Social theory

Fifty Key Scholars in Black Social Thought is a collaborative volume that uplifts and explores the intellectual activism and scholarly contributions of Black social thinkers.

Corporate Totalitarianism reflects on the changing nature of economic, political, and social power in the global context and the ways in which this affects both individual and society.

This volume explores the life, work, and impact of the Peruvian thinker Jose Carlos Mariategui (1894-1930), particularly his political biography, his intellectual production, and his critique of Eurocentrism.

This book explores contemporary issues in women's studies, focusing on the agency of marginalised and disenfranchised within political, cultural, and social spheres.

The book examines philosophical and sociological approaches within critical theory and more widely from the vantage point of communicative reason.

This innovative study engages critically with existing conceptualisations of diaspora, arguing that if diaspora is to have analytical purchase, it should illuminate a specific angle of migration or migrancy.

In the neoliberal world of the twenty-first century, the progressive academy urgently needs a vehicle for normative social research.

Critical theory is one of the most important and exciting areas within the study of international relations.

This book delves into the concept and definition of social movements from different perspectives with relevance to India.

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

How Popular Culture Destroys Our Political Imagination: Capitalism and Its Alternatives in Film and Television explores the representations of capitalism, the state, and their alternatives in popular screen media texts.

Arguing that Philip Rieff was a Freudian who departed in vital and fascinating ways from Freud, and a committed modern who nevertheless viewed modernity as a disaster, this book makes clear his thought transcends contemporary left-right culture war dichotomies.

Luhmann hat Konjunktur und das hat zwei Gründe: Erstens hat außer ihm niemand den Mut zur Gesellschaftstheorie.

If you read only one non-fiction book this year, consider this one TOM HANKS If there s one book that I would urge everyone to read it is Nexus STEPHEN FRYThe mind-blowing story of how information networks from the stone age to AI -have shaped our world from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of SapiensStories brought us together.

Exploring gender through the lens of field theory, Gender Fields proposes a new framework for understanding the social organisation of gender identity.

This book honors the diverse and path-breaking work of Michael Adler, a pioneer of socio-legal scholarship in the UK.

This work challenges the dominant pejorative view of myth by showing how myth is implicated in the deepest layers of society, politics, individuality and temporality.

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.

Contributing to a lively dialogue with Anglo-American and French theorists, The Lonely Mirror (originally published in 1993) sets out to contextualize Italian feminist theory within the international debate.

This book honors the diverse and path-breaking work of Michael Adler, a pioneer of socio-legal scholarship in the UK.

This book explains how the Columbia model of sociology, which was based on the methodology of P.

The Sociology of Political Crisis provides a pioneering and powerful theoretical approach to a large range of critical events like political breakdowns, revolutions, upheavals or collapses, which it considers as self-fueling processes emancipating themselves from the multiple causes that gave rise to them.

Challenging the inference in social science that taking subjectivity into account somehow conflicts with approaches that emphasize the reality of the material conditions of existence, this book shows how subjective perceptions of one's future can help to capture class and inequality, considering the extent to which material conditions (such as wealth, income, and power) are revealed by subjective indicators.

Community Justice discusses concepts of community within the context of justice policy and programs and addresses the important relationship between the criminal justice system and the community in the USA.

Phenomenology: The Basics is a concise and engaging introduction to one of the important philosophical movements of the twentieth century and to a subject that continues to grow and diversify.

Starting from the idea that economic relations are social relations, and every economic fact is first a social fact, this book explores one of the crucial problems within economic science: how to embody the social dimension into the study of economic reality from a critical perspective.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the field of the Sociology of Emotions, incorporating sociological, feminist and cultural perspectives.

In this thought-provoking volume, leading scholars address the multifaceted concept of agency, dissecting its significance, applications, and challenges across various domains, and situate agency in changing socio-historical contexts in which individuals as members of larger groups try to reconcile guiding norms and values with the material conditions of their lives.

Since the early 2000s, social innovation has become increasingly relevant in the political and research debates on welfare state transformations.

Corporate Totalitarianism reflects on the changing nature of economic, political, and social power in the global context and the ways in which this affects both individual and society.

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

The Sociology of Political Crisis provides a pioneering and powerful theoretical approach to a large range of critical events like political breakdowns, revolutions, upheavals or collapses, which it considers as self-fueling processes emancipating themselves from the multiple causes that gave rise to them.

Consumption studies are underrated in the social sciences.

How Popular Culture Destroys Our Political Imagination: Capitalism and Its Alternatives in Film and Television explores the representations of capitalism, the state, and their alternatives in popular screen media texts.

This short critical introduction to Pierre Bourdieu's thought has been comprehensively brought up to date for the third edition.

Addressing the neglect of the work of Talcott Parsons, the complexity of whose thought and the opacity of whose writing style can prove daunting, this book provides a comprehensible account of the major theoretical accomplishments in his work and the reasons for which his legacy remains important to contemporary sociological debates.

Contributing to a lively dialogue with Anglo-American and French theorists, The Lonely Mirror (originally published in 1993) sets out to contextualize Italian feminist theory within the international debate.

The Routledge Handbook for Global South Studies on Subjectivities provides a series of exemplary studies conjoining perspectives from Asian, African, and Latin American Studies on subjectivity in the Global South as a central category of social and cultural analysis.

Culinary Man and the Kitchen Brigade offers an exploration of the field of normative subjectivity circulated within western fine dining traditions, presenting a theoretical analysis of the governing relationship between the chef, who embodies the Culinary Man, and the fine dining brigade.

This book introduces the sociology of philosophy as a research field, asking what can be gained by looking at the discipline of philosophy from a sociological perspective and how to go about doing it, as presented through three case studies of 20th-century Swedish and Scandinavian philosophy.

This book offers a discussion of the origins of Latin American dependency theories and their implications for contemporary social theory.

Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) was a member of the Frankfurt School, a leading figure of 1960s counterculture, and a fundamental character for the New Left.

This book introduces the sociology of philosophy as a research field, asking what can be gained by looking at the discipline of philosophy from a sociological perspective and how to go about doing it, as presented through three case studies of 20th-century Swedish and Scandinavian philosophy.

Este libro presenta textos derivados de la investigación y la reflexión sobre el diseño en el mundo, atravesadas por realidades diferentes que configuran este campo del conocimiento: las prácticas del diseño en América Latina; desarrollo tecnológico en espacios de aprendizaje y circulación; consumo cultural del diseño; la relación entre diseño, archivo y memoria; la historiografía del diseño desde una perspectiva de género; el diseño en espacios de diversidad lingüística y multicultural, y las relaciones entre diseño, arte y ciencia.

Taking inspiration from the classic text by Raymond Williams, Keywords in Criminology reflects on the language used by criminologists and offers a one stop guide to core concepts in the discipline.

Dark Emotions is a book about a range of emotional experiences that are often regarded or characterized as 'negative', 'disturbing' or 'dark' as contrasted with emotions that are 'positive', 'pleasant' or 'light'.