Social theory

In recent years, cultural work has engaged the interest of scholars from a broad range of social science and humanities disciplines.

Jurgen Habermas is one of the most important German philosophers and social theorists of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century.

For the early pioneers of the social indicator movement, the possibilities of doing social good by developing the tools of social measurement seemed endless.

Community Change in Action guides students through the process of turning their personal passion into goal-driven action for community development.

This book systematically addresses Bourdieu's key ideas and concepts in the context of Marxist thought.

This book explores the role of theory and research in criminology.

This book offers a comprehensive sociological study of the nature and dynamics of the modern world, through the use of a series of anthropological concepts, including the trickster, schismogenesis, imitation and liminality.

Drawing on data collected in London's precarious labour market during the COVID- 19 pandemic, this book explores the pragmatic actions of precarious work that produce simultaneous security and vulnerability.

This book provides an accessible introduction to bisexuality studies, set within the context of contemporary social theory and research.

This book brings together a collection of work from emerging and established scholars who have put forth a vision of what critical sociology is and what it could be in the early decades of the 21st century.

Symbols matter, and especially those present in public spaces, but how do they exert influence and maintain a hold over us?

Taylorism was criticised for its over-simplistic view of what motivated the worker.

In the first major update to this classic book in many years, Collins traces the history and contours of Black women's ideas and actions to argue that Black feminist thought is the discourse that fosters Black women's survival, persistence, and success against the odds.

The Element presents a timely evidence-based approach to a much-needed study on temporary migrants and their political and social rights.

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

Jean Genet (1910-1986) resonates, perhaps more than any other canonical queer figure from the pre-Stonewall past, with contemporary queer sensibilities attuned to a defiant non-normativity.

This book critically engages with a series of provocative questions that ask: Why are contemporary societies so dependent on constructive and destructive effects of individualization?

This book provides solid sociological foundations to computational social science (CSS).

The course of German philosophy in the twentieth century is one of the most exciting and controversial in the history of human thought.

Explores how security communities think about time and how this shapes the politics of security in the information age.

This book explains the evolution of human cooperation in tribal societies using insights from game theory, ethnography and archaeology.

À bas bruit et à l'ombre des nouvelles formes de vulnérabilité sociale, les professionnel(le)s de l'éducation spécialisée accompagnent au quotidien des sujets en grande souffrance, pour leur permettre en finalité de se réapproprier un rapport à la vie et aux autres plus apaisé, juste et responsable.

Nothing really matters.

This book provides the history and genealogy of an increasingly important subject: liminality.

An international textbook designed as a quick introduction for students from around the world studying sociology of family, this text provides comprehensive coverage of the major topics in the sociology of family life.

Everybody wants to know what makes people happy.

First published in 1976, this book is concerned with the nature of classification in the social sciences.

This book focuses on the contribution of Marcel Mauss (1872-1950) to social theory and a theory of cooperation.

This book outlines and systematises findings from a growing body of research that examines the different rationales, dimensions and dynamics of risk-taking in current societies; providing insight into the different motivations and social roots of risk-taking to advance scholarly debates and improve social regulation.

This book, first published in 1974, analyses the position of the Gypsies in Britain in the twentieth century, and assesses its significance in their overall history.

When Sociological Impressionism was first published in 1981, it was the first comprehensive study on Simmel's social theory to appear in English since 1925.

These articles, over thirty in total, reflect the best and latest thought in the exciting field of economic sociology.

Shifting Solidarities offers a comprehensive analysis of solidarity at a time when major social transformations have penetrated the heart of European societies, disrupting markets and labour relations, transforming social practices, and affecting the moral infrastructure of European welfare states.

Why, since the financial crisis of 2008, has neoliberal capitalism remained seemingly impregnable?

Nationally and internationally, we are being driven to reflect on how to respond to a changing world.

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

This book offers a re-examination of the relationship between humans and nature with a new methodology: by examining our entanglement with machines.

Memories and Representations of Terror: Working Through Genocide explores how memories and representations shape our understanding of historical events, particularly the ways in which societies create narratives about genocide and its aftermath, using Argentina's last military dictatorship (1976-1983) and its contested legacy as a case study.

This book draws on the analytic and political dimensions of queer, alongside the analytic and political usefulness of emotion, to navigate legal interventions aimed at progressing the rights of LGBT people.

First published in 1986, this collection of essays brings together ethnomethodological studies from key academics of the discipline, including the renowned scholar Harold Garfinkel who established and developed the field.

This book tackles the important question of how we can understand and learn from the school rampage killings that have been prevented.

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For the better part of its history sociology shared with commonsense its assumption of the 'nature-like' character of society - and consequently developed as the science of unfreedom.

At a time when most of the innovative techniques in empirical sociology concern themselves with networks of relations among variables (such as indices of occupational prestige, education and income), the central theme of this volume is that there is much substantive insight and analytical leverage to be gained from a conceptualization of social structure directly, as regularities in the patterning of relations among concrete entities.

Offering a unique, comprehensive, and critical introduction to increasingly visible social inequalities, this textbook examines the political and economic causes and cultural consequences of a stratifying system that allocates material resources and human dignity on the basis of private profit and labor exploitation.

Anthony Giddens is one of the most respected and influential social theorists at work today.