feminist theorist Jane Flax brings together eight of her most recent essays in Disputed Subjects.

This book examines the importance of flat ontologies for law and sociolegal theory.

One of the longest standing traditions in sociology, interactionism is concerned with studying human interaction and showing how society to a large part is constituted by patterns of interaction.

Ritual and the Sacred discusses some of the most important issues of modern socio-political life through the lens of a neo-Durkheimian perspective.

This book conducts a critical investigation into everyday intercultural recognition and misrecognition in the domain of paid work, utilising social philosopher Axel Honneth's recognition theory as its theoretical foundation.

Contrary to secular claims regarding the expulsion of religion, modernity does in fact produce unprecedented forms whose understanding re-casts the relationships between sociology and theology.

First published in 1922, this title written by L.

Hierarchy within the educational setting is a topic underrepresented in the existing literature, yet an area rich with unique social characteristics and particular challenges.

In what is the first sustained analysis of Marx's attitude to the puzzle of the individual in history and society, this book, first published in 1990, challenges received views on the importance of class analysis and the place of a theory of human nature in Marx's thought.

These essays, commissioned by John Rex, reflect the state of sociology in Britain today.

This handbook marks a key intervention in refugee studies in India-home to diverse groups of refugees, including an entire government in exile.

Record contracts have been the goal of aspiring musicians, but are they still important in the era of SoundCloud?

How is labour changing in the age of computers, the Internet, and "e;social media"e; such as Facebook, Google, YouTube and Twitter?

Social Theory, Power and Practice explores key strands of contemporary social theory in developing an innovative framework for understanding the operation of power.

This book provides a political, economic, and sociological investigation of how neoliberalism shapes 'working class capacities,' or the power of the working class to organize and struggle for its collective interests.

What global future would ensure hope, justice and peace to the human mankind?

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

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

This book draws on recent developments across a range of perspectives including psychoanalysis, narrative studies, social practice theory, posthumanism and trans-species psychology, to establish a radical psychosocial alternative to mainstream understanding of 'environmental problems'.

In recent decades, human rights have come to occupy an apparently unshakable position as a key and pervasive feature of contemporary global public culture.

An essential A-Z guide to the full range of sociological thought, Sociology: The Key Concepts is an important addition to the established and successful Key Concepts series.

Social robotics is a cutting edge research area gathering researchers and stakeholders from various disciplines and organizations.

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

The Orient was central to the work of Marx and Weber, both figures building their theories around the question of why modernity appeared to emerge only in the West.

Postmarxism is often depicted as a point of intersection for a set of inter-disciplinary theories that are in themselves complex and dense.

This book analyses a unique leisure world that has been built around a newly emerging phenomenon known as urban exploration; the art of exploring human-made environments which are generally abandoned or hidden from sight of the public eye.

Culture is a living thing.

The first two decades of the new millennium brought with it a chain of crises and reaction headlined by the plane-bombing of New York's Trade Center twin towers, the financial crash of 2007-8 and subsequent austerity, and latterly Brexit, the rise and fall (for now) of Donald Trump, including the Capitol attack, and Covid-19.

Human capital theory, or the notion that there is a direct relationship between educational investment and individual and national prosperity, has dominated public policy on education and labor for the past fifty years.

How do educators and activists in today's struggles for change use historical materials from earlier periods of organizing for political education?

This book explores the innovative, sociological approach adopted by Harriet Martineau in her efforts to develop a 'scientific' approach to understanding social and societal change.

This uniquely engaging introduction to Jean Baudrillard's controversial writings covers his entire career focusing on Baudrillard's central, but little understood, notion of symbolic exchange.

This volume unfolds the ebbs and flows of Muslim thought in different regions of the world, as well as the struggles between the different intellectual discourses that have surfaced against this backdrop.

This book draws on case examples of contemporary black activism in South Manchester and contrasts them with events that surrounded C.

The COVID-19 pandemic, Black Lives Matter movement and renewed action against climate change all highlight the increasing gulf between narrowly based dominant political ideologies and popular demands for social justice, global health, environmentalism and human rights.