Social theory books

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

The critical theory of the Frankfurt School has undergone numerous and at times fundamental changes over the last...  Read More >>

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

Employing three methods of assessing meaning, this book demonstrates that the thousands of human identities in English...  Read More >>

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Over more than three decades of teaching at the University of Mississippi, Charles Reagan Wilson's research and...  Read More >>

Makes an eye-opening global exploration of human organisation in a tumultuous world. It suggests needed innovation...  Read More >>

This volume addresses the question of how the perception of threat influences social change. Its contributions cover...  Read More >>

Presenting new insights into reciprocity, this book combines Marcel Mauss’s well-known gift theory with Barrington...  Read More >>

Embodying Theory: Epistemology, Aesthetics and Resistance offers a series of writings and images to make theory...  Read More >>

Designing Cultures of Care brings together an international selection of design researchers who, through a variety...  Read More >>

Critically exploring the presuppositions of contemporary social theory, this collection argues for a trans-civilizational...  Read More >>

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This cutting edge text considers how Asian philanthropists and...  Read More >>

This book explores the elective affinity of religion and post-secularism with neoliberalism. With the help of digital...  Read More >>

A unique focus on Denmark – one of the world’s most progressive countries when it comes to antibiotic regulation...  Read More >>

This book explores three worlds shared by the humans in their collective experiences. It identifies and explores...  Read More >>

Der Band «Anschluss» widerlegt den Mythos von der «friedlichen Revolution» und von der «Wiedervereinigung» dessen,...  Read More >>

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This book reinvigorates the philosophical treatment of the nature, purpose, and meaning of thought in today’s universities....  Read More >>