Social theory

This book draws on the example of the major cities of Leipzig and Dresden to illustrate continuity and change in public health in the German Democratic Republic.

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

This book draws on the example of the major cities of Leipzig and Dresden to illustrate continuity and change in public health in the German Democratic Republic.

This book takes a Marxist perspective to explore the dynamics of space.

Despite the central importance that water has held for civilizations both ancient and modern, its social significance has made surprisingly little impact on our contemporary understanding of human history and development.

For many years Malise Ruthven has been at the forefront of discerning commentary on the Islamic world and its relations with the predominantly secularised and Christian societies of the West.

It can no longer be said that we are just what we eat.

Financialization is a set of processes which has led to a financially driven and commodified economy with rising inequality, tax avoidance, and a lack of investment in the physical and social infrastructure.

The civil war that has intermittently raged in the Sudan since independence in 1956 is, according to Francis Deng, a conflict of contrasting and seemingly incompatible identities in the Northern and Southern parts of the country.

In the 1980s and 1990s, neoliberal forms of governance largely dominated Latin American political and social life.

This first volume of Niklas Luhmann's two-part final work was initially published in German in 1997.

The Rewards of Punishment describes a new social theory of norms to provide a compelling explanation why people punish.

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In this posthumous volume, renowned sociologist Herbert Blumer analyzes George Herbert MeadOs position in the study of human conduct.

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main, in 1923, this book aims at shedding light on the archives of some of the key thinkers of Critical Theory of Society, also well known as "e;Frankfurt School"e;.

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Recent debates have highlighted the importance of the self to a better understanding of the nature of culture and its relation to power.

This lively and thought-provoking collective biography uncovers the contributions of past women educators who promoted a distinctive vision of citizenship education.

Inequalities of opportunity affect a person's life expectancy and access to basic services and human rights through discrimination, abuse, and lack of access to justice.

Erving Goffman (1922-82) was arguably one of the most influential American sociologists of the twentieth century.

This textbook analyses the work of classical and contemporary sociological theorists.

This book argues that the discourse of political Islam has strong connections to important, disturbing currents in Western philosophy and intellectual trends.

This book argues that the discourse of political Islam has strong connections to important, disturbing currents in Western philosophy and intellectual trends.

This book looks at conceptions of the individual in recent new approaches in economics.

This book provides a solution to the problem of social structure and individual agency, an intense debate in the social sciences.

This book looks at conceptions of the individual in recent new approaches in economics.

This book provides a solution to the problem of social structure and individual agency, an intense debate in the social sciences.

This book analyses everyday encounters with rudeness and asks what can be done to improve civic life in a world of strangers.

A succinct and highly imaginative contribution to one of the great intellectual debates of our times.

This book offers an original theory of political discourse to analyse how Russian political actors use language.

This book argues that societies are complex dynamical systems that can be understood through the concept of emergence.

This 2003 book explores the links between social theory and the social scientific study of religion.

This book offers an original theory of political discourse to analyse how Russian political actors use language.

This book analyses everyday encounters with rudeness and asks what can be done to improve civic life in a world of strangers.

Reveals the interdisciplinary field of networks, which changes how we look at social, financial and technological interactions in modern society.

An Introduction to Japanese Society challenges the traditional notion that Japan comprises a uniform culture.

The latest contribution to one of the most distinguished and important series in political thought in the world.

In this volume, leading scholars from around the world examine the social stratification of arts and culture in contemporary society.

A fresh assessment of cosmopolitanism in social and political thought which links cosmopolitan theory with critical social theory.

This book provides an insight into how modern society and contemporary living affects our ability to remember things.

A succinct and highly imaginative contribution to one of the great intellectual debates of our times.

A critical and thematic survey of the diverse traditions and recent developments within contemporary social constructionism.

This book explains the economic rationale for the clustering of firms and households.

A fresh assessment of cosmopolitanism in social and political thought which links cosmopolitan theory with critical social theory.

This book provides an insight into how modern society and contemporary living affects our ability to remember things.

Examines the racial and gender social movements of the 1960s in the context of the traditions from which they evolved.

Shows how morality can both emerge and persist in a wide variety of social environments.

A fresh insight into the complexities of democratic life and the emergence of new political claims.

The latest contribution to one of the most distinguished and important series in political thought in the world.