Social theory books

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The Ways Out: Utopian Communal Groups in an Age of Babylon

The Ways Out: Utopian Communal Groups in an Age of Babylon...

Author: John R. Hall
ISBN: 9780367362034
Format: Hardback
$231.00

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The Elmhirsts of Dartington

The Elmhirsts of Dartington

Author: Michael Young
ISBN: 9780367423612
Format: Hardback
$305.00

First published in 1982, this book, the story of two remarkable people and the place they made, is told by someone...  Read More >>

Complex Life: Nonmodernity and the Emergence of Cognition and Culture

Complex Life: Nonmodernity and the Emergence of Cognition...

Author: Alan Dean
ISBN: 9781138700291
Format: Hardback
$189.00

This title was first published in 2000:  Arguing that nature and culture are inseparably linked within human agency,...  Read More >>

Nationalism Revisited: Austrian Social Closure from Romanticism to the Digital Age

Nationalism Revisited: Austrian Social Closure from...

Author: Christian Karner
ISBN: 9781789204520
Format: Hardback
$269.10

Focused on the German-speaking parts of the former Habsburg Empire, this book offers a series of analyses of the...  Read More >>

The Programming Approach and the Demise of Economics: Volume III: The Planning Accounting Framework (PAF)

The Programming Approach and the Demise of Economics:...

Author: Franco Archibugi
ISBN: 9783319780627
Format: Hardback
$232.85

This trilogy deals with an epistemology of economics, arguing for a radical overturning of conventional analysis...  Read More >>

State Violence in Nazi Germany: From Kristallnacht to Barbarossa

State Violence in Nazi Germany: From Kristallnacht to...

Author: Emanuel Marx (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
ISBN: 9780367409852
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Through analyses of three eventful years in Nazi Germany’s history, this book offers a new account of the phenomenon...  Read More >>

Critical Theory and the Classical World

Critical Theory and the Classical World

Author: Martyn Hudson (Northumbria University, UK.)
ISBN: 9780367897222
Format: Paperback
$92.99

This book radically re-examines Europe’s imaginaries of its origin in the ancient Greek world. Extracting central...  Read More >>

The Civil Sphere in Latin America

The Civil Sphere in Latin America

Author: Jeffrey C. Alexander (Yale University, Connecticut) ,  Carlo Tognato
ISBN: 9781108445870
Format: Paperback
$82.80

This book approaches today's 'front page' issues in Latin America in a unique and compelling way - by framing them...  Read More >>

Realist Responses to Post-Human Society: Ex Machina

Realist Responses to Post-Human Society: Ex Machina...

Author: Ismael Al-Amoudi ,  Jamie Morgan (Leeds Beckett University, UK)
ISBN: 9780367897321
Format: Paperback
$92.99

This volume focuses on the slow process of ‘human enhancement’, starting from pastoralism through to modern transplant,...  Read More >>

Tribespotting: Undercover Cult(ure) Stories

Tribespotting: Undercover Cult(ure) Stories

Author: Harmon Leon ,  Keith Knight
ISBN: 9781946358202
Format: Paperback
$42.11

In Tribespotting: Undercover Cult(ure) Stories, Harmon Leon introduces readers to a series of vastly different tribes....  Read More >>

Framing Social Interaction: Continuities and Cracks in Goffman’s Frame Analysis

Framing Social Interaction: Continuities and Cracks...

Author: Anders Persson
ISBN: 9780367897246
Format: Paperback
$88.99

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The Communicative Construction of Reality

The Communicative Construction of Reality

Author: Hubert Knoblauch
ISBN: 9781138364653
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This volume advocates a shift from the social constructivism of Luckmann and Berger to a communicative constructivism...  Read More >>

Social Innovation: How Societies Find the Power to Change

Social Innovation: How Societies Find the Power to Change...

Author: Geoff Mulgan (University College London)
ISBN: 9781447353799
Format: Paperback
$30.95

Geoff Mulgan, a pioneer in the global field of social innovation, explains how it provides answers to today's global...  Read More >>

New Voices in Psychosocial Studies

New Voices in Psychosocial Studies

Author: Stephen Frosh
ISBN: 9783030327576
Format: Hardback
$284.60

These ‘New Voices in Psychosocial Studies’ offer a coherent yet wide-ranging account of research that has taken...  Read More >>

The Challenge of Progress: Theory Between Critique and Ideology

The Challenge of Progress: Theory Between Critique and...

Author: Harry F. Dahms (University of Tennessee, USA)
ISBN: 9781787145726
Format: Hardback
$214.74

Globalization has accelerated the process of social, political, cultural, and especially economic transformations...  Read More >>

Routledge Library Editions: Utopias: 6 Volume Set

Routledge Library Editions: Utopias: 6 Volume Set

Author: Various
ISBN: 9780367353575
Format: Mixed media product
$221.00

Routledge Library Editions: Utopias (6 volume set) contains titles, originally published between 1923 and 1982....  Read More >>

Art of Inspiration: Words to Live By

Art of Inspiration: Words to Live By

Author: Scott J Bauer
ISBN: 9781734399905
Format: Hardback
$105.57

Artist SJ Bauer presents a collection of his unique style abstract word art combined with thoughtful quotes designed...  Read More >>

Shopper's Paradise: Retail Stores and American Consumer Culture

Shopper's Paradise: Retail Stores and American Consumer...

Author: Arthur Asa Berger
ISBN: 9789004408654
Format: Paperback
$248.16

Shopper's Paradise: Retail Stores and American Consumer Culture deals with the cultural, social and economic impact...  Read More >>

Confucianism and Reflexive Modernity: Bringing Community back to Human Rights in the Age of Global Risk Society

Confucianism and Reflexive Modernity: Bringing Community...

Author: Sang-Jin Han
ISBN: 9789004352551
Format: Hardback
$477.84

Confucianism and Reflexive Modernity criticizes the paradigm of Asian Value Debate and defends a balance between...  Read More >>

Ernst Bloch’s Speculative Materialism: Ontology, Epistemology, Politics

Ernst Bloch’s Speculative Materialism: Ontology, Epistemology,...

Author: Cat Moir
ISBN: 9789004272866
Format: Hardback
$419.76

In Ernst Bloch’s Speculative Materialism: Ontology, Epistemology, Politics, Cat Moir offers a new interpretation...  Read More >>

Georg Lukács and the Possibility of Critical Social Ontology

Georg Lukács and the Possibility of Critical Social...

Author: Michael J. Thompson
ISBN: 9789004357600
Format: Hardback
$583.44

Georg Lukács was one of the most important intellectuals and philosophers of the 20th century. His last great work...  Read More >>

Theorising Professions: A Sociological Introduction

Theorising Professions: A Sociological Introduction...

Author: Edgar A Burns
ISBN: 9783030279349
Format: Hardback
$116.41

This book synthesises several decades of research to extend beyond the limitations of a traditional functionalist...  Read More >>

Art of Inspiration: Words to Live By

Art of Inspiration: Words to Live By

Author: Scott J Bauer
ISBN: 9781734399912
Format: Paperback
$84.48

Artist SJ Bauer presents a collection of his unique style abstract word art combined with thoughtful quotes designed...  Read More >>

Post-Human Institutions and Organizations: Confronting the Matrix

Post-Human Institutions and Organizations: Confronting...

Author: Ismael Al-Amoudi (Cardiff University, UK) ,  Emmanuel Lazega (Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, France)
ISBN: 9780815377948
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This volume explores the social representations and significance of technological developments – especially AI and...  Read More >>

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