Social theory books

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Upper Middle Class Social Reproduction: Wealth, Schooling, and Residential Choice in Chile

Upper Middle Class Social Reproduction: Wealth, Schooling,...

Author: María Luisa Méndez ,  Modesto Gayo
ISBN: 9783319896946
Format: Hardback
$129.35

In so doing, they not only capture the interconnections between macro- and microsocial dimensions such as urban...  Read More >>

Peregrinations: Walking in American Literature

Peregrinations: Walking in American Literature

Author: Amy T. Hamilton
ISBN: 9781943859641
Format: Hardback
$91.30

A boundary-defying exploration of physical bodies and movement in American stories and history.  Read More >>

The Iron Cage Revisited: Max Weber in the Neoliberal Era

The Iron Cage Revisited: Max Weber in the Neoliberal...

Author: R. Bruce Douglass (Georgetown University, USA)
ISBN: 9781138285446
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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

Multiple Correspondence Analysis for the Social Sciences

Multiple Correspondence Analysis for the Social Sciences...

Author: Johs. Hjellbrekke (University of Bergen, Norway)
ISBN: 9781138699687
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Multiple correspondence analysis (MCA) is a statistical technique that first and foremost has become known through...  Read More >>

Precariousness, Community and Participation

Precariousness, Community and Participation

Author: Matthew Johnson (Lancaster University, UK)
ISBN: 9781138499317
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This issue presents an interdisciplinary account of the challenges faced by communities at a time in which neoliberalism...  Read More >>

Handbook of the Sociology of Gender

Handbook of the Sociology of Gender

Author: Barbara J. Risman ,  Carissa M. Froyum
ISBN: 9783319763323
Format: Hardback
$659.97

It presents the most important theories about gender and methods used to study gender, as well as extensive coverage...  Read More >>

Sociological Theory Beyond the Canon

Sociological Theory Beyond the Canon

Author: Syed Farid Alatas ,  Vineeta Sinha
ISBN: 9781349681693
Format: Paperback
$149.00

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Thorstein Veblen: Economist and Social Theorist

Thorstein Veblen: Economist and Social Theorist

Author: Murray Murphey
ISBN: 9780815371854
Format: Paperback
$90.99

In his latest book, scholar-historian Murray G. Murphey exhaustively explores the life and theory of Thorstein Veblen...  Read More >>

Resisting Financialization with Deleuze and Guattari

Resisting Financialization with Deleuze and Guattari...

Author: Charles Barthold
ISBN: 9781138302723
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Resisting Financialization with Deleuze and Guattari aims to provide a contribution in relation to three main areas....  Read More >>

Why Social Movements Matter: An Introduction

Why Social Movements Matter: An Introduction

Author: Laurence Cox
ISBN: 9781786607829
Format: Paperback
$77.63

A short, clearly written, lively popularisation that requires no previous familiarity with movements or movement...  Read More >>

The Age of the Social: The Discovery of Society and The Ascendance of a New Episteme

The Age of the Social: The Discovery of Society and...

Author: Sal Restivo
ISBN: 9781138234369
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book seeks to re-establish the credentials of sociology as the science of society. While championing interdisciplinarity...  Read More >>

Awaken the Power within: In Defense of Self-Help

Awaken the Power within: In Defense of Self-Help

Author: Albert Amao (Albert Amao Soria)
ISBN: 9780143132592
Format: Paperback
$35.00

The $12 billion self-help industry is under constant attack for pedaling false miracles to duped believers. But...  Read More >>

Whither Fanon?: Studies in the Blackness of Being

Whither Fanon?: Studies in the Blackness of Being

Author: David Marriott
ISBN: 9781503605725
Format: Paperback
$92.40

This book proposes a new and provocative reading of the clinical and political work of Frantz Fanon, the Martinican...  Read More >>

Whither Fanon?: Studies in the Blackness of Being

Whither Fanon?: Studies in the Blackness of Being

Author: David Marriott
ISBN: 9780804798709
Format: Hardback
$369.60

This book proposes a new and provocative reading of the clinical and political work of Frantz Fanon, the Martinican...  Read More >>

Habits of Distraction

Habits of Distraction

Author: Michael Wood
ISBN: 9781845192501
Format: Paperback
$72.60

Starting with Walter Benjamin's idea of 'reception in a state of distraction' and looking briefly at some antecedents...  Read More >>

Women, Feminism, and Pop Politics: From “Bitch” to “Badass” and Beyond

Women, Feminism, and Pop Politics: From “Bitch” to “Badass”...

Author: Mitchell S. McKinney ,  Mary E. Stuckey
ISBN: 9781433134524
Format: Paperback
$203.28

Women, Feminism, and Pop Politics: From ""Bitch"" to ""Badass"" and Beyond examines the negotiation of feminist...  Read More >>

Habits of Distraction

Habits of Distraction

Author: Michael Wood
ISBN: 9781845192495
Format: Hardback
$171.60

Starting with Walter Benjamin's idea of 'reception in a state of distraction' and looking briefly at some antecedents...  Read More >>

The Practical Import of Political Inquiry

The Practical Import of Political Inquiry

Author: Brian Caterino
ISBN: 9783319812861
Format: Paperback
$116.41

This book examines a basic problem in critical approaches to political and social inquiry: in what way is social...  Read More >>

Professions and Power (Routledge Revivals)

Professions and Power (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Terence J. Johnson
ISBN: 9781138203563
Format: Paperback
$79.99

First published in 1972, this book rejects as inadequate the ‘trait’ and ‘functionalist’ theories of the professions...  Read More >>

Women, Feminism, and Pop Politics: From “Bitch” to “Badass” and Beyond

Women, Feminism, and Pop Politics: From “Bitch” to “Badass”...

Author: Mitchell S. McKinney ,  Mary E. Stuckey
ISBN: 9781433134531
Format: Hardback
$451.97

Women, Feminism, and Pop Politics: From ""Bitch"" to ""Badass"" and Beyond examines the negotiation of feminist...  Read More >>

Family Policy and the Organisation of Childcare: Hierarchies of Care Ideals

Family Policy and the Organisation of Childcare: Hierarchies...

Author: Borbála Kovács
ISBN: 9783319786605
Format: Hardback
$232.85

This book explains and theorises the ways in which family policy instruments come to shape the routine care arrangements...  Read More >>

Thorstein Veblen: Economist and Social Theorist

Thorstein Veblen: Economist and Social Theorist

Author: Murray Murphey
ISBN: 9781138069060
Format: Hardback
$305.00

In his latest book, scholar-historian Murray G. Murphey exhaustively explores the life and theory of Thorstein Veblen...  Read More >>

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