Social theory books

The key focus in Online Hate and Harmful Content is to examine the role of potentially harmful online content, particularly...  Read More >>

Bourdieusian Prospects contributes to scholarship on Bourdieusian sociology, bringing it face to face with other...  Read More >>

Drawing inspiration from the work of the Hungarian economic historian, Karl Polanyi, Remaking Market Society combines...  Read More >>

How do we remember and make sense of our collective pasts? Recent answers have revealed deep fissures within the...  Read More >>

Due to globalization processes, foreign language skills, knowledge about other countries and intercultural competences...  Read More >>

The 2008 economic crisis called into question the sustainability of the individualistic consumer society. However,...  Read More >>

Sociological Amnesia focuses on singular contributions to sociology that were once considered central to the discipline...  Read More >>

This collection, which includes an international roster of contributors from philosophy, history, literature, and...  Read More >>

This empirically grounded work explores the emerging aspects of cultural politics in the world’s most populous Muslim...  Read More >>

Property Rights in Land widens our understanding of property rights by looking through the lenses of social history...  Read More >>

This edited collection explores the exceptional international influence of Pierre Bourdieu's classical book Distinction...  Read More >>

Consumer credit borrowing – using credit cards, store cards and personal loans – is an important and routine part...  Read More >>

Practice Theory and Research provides a systematic introduction and overview of recent formulations of practice...  Read More >>

Tarde is being brought forward as the misrecognised forerunner of a post-Durkheimian era. Reclaimed from a century...  Read More >>

Alienation has objective, social causes, yet manifests as subjective, emotion-laden experience. Alienation, Adaptation...  Read More >>

This volume is the starting point for rendering contemporary practice theory approaches useful for the analysis...  Read More >>

Europe Since 1989 charts the development since the 1989 revolutions. It analyses the emergent European society,...  Read More >>

This edited collection aims to be the definitive text in the mobilities portfolio on cargo; containers and containerization;...  Read More >>

This volume examines and explains the phenomenon of digital divides and digital inequalities from a theoretical...  Read More >>

This volume reflects on the old philosophical question of how to live the good life, not only with others who are...  Read More >>

This book explores the iconic existence of second chances in everyday life. Newman argues that while second chances...  Read More >>

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This book critically engages with a series of provocative questions that ask: Why are contemporary societies so...  Read More >>

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The Quantified Self in Precarity brings a fresh perspective on how technology and the use of technology for management...  Read More >>