Social theory books

Maristella Svampa provides a broad and accessible overview of the key political and intellectual debates in Latin...  Read More >>

Maristella Svampa provides a broad and accessible overview of the key political and intellectual debates in Latin...  Read More >>

Die historische Bedeutung der politischen Philosophie des historischen Materialismus liegt darin, dass sie bis in...  Read More >>

Mental health is health. And yet, it's often misunderstood, dismissed, or hidden in the shadows-especially for those...  Read More >>

From one of the world's most celebrated intellectuals, a brilliantly...  Read More >>

Traces China's transformations with a focus on China's incorporation process in the nineteenth century, which help...  Read More >>

Jointly authored by an anthropologist and a philosopher, this book investigates some of the most puzzling ideas...  Read More >>

A provocative account of how subjective experience rules society today.  Read More >>

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Margaret S. Archer was responsible for important conceptual developments in critical realism and the structure-agent...  Read More >>

This book extends Max Weber’s theory of the value-spheres of modernity into wholly new areas, showing that the addition...  Read More >>

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This book introduces the life and work of Darcy Ribeiro (1922–1997), one of the foremost exponents of Brazilian/Latin...  Read More >>

This book calls attention to the continued relevance of Alfred Schutz’s social thought and his efforts to bring...  Read More >>

Exploring critical philosophy towards a more ecologically-informed paradigm, the book aims to recognise that what...  Read More >>

Bringing to light sources as-yet-unknown in Anglophone research, this book considers the importance of the work...  Read More >>

Through a variety of studies in the emerging field of attentional studies, this book examines and seeks alternatives...  Read More >>

This book examines the rise of a new form of emergency capitalism in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, exploring...  Read More >>

This book revisits social theory to highlight features of ‘good’ social theory. With particular attention to issues...  Read More >>

Positing that the 'environmental question’ arises from the history of metaphysics, this book reinterprets Heraclitus’...  Read More >>

This book introduces the readers to the dynamics of various kinds of social movements. It examines how social movements...  Read More >>