Social theory books

This book looks at the changing forms of violence and likely consequences of a fully digitalized world.  Read More >>

This book examines the soft power of language, its cultural influence, and its empowering and disempowering potential...  Read More >>

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This book explores the ‘material-discursive entanglement’ of how we both make the world with our words and how the...  Read More >>

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This book explores different ways that the male body has been represented by, constructed in, and experienced through...  Read More >>

This book reveals the enduring relevance of Weber’s thought by challenging the notion that with the apparent triumph...  Read More >>

Safer Cities in the Global South asks what happens when social theory, largely developed and tested in the Global...  Read More >>

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Engaging with several emerging and interconnected approaches in the social sciences, including pragmatism, system...  Read More >>

Takes us inside forty of the most interesting intentional communities in America’s history, from the colonial era...  Read More >>

This book examines the role of collective violence in the achievement of solidarity, shedding light on the difficulty...  Read More >>

This book is a collection of essays which span three decades, capping research into the Polish Solidarity movement...  Read More >>

Far from the global euphoria of the sixties and seventies, everyday people are trying to loosen the grip of injustice...  Read More >>

This book outlines and systematises findings from a growing body of research that examines the different rationales,...  Read More >>

An insightful lens into the contemporary state of post-factual politics, this timely book explores the perceived...  Read More >>

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The local public sector is deeply steeped in history. Studying the historic patterns of urban settlements helps...  Read More >>

This book explores the ‘material-discursive entanglement’ of how we both make the world with our words and how the...  Read More >>

This new book treats money as a more inclusive social concept that has profoundly influenced the emergence of modern...  Read More >>

Sociological Theory and Capability Approach connects normative strands of sociological theory to the fusion of ethics...  Read More >>

This book offers a novel interpretation of contemporary modernity and its permanent liminality by revisiting the...  Read More >>

Becoming and Unbecoming the Hateful Other provides the first comprehensive sociological study of the contemporary...  Read More >>