Social theory

This title was first published in 2001: For over 30 years it has been argued that contemporary society is undergoing a fundamental transformation.

First published in 1997, this volume is concerned primarily, though not exclusively, with one particular vulnerable group: unqualified young men on the margins.

Critically exploring the presuppositions of contemporary social theory, this collection argues for a trans-civilizational dialogue and a deepening of the universe of intellectual discourse in order to transform sociology into a truly planetary conversation on the human condition.

What is social work's contribution to humanity and society?

The aim of this book is to exemplify the ways in which social work and research develop in 'advanced' welfare states - countries where public spending is relatively high as a proportion of GNP.

In a time of social and ecological crises, people everywhere are looking for solutions.

Public Sociology highlights the relevance of sociological perspectives to Australian social life and encourages students to apply a sociological gaze to their own lives and the communities in which they live.

This book poses spatial violence as a constitutive dimension of architecture and its epistemologies, as well as a method for theoretical and historical inquiry intrinsic to architecture; and thereby offers an alternative to predominant readings of spatial violence as a topic, event, fact, or other empirical form that may be illustrated by architecture.

The strong community ties of mining villages are the central concern of this book, which deals with the social history and sociology of mining in County Durham in the twentieth century.

Practicing Culture seeks to revitalize the field of cultural sociology with an emphasis not on abstract theoretical debates but on showing how to put theoretical sources to work in empirical research.

The Physiology of Industry is a remarkable work which set out to challenge contemporary theory surrounding the economics of labour, supply and demand.

Showcasing fuzzy set theory, this book highlights the enormous potential of fuzzy logic in helping to analyse the complexity of a wide range of socio-economic patterns and behaviour.

This book offers a geneaological understanding of the condition of our time by reconstructing the complex story of the transition from the "e;cyclical time"e; of the classic era to the "e;linear and infuturant time"e; of the modern world.

Nothing really matters.

Posthuman theory asks in various ways what it means to be human in a time when philosophy has become suspicious of claims about human subjectivity.

This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of the influences that have shaped modern-day Japan.

This book offers both a philosophical and sociological model for understanding the constitution of identity in general, and black social identity in particular, without reverting to either a social or racial deterministic view of identity construction.

This book offers an original and rounded examination of the origin and sociological contributions of one of the most significant, yet continuously ignored, programs of social science research ever established in the United States: the Atlanta Sociological Laboratory.

The past several decades have seen the emergence of a vigorous ongoing debate about the 'politics of recognition'.

Die hier wieder zugänglich gemachte zweibändige Biographie Friedrich Engels‘ von Gustav Mayer gilt bis heute als bedeutendes Standardwerk.

This book argues that just as the ideas of Pan-Africanism birthed by Henry Sylvester-Williams and others in the late 1800s and Negritude ushered by Aime Cesaire and others in the early 1900s emboldened many major Black thinkers to push for independence across Africa, so will these early thinkers' ideas help in the building of a new Africa.

Mapping the resonances, dissonances, and linkages between the thought of Gramsci and Foucault to uncover new tools for socio-political and critical analysis for the twenty-first century, this book reassesses the widely-held view that their work is incompatible.

In this moment of unprecedented humanitarian crises, the representations of global disasters are increasingly common media themes around the world.

This book analyses the ability of individuals to create meaning through communicative interaction and of what seems to constrain and enable actors in taking collectively binding political decisions.

The writings of Ibn Khaldun, particularly the Muqaddimah (Prolegomenon) have rightly been regarded as being sociological in nature.

First published in 1982, Professor Bauman's discussion of the mechanism of class formation and institutionalisation of class conflict argues that our understanding of changes in social and political structure has been hindered by the freezing of concepts of class in the ice-age of industrial society.

Sociologists have not neglected the study of relationships, but there remains no central definition of what a relationship is.

"Leser:innen, die den Anschluss an moderne Theorieentwicklung verpasst haben, werden behutsam und anspruchsvoll in die Theorie sozialer Systeme eingeführt und können den Theorieaufbau lektionsweise mitverfolgen.

First published in 1989, Guards Imprisoned provides an in-depth look into the work and working life of prison guards as they perceive and experience it.

Originally published in 1974, The Social Analysis of Class Structure is an edited collection addressing class formation and class relations in industrial society.

The 21st century has brought a cornucopia of new knowledge and technologies.

Treating 'religion' as a fully social, cultural, historical and material field of practice, this book presents a series of debates and positions on the nature and purpose of the 'Study of Religions', or 'Religious Studies'.

This book is the first full critical history of incognito social investigation texts - in other words, works detailing their authors' experiences whilst pretending to be poor.

The concept of a relational self has been prominent in feminism, communitarianism, narrative self theories, and social network theories, and has been important to theorizing about practical dimensions of selfhood.

A candid exploration of sadomasochistic practices driving contemporary culture, covering the demoralizing socioeconomic and political conditions that give rise to agonizing rituals of cruelty demonstrated at systemic, transnational, religious, familial, and even sexual spheres of human relations.

Social scientists have long resisted the radical ideas known as postcolonial thought, while postcolonial scholars have critiqued the social sciences for their Euro-centric focus.

Drawings are everywhere.

Imagined Societies analyses how discussions of immigrant integration, culture, religion, and sexuality promote notions of national societies.

This book examines how deterrence, coercion and modernization theory has informed U.

In the third edition of this important and influential book, Michael Herzfeld revisits the idea of 'cultural intimacy'.

This book brings together leading figures in history, sociology, political science, feminism and critical theory to interpret, evaluate, criticize and update Weber's legacy.

This book evaluates the consequences of economic, social, environmental and cultural change on people living and working within Teesside in the North-East of England.

In this innovative volume, anthropologists turn their attention to a topic that has rarely figured as a focus of concerted investigation and yet which can be described as an intrinsic aspect of all human knowing and part of all processes by which human beings process information about themselves, their identities, their environments and their relations: the imagination.

In times of crisis, when institutions of power are laid bare, people turn to one another.

Despite immediate appearances, this book is not primarily a hermeneutical exercise in which the superiority of one interpretation of canonical texts is championed against others.

This book considers post-19th-century Athens as a unique instance of a secret side of metropolitan capitalism.