Social theory books

Thinking Infrastructures brings together interdisciplinary research on informational infrastructures to show how...  Read More >>

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Transitional Subjects is the first book-length collection devoted to the engagement of critical theory with the...  Read More >>

Transitional Subjects is the first book-length collection devoted to the engagement of critical theory with the...  Read More >>

The key questions addressed in this book relate to how we should understand social welfare today. Is it a mechanism...  Read More >>

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

In this timely book about the current state of research and practice of emergency management in China, the authors...  Read More >>

In honor of William J. Chambliss all of the chapters are dedicated to highlighting the impact Bill’s 50 year career...  Read More >>

Kränkung hat viele Gesichter. Was Menschen kränkt und beleidigt, gewinnt Macht über sie. Das, was eine Gesellschaft...  Read More >>

Engaging with the wide sociological literature on emotions, this book explores the social representation of emotions,...  Read More >>

In almost every human society some people get more and others get less. Why is inequity the rule in human societies?...  Read More >>

Based on a critical reading of Freud’s Civilization and Its Discontents, The Defiance of Global Commitment constructs...  Read More >>

Looking back over the last 60 years of sociology in the UK, this book addresses the question of progress in the...  Read More >>

Through a critical dialogue with various contemporary thinkers (Galli, Hardt and Negri, Esposito, Agamben, Derrida,...  Read More >>

This book gathers together reflections from a broad range of urban China specialists to actively engage with the...  Read More >>

Artists and critics explore the concept of Real Abstraction to help understand contemporary cultural production....  Read More >>

This book opens with an identification of the characteristics that define contemporary social movements, including:...  Read More >>

The Psychoanalytic Ear and the Sociological Eye: Toward an American Independent Tradition proposes a new understanding...  Read More >>

The Psychoanalytic Ear and the Sociological Eye: Toward an American Independent Tradition proposes a new understanding...  Read More >>

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The Routledge Handbook of Identity Studies offers a remarkably clear overview of the analysis of identity in the...  Read More >>

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This book presents a novel approach to framing the concept of stigma, and understanding why and how it functions. ...  Read More >>