Social theory books

Socialism and Commodity Production develops a detailed critique of orthodox theories of socialism on the basis of...  Read More >>

Again, Dangerous Visions: Essays in Cultural Materialism brings together twenty-six essays charting the development...  Read More >>

Roberto Simanowski takes Facebook as a starting point to investigate our social-media society—and its insidious...  Read More >>

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Kevin McCaffree draws on a range of disciplines including sociology, psychology, anthropology, and history to explore...  Read More >>

This book explains how gossip contributes to knowledge. This volume explores how, when our access to knowledge is...  Read More >>

Embarking from a model of social capital hinging upon four social structures—work, family, social networks, and...  Read More >>

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This volume addresses the different ways in which legal cultures work in a modern society. It is based on a multi-level...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1984, Contradictions of the Welfare State is centrally concerned with the origins of the...  Read More >>

The book illustrates the applicability of the metaphor of the invisible hand in modern sociological theory and shows...  Read More >>

'[This] book succeeds in making us see the poetics of disobedience in the utterly illiberal prosaic ethos of our...  Read More >>

Zizek analyzes the end of the world at the hands of the ""four riders of the apocalypse""  Read More >>

AIDS activists are often romanticized as extremely noble and selfless. However, the relationships among HIV support...  Read More >>

Why are humans so different from each other and what makes the human species so different from all other living...  Read More >>

AIDS activists are often romanticized as extremely noble and selfless. However, the relationships among HIV support...  Read More >>

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This book imaginatively explores ways in which practitioners and social work educators might develop more critical...  Read More >>

After the 2008 election and 2012 reelection of Barack Obama as US president and the 1994 election of Nelson Mandela...  Read More >>

A unique contribution to discussions of social theory, this book examines pre-20th century histories and discussions...  Read More >>

For Tommie Shelby, the persistence of ghettos raises many thorny questions of morality, and he offers practical...  Read More >>

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In relation to the internal dynamics of sociology of unintended consequences, Adriana Mica makes an erudite journey...  Read More >>

A unique contribution to discussions of social theory, this book examines pre-20th century histories and discussions...  Read More >>

This book demonstrates the importance of Jungian Psychological Type theory in understanding individual differences...  Read More >>