Social theory books

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What was Adam Smith’s intellectual laboratory? How did his economic theory take shape? Were his metaphors of order...  Read More >>

Examining experiences of shame and stigma in the context of austerity and the declining welfare state, this book...  Read More >>

A definitive reevaluation of the relationship between culture and politics in the thought of Peruvian socialist...  Read More >>

This essential book offers a fresh assessment of the Caesarist-Bonapartist paradigm in Gramsci's thought.  Read More >>

This book shows how many previously contingent social processes have gradually been re-organised and transformed...  Read More >>

Originally published in hardcover in 2020 by Bloomsbury Academic.  Read More >>

Un recit longtemps hegemonique a structure les sciences sociales autour d'une modernite occidentale exceptionnelle...  Read More >>

How should we think about immigration and what policies should democratic societies pursue? Sarah Song offers a...  Read More >>

Surrogacy in Russia focuses on commercial surrogacy workers in Russia and other countries of the former Soviet Union....  Read More >>

Bringing together the work of leading scholars from across the social sciences, this book examines a variety of...  Read More >>

This book advances the theoretical, normative and practical understanding of civil society under the conditions...  Read More >>

Bringing together the work of leading scholars from across the social sciences, this book examines a variety of...  Read More >>

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Seine Karriere begann Niklas Luhmann Mitte der funfziger Jahre am Oberverwaltungsgericht Luneburg; grundlegende...  Read More >>

This book argues that the notion of ‘wild’ analysis, a term coined by Freud to denote the use of would-be psychoanalytic...  Read More >>

This book describes the phenomenon of the smart city in all its facets through sociological lenses. What is a smart...  Read More >>

The only introduction to sociological systems theory in the powerful flexible form of a glossary, with a preface...  Read More >>

This book argues that the notion of ‘wild’ analysis, a term coined by Freud to denote the use of would-be psychoanalytic...  Read More >>

Andy Blunden’s Hegel Marx & Vygotsky, Essays in Social Philosophy uses a series of essays to demonstrate how the...  Read More >>

From here to utopia. New directions in political theory  Read More >>

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