Social theory

Max Weber (1864-1920) was one of the most prolific and influential sociologists of the twentieth century.

Ugandan Asians in Great Britain (1975) examines the impact of the 1972 immigration of 28,000 Asians expelled from Uganda, looking at the impact on both the immigrants themselves and the British host community.

This book revolves around epistolary narratives of women political theorists and activists, following traces of Hannah Arendt's philosophical approaches to love and agonistic politics.

Shaping the Normative Landscape is an investigation of the value of obligations and of rights, of forgiveness, of consent and refusal, of promise and request.

It is said that movies have encroached upon social realities creating tourism enclaves based on distortions of history and heritage, or simulations that disregard both.

The New Sociology of Ageing explores the challenges and opportunities of ageing as a global force.

This best-selling text emphasizes why social and cultural changes are the pervasive realities of our time.

This book explores the most important aspects of populism as a significant social phenomenon.

Common views of religion typically focus on the beliefs and meanings derived from revealed scriptures, ideas, and doctrines.

Humanistic theory for more than the past 100 years is marked by extensive attention to practice and practices.

Contemporary Western European Feminism is a ground-breaking history of feminism.

Esteve examines crowd representations in American literature from the antebellum era to the early twentieth century.

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is predicted to be one of the greatest threats to public health in the twenty-first century.

Presenting original research studies by leading scholars in the field, Orders of Ordinary Action considers how ethnomethodology provides for an 'alternate' sociology by respecifying sociological phenomena as locally accomplished members' activities.

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

This systematic analysis of the nature and development of Talcott Parson's theory of action offers first an introduction to the conceptual paradigm upon which this theory is based - an introduction, that is, which will make Parson's writing more easily accessible.

Feminist social scientists often find that carrying feminism into practice in their research is neither easy nor straightforward.

Why are sport and exercise important?

From the 2023 Reith lecturer Politics is failing us.

In a world of vertiginous inequality, escalating ecological disaster, and extraordinary political and economic turbulence generated by a winner-take-all society seemingly designed to concentrate privilege and power in the hands of a very few, the central question that faces social science-and indeed the world-is whether social protest will change anything, or whether elites will continue to lead the planet and its population to disaster.

Westra explores a nuanced literature on post-capitalism which claims that instead of constituting the end of history or ending in its supplanting by socialism, capitalism has transmuted into something else.

In this ground-breaking book, the author proposes a new theory of state formation based upon a rethinking of the nexus war, state, and citizenship.

The landscape of contemporary research is characterized by growing interdisciplinarity, and disciplinary boundaries are blurring faster than ever.

Across many parts of the world, violence inflicted in the name of family honor is attracting an increasing amount of attention.

Examines the theoretical and strategic issues which arise from different forms of political self-sacrifice.

An invisible pattern draws together most studies dealing with French cultural radicalism in the 1960s with intellectual creation reduced to individual creation and the role of semiotic and social factors that influence intellectual innovation minimized.

Philosophers, anthropologists and biologists have long puzzled over the question of human nature.

A 2024 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleHow is gender signified, produced and reproduced through paid and unpaid labour?

Intriguingly different in approach from conventional works in the same area of inquiry, this study deals with the central problems and concerns of the sociology of knowledge as it has traditionally been conceived of.

This edited collection reports the results of a comparative study of video surveillance/CCTV in Germany, Poland, and Sweden.

Contemporary Theorists for Medical Sociology explores the work of key social theorists and the application of their ideas to issues around health and illness.

Anthony Cohen makes a distinct break with earlier approaches to the study of community, which treated the subject in largely structural terms.

In this important volume of specially commissioned essays, nine leading sociologists present their answers to the question, 'What use are the sociological classics today?

Love and Intimacy in Contemporary Society reflects on relationships in contemporary society and the role of love and intimacy in framing lives.

As modern society's routine sequestration of death and grief is increasingly replaced by late-modern society's growing concern with existential issues and emotionality, this book explores grief as a social emotion, bringing together contributions from scholars across the social sciences and humanities to examine its social and cultural aspects.

After a period in which sociology was torn apart by the polarized claims of micro- and macro-methodology, an increasing number of sociologists are now attempting a fusion of the two approaches.

A pioneering study of evangelical politics in the Third World as a whole, comparing Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Hetcher applies his theory of norms to tort law and Internet privacy laws.

Mixed martial arts (MMA) is an emergent sport where competitors in a ring or cage utilize strikes (punches, kicks, elbows and knees) as well as submission techniques to defeat opponents.

In this book, important works and approaches of policy-oriented emotion research are brought into a systematic context.

When one speaks of sociology, places such as the US, UK, Germany, and France come to mind.

This book explores how gentrification often reinforces traditional gender roles and spatial constructions during the process of reshaping the labour, housing, commercial and policy landscapes of the city.

Examining the interplay between distrust, trust and corruption, this book maps out the social mechanisms that make actors and organizations in the public sphere perform their activities in a civilized manner.

How do contemporary young people construct their sexual identities?

The rise of the health, beauty and fitness industries in recent years has led to an increased focus on the body.