Social theory books

Two main criteria have guided the selection and presentation of the material for this text-book. Firstly, there...  Read More >>

In this book, Dr Heasman begins by stating some central questions and answers concerning sociology and how we are...  Read More >>

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In this volume the author maintains that sociology must learn to combine the insights of both Durkheim and Marx...  Read More >>

It has often been suggested that a resolution of issues generated by the sociological study of ideas might be reached...  Read More >>

Taking diversity as its central theme, this book reviews 12 conceptions of positivism. It charts the changing positivist...  Read More >>

This major study discusses some of the meanings and preconditions of freedom, responsibility and social order. The...  Read More >>

'In this remarkable collection of essays, Holton and Turner demonstrate that Parsonian sociology addresses the most...  Read More >>

The topics covered in this book are directly related to much of the misunderstanding of what sociology is about....  Read More >>

Based on ethnographic fieldwork in north India, this book examines the gendered imagery proffered by Jainism, analyses...  Read More >>

The primary concern of this book is to investigate whether or not structuralism constitutes a distinctive framework...  Read More >>

The six essays in this volume are designed to introduce the general reader to some of the main issues in the fields...  Read More >>

In this provocative analysis of the central issues and developments in modern social theory, Dr Strasser contends...  Read More >>

At a time when most of the innovative techniques in empirical sociology concern themselves with networks of relations...  Read More >>

Actor-systems dynamics is an innovative, multidisciplinary methodology for investigating and analyzing social struggles...  Read More >>

As a radical critique of theoretical sociological orthodoxy, The Dominant Ideology Thesis has generated controversy...  Read More >>

Fear and terror have come to drive world politics, and the people who do the driving have shaped and used them to...  Read More >>

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Some studies estimate that each year, around a quarter of the population of Western countries will suffer from at...  Read More >>

Some studies estimate that each year, around a quarter of the population of Western countries will suffer from at...  Read More >>