Social theory

Does charitable giving still matter but need to change?

Extensively revised, the second edition of Geographies of Postcolonialism introduces the principal themes and theories related to postcolonialism.

Demonstrating the relevance of theory to political and policy debates and practice, this lively and accessible second edition helps students to grasp the real-life implications of social policy theory.

Andrew Abbott, einer der wichtigsten Sozialtheoretiker der Gegenwart, unterzieht Texte von Karl Marx und Max Weber einer kritischen Re-Lektüre – mit überraschenden Einsichten.

The Routledge International Handbook of Interactionism demonstrates the promise and diversity of the interactionist perspective in social science today, providing students and practitioners with an overview of the impressive developments in interactionist theory, methods and research.

Jan De Vos's second book on psychologization argues that psychology IS psychologization, a phenomenon traced back from Late-Modernity to the Enlightenment.

Making Gender, Making War is a unique interdisciplinary edited collection which explores the social construction of gender, war-making and peacekeeping.

This book addresses the absence of a strong alignment with the future in contemporary social life and explores anomalous temporal experience as a way to expand political imaginations.

This book explores the social and political significance of contemporary recognition contests in areas such as disability, race and ethnicity, nationalism, class and sexuality, drawing on accounts from Europe, the USA, Latin America, the Middle East and Australasia.

What is charisma?

This volume identifies some of the remaining gaps in extant theories of systemic racism, and in doing so, illuminates paths forward.

In this innovative book, theorists and researchers from various social science disciplines explore the potential of realist social theory for empirical research.

>Human reproduction is mediated through many technologies, both high- and low-tech.

Well-being studies is an exciting and relatively new multi-disciplinary field, with data being gathered from different domains in order to improve social policies.

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

Can society operate without gender and even biological sex classifications?

In this book, Dr Heasman begins by stating some central questions and answers concerning sociology and how we are to set about studying society.

Some goods are freely traded as commodities without question or controversy.

Knowing Governance sets out to understand governance through the design and making of its models and instruments.

Drawing on rich insights from cultural, post-structural and postcolonial studies, this book demands that we rethink Carnival and the carnivalesque as not just celebratory moments or even as critical subtext, but also as insightful performatives of social life anywhere, given the entangled times and spaces of these performances.

This book examines a basic problem in critical approaches to political and social inquiry: in what way is social inquiry animated by a practical intent?

This book analyses the concept of community by critically exploring its many manifestations in leisure.

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

Presenting a clear, comprehensive review of theoretical thinking on crime, this book encourages students to develop a deeper understanding of classic and contemporary theories and provides an interdisciplinary approach to criminology through the contributions of sociology, psychology and biology.

The Explanation of Behaviour was the first book written by the renowned philosopher Charles Taylor.

Psychoanalysis, Society, and the Inner World explores ideas from psychoanalysis that can be valuable in understanding social processes and institutions and in particular, how psychoanalytic ideas and methods can help us understand the nature and roots of social and political conflict in the contemporary world.

Based upon the interdependencies of human beings as we cooperate and conflict with each other, how we share information, and how culture evolves, this book proposes a sociology of humanity covering three hundred millennia.

COVID Societies presents a compelling and accessible overview of key sociocultural theories that can help us make sense of the diverse, dynamic and complex elements of the COVID crisis.

Through comparative historical research, this book offers a novel theory explaining the emergence of boredom in modernity.

Engaging with some of the central issues in the sociology of religion, this volume investigates the role and significance of churches and religion in contemporary Western and Eastern Europe.

At the outset of the twentieth century, Lenin argued that materialism has to change its form with each new scientific discovery.

Objects and materials are on the move like never before, often at astonishing speeds and along hidden routeways.

"e;The Social Science of Hayek's 'The Sensory Order'"e; systematically examines the relevance and significance of Hayek's cognitive psychology for economics and social science, and is the only publication of its kind to do so.

In his newest book, Stehr builds on his classic book Knowledge Societies (1994) to expand the concept toward one of knowledge capitalism for a now, much-changed era.

While Georg Simmel is widely known, the impact of his work has been far from straightforward, with the ways in which his ideas have been taken up by later thinkers as complex and diverse as the ideas themselves.

How does order emerge out of the multiplicity of bodies, objects, ideas and practices that constitute the urban?

Biometric technologies, such as finger- or facial-scan, are being deployed across a variety of social contexts in order to facilitate and guarantee identity verification and authentication.

Micro social theory covers a rich tradition in sociological thinking and research that focuses on the self or actor and social interaction.

The National Front was one of the most controversial political parties in Britain.

Written by one of the leading figures in biosocial criminology and evolutionary psychology, this work explores the tight relationship between criminality and indiscriminate sexuality within the framework of life history theory.

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.

Liminal Politics in the New Age of Disease explores the phenomenon of 'liminal politics': an open-ended 'state of exception' in which normal rules no longer apply, and things which were previously unimaginable become possible - even appearing remarkably quickly to represent a 'new normal'.

Incorporating original fieldwork carried out over a period of more than ten years, combined with innovative theoretical argument, Globalization, Culture and Society in Laos presents one of the first sociological investigations into modern Laos.

Informed by the thought of Pierre Bourdieu and framed by the philosophy of harm reduction, Habitus and Drug Using Environments provides a sociological analysis of public environments affected by injecting drug use.

First published in 1921, this book explores the function of Reason in practical life.

Since the 1970s, various sociological approaches have tried to understand and conceptualize "e;the global,"e; yet few of them have systematically addressed the full spectrum of social relationships.