Social theory books

The thinking of Antoine-Augustin Cournot has inspired a growing literature in economy and epistemology, but as of...  Read More >>

For graduate students and researchers in anthropological theory, this book offers a renewal of social theory through...  Read More >>

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American Jews have built a political culture based on the principle of equal citizenship in a secular state. This...  Read More >>

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Imitation, Contagion, Suggestion sheds important light on the ways in which society is intimately linked to and...  Read More >>

A complex and wide-reaching volume that asks how and why people are constructed as “criminals.”  Read More >>

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This book is a comparative study of the development of sociology in Britain and France between 1920 and 1940, taking...  Read More >>

The book will benefit sociology, geography, science and technology studies, and human- (and animal-) computer interaction...  Read More >>

Concepts in Actionfollows on the earlierTheory in Action(2016) as part of a three volume project broadening our...  Read More >>

Considering Class shows why the process of reconstructing class consciousness must take place on the terrain of...  Read More >>

The concept of the public sphere has long been limited by its division into the twin approaches of normative argumentation...  Read More >>

Die Vorstellungen vom Ich und seiner Identität unterliegen einem permanenten Wandel. Der vorliegende Band thematisiert...  Read More >>

The bestselling untextbook gets students thinking like sociologists  Read More >>

In this Festschrift, contributors from a range of interests and disciplines engage with the Popperian legacy and...  Read More >>

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In this two-volume set, Larry D. Barnett delves into the macrosociological sources of law concerned with society-important...  Read More >>

The Gold and the Dross: Althusser for Educators is an introduction to the philosophy of Louis Althusser for educators,...  Read More >>

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Beyond Marx and Other Entriesexplores everything from semiotics, economics, anthropology, sociology, history, philosophy...  Read More >>

Social behavior has long puzzled evolutionary biologists, since the classical theory of natural selection maintains...  Read More >>

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