Social theory

In this exciting new book, Mike Michael uses case studies of mundane technologies such as the walking boot, the car and the TV remote control to question some of the fundamental dichotomies through which we make sense of the world.

This book offers an original theory of political discourse to analyse how Russian political actors use language.

Fusing two key concerns of contemporary sociology: globalization and its discontents, and the 'complexity turn' in social theory, authors Chesters and Welsh utilize complexity theory to analyze the shifting constellation of social movement networks that constitute opposition to neo-liberal globalization.

The second edition of the Routledge International Handbook of Globalization Studies offers students clear and informed chapters on the history of globalization and key theories that have considered the causes and consequences of the globalization process.

Festivals and the Cultural Public Sphere provides the first major social scientific study of these festivals in the wake of their explosion in popularity over the past decade.

This volume provides a collection of critical new perspectives on social capital theory by examining how social values, power relationships, and social identity interact with social capital.

Through Pierre Bourdieu''s work in Kabylia (Algeria), he develops a theory on symbolic power.

Sozialisationsforschung ist ein interdisziplinäres Arbeitsfeld, das in den letzten Jahren in Psychologie, Soziologie und Erziehungswissenschaft erheblich an Bedeutung gewonnen hat.

The oft-used phrase ‘Money makes the world go round’ not only highlights the purely economic nature of money but also underscores its significant implications for politics, society, and humanity.

This college-level handbook offers a comprehensive and accessible overview of sociological and cultural perspectives on the human body.

Once the world's most technologically advanced civilisation, China is poised to yet again take this mantle, having made incredible technological strides over recent decades; but what does this in fact mean?

We live in an ever-fragmenting society, in which distinctions between culture and nature, biology and politics, law and transgression, mobility and immobility, reality and representation, seem to be disappearing.

This book outlines the history and developments of interactionist social thought through a consideration of its key figures.

The second edition of this seminal work includes the original text, first published in 1974, alongside two major new chapters.

Since the beginning of social life human societies have faced the problem how to distribute the results of collaborative activities among the participants.

More-than-Human Sociology is a call for a bolder, more creative sociology.

Focusing on health and social care, this book shows how important the body can be to a range of issues such as disability, old age, sexuality, consumption, food and public space.

In this book questions about definitions and demarcations of sport science are discussed.

The economic crisis has brought social differences to the fore, reinventing the old question of inequality as democracy's missed opportunity.

This book is grounded in psychosocial research that explores the complex intergenerational transmission of memories within families and the transgenerational social issues that form a part of those memories.

''Non-traditional'', border-spanning security problems pervade the global agenda.

The Politics of Feminist Knowledge Transfer draws together analytical work on gender training and gender expertise.

Rational Choice Theory is flourishing in sociology and is increasingly influential in other disciplines.

In the past decade, Jeffrey Olick has established himself as one of the world's pre-eminent sociologists of memory (and, related to this, both cultural sociology and social theory).

In spite of its widespread use within criminology, the term 'criminological imagination', as derived from C.

Using "e;risk"e; as a conceptual lens, this book analyzes how communities across East Asia responded to the disruption unleashed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Through a wide range of international and interdisciplinary case studies, this book develops the notion of legacy, and in particular, 'living legacy'- that is, it explores power relations in the context of time as a means to considering and challenging social injustice.

Overuse of the internet is often characterized as problematic, disruptive, or addictive, with stories frequently claiming that online use interferes with relationships, or that 'excessive' time in front of computer screens is unhealthy.

The last few decades have witnessed an explosion in ideas and theories on art.

Drawing on philosophical, neurological and cultural answers to the question of what constitutes a body, this book explores the interaction between mechanistic beliefs about human bodies and the successive technologies that have established and illustrated these beliefs.

The themes 'trust', 'risk ' and 'uncertainty' seem especially pertinent in the context of the post-9/11 world.

Across many parts of the world, violence inflicted in the name of family honor is attracting an increasing amount of attention.

First published in 1984, Human Nature and Biocultural Evolution aims to delineate a theory of human nature, viewed as an interrelated set of genetically programmed behavioral predispositions, and a theory of biocultural evolution.

First published in 1968, Demographic Analysis was written to provide a comprehensive account of demographic methods for those with a need to understand population movements.

The writings of Karl Marx (1818-1883) have left an indelible mark not only on the understanding of economics and political thought but on the lives of millions of people who lived in regimes that claimed (wrongly) his influence.

The political and social structures of modernity are dominated by really eurocentric forms and relations, yet the theorisation of the eurocentricity of modernity remains barely developed.

Property Rights in Land widens our understanding of property rights by looking through the lenses of social history and sociology, discussing mainstream theory of new institutional economics and the derived grand narrative of economic development.

This major study discusses some of the meanings and preconditions of freedom, responsibility and social order.

At a time of global uncertainties and erosion of liberties, how will cultural studies clear a space for a parallel intellectual and political engagement with human rights practice?

This volume challenges prevailing understanding of the two great founders of sociological thought.

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main, in 1923, this book aims at shedding light on the archives of some of the key thinkers of Critical Theory of Society, also well known as "e;Frankfurt School"e;.

This book explores death in contemporary society - or more precisely, in the 'spectacular age' - by moving beyond classic studies of death that emphasised the importance of the death taboo and death denial to examine how we now 'do' death.

What can sport do to produce social change in our world today?

The stature of Max Weber (1864-1920) as an interdisciplinary, historical-comparative social scientist has grown steadily.

What do modern academic economists do?

There are growing waves of 'desirable' migrants from Asia moving to New Zealand, a place experiencing increasing ethnic diversity, particularly in its largest metropolitan region Auckland.

Originally published in 1984, Contradictions of the Welfare State is the first collection of Claus Offe's essays to appear in a single volume in English.