Social theory

Strife has raged about Karl Marx for decades, and never had it been so embittered as at the time of this book's first publication, 1936.

There have been two "e;hands"e; exerting influence on China's resource allocation and economic development: one is tangible (government intervention), and the other intangible (market regulation).

What has become known as the Frankfurt School is often reduced to a small number of theorists in media communication and cultural studies.

Cosmopolitanism is about the extension of the moral and political horizons of people, societies, organizations and institutions.

This astonishing book presents a distinctive approach to the politics of everyday life.

What are systems?

These original essays are planned to provide a coherent basis for an understanding of women's social and historical situation.

The twenty-first century is characterized by extremes of poverty and wealth, of scarcity and abundance.

This book develops a theory of collective empowerment that looks for change both from the bottom up, in civil society, and from the top down, from state interventions responding to such pressure.

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.

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War and Peace by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, originally published in 1861, is still one of the only extended accounts of anarchist international theory and is one of the earliest in the history of socialist thought.

One of the key scientific challenges is the puzzle of human cooperation.

Few of us, amidst our daily chores and responsibilities, consider how mundane infrastructures-from electrical grids to sewage systems-have developed over millennia in ways that enable everything we cherish, from democracy to technological innovation to individual liberty.

This book, first published in 1977, presents for the first time a serious and systematic assessment of Marx primarily as a philosopher.

Rape, traditionally a spoil of war, became a weapon of war in the ethnic cleansing campaign in Bosnia.

This is the first collection of essays to be published on Durkheim's masterpiece The Elementary Forms of Religious Life.

Drawing together leading international experts such as Knut Halvorsen, Robert Y.

Seafarer & Community (1973) examines life on shipboard and how the communities which rely on the sea for their livelihood exist.

Today we often hear academics, commentators, pundits, and politicians telling us that new media has transformed activism, providing an array of networks for ordinary people to become creatively involved in a multitude of social and political practices.

The critical theory of the Frankfurt School has undergone numerous and at times fundamental changes over the last ninety years.

Today's celebrity conservationists, many of whom made their reputations through television and other visual media, play a major role in drawing public attention to an increasingly threatened world.

Invisible Seasides positions the seaside as a lens for understanding lived utopia, pinned in a certain place, an immovable feature in a landscape where our hopes and fears continue to unfold.

The law was central to Durkheim's sociological theory and to his efforts to establish sociology as a distinctive discipline.

Keith Taylor has undertaken a thorough study of the full range of writings by the brilliant French thinker Henri Saint-Simon (1760-1825), including his unpublished manuscripts, and the result is the first comprehensive and truly representative selection in English from the works of this founding father of social science and socialism, whose ideas exerted a formative influence on such major and diverse intellectual figures as Comte, Proudhon, Marx and Engels, Herzen, Carlyle and Durkheim.

Economists do more than merely describe an external economic world.

A study of human rights violation of women and its correction through changes in beliefs, practices and adaptation in structural transformation.

This interdisciplinary, book-length study of the linguistics of organizational styling presents an innovative take on the notion of style.

Originally published in 1968, these ten essays by one of Europe's leading sociological theorists deal with important issues on the borderline between sociology and social philosophy and demonstrate the author's deep insight into history and political analysis.

This book considers the discourses that come into play in organizational change.

Explains how and when public and non-public warnings about future conflicts affect decision-making in Western states and international organisations.

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

Europe is one of the most dynamic and interesting areas of the world, pioneering in the European Union a new form of governance for half a billion people, represented in the world's first directly elected transnational parliament.

Silence and Society addresses the reality that social sciences have ignored the importance of silence in human communication.

Karl Polanyi is one of the most influential social scientists of our era.

Transcends national, ideological, disciplinary, and textual boundaries to bring together the best in Tocqueville scholarship.

Theodor Adorno was no stranger to controversy.

Fitting into Place adopts a multi-dimensional interdisciplinary approach to explore shifting geographies and temporalities that re-constitute 'city publics' - and the place of the 'public sociologist'.

Contemporary challenges related to walls, borders and encirclement, such as migration, integration and endemic historical conflicts, can only be understood properly from a long-term perspective.

Contemporary bipartisan politics undermines socialist solidarity by ignoring class issues and pitting advocates of social justice against ethno-national chauvinists.

Exploring, clarifying, and moving beyond the distinction between 'community' and 'society' for which he is best known, this book rediscovers the work of Ferdinand Tonnies, providing fresh insights into his thought, which are often overlooked for want of a grasp of his background in philosophy.

In The Liberation of Women, Roberta Hamilton explores two of the key questions that have been systematically raised by the Women's Liberation Movement: why have women occupied a subordinate position in society and how can the variation in the forms and intensity of their exploitation and oppression be explained?

In this book Max Koch develops a theoretical model to understand the restructuring of labour markets and social structures of advanced capitalist countries on the basis of the 'regulation approach'.