Social theory

Two waves of interviews with management and workers demonstrate how the Lactation at Work Law made substantial changes within organizations.

This book explains why the Nordic Model retains its influence, especially on the Anglo-American left, notwithstanding internal problems.

This study of citizenship and migration policies in the Gulf shows how temporary residency can become a permanent citizenship status.

Shows how liberal, neoliberal, and nationalist ideas have combined to impact Western states'' immigration and citizenship policies.

While challenging traditional postcolonial accounts, Gabay places racial anxiety at the heart of imaginaries of Africa and international order.

Examines a range of contemporary social and cultural conflicts in East Asia and the echoes they have throughout the world.

Offers a wide-ranging roster of the social problems currently pressing for attention and amelioration.

Offers the first book-length comparative study of resilience, examining this increasingly influential topic as it is experienced across different countries and policy sectors.

Offers the first book-length comparative study of resilience, examining this increasingly influential topic as it is experienced across different countries and policy sectors.

Offers a wide-ranging roster of the social problems currently pressing for attention and amelioration.

Offers a wide-ranging roster of the social problems currently pressing for attention and amelioration.

While challenging traditional postcolonial accounts, Gabay places racial anxiety at the heart of imaginaries of Africa and international order.

A comprehensive analysis of how globalization has altered political conflict, giving a fresh perspective on the contemporary rise of populism.

The EU''s crises have triggered a division between ''sovereignist'' and ''Europeanist'' forces.

Explains how actors control access to international resources, creating a stratified international system of political equals and unequals.

A comprehensive analysis of how globalization has altered political conflict, giving a fresh perspective on the contemporary rise of populism.

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

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

Why do colleges and churches travel to help distant others and what does transnational civic engagement actually accomplish?

The politicization of Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism originated with the dual global dissemination of the nation-state alongside the western concept of religion.

Taking a sociological approach, this text provides a sophisticated, highly readable introduction to Japanese society.

Shows that the acquisition of political power and demand for rights by ascendant minority groups in Eastern Europe has precipitated a backlash of radical right mobilization.

Offers a wide-ranging roster of the social problems currently pressing for attention and amelioration.

Discusses the nature of corporate groups and networks, and provides arguments for rules extending liability beyond insolvent entities.

Illuminates hot button issues in contemporary Latin America from an intellectually radical perspective: a sociological theory of democracy as civil sphere.

Why do colleges and churches travel to help distant others and what does transnational civic engagement actually accomplish?

Provides a new framework for reconceptualizing the historical and contemporary relationship between cultural diversity, political authority, and international order.

Explains how actors control access to international resources, creating a stratified international system of political equals and unequals.

The politicization of Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism originated with the dual global dissemination of the nation-state alongside the western concept of religion.

Provides a new framework for reconceptualizing the historical and contemporary relationship between cultural diversity, political authority, and international order.

This volume studies the reception of the works of the acclaimed post-colonial philosopher Michel Foucault by South Asian scholars.

This book explains why the Nordic Model retains its influence, especially on the Anglo-American left, notwithstanding internal problems.

An incisive study of situated learning, analyzed through a critical theory of social practice as transformational change in everyday life.

This study of citizenship and migration policies in the Gulf shows how temporary residency can become a permanent citizenship status.

An incisive study of situated learning, analyzed through a critical theory of social practice as transformational change in everyday life.

Shows how American Jews developed a liberal political culture that has influenced their political priorities from the founding to today.

Shows how American Jews developed a liberal political culture that has influenced their political priorities from the founding to today.

Presents a shift from the accepted IR standard of theorizing, by analyzing policy decisions made in non-ideal conditions within a broader framework of practical choices.

A global approach to developing a theory of radicalism, drawing on a series of striking case studies by leading scholars.

This book examines incentives at work to see how and how well coordination is achieved by motivating individual decision makers.

This book examines incentives at work to see how and how well coordination is achieved by motivating individual decision makers.

A rethinking of contemporary social theory that provides a vision about the modern world through key ideas developed by ''maverick'' anthropologists.

A rethinking of contemporary social theory that provides a vision about the modern world through key ideas developed by ''maverick'' anthropologists.

Political interest is the strongest predictor of ''good citizenship'', yet little is known about it.

Using extensive research, this book argues that successful African leaders consolidate their rule by developing strategic rural coalitions.

This book examines how justice and reconciliation in world politics should be conceived in response to the injustice and alienation of modern colonialism?

Political interest is the strongest predictor of ''good citizenship'', yet little is known about it.

This book provides a lucid, rigorous and critical account of the commons, its history and its political potentialities as well as its limitations and ambiguities.

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

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