Social theory books

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Cet ouvrage tente d'apporter un éclairage sur les moments importants de ce qu'on a appelé le processus de démocratisation...  Read More >>

This book discusses the first principles of governance, and provides a critical overview of the theories and approaches...  Read More >>

In the early 1970s many sociologists, particularly radical theorists of crime and deviance, had rejected the belief...  Read More >>

This book discusses the first principles of governance, and provides a critical overview of the theories and approaches...  Read More >>

This volume engages with the work of Heidegger to argue that the environmental crisis stems from the symbolic codification...  Read More >>

This book offers insights into the argument that capitalist society damages human health and well-being. Drawing...  Read More >>

First published in English as part of the Essays in the Theory of Society, this volume reissues the stand-alone...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1975, Ralf Dahrendorf’s Reith Lectures were an important contribution to public debate,...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1968, these ten essays by one of Europe’s leading sociological theorists deal with important...  Read More >>

Originally published in England in 1959, this book evolves a new theory of conflict in industrial society. By way...  Read More >>

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Originally published in 1965 this book traces the forces which have brought the 20th century ‘post-civilisation’...  Read More >>

Written for researchers in institutional economics and other social sciences, this interdisciplinary book is essential...  Read More >>

Education as a product of society and as a force for social change Introduction Education is an essential part...  Read More >>

This book pushes critical animal studies forward and outward by making new connections to movements and ideas that...  Read More >>

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This selection, first published in 1973, compiles a fascinating study of crowd psychology as it examines the moral...  Read More >>

This book, first published in 1913, examines early twentieth century thinking on crowds and human nature. The imagination...  Read More >>

Women from the villages of Odisha, India, share their recipes, stories, and most of all their Shradha (love). These...  Read More >>

Contagion Capitalism situates the COVID-19 pandemic within the systems of global political economy and their attendant...  Read More >>

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This book pushes critical animal studies forward and outward by making new connections to movements and ideas that...  Read More >>

""A survey of forms of explanation in social anthropology and ethnographic accounts of explanation to be found in...  Read More >>

This book develops John Dewey's broad conception of social conflict as a natural process of discovery and preference...  Read More >>