Social theory books

First published in 1927, this title represents an attempt at a more synthetic type of treatment of the field than...  Read More >>

Thinking Systematics (TSS) is conceived as a “toolkit for the mind” — designed to improve how we think about the...  Read More >>

Seeking a concise and substantial vision of symbolic interactionism, this volume manifests the crucial research...  Read More >>

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This book describes relevant theories, such as task-centered and strength-perspective interventions for the practice...  Read More >>

The fourth edition of Criminology: The Basics has been fully revised and updated to offer an engaging and concise...  Read More >>

The fourth edition of Criminology: The Basics has been fully revised and updated to offer an engaging and concise...  Read More >>

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Change and Disruption: Sociology of the Future draws on classical and modern sociological theory to identify recent...  Read More >>

Change and Disruption: Sociology of the Future draws on classical and modern sociological theory to identify recent...  Read More >>

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the field of the Sociology of Emotions, incorporating sociological,...  Read More >>

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the field of the Sociology of Emotions, incorporating sociological,...  Read More >>

This book is a collaborative volume that uplifts and explores the intellectual activism and scholarly contributions...  Read More >>

This handbook builds on the growing research interest in practices of valuation throughout contemporary society....  Read More >>

How do we, as human beings, come to understand ourselves and others around us? Bringing together a number of cutting...  Read More >>

Solidarity in Individualized Societies provides a critical analysis of trends in modern culture and in the policy...  Read More >>

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This book illustrates the multiple ways ‘the body’ both impacts culture and is simultaneously and seamlessly positioned...  Read More >>

Based on in-depth case-studies of curricular change processes at six colleges and universities across the United...  Read More >>

Staging Mobilities is about the fact that mobility is more than movement between point A and B. It explores how...  Read More >>

This book is a collaborative volume that uplifts and explores the intellectual activism and scholarly contributions...  Read More >>

This ground-breaking volume is a follow-up to Intellectuals and Their Publics. In contrast to the earlier book,...  Read More >>

A powerful new history of the idea of race, forcing us to rethink today's culture wars.  Read More >>

Through an engagement with selected texts, events and thinkers central to the present, this book offers an imagination...  Read More >>

Drawing on the thought of Hoffer and Durkheim, this volume analyses the responses of populations in Western societies...  Read More >>