Social theory

Youth Fantasies is a collection of studies conducted in cross-cultural collaboration over the past ten years that theorizes 'youth fantasy'; as manifested through the media of TV, film, and computer games.

Hegel is notable for his distinctive contribution to the perennial concerns of political philosophy.

Planners necessarily use theories of how society works.

Social theorists speculate about large-scale social questions, asking of any phenomenon, how is it possible?

This important new collection considers Jurgen Habermas's discourse theory from a variety of feminist vantage points.

What do young people want from life?

This book outlines a new conception of political aesthetics based on the notion of order as an aesthetic category pertaining to human perception.

Globalization and changes to statehood challenge our understanding of space and territory.

This book questions the nature of the business and social information systems so ubiquitous in contemporary life.

In this colletion of essays the eminent social scientist, Dr.

This book is a broad-ranging and provocative study of the human passion for meat.

The field of digital technology in education has long been under-theorised.

This volume is the first collection of Martha Albertson Fineman's most important and influential work.

Contemporary critical theory's methodology is currently taking shape under the impact both of transformative internal develops within the discipline, and of external pressures and incentives arising from a series of international debates.

This book addressees a timely and fundamental problematic: the gap between the aims that people attempt to realize democratically and the law and administrative practices that actually result.

A pioneering analysis of agonistic democracy, its history, central thinkers and contribution to contemporary political theory.

This intriguing book re-evaluates a narrative of cultural decline that developed in the wake of Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.

Written under the shadow of the global financial crisis, this book charts the current shape of global finance and tries to explain why the crisis arose - and what can be done about it.

In Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory Patricia Hill Collins offers a set of analytical tools for those wishing to develop intersectionality's capability to theorize social inequality in ways that would facilitate social change.

This edited volume examines the current challenges to media freedom and democratisation in the Middle East.

This book discusses how to develop green transitions which benefit, include and respect marginalised social groups.

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.

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

Offering a critique of the humanist paradigm in contemporary social theory, Qualitative Complexity is the first comprehensive sociological analysis of complexity theory.

This introductory text explores the theory of social choice.

Offering a critique of the humanist paradigm in contemporary social theory, Qualitative Complexity is the first comprehensive sociological analysis of complexity theory.

Edward Carpenter's Towards Democracy is well-known as a starting point of his later work.

Offering an accessible and intriguing look at emotions in society, Sociology Through Emotions collects together contemporary qualitative research that illuminates many of sociology's central concepts and topics, from culture, socialization, and inequality to family, crime, healthcare, religion, and social movements.

This book explores how political quotas mandating inclusion of marginalized groups socially impact the intergroup relations.

Rural Planning Futures charts the critical societal challenges that are reshaping rural places across the UK and Ireland.

This book is an introduction to the epistemology and practice of social science.

This book explores how the present is troubled by the past and the future.

This title was first published in 2001.

Economics has become polarised.

Whiteness Fractured examines the many ways in which whiteness is conceptualized today and how it is understood to operate and to effect social relationships.

This book examines transborder Latin American sociocultural and spatial conditions across the globe and at different scales, from gendered and racialized individuals to national and transnational organizations.

This volume applies interpretive video analysis to explore the intersections between the sociology of knowledge and interaction studies.

Does it ever feel like you have no free time?

The nature of the contemporary global political economy and the significance of the current crisis are a matter of wide-ranging intellectual and political debate, which has contributed to a revival of interest in Marx's critique of political economy.

This book substantiates two claims.

This book engages anthropologically with humor as political expression.

The study of lynching in US history has become a well-developed area of scholarship.

The sociological concept of social capital has grown in popularity in recent years and research programs in North America, Europe, and East Asia have demonstrated how social capital has a significant impact on occupational mobility, community building, social movement, and economic development.

This book enquires into the state of health of contemporary democracies, offering a sociological reading of democracy to identify the causes of the current transformation of democracy from a social and cultural perspective.

This landmark publication brings together some of the most perceptive commentators of the present moment to explore core ideas and cutting edge developments in the field of Leisure Studies.

Polar Expeditions employs structural ritualization theory to show how rituals enriched the lives of crewmembers on 19 polar expeditions over a 100-year period.

One of the most influential intellectuals of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, sociologist and philosopher Zygmunt Bauman (1925-2017) made reflection on culture a fundamental part of his academic work.

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

In this timely study, high profile researchers contribute to the burgeoning field of the social studies of childhood with original and often surprising perspectives and approaches.

Modern societies and organizations are characterized by multiple kinds of observations, systems, or rationalities, rather than singular identities and clear hierarchies.