Social theory

This posthumous publication attempts to answer the question of what moral code is the most reasonable.

The Rewards of Punishment describes a new social theory of norms to provide a compelling explanation why people punish.

In Europe welfare state provision has been subjected to 'market forces'.

Critique in a Neoliberal Age brings a critique of ideology to main debates within economic sociology, populism studies, the neoliberal university, therapy culture, contemporary intimacies and feminism.

This book argues for a twofold transformation to mitigate environmental catastrophe, avert war and overcome poverty and authoritarianism: a struggle for democratic, peace-oriented, social and ecological changes within the framework of a post-neoliberal, but still bourgeois-capitalist society, and a drive towards entry-level projects aimed at a great transformation beyond capitalism.

How can designers address the emergent self-organizing nature of complex urban environments?

This book offers a history of sociological theory from a Christian perspective, tracing the origins of sociology from the beginnings of Western science as introduced by the Scholastics of the twelfth century, which, when combined with their emphasis on rationality, led to the Enlightenment "e;science of man"e;-an emphasis that eventually resulted in sociology, which combined empiricism and a Christian moral philosophy.

Work and Society is an important new text about the sociology of work and employment.

This book discusses the epistemic foundation of the heuristic construct 'vagabond' and the convergence between the politics of itinerancy and that of dissent in the context of South Asia.

Few sociologists have commanded a larger readership than Erving Goffman.

Karl Marx probably had more influence on the political course of the last century than any other social thinker.

A timely revision in this global age, Human Behavior and the Social Environment, Macro Level develops a sophisticated and original view of the cultural, global, spiritual, and natural worlds that people inhabit, and explores the impact of these worlds on human behavior.

This is the first comprehensive study of Russian political and social thought in the post-Communist era.

Britain is no longer the sole organizing centre for cultural studies.

This book examines the political consequences of growing religiosity in countries where politics are repressive and religious freedoms are in flux.

This handbook provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive review of the literature on inequality.

Watching Murder shines a light onto the dark world of jihadi murder videos and the people who watch and share them on the internet.

The past 50 years have witnessed a transformation in the structure and function of families and households.

The first serious academic study of obituaries, this book focuses on how societies remember.

In this concise introduction, Chad Kautzer demonstrates the shared emancipatory goals and methods of several radical philosophies, from Marxism and feminism to critical race and queer theory.

Winner: Cheryl Frank Memorial Prize for innovative writing on critical realismThis new textbook offers a succinct yet broad introduction to critical realism, an increasingly popular approach to the philosophy of science that provides a holistic alternative to both positivism and postmodernism.

This book introduces readers to the concept of territory as it applies to law while demonstrating the particular work that territory does in organizing property relations.

This edited collection focuses on the ethics, politics and practices of responsiveness in the context of racism, inequality, difference and controversy.

Fragility is a condition that inhabits the foundations of social life.

Analysing social change has too often been characterized by parochialism, either a Eurocentrism that projects European experience outwards or a disciplinary narrowness that ignores insights from other academic disciplines.

The analysis of social and public policy and professional practice has become increasingly theoretical in recent years.

Foundations of Critical Media and Information Studies lays down foundations for the analysis of media, information, and information technology in 21st century information society, as well as introducing the theoretical and empirical tools necessary for the critical study of media and information.

With a focus on I Am Legend and Day of the Dead-two series of film remakes of popular science fiction stories-this book addresses the social origins of the recent surge in authoritarian and populist social movements.

In Rhythmanalysis, Henri Lefebvre put forward his ideas on the relationship between time and space, particularly how rhythms characterize space.

In September 1781, the captain of the British slave ship Zong ordered 133 slaves thrown overboard, enabling the ship's owners to file an insurance claim for their lost "e;cargo.

Originally published in 1989, Reclaiming Reality still provides the most accessible introduction to the increasingly influential multi-disciplinary and international body of thought, known as critical realism.

Taking world ordering as international relations theory''s primary challenge, Adler suggests cognitive evolution, a practice-based social theory, to explain it.

Key Thinkers for the Information Society provides an introduction to some important social theorists whose work has considerable relevance to today's 'brave new world' of information and communication technologies.

This book provides an illuminating perspective on alcohol use, drawing on approaches from both anthropological research and historical sociology to examine our ambivalent attitudes to alcohol in the modern West.

This book critically explores the development of radical criminology through a range of written Ancient Greek works including epic and lyrical poetry, drama and philosophy, across different chapters.

This book provides an overview and analysis of the thought of figures across the human and social sciences on the character, causes, and consequences of discontent in modern societies.

In this compelling book, Anthony Elliott traces the rise of psychoanalysis from the Frankfurt School to postmodernism.

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.

In spite of their differing rhetorics and cognitive strategies, sociology and literature are often concerned with the same objects: social relationships, action, motivation, social constraints and relationships, for example.

This book engages with a traditional yet persistent question of legal theory - what is law?

After 1945 it was not just Europe's parliamentary buildings that promised to house democracy: hotels in Turkey and Dutch shopping malls proposed new democratic attitudes and feelings.

Anwendungen Künstlicher Intelligenz, Maschinellen Lernens sowie Robotik und weitere informatische Systeme spielen in immer mehr Bereichen der menschlichen Lebenswelt eine immer wichtigere Rolle.

Max Weber (1864-1920) is generally recognised as one of the founding fathers of modern sociology.

Law moves, whether we notice or not.

Today, public space has become a fruitful venue for surveillance of many kinds.

By examining averted school rampage incidents, this work addresses problematic gaps in school violence scholarship and advances existing knowledge about mass murder, violence prevention, bystander intervention, threat assessment, and disciplinary policy in school contexts.

Seit Ende der 1980er Jahre wurde von einer Gruppe von Erziehungswissenschaftler*innen der "bürgerlichen Kälte" (Horkheimer/Adorno) nachgegangen; dabei wurde diese Theoriefigur der Kritischen Theorie erschlossen und ihre Aktualität durch zahlreiche Fallstudien zu typischen Situationen der pädagogischen Praxis aufgewiesen.