Social theory books

Multi-Sited Ethnography has established itself as a fully-fledged research method among anthropologists and sociologists...  Read More >>

A rich exploration of birth appropriation in the West, New Reproductive Technologies and Disembodiment investigates...  Read More >>

Respecifying Lab Ethnography delivers the first ethnomethodological study of current experimental physics in action,...  Read More >>

Previously considered two different strands within continental thought, this book compares and contrasts Hegel's...  Read More >>

Black Skin, Black Masks: Hybridity, Dialogism, Performativity offers a timely exploration of Black identity and...  Read More >>

First published in 1997, this book is an exegetical work exploring Max Weber's renowned thesis that classes, status...  Read More >>

Authenticity in Culture, Self, and Society addresses the problems surrounding the concept of authenticity by offering...  Read More >>

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Based in both rigorous theoretical work and case studies of software and network usage and installation, this book...  Read More >>

This work explores the multiple intersections between addiction and each socio-spatial permutation of what Derrida...  Read More >>

Arguing that that the politics of democracy is inseparable from a notion of dialogue that emerges from conflicting...  Read More >>

Adopting a conversation analytic approach informed by ethnomethodology, this book examines the process of socialization...  Read More >>

This book considers the nature and possibilities of conceptual change and transformation under conditions of globalization,...  Read More >>

This innovative and thought-provoking collection 'uses' Pierre Bourdieu – renowned for his focus on inequalities...  Read More >>

Whatever else they may be doing, human beings are also and always expressing themselves whenever they are in the...  Read More >>

This book examines the political economy of academic capitalism, investigating why and how the economic logic of...  Read More >>

Professor Margaret Archer is a leading critical realist and major contemporary social theorist. This edited collection...  Read More >>

In Confronting Reification, an international team of scholars examines the work of the Hungarian philosopher, Georg...  Read More >>

Provides students and instructors with carefully selected readings that introduce them to sociological and instructional...  Read More >>

This book revisits Paul Ricoeur’s classification of Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Sigmund Freud as the “masters...  Read More >>

How has Christianity engaged with democracy?  Read More >>

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Shifting Solidarities offers a comprehensive analysis of solidarity at a time when major social transformations...  Read More >>

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