Social theory

There has been much debate over the idea of 'the information society'.

Seven decades since Indian Independence, education takes the centre stage in every major discussion on development, especially when we talk about social exclusion, Dalits and reservations today.

We are living in a time when social and political authoritarianism appear to be gaining ground around the world.

We are living in a time when social and political authoritarianism appear to be gaining ground around the world.

The euro crisis, several sovereign debt crises, the Great Recession, the refugee crisis, and Brexit have all challenged Europeans' willingness to show solidarity with other European citizens and member states of the European Union.

This work explores the question of defining ideology from a Marxist perspective.

This work explores the question of defining ideology from a Marxist perspective.

Sociological Theories of Health and Illness reviews the evolution of theory in medical sociology beginning with the field's origins in medicine and extending to its present-day standing as a major sociological subdiscipline.

Sociological Theories of Health and Illness reviews the evolution of theory in medical sociology beginning with the field's origins in medicine and extending to its present-day standing as a major sociological subdiscipline.

The euro crisis, several sovereign debt crises, the Great Recession, the refugee crisis, and Brexit have all challenged Europeans' willingness to show solidarity with other European citizens and member states of the European Union.

This book explores the metaphysics of political communities.

This book explores the metaphysics of political communities.

This book offers an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to thinking about inequality, and to understanding how inequality is produced and reproduced in the global South.

This book offers an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to thinking about inequality, and to understanding how inequality is produced and reproduced in the global South.

This book is a comprehensive introduction to Dalits in India from their origin to the present day.

This book is a comprehensive introduction to Dalits in India from their origin to the present day.

What is charisma?

What is charisma?

Consciousness and the Neoliberal Subject outlines a theory of ideological function and a range of ideological positions according to which individuals rationalise and accept socio-economic conditions in advanced consumer capitalist societies.

Consciousness and the Neoliberal Subject outlines a theory of ideological function and a range of ideological positions according to which individuals rationalise and accept socio-economic conditions in advanced consumer capitalist societies.

This book examines the phenomenon of prime time soap operas on Indian television.

This book examines the phenomenon of prime time soap operas on Indian television.

The fields of Critical Disability Studies and Critical Animal Studies are growing rapidly, but how do the implications of these endeavours intersect?

The fields of Critical Disability Studies and Critical Animal Studies are growing rapidly, but how do the implications of these endeavours intersect?

Drawing on a wide range of social theory, as well as empirical inputs from studies of work, neighbourhoods, events, meeting places and online self-help groups, this book suggests that communal forms are constructed on the basis of communicative, material, biographic-cultural, practice-based, and situational layers.

Drawing on a wide range of social theory, as well as empirical inputs from studies of work, neighbourhoods, events, meeting places and online self-help groups, this book suggests that communal forms are constructed on the basis of communicative, material, biographic-cultural, practice-based, and situational layers.

The fields of settler colonial, decolonial, and postcolonial studies, as well as Critical Animal Studies are growing rapidly, but how do the implications of these endeavours intersect?

The fields of settler colonial, decolonial, and postcolonial studies, as well as Critical Animal Studies are growing rapidly, but how do the implications of these endeavours intersect?

This book examines how child protection law has been shaped by the transition to late modernity and how it copes with the ever-changing concept of risk.

This book examines how child protection law has been shaped by the transition to late modernity and how it copes with the ever-changing concept of risk.

Since China proposed its "e;Belt and Road Initiative"e; in 2013 to boost its influence on international affairs and "e;cultivate international contacts who are friendly toward China"e;, the number of foreign students in China has surge exponentially.

Since China proposed its "e;Belt and Road Initiative"e; in 2013 to boost its influence on international affairs and "e;cultivate international contacts who are friendly toward China"e;, the number of foreign students in China has surge exponentially.

NGOs, Knowledge Production and Global Humanist Advocacy is an empirically and theoretically rich account of how international non-governmental organisations produce knowledge of and formulate understandings about the world around them.

NGOs, Knowledge Production and Global Humanist Advocacy is an empirically and theoretically rich account of how international non-governmental organisations produce knowledge of and formulate understandings about the world around them.

The volume provides a field-analytical methodology for researching knowledge-based sociopolitical processes of transnationalization.

The volume provides a field-analytical methodology for researching knowledge-based sociopolitical processes of transnationalization.

Tang provides a coherent and systematic exploration of social evolution as a phenomenon and as a paradigm.

Tang provides a coherent and systematic exploration of social evolution as a phenomenon and as a paradigm.

Critical Theory and Social Transformation provides an exploration of the major themes in critical social theory of recent years.

Critical Theory and Social Transformation provides an exploration of the major themes in critical social theory of recent years.

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

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

At the bottom of the sea, freedivers find that the world bestows humans with the magic of bodily and mental freedom, binding them in small communities of play, affect and respect for nature.

At the bottom of the sea, freedivers find that the world bestows humans with the magic of bodily and mental freedom, binding them in small communities of play, affect and respect for nature.

This volume explores the nature of nostalgia as an important emotion in contemporary society and social theory.

This volume explores the nature of nostalgia as an important emotion in contemporary society and social theory.

Originally published in 2002 Culture, Ritual and Revolution in Vietnam is a study of the history and consequences of the revolutionary campaign to transform culture and ritual in northern Vietnam.

Can heterotopia help us make sense of globalisation?

Can heterotopia help us make sense of globalisation?

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